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| Micol Assael |
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| Born in 1979 in Rome, Italy, Micol Assaël lives and works in Rome and Moscow. Assaël works with a variety of media, including installation, video and drawing. She is best known for the creation of extreme environments, which are potentially harmful to viewers. Inheriting from the legacy of 1970s body performance art and departing from the social niceties of relational aesthetics, her work brings viewers face to face with real or imminent danger. As such, they materialize the threat of terror that underpins the global market’s precarious equilibrium. For “Chizhevsky Lessons” (2007), Assaël transformed a room in Kunsthalle Basel into an electrostatic chamber, warning visitors at the entrance that any contact with another person or object in the room would result in a potentially harmful static choc. Micol Assaël has recent and up-coming solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009), Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw (2009), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009) and Secession, Vienna (2009). Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including “In living contact”, the 28th São Paulo Biennial (2008), “Revolution – forms that turn”, the 16th Sydney Biennial (2008), the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006), the 1st Moscow Biennial (2005) as well as the 50th and 51st editions of the Venice Biennale (2003 and 2005). Micol Assaël is represented by Johann König, Berlin, ZERO…, Milan and Galleria Bonomo Bari, Bari. |
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