Marinella Senatore

Marinella Senatore (born 1977) is an Italian visual artist. She attended the Fine Arts School in Naples, the National Film School in Rome, Conservatory of Music and in 2006 she graduated in Art at University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) where she was associate professor^[1] for seven years. From 2003 she dedicated herself to artistic and didactic work: she was also professor for six years at the Complutense University of Madrid, visiting professor at the Universities of Rome, University of Granada (Spain), State University of New York (Berlin), Columbia University (New York) among others. She currently lives and works in Berlin and London.

Work

Senatore’s practice is characterized by public participation. She involves entire communities in the creative process in whatever city she produces a body of work. The idea is to foster the creative power of a crowd, initiating a dialogue between oral history, culture and social structures. Senatore’s work is to be experienced by everyone, inviting us to create a participative work in which everybody can play a role. She works with video, installations, performance, sound and drawings representing social realities through different approaches to storytelling, where the role of the artist as author and public a recipient can be rewritten. She is not only concerned with triggering social processes but also with questioning concepts such as community and social responsibility, finding new narrative forms and ultimately in generating a collective memory through joint action.

Her work, Rosas^[2] (2012) an Opera for the screen, involved 20.000 citizens from Spain, Germany and UK. Here the numerous participants encompassed professional dance groups, amateur actors, carpenters, art students and community choirs who were involved in writing the libretto, as actors, singers or working as film crew. They were prepared for the various roles and jobs necessary for the production of the opera at free workshops led by local experts,^[3] e.g. in the fields of film music, dramaturgy and editing. The fact that Marinella Senatore sees her art as social engagement is shown especially clearly by the School of Narrative Dance,^[4] which she founded in 2013: a mobile, free school, focused on storytelling with a system based on emancipation, inclusion and self-training with the aims of literacy, sharing of skills and sustainability. The multi-disciplinary school focuses on narration using a wide spectrum of forms of expression such as dance, film, performance, poetry, oral history, literature and handcraft. In 2014 at Kunst Halle St Gallen (CH) she launched Estman Radio,^[5] a web-based audio project.

Exhibitions and awards

Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the Italy and abroad, in museums and galleries.

Solo exhibitions

• 2014 - MOT International, London, UK^[6]
• 2014 - The School of Narrative Dance, Israel, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, IL^[7]
• 2014 - Estman Radio, INSITU, Berlin, D ^[8]
• 2014 - Kunsthalle St.Gallen, CH^[9]
• 2014 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, US^[10]
• 2013 - Castello di Rivoli^[11] (Turin)
• 2013 - Musei Civici, Cagliari, IT^[12]
• 2013 - Nomas Foundation/Teatro Valle occupato, Rome, IT
• 2012 - Peres Projects, Berlin, D^[13]
• 2012 - Quad, Derby, UK^[14]
• 2012 - ViaFarini, Milan, IT^[15]
• 2012 - Matadero, Madrid, ES^[16]
• 2012 - Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, D^[17]
• 2011 - Macro Museum, Rome, IT^[18]

Group exhibitions

Awards

In 2011 was affiliated Fellowship at The American Academy in Rome^[44] and finalist of Furla Art Award.^[45] In 2010 she won The New York Prize, the XXI Bellisario Award, Gotham Prize^[46] and Terna Prize; in 2009 she was recipient of Dena Foundation Fellowship;^[47] and in 2013 was awarded with the Fellowship for Young Italian artist of Castello di Rivoli - Museum of Contemporary Art.^[48] In 2014, Senatore won the 2014 Prize Maxxi.

Selected Video Screenings

Residence Programs

• 2012 - American Academy, Rome, IT^[49]
• 2012 - Via Farini, Milan, IT
• 2011 - Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, D^[50]
• 2010 - ISCP, Brooklyn, New York, US^[51]
• 2009 - ArtOmi, Omi International Center, Ghent, US^[52]
• 2005 - Ratti Foundation, Como, IT^[53]

Selected Talks / Teaching

Publications

Marinella Senatore has been featured in:

References

External links

• Marinella Senatore Official Website
• Eastman Radio Official Website
• School of Narrative Dance
• MOT International
• Künstlerhaus Bethanien
• Peres Projects
• Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
• ISCP
• Kunsthalle St Gallen
• Castello di Rivoli