Caterina Pecchioli - news Caterina Pecchioli (Florence/Italy 1978) lives in Amsterdam. She works as visual artist, director and theorist. She studied at the Art Lyceum Leon Battista Alberti of Florence and at the DAMS (Visual Arts, Cinema, Music and Performing Arts Studies) University of Bologna, where she received her master degree with laude in 2005. Her thesis, Antonin Artaud: Signs and Drawings, won the DAMS Prize. In 2006 she moved in Amsterdam where in 2009 she graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and she was nominated for the Gra Award. In 2007 she took part in the project Performativity of Art at the Piet Zwart Institute, Master in Fine Art in Rotterdam. Her videos, performances and installations are focusing on identity and political matters mainly expressed through the body communication. Her research is rooted in her studies and practice of different disciplines as theater, dance, photography, painting and other visual art forms. She often took part in collaboration with other artist and architects as for example Network 8x8 (Florence) and the collective Stalker (Rome/Berlin). She is often invited to give workshops and lectures in Art Schools and Univestity in Italy and The Netherlands, from 2009 she is advisor at the DNA, post-academic department of the Vrije Academie/Gemak in Den Haag. Since 2003 she is taking part to many national and international exhibitions, festivals and screening.
