In the work of Loris Cecchini (born in Milan, 1969), photography, drawing, sculpture and installation combine to form a unified poetics. Cecchini’s work owes as much to his expertise of a broad range of media as to his indefatigable curiosity. The subjects that appear in his work include multiple collages and detailed architectural models, objects in rubber, reinvented caravans and tree houses, structurally distorted spaces, and prismatic, transparent covers and surfaces.

Physical phenomena become an optical and emotive inventory of the environment. Natural systems are transferred into a layered system of semantic relations in order to reveal the invisible processes of a synthesis between nature and culture. Modular steel sculptures, tangible phenomenologies in stone, microscope images re-elaborated in 3D in the shape of monochrome pictures and watercolour and pencil diaries encapsulated in transparent vacuum wrapping yield material geographies and poetically elaborate the space and the surface of the work: the installations floats in the spatial infinity of the micro and the macro, in which the phenomenal reality re-elaborated by the artist becomes anatomical memory and conceptual diagram. In the expressive osmosis created between biological forms and architectural structure, Cecchini invites us to reconsider our conceptions of reality and representation, the organic dimension of natural development and that of the technical-artificial landscape.
His series Monologue Patterns are idealized dwelling systems on wheel, small spaces designed around the idea of caravan, the trailer, the roulotte, a nomadic space for definition, combining sculpture and the tradition of utopic architecture to form a spatial and visual - poetical experience; some of them are up on the trees, with different characteristics, but always as places related to a sort of “poetical distance”.
At the heart of Cecchini’s work is a new reading of spatiality: physical space is interpreted as something biological, organic and vital, but at the same time as something that is rationally structured, mechanically produced, perfectly artificial and yet endowed with an organic-structural functionality.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

• Waterbones (sequence 510), Quirinale Contemporaneo, Rome, Italy [Permanent installation]

• Prima luce, curated by H. Marsala, Monte Rosa 91, Milan, Italy [Permanent installation]

• The air between the leaves, Palazzo Borromeo, Milan, Italy

• Body sculptures, Babs Art Gallery, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

2023

• Piccolo cantico (Echoes), Siena, Italy [Permanent installation]

• Arranging proximities, curated by Associazione Arte Continua, C. Guo-Qiang, UMoCA, Colle Val d’Elsa, Italy

• Piccolo cantico (Echoes), Sinalunga, Italy [Permanent installation]

• Arborexence, Belmond Hotel, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

• Les graines de mon jardin s'envolent vers d'autres pays, Galleria Continua, Paris, France

• Arte nel Paesaggio: Waterbones (Nightfall), curated by G. Rodani, J. Vlietstra, Osservatorio Polifunzionale del Chianti, Barberino Tavarnelle, Italy (Cat.)

• Chemins de traverse - Style is not dead, curated by P. Amine, Gallery RSK, Paris, France

2022

• Waterbones (Sensitive Chaos), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (Cat.)

• Waterbones (Liminal whispering space), Metal 57, Paris, France [Permanent installation]

• Spindles, Via Cavour, Prato, Italy [Permanent installation]

• Waterbones and Sequential interactions in alfalfa chorus, Rueil-Malmaison, France [Permanent installation]

• Il Custode dell’Orto-Loris Cecchini, Galleria Canesso, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Aeolian Landforms and other Particles, Galleria Continua, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2021

• Waterbones (Chaosmos), Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy [Permanent installation]

• Waterbones (sequence 180), Centralcon Sungang International Logistics Center, Shenzhen, China [Permanent installation]

• Arborexence, Commanderie de Peyrassol, Chemin de Peyrassol, Flassans-sur-Issole, France [Permanent installation]

2020

• Loris Cecchini, Tenuta Casenuove, Panzano in Chianti, Italy

• Invito 2020, Premio ACACIA, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy

• 2020, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China

• I Do Artist Store X Loris Cecchini, I Do artist store, Beijing, China [Permanent installation]

2019

• Loris Cecchini, Glocal Art, Lugano, Switzerland

• Waterbones, curated by RAID Caterpillar, Teatro Comunale, L’Aquila, Italy [Permanent installation]

• Loris Cecchini: Hypermeasures, curated by M. Tonelli, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy (Cat.)

• ...a macchia d’albero, MiniMu, Trieste, Italy

• Emulsione, Atrio Monumentale ASP ITIS, Trieste, Italy

2018

• Sequential interactions in alfalfa chorus, Stafield Hanam Inc., Seoul, South Korea [Permanent installation]

• Loris Cecchini - Dirk Salz, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, USA

• Loris Cecchini, Galleria Continua, Rome, Italy

• Waterbones (Climbing in transition state), Biblioteca Lazzerini, Prato, Italy [Permanent installation]

• The ineffable gardener and inherent transience, Cornell Tech, New York, USA [Permanent installation]

• Waterbones, Art Hotel, Florence, Italy

• The developed seed, Beijing Fun, Beijing, China [Permanent installation]

• Waterbones (Attic’s GRAPHS + L System), Spazio C.O.S.M.O., Milan, Italy

• The Ineffable Gardener, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2017

• Blaublobbing, Galerie Aveline, Paris, France

• Seed Syllables, Sevil Dolmaci Art Consultancy, Istanbul, Turkey

• Waterbones, curated by H. Mikaeloff, Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice, Italy

• Waterbones, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, USA [Permanent installation]

2016

• Testing effects, dancing reactions, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France (Cat.)

• Materia Prima. Amorphe (Bioactive), curated by M. Tonelli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy [Permanent installation]

• The Garden's Jewel, Grenoble, France [Permanent installation]

• Loris Cecchini. Sacrosanctum #14, Oratorio di San Mercurio, Palermo, Italy

• Waterbones, Hanam Union Square, Seoul, South Korea [Permanent installation]

• Sistemi di visione/Sistemi di realtà: Loris Cecchini, curated by I. Mariotti, Villa Pacchiani Centro Espositivo, Santa Croce sull’Arno, Italy (Cat.)

2015

• Resonances, Chaumet, Paris, France

• Loris Cecchini: Emotional diagrams and other micrologies, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA

2014

• Waterbones (Sponge) , Edicola Notte, Rome, Italy

• Bush Walking, CAP, Carrara, Italy

• Nuages de la Mer et de l’Air, Symphonie des Flux, Les Terrasses Du Port, Marseille, France [Permanent installation]

• Loris Cecchini. Modulo e modello, curated by M. Meneguzzo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

2013

• Loris Cecchini, The size plus the size of the sample, Studio Sandra Recio, Geneva, Switzerland

• The Ineffable Gardener and the Developed Seed, Cleveland Clinic Arts & Medicine Institute, Cleveland, USA [Permanent installation]

• Loris Cecchini, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China (Cat.)

2012

• Loris Cecchini, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, USA

• The Hand, the Creatures, and the Singing Garden, Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy [Permanent installation] (Cat.)

• Aerial Boundaries, curated by F. Nori, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

• OA: cinque atti teatrali sull’opera d’arte, Teatro Studio Scandicci, Florence, Italy

2011

• Loris Cecchini, Fondazione Edoardo Garrone, Genoa, Italy

• The rainbow trusses, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France

2010

• Loris Cecchini, Château des Adhèmar, Montélimar, France

• Solidsky, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2009

• Dotsandloops, curated by M. Bazzini, S. Pezzato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (Cat.)

• Loris Cecchini, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne, France

• Loris Cecchini, Costruzioni che scivolano e pensieri alla deriva, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy

2008

• Loris Cecchini, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2007

• Morphing wave, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

• Blaublobbing, Palazzo Fendi, Rome, Italy

• Empty Walls, Just Doors, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2006

• Cloudless, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China (Cat.)

• Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

• MoMA P.S.1, New York, USA

2005

• Loris Cecchini: Polveri di spezie e altri spazi, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy

• Monologue Patterns, Hotel Bulgari, Milan, Italy

• Gaps and Other Works, Galleria Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain

2004

• Voyager I, curated by S. Risaliti, Quarter Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, Italy?

• Loris Cecchini, curated by J. Sans, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

• Blaublobbing Outside, curated by G. Curto, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy

• Estructura de monólogo, Museu Casal Solleric, Palma di Maiorca, Spain

• Project Rooms: Sculptural architecture, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2003

• Monologue Patterns, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2002

• Terraforming, Fondazione Teseco, Pisa, Italy

• ContaMICRAzioni, Stazione Termini, Rome, Italy

2001

• Loris Cecchini, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

• H( )ME, Armani Store, Milan, Italy

• Places for the show, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany (Cat.)

2000

• Loris Cecchini, curated by A. Fiz, Fondazione Bandera per l’arte, Busto Arsizio, Italy

• Cargo, curated by E. Cicelyn, Museo di Castel Nuovo, Naples, Italy (Cat.)

• Waste, Galleria Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain

• Loris Cecchini. Stage evidence, CGAC, Santiago di Compostela, Spain (Cat.)

• Stage evidence, Galleria Antonella Nicola, Turin, Italy

1999

• Loris Cecchini, Italienisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Cologne, Germany (Cat.)

• Loris Cecchini, Galleria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

1998

• FWD>>: Loris Cecchini, curated by A. Pieroni, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy

• No Casting, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

1997

• Pause in Background, Galleria Studio Legale, Caserta, Italy (Cat.)

1996

• Farfalle e propano, Galleria Bordone, Milan, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

• Natura/Utopia: l’arte tra ecologia riuso e futuro, curated by M. Tonelli, Palazzo Baldeschi, Perugia, Italy (Cat.)

• “ill at ease” Dysfunctional art: Beyond labels, Studio Leggero, Milan, Italy

• I preferiti di Marino. Capitolo I, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna, Italy

2023

• VISIBILIA, come rendere visibile l’invisibile, curated by I. Puliafito, Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy (Cat.)

• Stazionari altrove, Otto Gallery, Bologna, Italy

• Time gravity, 11° Chengdu Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chengdu, Chengdu, China

• Raggioverde, curated by M. Eremita, Fondazione Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy

• Team work. 30 years of CGAC. A possible history of the CGAC, curated by S. Olmo, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• Seeking the city, Datong Ancient City, China

• The Silk Road. Contemporary Art and Artists, curated by A. Tecce, SFAI, Chonqing, China

• Forum 900, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy

• L’arte è wow!, curated by D. Moriani, M. Bazzini, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy

• La Grande Visione Italiana. Collezione Farnesina, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, The Art House, Singapore, China (Cat.)

• 20 x 15 - Opere su carta per l’Archivio Storico Magnani di Pescia, curated by I. Bernardi, Museo della Carta, Pescia, Italy (Cat.)

• Harmonious Symbiosis, 3° Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Museum of Xinjiang, Xinjiang, China

2022

• Symbiotic world, 2° Jinan International Biennale, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China

• SPLIT STEP, curated by S. Baumgartner, E. Cristini, Ex Macelli Civici, Milan, Italy

• The ability to dream, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

• Myths And Dreams, curated by B. Tansel, Arkas Art Center, Izmir, Turkey

• New wave, Galleria Continua, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Cinétique! Sculpture in Motion, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (Cat.)

• VISIBILIA, come rendere visibile l’invisibile, curated by I. Puliafito, Palazzo Ducale di Gubbio, Gubbio, Italy (Cat.)

• Art is the Antidote, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Netherland

2021

• Di tutti i colori, Galleria Continua, Rome, Italy

• INTERSECTIONS, curated by S. Pilar, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France

• Nota Bene, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France

• Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus, curated by C. Vanoni, R. Ciocca, M. Bergamini, G. Romano, 2° BienNoLo, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Glasstress. Window to the future, curated by D. Ozerkov, Y. Zakharenkov, O. Kozhura, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

• MIRABILIA, curated by B. Bertini, B. Acciari, Casa Italia, Tokyo, Japan (Cat.)

• Lady Dior as Seen By, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany

• Sculpture en fête!, Fondation Villa Datris, L´Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (Cat.)

• Back to Nature. Arte contemporanea a Villa Borghese, curated by C. d’Orazio, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy (Cat.)

• The Tides of the Century, curated by W. Chunchen, Ocean Flower Island Museum, Danzhou, China

• Truc à faire, Galleria Continua, Paris, France

2020

• Intersections, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France

• PANORAMA, G Museum, Nanjing, China

• 1+1+1, curated by F. Sala, Assab One, Milan, Italy

• Jing’an internationale sculpture project 2020, Shanghai, China

• La Face autre de l'autre Face, curated by D. Di Maggio, Musée Municipal Urbain Cabrol, Ville franche-de-Rouergue, France

• Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy

• N o t h i n g n e s s, curated by F. Schmid, WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Cat.)

• La Rovoluzione Siamo Noi. Collezionismo italiano contemporaneo, curated by A. Fiz, XNL PIACENZA CONTEMPORNAEA, Piacenza, Italy (Cat.)

2019

• Eyes of the City, 8° Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China

• Roots of Clouds Adrift: Temporality, OCAT Nanjing, Nanjing, China

• The Quest for Happiness. Italian Art Now, curated by M. S. Bottai, L. Scacco, P. Immonen, Serlachius Museum, Gösta, Finland (Cat.)

• 10 Anni di Premio d’Artista 2010-2019, curated by R. Caldura, Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy

• 15 Artists X 15 Years in China, Galleria Continua, Pechino, China

• The Return of Guests: Selections from the PSA Collection, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

• Contemporanee / Contemporanei, curated by D. Isaia, Polo Santa Marta, Verona, Italy

• Le latitudini dell'arte, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy (Cat.)

• La morale dei singoli, curated by A. Viliani, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, Pompei, Italy

2018

• Soundlines of Contemporary Art, curated by M. Faiznia, M.Hakobyan, National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

• La Collezione San Patrignano: PART, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• MAXXI, Rome, Italy

• Palazzo Drago, Palermo, Italy

• Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy

• Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze, Italy

• Palazzi dell’Arte, Rimini, Italy

2017

• Continua Sphères ENSEMBLE, curated by J.M. Goncalvès, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

• De Nature en Sculpture, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (Cat.)

• Dalla caverna alla luna. Viaggio dentro la collezione al Centro Pecci, curated by S. Pezzato, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (Cat.)

• Metamorphosis. Uno sguardo alla scultura contemporanea, curated by D. Agostini, Museo d’Arte di Mendrisio, Mendrisio, Switzerland (Cat.)

• Glasstress, curated by K. Goncharov, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA

2016

• Sublimina, curated by Collettivo Curatoriale LUISS Master of Art, Museo delle Mura, Rome, Italy

• Mana Seven, curated by Y. Pinyol, Wynwood, Miami, USA

• L’armonia del bianco, curated by L. Mattioli, Les Maisons De Judith, Courmayeur, Italy

• Par tibi, Roma, Nihil, curated by R. F. Sciarretta, Nomas Foundation, Foro Romano, Palatino, Rome, Italy (Cat.)

• The ambiguous lightness of being, curated by O. A. Andruff, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, USA

• YOU + ME = US, Galleria Continua, Havanas, Cuba

2015

• Capolavori dalla Collezione Farnesina, curated by M. Corgnati, G. Iovane, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Zagabria, Zagreb, Croatia (Cat.)

• Art Gallery Bosnia-Erzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Follia Continua! Les 25 ans de Galleria Continua, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

• STADT/BILD. Xenopolis, curated by S. Njami, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany (Cat.)

• Liberi tutti! Arte e società in Italia. 1989 - 2001, curated by L. Beatrice, A. Busto, C. Parella, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy (Cat.)

• Ever Present Past, Relais La Suvera, Casole d’Elsa, Italy

• Exploring Resilience, curated by Peninsula Lab, MILA Kunstgalerie, Berlin, Germany

• Vita Vitale, 56° Biennale di Venezia, Azerbaijan Pavilion, Venice, Italy (Cat.)

• Attraversare nuovi percorsi, curated by D. Di Maggio, We Gallery, Berlin, Germany

• Il pane e le rose, curated by M. Meneguzzo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

2014

• 4409.72 miles, 9125 days, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, USA

• Natura Naturata, curated by C.Y. Chen, BMW Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

• WiE KULTUR, Berlin, Germany

• Highly Recommended: Emerging Sculptors, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Michigan, USA

• Conjunction, Greenhouse Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2013

• Artisti nello spazio. Da Lucio Fontana a oggi: gli ambienti nell’arte italiana, curated by M. Meneguzzo, B. Di Marino, A. La Porta, Fondazione Rocco Guglielmo, Catanzaro, Italy (Cat.)

• Glasstress: White Light/White Heat, curated by J. Putnam, A. Berengo, , side-event 55° Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice, Italy (Cat.)

• Les nouvelles folies françaises, curated by P. Amine, Domaine National de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (Cat.)

• Shadow of dust, when the sun blooms, WiE KULTUR, Berlin, Germany

• Turbulences II, curated by D. Hennebert, P. Sterckx, The Boghossian Foundation, Bruxelles, Belgium (Cat.)

2012

• Sinapsis Paradigms and micrologies, FIAC Hors les murs, Jardin de plantes, Paris, France

• Lady Dior As Seen By, curated by C. Piccoli, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy

• Metamorfosi: le collezioni Moroso fra design e arti visive, curated by A. Bruciati, P. Moroso, M. Viola, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Udine, Italy

• Reactevation, 9° Shanghai Biennale, Contemporary Art Museum of Shanghai, Shanghai, China (Cat.)

• Future, Landscape. A changing exhibition, curated by R. Caldura, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy (Cat.)

• Turbulences, curated by D. Rosenberg, P. Sterckx, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (Cat.)

• Muro di China, Madeinfilandia, Turin, Italy (Cat.)

• Construir, Deconstruir y Destruir, Carlos Garaicoa Open Studio 6.0, Madrid, Spain

2011

• For instance... , curated by L. Bruni, SUN Studio 74 rosso, Florence, Italy

• Un monde sans mesures, Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (Cat.)

• Premio Moroso, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy

• Mina a Mano armata, Studio Silvia Geddes, Rome, Italy

• ITaliens. Arte giovane in ambasciata, curated by M. Sorbello, A. Pace, Italian Embassy in Germany, Berlin, Germany

• Italian Cultural Insitute in Wolfsburg, Germany

• Quelli che restano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy

• Creuser dans la langue une langue étrangère, Galerie Florence Leoni, Paris, France

• Sopra Naturale - la forma che riflette, Chiesa di S. Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy

• Alfabeta2 è un’altra cosa... Riflessi dell’arte italiana, curated by D. Di Maggio, evento collaterale della 54° Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy

• Posso errare ma non di core. Passato prossimo e futuro anteriore dell’italiana, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy?

• Spaceship Earth, Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Torun, Poland (Cat.)

• Invito al viaggio. Parte II - Proposte dalla collezione del Museo: opere e ambienti, curated by S. Pezzato, Museo Pecci Milano, Milan, Italy

• La scultura italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Loris Cecchini/Sabrina Torelli - Nulla si crea, nulla si distrugge, tutto si trasforma, curated by F. Referza, Velan Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2010

• SUD, 2°Salon Urbain de Douala, Doual’Art Centre d’Art Contemporain, Douala, Camerun

• Past Present Future: Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey (Cat.)

• Made in Filandia, Madeinfilandia, Pieve a Presciano, Italy (Cat.)

• Sphères 3, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France

• Cosmogonia - Le Supernova del collezionismo italiano. Stefano e Raffaella Sciarretta, curated by G. Marziani, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy

• The New Décor, curated by R. Rugoff, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

• The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

• Living Rooms, Château de Chamarande Centre d’Art Contemporain, Chamarande, France (Cat.)

• In Context, Goodman Gallery Project Space, Johannesburg, South Africa (Cat.)

• Entre Glace et Neige. Processi ed energie della natura, curated by G. Cipolla, L. Cherubini, Centro Saint-Bénin, Aosta, Italy (Cat.)

• Better City, Better Life, curated by M. Bazzini, Italian Pavilion, Expo Shanghai 2010, Shanghai, China

• Forward>>Looking, MACRO, Rome, Italy

• Antroposfera. Nuove forme della vita, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy (Cat.)

• L’arte della ricerca: cultura scienza evoluzione, curated by F. Cascino, R. Orlacchio, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy

2009

• La Différence, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France

• La testa tra le nuvole, curated by M. Carriero, Convento dei Carmelitani Scalzi, Viterbo, Italy

• The Group Show, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Gallarate, Italy

• Twister, Galleria del Premio Suzzara, Monza, Italy (Cat.)

• Il piacere del collezionista, curated by V. Dehò, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano, Italy

• Résonance, 10° Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyone, France

• Qui è altrove, curated by F. Poli, F. Referza, Palazzo de Sanctis, Castelbasso, Italy

• Fragile. Terres d’empathie, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France?(Cat.)?

• INTRAMOENIA - On the ground, underground, curated by G. Caroppo, Castello Svevo, Barletta, Italy (Cat.)

• Open Care Open Day, Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan, Italy

2008

• Sphères 5: énergies autour d’une nouvelle expérience d’expositions, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France

• XV Quadriennale d’arte di Roma, curated by C. Bertola, L. Canova, B. Corà, D. Lancioni, C. Spadoni, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

• Di segni e di altri luoghi, curated by F. Solero, Turin, Italy?

• Interiors, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy (Cat.)

• L’alba di domani: arte contemporanea in Italia da collezioni italiane, curated by V. Urbani, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey (Cat.)

• Mobile Art: Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid, curated by F. Busteau, Hong Kong, China

• [Tokyo, Japan

• [New York, USA

• Strong End - Weak End. Nella città che sale, curated by P. L. Tazzi, Dryphoto Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy

2007

• La via del sale, curated by N. Orengo, S. Peira, Chiesa di San Francesco, Bra, Italy (Cat.)

• Mentalgrafie. Viaggio nell’arte contemporanea italiana, curated by D. Paparoni, Museum of Art The Gold Meir Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (Cat.)

• Dialogues Méditerranées. Jardins et donjon de la Citadelle, Musée de l’Annonciade, Saint Tropez, France

• Fatto in Svezia, curated by O. Aschan, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden

• The Freak Show, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France

• Artempo, curated by J.H. Martin, G. Romenelli, M. Visser, D. Ferretti, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy (Cat.)

• Camera con vista. Arte e interni in Italia 1900-2000, curated by C. G. Ferrari, L. Settembrini, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

• Timer 01: Intimità/Intimacy, curated by D. Paparoni, G. Mercurio, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Expérience Pommery N°4. L’emprise du lieu, curated by D. Buren, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

• Mapas, Cosmogonías y Puntos de Referencia, CACG, Santiago di Compostela, Spain

• One colour, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

2006

• C’era una volta un Re: la fiaba contemporanea, curated by D. Denegri, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy (Cat.)

• La Giovine Italia, curated by R. Barilli, Galleria d’arte Fabbrica, Gambettola (Cat.)

• Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy

• Nuit Blanche, curated by N. Bourriaud, J. Sans, Parigi, France (Cat.)

• HyperDesign, 6° Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (Cat.)

• MAMbo, Bologna, Italy

• La contemporaneità dell’arte, 12° Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Museo della Scultura, Carrara, Italy (Cat.)

• The Age of Metamorphosis: European Art Highlights from the Centro Pecci Collection, MoCA, Shanghai, China

• Vis à vis: collezioni si incontrano, curated by W. Guadagnini, L. Pratesi, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy

• Il Marmo e la Celluloide, curated by M. Senaldi, Parco della Versiliana , Villa della Versiliana, Marina di Pietrasanta, Italy

• Giardino. Luoghi della piccola realtà, curated by L. Hegyi, PAN, Naples, Italy (Cat.)

• Giovani artisti italiani a Pechino, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

• Vom Pferd erzählen, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany

• Italy Made in Art: Now, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, MoCA, Shanghai, China (Cat.)

• Allegra con brio, curated by W. Guadagnini, Chiesa del Suffragio, Carrara, Italy (Cat.)

• Visioni del paradiso, curated by K. Frei, D. Lucchini, P. Bellasi, Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy

• Cecchini, Graham, Ontani, Tremlett: le prime opere per C4, Centro Cultura Contemporaneo Caldogno, Caldogno, Italy (Cat.)

• Beautiful Nature, curated by Sinapster, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy (Cat.)

• Costruttori: il lavoro in cento anni di arte italiana, curated by M. Margozzi, L. Martini, A. Negri, Castel Sismondo, Rimini, Italy

• Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo, Italy

• Pietro Consagra, Loris Cecchini, GAM, Turin, Italy

2005

• The Five Rings. Cinque artisti al forte di Exilles, curated by M. Di Marzio, Forte di Exilles, Turin, Italy (Cat.)

• Senza confine, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

• Entr’acte2. Arte contemporanea in casa Gallizio, Casa Gallizio, Alba, Italy

• La scultura italiana del XX secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Space: Now and Then. Art and Architecture, curated by C. Driessen, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherland (Cat.)

• Pensieri sul relativismo, curated by R. Siligato, M.G. Tolomeo, Villa Tonda, Orbetello, Italy

• Premio per la giovane arte italiana 2004/2005, curated by P. Colombo, M. Pignatti Morano, 51° Biennale di Venezia, Venetian Pavilion, Venice, Italy (Cat.)

• Alice nel Castello delle Meraviglie, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy

• Domicile: privé / public, curated by L. Hegyi, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France (Cat.)

• Manmano, Galleria Continua, Pechino, China

• Genius loci, curated by G. Curto, Castello di Racconigi, Racconigi, Italy

• Young italian art: Premio A. Fabbri, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany

• Art-chitecture of change, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy

• Lo sguardo italiano. Fotografie di moda dal 1951 a oggi, curated by F. Bonami, G. Ferré, M.L. Frisa, M. Lupano, C. Marra, A. Mattirolo, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy

2004

• Spazi Atti, curated by J.H. Martin, R. Pinto, PAC, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Uscita Pistoia, Studio Alleruzzo, Pistoia, Italy (Cat.)

• Objects vs Design, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France

• Interfacies Asteriae. L’anima intermediale, curated by F. Bonazzi, Asteria multimedia, Trento, Italy

• Lustwarande 04: Disorientation by Beauty, curated by C. Driessen, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherland (Cat.)

• Anima o corpo. Estensioni della creatività nell’arte contemporanea, curated by R. Ridolfi, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Il Conventino, Monteciccardo, Italy

• De Humana proportione, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

• Le Opere e i Giorni, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, Certosa di Padula, Salerno, Italy (Cat.)

• Zone Artistiche Temporanee, curated by E. Zanella, Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Gallarate, Gallarate, Italy (Cat.)

• Bambini nel Tempo: L’infanzia e l’arte, curated by S. Risaliti, M. Scolaro, Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy

• Auschwitz-Prozess 4 Ks 2/63, curated by E. Vroonen, Haus Gallus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Cat.)

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• Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

• Expo 21. Strategies of Display, curated by S. Moretti, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Normal Life, curated by M. Gandini, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy

• Orizzonti aperti, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy

• Sonde, curated by B. Corà, M. Panzera, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy

2003

• Catastrofi Minime, curated by F. Castro, S. Cincinelli, C. Collu, MAN, Nuoro, Italy (Cat.)

• Interférences urbaines, curated by L. Benedetti, Bruxelles, Belgium

• Assenze-Presenze, curated by E. Lambion, Le Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Communauté Française Wallonie, Bruxelles, Belgium

• Orizzonti, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, S. Risaliti,Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy

• Moltitudini – Solitudini, curated by S. Risaliti, Museion, Bolzano, Italy

• Urbaland, curated by R. Caldura, Venice, Italy

• 3D, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

• Home, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

• Cover Theory, curated by M. Senaldi, Officina della Luce, Piacenza, Italy (Cat.)

• Le mille e una notte, Stecca degli Artigiani, Milan, Italy

2002

• L’arte del gioco. Da Klee a Boetti, curated by P. Bellasi, A. Fiz, T. Sparagni, Museo Archeologico Regionale di Aosta, Aosta, Italy (Cat.)

• L’ultima cena, curated by M. Sgroi, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy (Cat.)

• Nuovo Spazio Italiano, curated by F. Cavalucci, G. Nicoletti, G. Verzotti, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, MART, Trento, Italy (Cat.)

• Next Art - 20 musei per l’arte di domani, curated by L. Pratesi, Sala Murat, Bari, Italy

• I luoghi invisibili, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy

• Homeless, curated by G. Gradassi, Palazzo Bice Piacentini, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy (Cat.)

• Paradiso perduto, curated by A. Stazzone, Palazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini, Italy (Cat.)

• Ouverture... arte dall’Italia, curated by A. Bruciati, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy (Cat.)

• Collezione Permanente. Nuove Acquisizioni, curated by B. Corà, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (Cat.)

• The big chill = Il grande freddo, Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy (Cat.)

• Last Minute: verso la fine dell’eternità, curated by L. Facco, L. Baldini, Vecchio Ospedale Soave, Codogno, Italy

• Pianos année zéro, Musée de la Musique, Paris, France (Cat.)

• De Gustibus. Collezione Privata Italiana, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, S. Risaliti, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contempornaea, Siena, Italy

• Ouverture, curated by N. Bourriaud, J. Sans, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2001

• Leggerezza, curated by G. Iovane, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany (Cat.)

• HOUSE: Panorama italiano, curated by A. Micaletti, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy

• Abitanti: arte e relazione, curated by M. Bazzini, B. Corà, M. Panzera, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy

• Arte all’Arte, curated by J. Sans, P.L. Tazzi Casa della Musica-Sonar, Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy (Cat.)

• Fragile Beauty, curated by G. Iovane, Fondazione Manin, Murano, Italy

• Chairs in Contemporary Art, curated by A. Kohlmeyer, Civici Musei del Castello, Udine, Italy (Cat.)

• Il volto felice della globalizzazione, curated by T. Casapietra, R. Costantino, 1° Biennale della ceramica, Albissola, Italy

• Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland

• Cosa Arcana e Stupenda, curated by A. Bellini, Sermoneta, Italy

• Invasione italiana. Collezione permanente, curated by S. Lacagnina, Galleria Civica di Siracusa, Siracusa, Italy

• 2001 Photo Festival, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea (Cat.)

• Art files, curated by L. Pratesi, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy

• Boom! , curated by S. Risaliti, ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, Italy (Cat.)

• Platea dell’Umanità, curated by H. Szeemann, 49° Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (Cat.)

• The body of art, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, 1°Valencia Biennale, Convento del Carmen, Valencia, Spain

• Terraferma, Venice, Italy (Cat.)

• Odissee dell’Arte, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy (Cat.)

• Poetiche del Quotidiano 2, curated by L. Ragaglia, Galleria Civica, Bolzano, Italy (Cat.)

2000

• Paesaggi fluttuanti, curated by A. Fiz, Santuario di Oropa, Biella, Italy (Cat.)

• The sky is the limit, curated by J. Sans, M. Hzu, 1° Taiwan Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (Cat.)

• Futurama, Arte in Italia. Frequenze e segnali dalle ultime generazioni, curated by R. Gavarro, M. Meneguzzo, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (Cat.)

• ARTBEAT 2. Dalla generazione X alla generazione MTV, curated by F. Fabbri, G. Bartorelli, E. Nobile Mino, Casa dell'Architettura, Acquario Romano, Rome, Italy (Cat.)

• 3nds Milan, curated by A. Galasso, G. Maraniello, Galleria Salara, Bologna, Italy (Cat.)

• Fantapop, curated by V. Baradel, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, Italy (Cat.)

1999

• MIR: Art in Space = Arte nello Spazio = Kunst in Raum, curated by E. Francalanci, Galleria Civica, Bolzano, Italy (Cat.)

• Il sentimento del 2000: arte e foto 1960 2000, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

• Nuovo nomadismo individuale, curated by M. Carasi, A. Magalini, Casa Rigoletto, Mantova, Italy (Cat.)

• Porta d’Oriente, curated by G. Romeno, Bisceglie, Italy (Cat.)

• Video Virtuale – Foto Fictionale, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

• Fantasimilia. Dalla fotochimica alla fotoelettronica, curated by I. Zannier, S. Zannier, CRAF - Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia, Lestans, Italy (Cat.)

• Artbeat, curated by G. Bartorelli, F. Fabbri, Galleria Salara, Bologna, Italy (Cat.)

• XIII Quadriennale di Roma. Proiezioni 2000. Lo spazio delle arti visive nella civiltà multimediale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (Cat.)

• Effetto Notte. Percorsi d’arte e di luce nella Napoli sotterranea, curated by L. Pratesi, P. Magni, Naples, Italy?(Cat.)

• MoltepliCittà. Rappresentazioni, percorsi e visioni della città contemporanea nelle opere dei giovani artisti italiani, curated by B. Pietromarchi, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, Italy?(Cat.)

• Alta Definizione, curated by P. Magni, Rome, Italy (Cat.)

1998

• Eccentrica, curated by M. Manara, G. Gianuizzi, Rocca Sforzesca, Imola, Italy

• Rock around the Clock, curated by A. Galasso, Galleria Ciocca, Milan, Italy

• Pre-millennium tension, curated by L. Beatrice, Galleria Eos, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Ora Per Ora, curated by di Premiata Ditta, E. Vecchia, F. Fazzi, E. Conti, UnDo.Net, Italy

• Standby, curated by A. Pieroni, Galleria Romberg, Latina, Italy

• Attraversamenti, curated by C. Corbetta, D. Grandi, Teatro dell’Arte, Milan, Italy

1997

• Crash, curated by G. Del Vecchio, Ex officina meccanica, Caserta, Italy (Cat.)

• Generazione media, curated by S. Campagnola, F. Alessandrini, P. Darra, L. Ghirardelli, F. Rossi, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Periscopio. Rassegna di giovani artisti attivi in Lombardia, curated by P. Campiglio, A. Madesani, F. Tedeschi, Cascina Grande di Rozzano, Milan, Italy (Cat.)

• Aperto ’97 , curated by C. Perrella, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy (Cat.)

• Il punto, curated by E. Grazioli, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (Cat.)

• Invita, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (Cat.)

• Città aperta, Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy

• Arena, curated by C. Perrella, Mel Bookstore, Rome, Italy (Cat.)

1996

• Mutoidi, curated by M. Sgroi, Castello del Maschio Angioino, Naples, Italy

• 0” video 1’, curated by D. Esposito, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera., Milan, Italy

1995

• Storm, Plastic & Juboxhero, Plastic, Milan, Italy

• Anni ’90 arte a Milano. Profanazioni, curated by L. Saccà, Openspace del palazzo dell’Arengario, Milan, Italy

• Ent/Ark/Ttic Circle. The Meridian Route, The Plasy Monastery, Plasy, Czech Republic

LECTURES

Academic Seminar: Across Media, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAUP), Shenzhen, China, 2019
Conversazioni d’autore Loris Cecchini con Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy, 2019
Materiali extra-ordinari e opere d’arte di oggi: intervista all’artista Loris Cecchini, scultore, fotografo e disegnatore, Master in Economia e Management dell’Arte e dei Beni Culturali per il Sole24ore, Mudec - Museo delle culture, Milan, Italy, 2019
Modules & Patterns Loris Cecchini e Luca Bindi, Un dialogo tra Arte e Scienza, Festival CONTEMPORANEA 18, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, 2018
Loris Cecchini in conversazione con Stefano Pezzato e Biancalucia Maglione, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italia, 2018
Loris Cecchini and Angelo Bucarelli, Elgiz Museum, Sariyer, Turkey, 2017
Wunderkammer per l’arte italiana con Loris Cecchini, Elena Agudio, Mario Mazzoli e Luca Trevisani, Italian Embassy in Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Ricerca e poetica del rinnovabile: l’opera di Loris Cecchini: Talk with Marco Tonelli, Museo del Novecento, Florence, Italy, 2016
StART Point, Disegnare è vedere meglio, Loris Cecchini e Luca Bertolo, Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy, 2013?
Art Basel talk, Loris Cecchini, Antony Gormley, Germano Celant, Basel, Switzerland, 2013
Artist Talk / Loris Cecchini, CCC Strozzina, Florence, Italy, 2012
I Martedì Critici – incontro con Loris Cecchini, Rome, Italy, 2011
Docenza Master per il restauro dell’Arte Contemporanea, Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze, Florence, Italy, 2011
Accademia Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence, Italy, 2009
Incontro con Loris Cecchini, Comune di Pesaro in collaborazione con l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino e L’ARCO (Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea), Pesaro, Italy, 2009
Teatro studio Scandicci, Florence, Italy, 2008?
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari, Italy, 2008
Teatro dell’Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy, 2008?
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 2006
GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 2005
Università di Viterbo, Facoltà di Beni Culturali, Italy, 2005
UrbanLab, Cà Foscari, Venice, Italy, 2003
Domus Academy, Milan, Italy, 2003?
Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Italy, 2002
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy, 2002
Fondazione Teseco per l'Arte, Pisa, Italy, 2001
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany, 2001?
Bauer, School for Digital Media, Milano, Italy, 2000

COLLECTIONS

Quirinale Contemporaneo, Rome, Italy
Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy
Palazzo Collicola - Galleria d'Arte Moderna G. Carandente, Spoleto, Italy
The Bridge at Cornell Tech, New York, USA
Museo del Tessuto/Biblioteca Lazzerini, Prato, Italiy
Power Station of Art, Shanghay, China?
Mint Museum, North Carolina, USA
Beijing Fun, Beijing, China?
Les Terrasses Du Port, Marseille, France
Arts & Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA?
Collezione Gori, Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy
The Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Bruxelles, Belgium?
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherland
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France Collezione d’Arte Unicredit
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Fondazione Alda Fendi, Rome, Italy
Museum Ludwig, Colonia, Germany
The CIFO Collection, Miami, USA
The Margulies Collection at the WAREHOUSE, Miami, USA
MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Galleria del Premio Suzzara, Mantova, Italy
Collezione San Patrignano, Palazzi dell’Arte, Rimini, Italy
Collezione Farnesina, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Italy
Collezione VAF-Stiftung, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
CGAC Centro di Arte Contemporanea Galego, Santiago di Compostela, Spain

PREMI

2020 – Premio ACACIA, Italy
2014 – ArtPrize Three-Dimensional Juror’s Shortlist, USA
2014 – Premio Arnaldo Pomodoro per la scultura, Italy
2011 – Premio Moroso, Italy
2006 – Premio Francesca Alinovi, Italy
2005 – Premio Agenore Fabbri e Fondazione VAF, Italy
2005 – PARC Premio Giovane Arte 2004/2005 (DARC, MAXXI, Biennale di Venezia), Italy
2001 – Premio, Galleria Arte Moderna, Turin