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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 in 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 a legacy of 1970s body performance art and departing from the social niceties of relational aesthetics, her work involves bringing viewers face to face with a real or imminent danger. As such, they materialize the threat of terror that underpins our global capitalist 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 viewer or object in the room would generate a potentially wounding static choc. Micol Assaël has had recent solo exhibitions at Johann König, Berlin (2007), Kunsthalle Basel (2007), ZERO…, Milan (2005) and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2004). Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, notably the 16th Biennial of Sydney, Australia (2008), the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006), the 1rst Moscow Biennial (2005) as well as the 50th and 51rst edition 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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