Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan ( born September 21, 1960 in Padua ) is an Italian artist living in New York.

Works of art

Cattelan designed lifelike figures and thus staged bizarre, funny and provocative situations. His sensational installations include works such as La Nona Ora - The Ninth Hour ( 1999), a figure of Pope John Paul II, who is hit by a meteorite. In 2001 he designed with Him a childlike, small and innocent-looking and pious kneeling figure of Adolf Hitler. Together with Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick in 2006 he curated the fourth berlin biennial for contemporary art, entitled Of Mice and Men.

Photo on magazine Toiletpaper

Cattelan is together with the Greek Cypriot Art Foundation DESTE out the photo journal Toiletpaper.

Awards

  • 2000: nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize
  • 2004: Arnold Bode Prize at documenta - city Kassel
  • March 2009 ( award ): Special Prize of the Jury of the XV. Quadrennial Rome in 2008 for his life's work

Exhibitions

Public collections

  • Migros Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Saatchi Gallery, London
Italy Curator Berlin Biennale Kunsthalle Basel Venetian Arsenal Melbourne International Biennial 1999 Kunsthalle Wien Museum Ludwig Kunsthaus Bregenz Pulheim Beyeler Foundation Name Authority File
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