Davide
Cascio
Born in 1976 in Lugano (Switzerland), between 1992 and 1996 he attended the Centro scolastico industrie artistiche (CSIA) in Lugano and then the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where he graduated in 2000. Between 2000 and 2001 he lived in Cairo, deepening his knowledge of Islamic art. From 2004 to 2006 he returned to the Italian capital as a member of the Swiss Institute of Rome. In 2005 he was awarded the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Prize, while two years later, on the occasion of the awarding of the Manor Ticino Art Prize, the Museo Cantonale d'Arte hosted a solo exhibition of his work. In 2007 and 2008 he was among the artists awarded at the Swiss Art Awards, exhibiting his works at the Kunsthalle Basel (2008) and the Kunsthaus Glarus (2009). After a stay in Zug as part of a residency sponsored by the Landis & Gyr Foundation, in 2009 he was admitted to the Pavillon of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris for an international residency. Since then he has been living in France, where he has participated in other artist residencies: in 2011 in Marseille (Astérides), in 2012 in Bourges (La Box, École nationale supérieure d'art) and in 2014 in Paris (Fondation d'entreprise galleries Lafayette). In 2011 the Kunstmuseum Thun dedicated an important two-person exhibition to him with Peter Stämpfli. From 2015 to 2019 he was a doctoral student at SACRe ENS/PSL (ENSBA grant) in Paris.
Davide Cascio, (1976, Lugano, Suisse), vit et travaille à Paris et à Lugano depuis 2009.
Membre de l’Institut Suisse de Rome pendant deux ans (2004-06). Il a gagné le Prix Vordemberge-Gildewart en 2005 et le Prix culturel Manor en 2007, ainsi que le Swiss Art Awards en 2007 et 2008.
En Suisse il a exposé à la Kunsthalle de Bâle, au Kunstmuseum de Glarus et de Thun (expositions personelles). En France, à "La chambre" de la galerie Xipppas, au FRAC centre d'Orleans, à la biennale de Bourges (2012). Il a été résident au Pavillon du Palais de Tokyo à Paris (2009-2010), à Astérides à Marseille en 2011, en 2012 à la Box de l'ENSA Bourges et en 2014 à Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette à Paris. Il a été doctorant au SACRe ENS/ PSL, (bourse ENSBA) à Paris (2015-2019).
Davide Cascio
1976
born in Lugano, Switzerland. Lives and works in Lugano and Paris
Studies
1992-1996
CSIA, Centro scolastico per le industrie artistique, Lugano, Switzerland
1996-2000
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome, Italy
2015-2019
PhD, SACRe, ENS/ENSBA, Paris
Residencies and grants
2014
Lafayette Anticipation Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris (residency program)
2012
La Box, ENSA Bourges, France (residency program)
2011
Astérides, Marseille (residency program)
2009–2010
Le Pavillon, laboratoire de création du Palais de Tokyo, Paris (residency program)
2008
Stipendium der Stiftung Landis & Gyr, Zug, Switzerland (residency program)
UBS Culture Foundation (Grant)
Swiss Art Award, Basel (Grant)
2007
Prix culturel Manor, Lugano (Grant)
Swiss Art Award, Basel (Grant)
Pro Helvetia, Cairo, Egypt (residency program)
2006
Cahiers d’artistes, Pro Helvetia (Grant)
2004–2006
Suisse Institute of Rome (residency program)
2005
Kunststipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart (Grant)
Selected solo exhibitions
2020
Davide Cascio Collages 2000-2020, larada, locarno
2019
Acéphale, Eglise des Petits-Augustins, ENSBA, Paris
2018
Riverrun II, NCCA,Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017
Riverrun, 13er Kunsttreff, Alpnach Dorf, Switzerland
2016
Revolution in our lifetime, Espace Labo, Geneva
2015
Just a fur coat and a pair of gloves thrown on a chair with a monochrome background, Zabrinski point, Geneva
2014
Ikebana, Forma art contemporain, Lausanne
2013
If not yet done (phase 2), Le Cabanon, Université de Lausanne (with Vincent Kohler)
2012
If not yet done (with Vincent Kohler), Laboratorio Kunsthalle Lugano, Lugano
2011
James bond & pin-ups (with Peter Stämpfli), Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
Complex interiors, La chambre, Galerie Xippas, Paris
States of Matter, (with Ilona Sagar), London Swiss Church, London
2009
Be-building, Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art, Basel
A portrait of the man as a building, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Transposition (with Christian Kathriner), Walfahrtskirche Hergiswald, Switzerland
Flying cellular unit 3, I2A, International Institute of Architecture, Vico Morcote, Switzerland
2008
E.N. Elementa Pamatforma, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Ednica, Riga, Latvia
E.N. Quasi-bridge, FormContent, London
E.N., agenzia04, Bologna, Italy
Werkschau, Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Zug, Switzerland
2007
Rooms, Roses, Polyhedrons, Prix culturel Manor Ticino, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
News from nowhere, planet22, Geneva
Variations on a blue star (with Doa Aly), studio Emad el Din, Cairo, Egypt
2005
Golem (progetto utopico per spazio urbano), rialtosantambrogio, Rome
Polyhedra (room for reading Joyce’s Ulysses), Borgovico33, Como, Italy
Selected group exhibitions
2019
One Way or another, La box, Bourges
City café, Paris
2018
Partitions isotropes, Porrentruy, Switzerland
Intoto 6, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
2017
Happening 2, Marina di Ginosa, Italy
La ruche et la valise, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy - Geneva
2016
DDL’A, La persistance des images, Primo Piano, Paris
Clèa, Section 7 books, Paris
Espresso, Le 6b, Saint-Denis, France
Happening, Marina di Ginosa, Italy
2015
Dust: The plates of the present, Baxter St, New York
To call a cat a cat, Salon du salon, Marseille
The generic way, Zabriskie point, Geneva
Whonung, Zurich
The Drawer, Volume 7, Paris
2014
Venir, voir, venir, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris
blackboard - white page, Kantonsschule Zürich Nord, Zürich
#3 Tout arrive, exo exo, Paris
2013
Méfie-toi de la surface des choses, Espace Labo, Geneva
Geometria: desvios y desmesuras, Fundacion OSDE, Buenos Aires
Schwarzwälder, Sonntag, Paris
I am your neighbour! Young artists and portraiture, Bromer art collection, Roggwil, Switzerland
(n)on site, Km Temporaer, Berlin
2012
La Jeunesse est un art, 30 ans de Prix Culturel Manor, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
6ème Biennale d’art contemporain de Bourges, France
Véhicules rêvés, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
This & There, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
2011
Convergence, Literary Art Exhibitions, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Irland
2010
The multicultural in our time, Gyeonggi MOMA, Ansan, Corée du sud/ Le Pavillon, Paris
A basic human impulse, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy
A travers un cercle de regards, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2009
L’intermédiaire, Live In Your Head, Espace d’exposition de la Head, Geneva
Spacioux, Lambretto Art Project, Milan
Swiss Art Awards 2009, Basel
Where are you? Pro Helvetia, Cairo Egypt
Fragile Monuments, Suzie Q Projects, Zurich
Dream and Reality, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
2008
Public Improvisation, Advanced Course of Visual Arts, Ratti Foundation, Careof, Milan
Rooms look back / Insert III, Kunsthalle Basel
Eternal Tour, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
Swiss Art Awards 2008, Basel
Bex & Art, 10ème Triennale de Sculpture Suisse Contemporaine, Bex, Switzerland
2007
Cahiers d’artistes, Fri- Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
Plus, Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten der Stiftung Vordemberge-Gildewart, Museum Wiesbaden
Swiss Art Awards 2007, Basel
Collection cahiers d’artistes, Perla-Mode, Zurich
2006
Artissima 13, Ap4-Art Galerie, Turin
Piz Gloria, show room 2, k26, Leipzig
Mirhajica, I Sotterranei dell’Arte, Monte Carasso, Switzerland
Swiss Art Awards 2006, Basel
Che c’è di nuovo? Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
2005
Spazi aperti (with Christian Kathriner), Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy
Trivial pursuit, AP4-Art Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland
Kunststipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, pfaffikon SZ, Switzerland
2004
Swiss Art Awards 2004, Basel
Fuoco, CCS Centro Culturale Svizzero di Milano, Milan
Collections
Collection Cantone Ticino, Switzerland
Collection Manor, Geneva
Collection Kunstsammlung Kanton Zurich
Collection Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
Collection Credit Suisse, Zurich, Switzerland
Collection F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Kunstsammlung Roche, Basel
Collection FRAC centre, Orleans, France
Collection Von Bartha, Switzerland
Bibliography
2017
Cléa, Avec les contributions de : Julien Audebert, Andrea Aversa, Sam Basu, Tristan
Bera, Stéphane Bérard, Patxi Bergé, Gérard Berreby, Roxane Bovet, Diane-Sophie
Girin, Ann Guillaume, Yannick Langlois & Betsy Lin Seder, Anthony Lanzenberg, Ingrid Luche, Laure Marville, Yoan Mudry, Rometti Costales, Benjamin Rondeau, The Bells Angels (Julien Sirjacq), Delphine Trouche, France Valliccioni, Qi Wang et Pedro Wirz. Ed. Davide Cascio & Michaël Sellam, Paris.
2015
Transposition, Christian Kathriner, Davide Cascio, Textes de Jörg H. Gleiter , Robert Suckale, Birgit Szepanski et Stanislaus von Moos, Ed. Spector Books, Leipzig. (Cat.)
2014
Rocking, Davide Cascio, Jorge Pedro Núñez, Ed. Lafayette Anticipation, Paris
2013
Akefalos, Davide Cascio, Vincent Kohler, Ed. Cabanon, Lausanne
Art collection, Europaallee 1-9, Zurich, Ed. Crédit Suisse, Zurich
2012
Davide Cascio & Peter Stämpfli: James Bond & Pin-Ups, Textes de Helene Hirsch, Tobias Lander, Guido Magnaguagno, Marie Theres Stauffer, Ed. Kunst Museum Thun /Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2012 (Cat.)
Davide Cascio, Quand les dômes étaient blancs, voyage au pays des timides, apresmidilab, Paris
2011
E. N., Davide Cascio, Curated by Egija Inzule, Annette Amberg, Vita Banga, Luigi Fassi, Antje von Graevenitz, Francesco Pedraglio, Hans Rudolph Reust. Ed. Spector Books, Leipzig (Cat.)
2009
Marco Tagliafierro, Davide Cascio, Il fascino del fallimento, Flash Art, n° 278
Anna Bürkli, “Generation Kairo”, Du 793
Hans Rudolf Reust, Fragile Monuments, Suzie Q Projects, Galerie Bob Van Orsouv, Artforum, May 2009
Davide Cascio, A site specific story for an anti-monument, www.pianomagazine.org
Annette Amberg, The Stage, the curtain, the Light, Rooms Look Back, Kunsthalle Basel
2008
Hans Rudolf Reust, Davide Cascio - Schnitte und Brechungen im modo geometrico, Kunstbulletin 10/2008
Luigi Fassi, Ecotopias and social spaces, Mousse Magazine, 15
Davide Cascio, Rooms, Roses, polyhedrons, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Mounira Khemir, Elio Schenini, Premio Culturale Manor Ticino, Ed. Fink, Zurich (Cat.)
2007
Patrick Gosatti, Davide Cascio: Premio Culturale Manor Ticino, Kunstbulletin 12/2007
2006
Boris Magrini, Davide Cascio, Collection Cahiers d’Artistes 2006, Pro Helvetia, Zurich
1976
born in Lugano, Switzerland. Lives and works in Lugano and Paris
Studies
1992-1996
CSIA, Centro scolastico per le industrie artistique, Lugano, Switzerland
1996-2000
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome, Italy
2015-2019
PhD, SACRe, ENS/ENSBA, Paris
Residencies and grants
2014
Lafayette Anticipation Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris (residency program)
2012
La Box, ENSA Bourges, France (residency program)
2011
Astérides, Marseille (residency program)
2009–2010
Le Pavillon, laboratoire de création du Palais de Tokyo, Paris (residency program)
2008
Stipendium der Stiftung Landis & Gyr, Zug, Switzerland (residency program)
UBS Culture Foundation (Grant)
Swiss Art Award, Basel (Grant)
2007
Prix culturel Manor, Lugano (Grant)
Swiss Art Award, Basel (Grant)
Pro Helvetia, Cairo, Egypt (residency program)
2006
Cahiers d’artistes, Pro Helvetia (Grant)
2004–2006
Suisse Institute of Rome (residency program)
2005
Kunststipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart (Grant)
Selected solo exhibitions
2020
Davide Cascio Collages 2000-2020, larada, locarno
2019
Acéphale, Eglise des Petits-Augustins, ENSBA, Paris
2018
Riverrun II, NCCA,Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017
Riverrun, 13er Kunsttreff, Alpnach Dorf, Switzerland
2016
Revolution in our lifetime, Espace Labo, Geneva
2015
Just a fur coat and a pair of gloves thrown on a chair with a monochrome background, Zabrinski point, Geneva
2014
Ikebana, Forma art contemporain, Lausanne
2013
If not yet done (phase 2), Le Cabanon, Université de Lausanne (with Vincent Kohler)
2012
If not yet done (with Vincent Kohler), Laboratorio Kunsthalle Lugano, Lugano
2011
James bond & pin-ups (with Peter Stämpfli), Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
Complex interiors, La chambre, Galerie Xippas, Paris
States of Matter, (with Ilona Sagar), London Swiss Church, London
2009
Be-building, Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art, Basel
A portrait of the man as a building, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Transposition (with Christian Kathriner), Walfahrtskirche Hergiswald, Switzerland
Flying cellular unit 3, I2A, International Institute of Architecture, Vico Morcote, Switzerland
2008
E.N. Elementa Pamatforma, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Ednica, Riga, Latvia
E.N. Quasi-bridge, FormContent, London
E.N., agenzia04, Bologna, Italy
Werkschau, Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Zug, Switzerland
2007
Rooms, Roses, Polyhedrons, Prix culturel Manor Ticino, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
News from nowhere, planet22, Geneva
Variations on a blue star (with Doa Aly), studio Emad el Din, Cairo, Egypt
2005
Golem (progetto utopico per spazio urbano), rialtosantambrogio, Rome
Polyhedra (room for reading Joyce’s Ulysses), Borgovico33, Como, Italy
Selected group exhibitions
2019
One Way or another, La box, Bourges
City café, Paris
2018
Partitions isotropes, Porrentruy, Switzerland
Intoto 6, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
2017
Happening 2, Marina di Ginosa, Italy
La ruche et la valise, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy - Geneva
2016
DDL’A, La persistance des images, Primo Piano, Paris
Clèa, Section 7 books, Paris
Espresso, Le 6b, Saint-Denis, France
Happening, Marina di Ginosa, Italy
2015
Dust: The plates of the present, Baxter St, New York
To call a cat a cat, Salon du salon, Marseille
The generic way, Zabriskie point, Geneva
Whonung, Zurich
The Drawer, Volume 7, Paris
2014
Venir, voir, venir, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris
blackboard - white page, Kantonsschule Zürich Nord, Zürich
#3 Tout arrive, exo exo, Paris
2013
Méfie-toi de la surface des choses, Espace Labo, Geneva
Geometria: desvios y desmesuras, Fundacion OSDE, Buenos Aires
Schwarzwälder, Sonntag, Paris
I am your neighbour! Young artists and portraiture, Bromer art collection, Roggwil, Switzerland
(n)on site, Km Temporaer, Berlin
2012
La Jeunesse est un art, 30 ans de Prix Culturel Manor, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
6ème Biennale d’art contemporain de Bourges, France
Véhicules rêvés, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
This & There, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
2011
Convergence, Literary Art Exhibitions, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Irland
2010
The multicultural in our time, Gyeonggi MOMA, Ansan, Corée du sud/ Le Pavillon, Paris
A basic human impulse, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy
A travers un cercle de regards, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2009
L’intermédiaire, Live In Your Head, Espace d’exposition de la Head, Geneva
Spacioux, Lambretto Art Project, Milan
Swiss Art Awards 2009, Basel
Where are you? Pro Helvetia, Cairo Egypt
Fragile Monuments, Suzie Q Projects, Zurich
Dream and Reality, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
2008
Public Improvisation, Advanced Course of Visual Arts, Ratti Foundation, Careof, Milan
Rooms look back / Insert III, Kunsthalle Basel
Eternal Tour, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
Swiss Art Awards 2008, Basel
Bex & Art, 10ème Triennale de Sculpture Suisse Contemporaine, Bex, Switzerland
2007
Cahiers d’artistes, Fri- Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
Plus, Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten der Stiftung Vordemberge-Gildewart, Museum Wiesbaden
Swiss Art Awards 2007, Basel
Collection cahiers d’artistes, Perla-Mode, Zurich
2006
Artissima 13, Ap4-Art Galerie, Turin
Piz Gloria, show room 2, k26, Leipzig
Mirhajica, I Sotterranei dell’Arte, Monte Carasso, Switzerland
Swiss Art Awards 2006, Basel
Che c’è di nuovo? Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
2005
Spazi aperti (with Christian Kathriner), Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy
Trivial pursuit, AP4-Art Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland
Kunststipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, pfaffikon SZ, Switzerland
2004
Swiss Art Awards 2004, Basel
Fuoco, CCS Centro Culturale Svizzero di Milano, Milan
Collections
Collection Cantone Ticino, Switzerland
Collection Manor, Geneva
Collection Kunstsammlung Kanton Zurich
Collection Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
Collection Credit Suisse, Zurich, Switzerland
Collection F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Kunstsammlung Roche, Basel
Collection FRAC centre, Orleans, France
Collection Von Bartha, Switzerland
Bibliography
2017
Cléa, Avec les contributions de : Julien Audebert, Andrea Aversa, Sam Basu, Tristan
Bera, Stéphane Bérard, Patxi Bergé, Gérard Berreby, Roxane Bovet, Diane-Sophie
Girin, Ann Guillaume, Yannick Langlois & Betsy Lin Seder, Anthony Lanzenberg, Ingrid Luche, Laure Marville, Yoan Mudry, Rometti Costales, Benjamin Rondeau, The Bells Angels (Julien Sirjacq), Delphine Trouche, France Valliccioni, Qi Wang et Pedro Wirz. Ed. Davide Cascio & Michaël Sellam, Paris.
2015
Transposition, Christian Kathriner, Davide Cascio, Textes de Jörg H. Gleiter , Robert Suckale, Birgit Szepanski et Stanislaus von Moos, Ed. Spector Books, Leipzig. (Cat.)
2014
Rocking, Davide Cascio, Jorge Pedro Núñez, Ed. Lafayette Anticipation, Paris
2013
Akefalos, Davide Cascio, Vincent Kohler, Ed. Cabanon, Lausanne
Art collection, Europaallee 1-9, Zurich, Ed. Crédit Suisse, Zurich
2012
Davide Cascio & Peter Stämpfli: James Bond & Pin-Ups, Textes de Helene Hirsch, Tobias Lander, Guido Magnaguagno, Marie Theres Stauffer, Ed. Kunst Museum Thun /Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2012 (Cat.)
Davide Cascio, Quand les dômes étaient blancs, voyage au pays des timides, apresmidilab, Paris
2011
E. N., Davide Cascio, Curated by Egija Inzule, Annette Amberg, Vita Banga, Luigi Fassi, Antje von Graevenitz, Francesco Pedraglio, Hans Rudolph Reust. Ed. Spector Books, Leipzig (Cat.)
2009
Marco Tagliafierro, Davide Cascio, Il fascino del fallimento, Flash Art, n° 278
Anna Bürkli, “Generation Kairo”, Du 793
Hans Rudolf Reust, Fragile Monuments, Suzie Q Projects, Galerie Bob Van Orsouv, Artforum, May 2009
Davide Cascio, A site specific story for an anti-monument, www.pianomagazine.org
Annette Amberg, The Stage, the curtain, the Light, Rooms Look Back, Kunsthalle Basel
2008
Hans Rudolf Reust, Davide Cascio - Schnitte und Brechungen im modo geometrico, Kunstbulletin 10/2008
Luigi Fassi, Ecotopias and social spaces, Mousse Magazine, 15
Davide Cascio, Rooms, Roses, polyhedrons, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Mounira Khemir, Elio Schenini, Premio Culturale Manor Ticino, Ed. Fink, Zurich (Cat.)
2007
Patrick Gosatti, Davide Cascio: Premio Culturale Manor Ticino, Kunstbulletin 12/2007
2006
Boris Magrini, Davide Cascio, Collection Cahiers d’Artistes 2006, Pro Helvetia, Zurich