Nicola Lorini (b.1990) is an artist based between Milan and London.
He works across sculpture, installation, writing and sound in an ongoing negotiation between contextual research and subjective trajectories. Often working with narrative charged artefacts and contexts he aims to question paradigms typical of Western culture and the notion of history and time meant as purely linear phenomena. Through practices of excavation (on-field and on-line) he pairs diverse points of inspiration to instigate a dialogue between material production/display and the interpretation and transmission of information and emotions.
Contact
nicolalorini@gmail.com
+39 3914870202
+44 7873546842
instagram: @nicolalorini
Education
2014_16
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
London, UK
MA Fine Art
2009_13
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, IT
BA Product Design
2013
Utrecht School of the Arts HKU
Utrecht, NL
BA Design and Visual Arts (Erasmus program)
2010_11
Brera Academy
Milan, IT
BA Sculpture
Solo and Two_Person Exhibitions
2019
For All the Time, For All the Sad Stones, Pera Museum, Istanbul, TR
Cold Stories, Rehearsal Project, Milan, IT
2018
Bonis Bona, Malis Mala, curated by Azzurra Pitruzzella, t-space, Milan, IT
2017
Take Me Out, Bora Akinciturk & Nicola Lorini, curated by Federico Sargentone and Ulya Soley, 97 Graham Road, E8 1PB, London, UK
2016
Taiyr, Nicola Lorini and Fatima Bianchi, curated by Davide Giannella, Ex Chiesa di S. Pietro in Atrio, Como, IT
Group Exhibitions
2023
Sottopalco, Sottopalco, Milan, IT
2022
Bad Ideas, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, EE
2021
Party del Corpo, Sonnenstube, Lugano, CH
Super Hall., Magma Maria, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Bad Ideas Collective, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
2020
Measure of Human, Pera Museum film program, Istanbul, TR
2019
Residenza la Fornace, curated by Giada Olivotto and Edoardo Manzoni, IT
Estate, Autunno, curated by I. Angenica, G. Pigliapoco and G. Paolin, State Of, Milan IT
Traffic Festival, curated by Matteo Binci, San Lorenzo in Campo, IT
Miraggio, curated by Lorenzo Lunghi, Fontanili Fontanoni, Farinate, IT
Insonne (la Grande Mostra di Scultura), curated by Sonnenstube, Sonnenstube, Lugano, CH
Placido, curated by Nicola Lorini and Paolo Brambilla, Dimora Artica, Milan, IT
Stand By Me, curated by Laura Lecce, Pelagica, Milan, IT
Every Me, Thirdbase, Lisbon, PT
2018
Every Me, curated by Mustafa Boga, Adana Archaeology Museum, Adana, TR
Metadata (how we relate to images), curated by the Warburg Institute, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
2017
And the Horizon was Dying Over the Tourist, curated by Federico Sargentone, Republic Gallery, London, UK
One Summer Night, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Annihilation Event, curated by Louisa Minkin and Elizabeth Wright, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
Annihilation Event Prototype (Tate Exchange), curated by Louisa Minkin, Elizabeth Wright with Alex Shady, Tate Modern Switch House, London, UK
2016
Industrialism, Mūsdienu mākslas galerija, Līvāni, LV
Distributed Monuments, curated by Naomi Ellis, Geddes Gallery, London, UK
Seminal Bricolage (first attempt), curated by Like a Little Disaster, FOOTHOLD, Polignano a Mare, IT
Self/control, Punctum Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts and Design, London, UK
Do, Undo, Redo, curated by Louisa Minkin and Alex Landrum, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK
Staging the Archive, curated by Antonio Castro, Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection, London, UK
2015
Cochlea, curated by Susan Trangmar, Futuro House, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
Remember Nature, curated by Alex Shady with Gustav Metzger, in collaboration with Serpentine Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
Complex Topography: The Garden, curated by Central Saint Martins and Tokyo University of the Arts, Takamatsu, JP
PR!NT, curated by La Cambre, La Cambre, Brussels, BG
Conflux, curated by MA curating Goldsmiths University, The Electrician’s Shop, London, UK
Metaphonica, curated by Alex Shady, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
You are the Reason Our Kids are Ugly, curated by Mark Hulson, The Laundry, London, UK
Running up that Building and Diving into the Pool , curated by Oliver Hickmet, Scena Production, London, UK
Residencies, Awards, Workshops
2019
Residenza la Fornace, IT
BoCs, curateted by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Cosenza, IT
2018
Q-Rated, with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, IT
In-Ruins, Parco Archeologico Scolacium, Catanzaro, IT
Every Me, Adana, TR
2016
Red Mansion Art Prize 2016 (nominated)
Hackmey Family Scholarship
Clifford Chance and UAL Sculpture Prize 2017 (nominated)
2015
Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Takamatsu, JP
CoCoCo, Residency Prize, Nablus, PL
Press and Interviews
Sky Arte
Books and Catalogues
Archivalia, published by In-Ruins
12-12 curated and designed by Paola Bombelli
Bonis Bona, Malis Mala (self published)
Metadata (how we relate to images) published by the Warburg Institute
Complex Topography: the garden, published by Central Saint Martins and Tokyo University of the Arts
Nederlandse Vulcanen (self published)
The NeverEnding Green (self published)
Speaking
Casa degli Artisti, Archivalia, Milan IT, 2023
Naba, Milan, IT, 2022
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, EE, 2021
Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, LV, 2021
Load Limits, Pera Museum, Istanbul, TR, 2019
InRuins, Parco Archeologico Scolacium, Catanzaro, IT, 2018
Technologies of Recording, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK 2018
Photogrammetry Workshop, UCA, Rochester, UK 2017
Casting/Ghosting, Central Saint Martins, London, UK 2017
Taiyr, Ex Chiesa di S. Pietro in Atrio, Como, IT, 2016
Common Ground, An-Najah University, Nablus, PL 2015
© Nicola Lorini 2021