Born in 1979 in Rome, Italy, Micol Assaël lives and works in Rome and Moscow. Assaël works with a variety of media, including video, drawing and installation. She is best known for creating extreme environments that are potentially harmful to viewers. Informed by the legacy of 1970s body performance art, and departing from the social niceties of relational aesthetics, Assaël’s works often involve bringing viewers face to face with real or imminent danger. As such, her pieces 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 recently presented solo exhibitions at Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt. (Then Farewell, My Beloved, 'til It's Freedom Day). Galleria Zero…, Milano (2013), Future Generation@Venice, collateral event of the 55 Venice Biennale, Venezia (2013), Have you seen me before? White Chapel Gallery, London (2013), Secession, Vienna (2009), Johann König, Berlin (2009), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009). Her work has also 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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