Alice Cattaneo was born in Milan, Italy, where she continues to live and work. She creates sculptures and animated videos using commonplace materials such as wood, cardboard, felt and masking tape. Within her practice, everyday objects take on a life of their own, often acquiring anthropomorphic qualities. At once ephemeral and playful, Cattaneo’s installations appear as opportunistic entities, growing out of any available surface: floor, wall and ceiling alike, as if they were living microcosms springing forth, against all odds, from the most unlikely places, notably, the pristine spaces of white cube galleries. Her pieces’ organic quality shifts the significance of her DIY approach away from its usual pragmatic functionality. While precarious and poetic, Cattaneo’s delicate constructions appear both as unruly self-generated growths and proper illustrative science models.

Alice Cattaneo has had recent solo exhibitions at Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan (2008), Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples (2008), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2007) and Analix Forever, Geneva (2006).  Her work has also been shown as part of On Mobility, Premio Furla per L’Arte, Villa delle Rose, Bologna (2007), Premio del Golfo 2006, Biennale Europea di Arti Visive at CAMeC, La Spezia (2006), Abstract Art Now: Strictly Geometrical? at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany (2006) and Vorticanti at Maze Gallery, Turin (2005).