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 1967 • group exhibition of painting - Milan
1970 • participates in the first manifestation of gallery San Fedele 1 "EXHIBITION SAN FEDELE 1" - Milan
1971 • invited to exhibit by the Assessorato alla Pubblica Istruzione Parco Sempione of Milan
• participates in the first manifestation "PROPOSTE DOCUMENTI - EXHIBITION SAN FEDELE" - Milan
1972 • exhibits in the gallery San Fedele - Milan
• group exhibition in GRANDS SALONS RICARDS - Paris
• group exhibition - "MALTA SOCIETY OF ART" - Malta
• participates with a large sculpture in the manifestation LUMINOMILANO - Milan
1973 • solo exhibition in PALAZZO DEL TURISMO - Milan
1974 • presentation of the artist's book LINEE COMPLESSI ESSERE ed. Gorlini, gallery Multhipla - Milan
• group exhibition in gallery Borgogna - Milan
1975 • group exhibition "ARTE PER LA STAMPA LIBERA" gallery Schubert - Milan
organizing committee: F. Abbiati, A. Del Guercio, G. Dorfles, U. Eco, M. Perazzi, M. Spinelli, T. Trini, L. Vergine
• winner of the National Competition for the embellishment of Nursery Schools, organized by the City of Milan - realizes 30-game sculptures made ??of polyurethane material.
• X QUADRIENNIAL OF ART IN ROME under the high patronage of the President of the Republic - THE NEW GENERATION - Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Rome
• "LAST INTERNATIONAL EXIBITION OF MAIL/ART '75"
"mail art/comunication at distance/concept" après Jean-Marc Poinsot - Paris
• solo exhibition in gallery Guzzina - Brugherio, Milan
1976 • "MAGMA" INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION conceived and realized by Romena Loda Museo di Castelvecchio - Verona
1977 • "MAGMA" PALAZZO DEI DIAMANTI - Ferrara
• group exhibition in THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF CANADA. 1977 "03.23.03" THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, OTTAWA
• group exhibition GALLERIA NAZIONALE - Ottawa
• "IL VOLTO SINISTRO DELL'ARTE - INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION conceived by Romena Loda - gallery De Amicis, Florence
• group exhibition Cabaret Voltaire "ERR/ART '77 PARIGI"
• "DOSSIER DONNA" exhibition conceived by the Cooperativa Associazione Esperienze Culturali Pescara, texts by Romana Loda
1978 • BETWEEN COMMUNICATION AND SIGNIFICATION - THE ARTIST'S BOOK curated by Maria Teresa Balboni, Vincenzo Ferrari, Ugo La Pietra - Centro Culturale di Brera - Milan
• 6th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF GRAPHIC ART
Unione Fiorentina, Comitato per le Manifestazioni Espositive Florence, Prato, City of Florence, City of Prato, Giunta Regionale Toscana, Superintendent of Artistic and Historic Heritage of Florence and Pistoia
Palazzo Strozzi - Florence
• DOSSIER DONNE TRE curated by Mirella Bandini, UNIONE CULTURALE Palazzo Carignano - Turin
1979 • performance AFANISI 25 May, Sala Polivalente - Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Ferrara
• group exhibition - LOGGIA RUCCELLAI - Florence
• AN INTERNATIONAL DINNER PARTY TO CELEBRATE WOMEN'S CULTURE by Judy Chicago - San Francisco, California - U.S.A.
• "IL CHIODO MANCANTE" - Artist's books, gallery Multimedia - Brescia, texts curated by Romana Loda
• performance NARCISO CONTRO NARCISO 23 June, GALLERIA COMUNALE D'ARTE MODERNA - Palazzo Bosdari - Ancona
1980 • "IL POMO DELLA DISCORDIA" ARTISTE LOMBARDE curated by Pierangela Rossi Sala, Carmelo Strano - gallery Bonaparte - Milan
• VIDEOARTE A PALAZZO DEI DIAMANTI 1973/1979 exhibition curated by Janus, Foyer of the Chamber of Commerce, Province and Department of Culture in Turin 1981: performance CONSUMARSI 30 June - SALA POLIVALENTE Palazzo dei Diamanti - Ferrara
1981 • MAIL/ART "THE MYTICAL IMAGE" coordinato da Gino Gini gallery Apollinaire Milan
• Exposicìon International "LLIBRES D'ARTISTA/ARTIST'S BOOKS" Centre de Documentacìo d'Art Actual - espacio METRONOM - Barcelona
1982 • "THE MYTICAL IMAGE" International mail-art operation curated by Gino Gini, University of Pavia, Collegio Cairoli - Pavia
1986 • CORPI CELESTI "LA COMETA DI HALLEY" events: Installations for a Comet.
Installation STONEHENGE 2000 - Department of Culture of the Town of Paderno Dugnano - Milan
1989 • group exhibition in gallery Diecidue - Milan
1991 • "PLANETARIA" Exhibition of Advanced Artistic Expressions, twinned with the Bao Art Festival, Giappone - exhibition organized by Diecidue Arte - Milan, with the patronage of: Province of Pavia, Citty of Stradella, Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome. Palazzo Isimbardi - City of Stradella
• "YULIET TEN YEARS" gallery Diecidue Arte - Milan
1993 • "ITERART" ITINERARIO NELL'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA - ARENGARIO
opera GENEALOGIA - palazzo dell'Arengario, City of Milan - Milan
• solo exhibition, works and installations UN LUOGO DELLA MEMORIA, gallery Fluxia - Chiavari
• performance LA DANZA DELLA GRU CIECA 19 September, PALAZZO REALE - Milan
1995 • "LA DONNA NELL'ARTE" curated by Carla Romoli and Jolanda Pietrobelli, gallery il Prato dei Miracoli, with the patronage of the Provincial Administration - Pisa
• "EX-VOTO" gallery Aquifante - Busto Arsizio
• "S" COME GUGLIELMO MARCONI & "ITALIAN INVENTORS", la Scuola New York "Guglielmo Marconi" with the patronage of the General Consul of Italy in New York
1996 • "PERCORSI DENTRO L'ENIGMA DELL'ESSERCI" LINEA ANTROPOMORFA work in progress 18 January, presentation by Graziella longoni, Studioventicinque - Milan
• "NOTTE ANTROPOMORFA" gallery Aquifante - Busto Arsizio
1998 • 2 BIENNALE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA: performance Graphein 23 dicembre ore 20
Cronico Spazi Interattivi - villa Mutti Bernardelli - Gardone Val Trompia - Brescia.
Patronage Province of Brescia/Department of Culture and Turism - Brescia
1999 • THE ARTIST'S BOOK IN ITALY - Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna - Turin. Regione Piemonte. Exhibition curated by Liliana Dematteis and Giorgio Maffei
2000 • MOSTRA ANTOLOGICA 68/2000 curated by Graziella Longoni
"an artistic journey inside the great stories of Myth and History."
"l'arte come rimedio al vivere" introductive video to "Vorrei incontrare il cuore del mondo"
CIVICA GALLERIA D'ARTE MODERNA MUSEO DI GALLARATE - Gallarate
2001 • 1960/1974 Art in Milan through the students of the Liceo di Brera SPAZIO HAJECH - Milan.
• solo exhibition GLI ALTRI COLORANO LA NOSTRA VITA gallery DIECI.DUE! critical text by Graziella Longoni
• 1970/74 Art in Milan through the students of the Liceo di Brera - SPAZIO HAJECH - Milan
• solo exhibition GLI ALTRI COLORANO LA NOSTRA VITA critical text by Graziella Longoni. Exhibition curated by Maria Rosa Pividori, presentation of the book "Gli altri colorano la nostra vita" presentation by Graziella Longoni - gallery DIECI.DUE! - Milan
• group exhibition 41° PREMIO SUZZARA - "Work and workers in art 2001", curated by Martina Corgnati, Enrico Mascelloni, Maura Pozzati - City of Suzzara - Suzzara
2002 • NATURARTE 2002 initiative promoted by the Province of Lodi, A.P.T del lodigiano, Regione Lombardia, Lega Ambiente
• solo exhibition "There are many terrible things. Nothing is more terrible than man" encounter with the artist and with Graziella Longoni, author of the critical text "Il racconto dell'Anima sulla soglia dell'arte - VILLA POMINI Città di Castellanza, Department of Culture
• 11° VIDEO FESTIVAL - CANZO section other documentaries - video: l'arte come rimedio al vivere 1997
2003 • "IL CORPO E L'IMMAGINARIO" Fondazione Mudima - Milan, critical text curated by Eleonora Fiorani
• ANIMALIDI group exhibition curated by Donatella Airoldi, presentation by Mimma Pasqua, gallery Quintocortile - Milan
• RISPECCHIO group exhibition curated by Lorella Giudici - Galleria Dieci.Due! - Milan
• "CAMP DAVID?" Black women of Milan 2003 evento - direction by Salvino Raco, video shooting: Elisabetta Muller, editing: Libera Mazzoleni, texts curated by Longoni Graziella. Show realized for the exhibition Blind curated by Manuela Grandini, gallery Artandgallery - Milan
2004 • solo exhibition "CANDIDATO MANCIURIANO" - performance: "M. K. ULTRA" gallery Dieci.Due! - Milan
• SGUARDI ALTROVE International Festival in female direction XI edition, screening of the video: VIAGGIO A KABUL 2003, Spazio Oberdan - Milan
2005 • PER-TURBAMENTI - Italian woman artists between the Sixties and the Seventies, curated by Angela Madesani, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Cascina Rome, Palazzo delle Arti - Città di San Donato Milanese
• FEAR a project curated by Manuela Grandini - first presentation of RHUMA 1 work in progress Artandgallery - Milan
2006 • IL PROPRIO LUOGO Contemporary Art Exhibition, event produced by gallery Dieci.Due, Castello Borromeo, Corneliano Bertario - Milan
• LEGGERE NON LEGGERE The Artist's Book and more. 4° Edition gallery-art bookshop Derbylius - Milan
• DISSERTARE/DISERTARE Centro Internazionale per L'Arte contemporanea, Castello Colonna Genazzano, Rome presentation of the work in progress RHUMA - scientific advisory of the Superintendent of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome. Patronage Provinces of Rome and Palermo - curated by Associazione Start
• 12.7.06 artist's book. Eleonora Fiorani presents the book: ATLANTE DEL MONDO/ATLAS OF THE WORLD the map of power, Lupetti editori di comunicazioni 2006 - Milan. Bookshop-gallery International Art Archive Derbylius of Carla Roncato - Milan
• DONNE FUORI DAL LIMITE Museo Calandra curated by Maria Rosa Pividori, installation La culla di Giuda 2006 Vespolate - Novara
• MIGRA-AZIONE 3 "MIGRAIDENTITA" work LIBERA/LIBERA? Arengo del Broletto, Chiostro della Canonica - Contemporary Art Exhibition organized by Idea-Vita in collaboration with Dieci.Due! International Contemporary Art, curated by Pino Diecidue and Maria Rosa Pividori - Novara
2007 • VISIONE SOCIALE federazione città sociale, group exhibition curated by Stefano Taccone, Villa Comunale - Naples
• CONTEMPORARY AVANT-GARDE ART IN MILAN between 1950 and 1970 curated by Carla Roncato, Galleria Derbylius - Milan
• Arte Plastica in Forma - CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION curated by Matteo Galbiati and Maria Rosa Pividori MUSEO CIVICO D'ARTE, PALAZZO RICCHIERI - Pordenone
• TERRE D'ACQUA In - Via L'Arte curated by Pina Inferrera, Maria Rosa Pividori; critical texts by Matteo Galbiati, Lorella Giudici, Cristina Guerra, Angela Madesani - Spazio Culturale S. Chiara. Regione Piemonte, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Vercelli
2008 • ALT - ilcorpoèmio curated by Donatella Airoldi and Mavi Ferrando, presentation by Donatella Airoldi. Qintocortile - Milan
• KunStart 08 - Bolzano Art Fair
• PAINT IN dov'è Jackson Pollock / where's Jackson Pollock? Inner reality…only reality. Group exhibition curated by Lorella Giudici and Maria Rosa Pividori, critical texts by Lorella Giudici. Studiodieci city gallery Vercelli, project/event collateral to the exhibition: "Peggy Guggenheim and New American Painting" ARCA - Vercelli
2009 • FILM WINTER - Festival for Expanded Media, Film, Video, New Media, Installation, Performance, Workshop, Theory - Stuttgarter 22/25 January 2009
• ACT ON dov'è Jackson Pollock / where's Jackson Pollock? performance: "Dibutade - memory or death of the encounter?" 18 February 2009, length 00:19:00 Studiodieci Citygallery - Vercelli
• The work of Libera Mazzoleni, artist from Milan, presentated by Donatella Franchi and Zina Borghini, CIRCOLO DELLA ROSA Libreria delle donne, exhibition of the artist's works - Milan
2010 • SORSI DI PACE nell'arte contemporanea, critical text by Lorella Giudici - Turin
• Presentation of the artist's book: "I Muri della Mente" with screening of the video: I Muri dell'odio, Teatro Sala Comunale - Sondrio
• Personal exhibition: Images from Dibutade, text by Eleonora Fiorani, performance NOI, 9 October - Galleria Dieci.Due - Milan. Exhibition of the artist's videos: 20/27 October - 9/12 November 2010
2011 • ALWAYS DISOBEDIENT - WE LEAVE A TRACE - 20 years of Women in Black
Libera, Milan, screening and choir's reading: "Walls of the mind" a travel through the world, with a woman's look", CZKD (Centre For Cultural Decontamination) - Belgrado
• SIENA ART INSTITUTE 'Drawing Connections', opening group exhibition of the Siena Art Institute - Siena
2012 • LIBRISTE form the artist's books collection of Marco Carminati, catalogue curated by Marco Carminati, Dino Silvestroni, Marta Zocchi, presentation by Claudia Giuliano, introduction by Ada Pirro, Istituzione Biblioteca Classense-Manica Lunga, Ravenna.
• "RAGAZZE DI IERI E DI OGGI" - NON SOLO MUSE Artists and women, in the Seventies, intervention at the Unione Femminile Nazionale Thursday 7 June 2012 - Milan
• STOCKOLM FRINGE FEST perform at Stoff 2012 Kulturhuset in Stockholm, participates with the video: "OH! Identità" director: Helena Bunker, Head of international projects: Adam Potrykus, 22/25 August - Stockholm
• FONLAD FESTIVAL online digital arts festival 08 2012. Curators: David Burns, Angella Conte - Coimbra, Video Art 17 April - Portugal.
• XI FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LA IMAGE - Felipe César Londono Lopez, Director General, Universidad de Caldas - Manizales, Colombia, 16-20 April, Manizales - Colombia.
• FONLAND#08_2012 - 8a Mostra Sonora i Visual - Convento Sant Augusti, Barcellona; Cooper Union School of Art: Maria Anya, June Lei and Franklin Santiago - New York.
• LIV Performing Arts Centre, center for research and formation of performing arts, 15 September - Bologna.
• "Art-Object-registrazione" 4 ART AND DOCUMENTATION FESTIVAL, Lodzki Dom Kultury, Galeria Imaginarium - Lodz, Poland.
• VI Festival Mediamix "Oltre il Visibile" Short Films and Photoreportage, 1° premio - Bologna.
• MONOCOLORI group exhibition curated by Donatella Airoldi, Mavi Ferrando, presentation Donatella Airoldi, gallery Quintocortile - Milan
• GUERRA E PACE International exhibition of the ARTIST'S BOOK and QUASI-BOOK, curated by Evelina Schatz, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art - Moscow.
• IX EXHIBITION POESIAARTE MILANO Galleria Quintocortile - Milan.
• IL CORPO SOLITARIO - L'AUTOSCATTO Photo Exhibition curated by Giorgio Bonomi, Palazzo del Duca di Senigallia - Ancona
2013 • FIATO CORTO 2013 - LA CITTA' DEL SOLE Short Film Festival 23.5.2013
screening of CANTUS III by Libera Mazzoleni - Località Monte Oliveto, Pignatara Maggiore, Teramo.
• LIBRISTE ALLA CLASSENSE tra linguaggio and immagine, 8 March 2013, presentation by Ada Pirro, curated by Dino Silvestroni; IL LIBRO D'ARTISTA, conference, Biblioteca Classense, Sala Manica Lunga - Ravenna
• NARAVE NATURES 10 - videofestival 16.4.2013 BE�IGRAJSKA 2, Vodovodna 3 - Ljubljana.
• L'AUTOSCATTO NELLA FOTOGRAFIA CONTEMPORANEA catalogue curated by Giorgio Bonomi and Alessandra Migliorati 7.9.2013 Palazzo della Penna, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea - Perugia.
• SPAZIO CREATIVO E TERRITORIO DA SALVAGUARDARE - Associazione IDEATTIVA, Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea 28.9/20.10.2013: Photography and Video Art, project by Rosario di Benedetto, curated by Giuseppe Radice and Daniela Aquilia - Palazzo Delle Arti, Paternò - Catania.
• YICCA 13 Exhibition 8/29 november - Young International Contest of Contemporary Art, Moho Association together with Ogms Gallery - The Red House - Sofia, Bulgary.
• Il corpo solitario. L'autoscatto nella fotografia contemporanea, curated by Giorgio Bonomi, Fusion Gallery - Turin.
• PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE LIMEN ARTE 2013 – V edizione, curators: Giorgio Bonomi, Giorgio di Genova, Lara Caccia. Palazzo Comunale E. Gagliardi – Vibo Valentia. Special mention.
2014 • Premio Internazionale LIMEN - V Edizione Arte 2013, artistic directors Giorgio Bonomi, Giorgio Di Genova, curators: Lara Caccia, Enzo Le Pera, Palazzo comunale Enrico Gagliardi, Vibo Valentia. Ente Promotore Camera di Commercio Vibo Valentia. Special mention for the presented work: "La fuga, il sogno and poi…il silenzio 2013".
• LO SGUARDO DI GIULIA premio video-fotografico di GI.U.LI.A - Regione Lombardia edizione, Città di Sesto S. Giovanni 2014.
2015 • Performance: Today, "The gods are gone" (from The Last Supper) 2015 - January 22, 6 pm - San Carpoforo Church, Visual Arts Department of the Art Academy, Milan, sound: E. Pietrini, "Blakenn�mion" (from the album Liquid Metaphors) critical text by G. Longoni
• EVOCARE E INTERROGARE artistic paths between the imaginary and the removed, Libera Mazzoleni and Tiziana Grassi, curated by Hana Krenkova. Gallery Ostrakon, Milan.
• HEARTEARTH - a collective project ideated by video artists Sonia Armaniaco and Maria Korporal. First presentation at the contemporary art fair Berliner Liste in Berlin.
• ALTRA MISURA - Art, photography and feminism in Italy in the 70s group show curated by Raffaella Perna. Frittelli Arte contemporanea, Florence.
• Participation in the exhibition: INTERNATIONAL PHOTO:PROJECT presentated by FONDO MALERBA and by CITTA' METROPOLITANA, Milan.
• Performance: Chicken & Art 2015 - voice: Vanessa Molteni, filming: Maria Korporal
in the context of the exhibition "CARGO - Alles immer Überall" - Group Global 3000 - Berlin.
• THE RESISTANCE OF THE WOMEN 2015
script: Graziella Longoni; filmed and edited: Libera Mazzoleni; translation from Italian: Barbara Agostini.
• V BIENNALE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA di Anzio e Nettuno, Patrocinio della Regione Lazio, del Comune di Anzio e del Comune di Nettuno. Anzio, Museo Civico Archeologico, Villa Soresina; Nettuno, Forte Sangallo.
2016 • ARTEAM CUP 2016 Contemporary Art Prize a cura di D. Amico, A. D'Amico, M. Galbiati, A.L. Ghirardi, K. McManus, L. Savorelli - palazzo del Monferrato Alessandria.
2017 • L'ALTRO SGUARDO Fotografe italiane 1965-2015 from the collection Donata Pizzi curated by Raffaella Perna. Fondazione La Triennale di Milano - Milan.
• Presentation of the book: LILITH e la nonna, 86 pages, 82 images full color.
• Performance: l'ombra della differenza - 7 giugno ore 19 - Apriti Cielo , Milan. Voice: R.Longoni, sound: E. Pietrini, "Blakennomion".
• TV70 FRANCESCO VEZZOLI GUARDA LA RAI - In the context of: SI DICE DONNA Il femminismo italiano nell'arte e nella televisione degli anni '70 , curated by Raffaella Perna - Fondazione Prada - Milan.
• Performance Godo ergo sum. June 30 2017 7,30 pm - in the context of the exhibition "Can you buy pleasure?" curated by Maria Korporal e Mariel Gottwick. Voice: Tom Albrecht, music: "Christmas Song" by Perry Como, "At Last" by Etta James, "Blakennomion" by Emiliano Pietrini, "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper. GROUP GLOBAL 3000 - Leuschnerdamm 19 Berlin.
• M/A/G/M/A - Body and Words in Italian and Lituanian Women's Art from 1965 to the Present, curated by Benedetta Carpi De Rosmini and Laima Kreivyté. Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome
2018 • Rovesciamenti e contronarrazioni 2018 text by Graziella Longoni in W. MAGAZINE-Condé Nast, New York.
2019 • Installation of the Piccolo Museion Cubo Garutti with an adaptation of RHUMA opera 2008 - Fondazione Museion, Bolzano.
• The Unexpected Subject 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy - Curated by Marco Scotini and Raffaella Perna, Production: Simone Frittelli, Elisabetta Galasso, Sponsored by Dior. FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Open Care, Mart Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Milan.
• Eva VS Eva - La duplice valenza femminile nell'immaginario occidentale, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Massimo Osanna, Daniela Porro. Istituto Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este, Museo Nazionale Romano, Parco Archeologico di Pompei. (12.4/22.9) Villa d'Este - Santuario di Ercole Vincitore - Tivoli (RM).
2020 • "Gesti di rivolta" - Arte, fotografia e femminismo a Milano 1975/1980. Curated by Cristina Casero, Nuova Galleria Morone (9.9/31.10).
• disturbance: witch - ZAK / Galerie OG Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst - Zitadelle Spandau, Am Juliusturm 64, 13599 Berlin (11.9/27.12), curated by Alba d'Urbano and Olga Vostretsova.
• "IL VOLTO SINISTRO DELL'ARTE" Romana Loda e l'arte delle donne, curated by Raffaella Perna (3.10/30.11). APALAZZOGALLERY - Brescia.