SPECIAL PROJECTS, RESIDENCIES AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2007/Present - Art and Design and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Kensington and Chelsea College, London
2007 - Residency at Kemijärvi Sculpture and Culture Foundation, Kemijärvi, Finland
2006 - Artist’s Talk/Peer Critique, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2005/2006 - "Trajectory", Artists development scheme , funded by Arts Council England, organized by SPACE and Artquest, London
1999 - Curator of the exhibition "Folle", eight artists from Flanders, Studio Ercolani, Bologna
1998/2000 - Guest tutor to Higher Institute for Fine Arts - Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium
1997 - Artist’s Talk, Accademia di Belle Arti, Turin
EDUCATION
2007/2008 - Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, Institute of Education, University of London
2002/2003 - MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London
1989/1994 - BA (Hons) Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna
1993 - Erasmus Bursary, Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 - Stones and Glass Houses - The Parlour Project Space, London
- Restricted View - Kemijärvi Sculpture and Culture Foundation, Kemijärvi, Finland
2005 - Altri Paesaggi/Other Landscapes - Villa Baruchello, Porto Sant’Elpidio, Fermo
2003 - Amici Miei/Friends of Mine (with Stefano Pasquini & Mauro Vignando) - Saletta Comunale d'Esposizione, Castel S. Pietro Terme, Italy (curator I. Zuffi)
2000 - Villa Serena, Bologna (curator F. Naldi)
- Curating space, Goldsmiths College, London (curator S. Costantini)
1999 - Immersioni - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome (curator L. Pratesi)
- Galleria Marconi, Cupramarittima, Italy (curator M. Savini)
- L’abbandono/The Abandon - Salara, Bologna (curator J. Turner)
1998 - Alle erdenkliche Liebe - Kulturzentrum Wiehiebahnhof, Freiburg i.B., Germany (curator L. Amman)
- Occupato - Galleria Neon, Bologna
1997 - Galerie in der Zehntscheuer, Möglingen-Stuttgart, Germany (with Gerd Holzwarth)
- Casa d'artista - Galleria Graffio, Bologna
1996 - Galérie La Serre, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Etienne, France
- Alliance Française, Bologna
1995 - Italian Cultural Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 - iCity-periferiche - Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna
- 200 Opere per AMREF/200 Arworks for AMREF, Il Babuino Auction House, Rome
2006 - On Air - Town Hall, Sant’Angelo in Lizzola, Pesaro-Urbino (curator R. Ridolfi)
2005 - Photocells - Italian Cultural Institutes of London and Edinburgh (curator R. Boero)
- Fuoribiennale - Interventions in urban spaces, Venice (curator C. Seganfreddo)
- Campo Giovani - Malatesta’s Castle and other venues, Fano, (curator S. Verri)
2004 - Signs of Light - La Fabbrica, Losone, Swissland (curators S. Verri and P. Capata)
- A nudo - Palazzo Piacentini, San Benedetto del Tronto (curator Gloria Gradassi)
2003 - MA Final Show - Chelsea College of Art&Design, London
- Xhibit’03 - The London Institute Gallery Mayfair, London
- Celebrate - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome
2002 - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Miart Art Fair, Milan
- Selected - Villa Serena, Bologna (curator A. D'Orazio)
2000 - Nuove opere/New Works - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome
- FoodArt - Flaggrutten terminals between Bergen and Stavanger, Norway (curator S. Lillebostat)
- Italian historyX - Palazzo Parissi, Monte Prandone, (Curators A. D'Orazio & F. Naldi)
1999 - Contatti - Galleria Graffio, Bologna
- Zone di visibilità - Sala Comunale ex Fienile, Castel S. Pietro Terme, Italy
- Arte Italiana in apnea multimediale, Salara, Bologna (curator D. Trento)
- Il Ponte Contemporanea, Artissima Art fair, Turin
1998 - Cosci, Maffezzoni, Mezzaqui - Spazio Percorso Vita, Bologna (curator R. Daolio)
- BodyGuard - Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney (curator J. Turner)
- Crossover - Kulturzentrum Wiehiebahnhof, Freiburg i.B., Germany
- BodyGuard - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome (curator J. Turner)
- Uomo Ambiente Territorio - Museo d’Arte, San Buono, Italy (curator F. Pietracci)
- Laboratorio - Salara, Bologna (curator G. Gianuizzi)
- Riparte 98 Art Fair - Sheraton Hotel, Rome
- Premio Marche - Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy (invited by M. Savini)
1997 - Lab. 12. 2 (There is no alternative) - Spazio Viafarini, Milan (curator R. Daolio)
- Medium Medea - Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bozen (curator L. Ragaglia)
- Per il ritorno degli Dei - Studio Ercolani, Bologna (curator D. Trento)
- The Show - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome (curator J. Turner)
- Riparte 97 - Sheraton Hotel, Rome
- Officina Italia - Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna and other places (curators R. Barilli and others)
- Missing - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome (curator Jonathan Turner)
- Microonde - Galleria Inga-Pin, Milan (curators F. A. Miglietti and L. Inga-Pin)
1996 - Art Fair - Galleria Neon, Stokholm
- Prospect 96 - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (curator P. Weiermair)
- Narrative Art 1970 1990 - Palazzo Rasponi Murat, Ravenna (invited by R. Daolio)
1995 - The - Galleria Neon, Bologna
- Aperto Italia‘95: Out of order - Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (curators R. Daolio and D. Auregli)
- La pressione di due generazioni - Studio Ercolani, Bologna (curator D. Trento)
1994 - 14 Künstler aus Bologna - Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany (curator G. Holzwarth)
- Hortus Conclusus - Palazzo Ruini, Reggio Emilia (curator C. Pozzati)
- Critica in opera 4 - Saletta Comunale d'Esposizione, Castel S. Pietro Terme, Italy (curator D. Trento)
1993 - Cosci, Dragoni, Russo - Spazio Il Navile, Bologna (curator C. Marra)
- Il grimaldello dello stile - Teatri di vita, Bologna (curator D. Trento)
1992 - No comment - La Palazzina, Imola
- Media Finali - Alliance Française, Bologna (curator C. Marra)
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
1998 - Rimozione forzata (Forced Removal), Spazio Percorso Vita, Bologna
1997 - S.P.A. (unevento) - Ex-magazzini dello zolfo, Ravenna (curator G. Gianuizzi)
- Come spiegare a mia madre che ciò che faccio serve a qualcosa (How To Explain To Your Mother That What You Are Doing Is Of Some Use) - Series of artists-led conferences, Link cultural centre, Bologna
1996 - Strettamente personale - Galleria Graffio, Bologna (curator N. Wiesneth)
- 30 x 240 - Galleria Il Campo delle Fragole, Bologna (curator A. D’Orazio)
1995 - Casa d’Artista, Galleria Graffio, Bologna
- Geografie del Dolore/ Geography of Grief - (with Balletti & Mercandelli) Turing exhibition in the sites of criminal events in Bologna. Good Friday. (curator D. Trento)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bridget Crone (editor) – 8 Artists Try Not To Talk About Art, SPACE Books, London, 2006
Roberta Ridolfi - On Air - catalogue of the same exhibition, August 2006
Stefano Verri - Campo Giovani - catalogue of the same exhibitions, December 2005
Luciano Marucci - Gianluca Cosci, Juliet no. 124, October - November 2005
Cristiano Seganfreddo - Fuoribiennale, catalogue of the same exhibition, June 2005
Riccardo Boero - Photocells, catalogue of the same exhibitions, January 2005
Gloria Gradassi - A nudo, catalogue of the same exhibition, July 2004
Italo Zuffi - Amici miei, catalogue of the same exhibition, October 2003
Stefano Verri - Signs of lights, catalogue of the same exhibition, July 2003
Antonio D’Orazio - Italian HistoryX, catalogue of the same exhibition, July 2000
Augusto Pieroni - in Fototensioni, Castelvecchi Books, Rome, 2000
Dario Trento - Arte Iteliana in apnea multimediale, catalogue of the same exhibition, La Salara, Bologna, December 1999 - January 2000
Gianluca Marziani - Gianluca Cosci, Flash Art no. 217, Summer 1999
John Naisbitt - High tech/high touch, with N. Naisbitt & D. Philips, Broadway Books, New York, 1999
Jonathan Turner - L’abbandono, Salara no. 3, Summer 1999
Mario Savini - Gianluca Cosci, Segno no. 168, June 1999
Claudio Marra - in Fotografia e pittura nel Novecento, Bruno Mondadori Editore, Milan, 1999
Ludovico Pratesi - Gianluca Cosci. Immersioni, catalogue of the same exhibition, April 1999
Mario Savini - in In questa ricevitoria sono stati vinti 89.982.550.200, catalogue of the same exhibition, April 1999
Arianna di Genova - in “Autoritratto con borchie”, Alias, Il Manifesto, 20 June 1998
Dario Trento - “Foto, video e frammenti Cosci indaga la sessualità”, La Repubblica, 18 June 1998
Luca Beatrice & Cristiana Perrella - in Nuova Arte Italiana, Castelvecchi Editore, 1998
Gianluca Cosci - “Il soggetto indegno”, in Come Spiegare a mia madre che ciò che faccio serve a qualcosa, Edizioni Zerinthia - Charta, Rome, 1998
Paul Klock - “Alle erdenkliche Liebe”, Zeitung Zum Sonntag, no. 21, 24 May 1998
Norbert Wiesneth - Strettamente personale, press release, March 1998
Jonathan Turner - “Gianluca Cosci”, in Art News, February 1998
Roberto Daolio - in Cosci, Maffezzoni, Mezzaqui, press release, January 1998
Dario Trento - Gianluca Cosci, unpublished text (January 1998)
Ludovico Pratesi - in “L’Italia di “Officina Italia”, Quadri e Sculture, n. 28, November - December 1997
Anna Valeria Borsari - in “Artisti d’Italia a Convegno”, Percorso Vita, n. 1, 1997
Jonathan Turner - in BodyGuard, press release, November 1997
Renato Barilli - in - Officina Italia, catalogue of the same exhibition, October 1997
Guido Molinari - in - Officina Italia, catalogue of the same exhibition, October 1997
Jonathan Turner - in Missing, press release, October 1997
Ludovico Pratesi - in “Dove va l’arte giovane? In Emilia”, Artel, n. 70, October 1997
Jonathan Turner - in The show, press release, September 1997
Gerd Holzwarth - in La rappresentazione gay nell’arte, unpublished dissertation, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, July 1997
Carmen Lorenzetti - in “Operat ‘96: Narrative Art 1970 - 90”, La Stanza Rossa, n. 24, June 1997
Letizia Ragaglia - in Medium Medea, catalogue of the same exhibition, May 1997
Dario Trento - in Per il ritorno degli Dei, catalogue of the same exibithion, May 1997
Luca Cerizza - in “Lab. 12. 2 a Milano”, Artel, n.63, May 1997
Stefanie Alber - in “Gianluca Cosci - Gerd Holzwarth”, Lift Stuttgart, February 1997
Dario Trento - in Arte Italiana ultimi quarant’anni - catalogue of the same exhibition, February 1997
Anja Rumig - Gianluca Cosci - Gerd Holzwarth, press release, February 1997
Andrea Sperni - in Solo chi si muove, unpublished text (Januar 1997)
Roberto Daolio - in Narrative Art 1970 1990, catalogue of the same exhibition, November 1996
Rainer Metzger - in “Prospect 96”, Kunstforum, no.134, May - September 1996
Dario Trento - “Cosci, autoritratto in cinque pannelli”, La Repubblica, 20 June 1996
Antonella Russo - In a interview whit Peter Weiermair - Flash Art International, no. 189, Summer 1996; Fash Art Italia, no. 198, June - July 1996
Alice Rubbini - in “Prospect 96”, Segno, May 1996
Gianluca Cosci - in Prospect 96, catalogue of the same exhibition, March 1996
Guido Molinari - in “Aperto ‘95”, La Stanza Rossa, no. 18, September - October 1995
Dario Trento - in La pressione di due generazioni, catalogue of the same exhibition, October 1995
Gianluca Cosci - in “Lettera circolare ai Neometropolitani”, La Stanza Rossa, no. 20, 1995
Dario Trento - in “Lettera circolare ai Neometropolitani”, La Stanza Rossa, no. 20, 1995
Daniele Perra - in “La passione di due generazioni”, La Stanza Rossa, no. 20, 1995
Daniela Liccardo - in “Aperto ‘95”, Terzo occhio, no. 76, September 1995
Roberto Daolio - in Aperto ‘95. Out of order, catalogue of the same exhibition, June 1995
Paola Naldi - in “La Biennale fuori servizio”, La Repubblica, 10 June 1995
Roberto Daolio - Gianluca Cosci, catalogue of the same exhibition, May 1995
Dario Trento - in Geografie del Dolore, press release, 14 April 1995
Dario Trento - Open letter to the “ARCI GAY”, unpublished letter, January 1995
Dario Trento - “Gianluca Cosci”, Con/tatto, no. 13, December 1994
Gerd Holzwarth - 14 Künstler der Accademia di Belle Arti aus Bologna, press release, December 1994
Francesca Maria Sensi - “Tre personali per denunciare la cultura delle immagini”, Sabato sera, 12 Novembre 1994
Dario Trento - in Critica in opera 4, catalogue of the same exhibition, October 1994
Paola Naldi - “L’arte ha trent’anni”, La Repubblica, January 1994
Dario Trento - in Il grimaldello dello stile, catalogue of the same exhibition, December 1993
Dario Trento - “Tre nomi per una stagione”, Anteprima, July 1993
Claudio Marra - in Cosci, Dragoni, Russo, catalogue of the same exhibition, May 1993
Fabrizio Rivola - in No Comment, Nuovo Diario, May 1992