Benni Bosetto

Benni Bosetto (Merate, 1987) is an Italian artist based in Milan. Benni Bosetto's artistic practice has always been centered on the transformation and decontraction of the body. The artist explores the human condition by examining the role of ritual and ceremonial objects in today's society, seeking alternative methods for self-care as a poetic critique of neoliberal power structures. Through drawing, installation, sculpture, and performance, Bosetto reinterprets the concepts of body fragmentation and vaporization, along with the loss of unitary identity, replacing it with an expanded collective body, thus transcending the space-time dimension. Her research projects into the observation of the body as a radical instrument of freedom. By investigating the concepts of rest and sexuality, she transforms this field into a fertile ground for imagination and the production of new visions of reality. Using a pre-logical visual language, Bosetto appeals to the construction of a code of unconscious images drawn from a collective memory, where the represented subjects are lost and dissolve, becoming parts of a fragmented and composite whole.

Benni Bosetto graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, and studied at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibition include Spazio Lima (2024); Emanuela Campoli, Milan (2023); MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, (2022); Almanac, Turin (2020); Kunstraum, with Xenia Perek, London (2019); Fonderia Battaglia, Milan (2018); Convento de los Domenicos, Eivissa (2017); Tile Project Space, Milan (2016). Her recent group exhibitions include Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Orti Generali, Torino (performance) (2024); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2023); MAXXI L’Aquila (2022); GAMEc, Bergamo (2022); Galleria Civica, Trento (2021); Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2021); Quadriennale d’arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2020); Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2020); Villa Medici, Rome (2019); Artissima Special Project, Turin (2019); MAMbo, Bologna (2019); OGR, Turin (2018); Fondazione Baruchello, Rome (2018).