Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1969. Lives in Los Angeles, California.
Vanessa Beecroft's work has been presented internationally since 1993 and has shaped performance art, the representation of the female body and sociopolitical discussions about art. Her exhibitions (entitled VB, followed by the number) have been an ongoing practice for over twenty-five years. Shown in some of the world's most important museums and major contemporary events, Beecroft's exhibitions highlight the tensions between nudity and clothing, constraint and freedom, collective and individual, human strength and weakness.
Vanessa Beecroft was one of the first artists to collaborate with fashion brands, starting in the 1990s, and has collaborated extensively with musician and producer Kanye West since 2009. Now a member of the popular culture and contemporary art canon, her work also manifests a deep dialogue with the history of art and representations across the traditions of Europe and many cultures of the world. She is also a passionate practitioner of photography, drawing, painting and sculpture, using every medium to present perspectives on the body, while combining Renaissance influences with modern representation. Her art is a passionate field of experimentation, rooted in history, revealing itself according to its own rules and expanding into the world in which it takes on many philosophical and political overtones to question the meaning of our existence as human beings.
The «Arcadia» exhibition takes as its starting point the shaping of the territory of the SwissItalian region of Ticino over the past century, exploring different axes aiming at an ideal of happiness that embraces and develops the relationship with nature. With the democratization of the automobile in the 1930s, Ticino
The exhibition ARCHIVIALE_001 will open at the Museo del ‘900 on 10 April and will be on show until 30 June 2024. Unfortunately, the Museo del ‘900 will be closed from 11 to 13 April due to the G7 meetings in Milan, and will reopen to the public on Sunday
An everyday and ephemeral element, food is, paradoxically, the object we mostly deal with throughout our existence. With the exhibition Food Age. Food as Influencer, Martí Guixé and Inga Knölke bring it onto the stage and, through a subliminal reading, they offer it to the public from an entirely new
On Friday February 10, 2023 at 18:00, the recently acquired works by Vanessa Beecroft will be presented in the exhibition rooms on the first floor of Palazzo Riso, the Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
