Massimo Vitali

Massimo Vitali was born in Como in 1944. He lives and works in Lucca, Italy.

Solo exhibitions

2023

  1. La Grande Oasi – The way we live, now, OCA Oasy Contemporary Art – Pistoia
  2. Standing Still, Cortona On the Move, Arezzo, Italy

2022

  1. Massimo Vitali |PHotoEspaña, Biblioteca Central Cantabria, Santader
  2. Endless Summer, Edwynn Houk Gallery, NY, USA
  3. Massimo Vitali: Leporello 202o, Melbourne
  4. Ti ho visto, Mazzoleni Gallery, Turin

2021

  1. Leporello 2020. No Country for Old Men, Visionarea, Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome
  2. Pienovuoto, Forte Belvedere – Museo del ‘900, Florence

2020

  1. Human Constellations, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin
  2. New Normal, La Fab, Paris

2019

  1. Massimo Vitali: Short Stories, Mazzoleni, London

2018

  1. Coastal Colonies, Spiral, Tokyo

2017

  1. Disturbed Coastal Systems, Benrubi Gallery, New York

2016

  1. Landscapes with Figures, Guidi&Shoen Arte Contemporanea, Genova
  2. Massimo Vitali, Crown Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
  3. Massimo Vitali, Ronchini Gallery, Londra

2015

  1. Massimo Vitali – New Prints, Hilger Next, Vienna

2014

  1. Massimo Vitali, Studio la Città, Verona
  2. Into The White, Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation, Porza
  3. Sempre più pallide. Towards Achrome, Palazzo Tadea, Spilimbergo

2013

  1. Between Normalities, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
  2. Galeria Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg
  3. Art Loft, Berlin, Germany
  4. Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2012

  1. Fotografia Europea 2012, Reggio Emilia
  2. PhotoMed, Sanary sur Mer

2011

  1. Bonni Benrubi, New York
  2. Brancolini Grimaldi, London
  3. Baro’, Galeria Sao Paolo LOOK3, Charlottesville, Virginia

2010

  1. Galerie du Jour, Paris
  2. M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
  3. Galerie Ernst Hilgerat Bropt Kunsthalle, Vienna
  4. Centro de Arte Santa Monica, In/Out with Jordi Bernadò, Barcelona

2009

  1. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
  2. Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig
  3. Disturbances of Reality, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
  4. Foam, Amsterdam

2008

  1. Crown Gallery, Brussels
  2. Galerie Senda, Barcelona
  3. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
  4. M+B, Galerie Hafenrichter & Flugel, Los Angeles

2007

  1. Vistas, Artcore Gallery-Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto
  2. Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
  3. The Columns Art Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Seoul

2006

  1. Old concepts, New works, Hilger
  2. Contemporary, Wien
  3. M+B, Los Angeles
  4. American Beaches, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte
  5. Contemporanea, Roma
  6. Playas, Discotecas y Supermercados, Galeria Senda, Barcelona
  7. Recontres Internationales de la Photo, Arles
  8. Crown Gallery, Bruxelles
  9. Massimo Vitali e Brian McKee, Galleria
  10. Fabjbasaglia, Rimini

2005

  1. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
  2. Museum-Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
  3. La Fàbrica Galeria, Madrid

2004

  1. Guidi&Schoen Arte Contemporanea, Genova
  2. Aula di Cultura BBK, Bilbao, (Spain)
  3. Ernst Hilger Gallery, Wien (Austria)
  4. Museum- PMMK, Oostende, (Belgium)
  5. Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
  6. Nextdoor. Artgalleria, Roma, (Italy)
  7. Landscapes without figures, Bonni Benrubi
  8. Gallery, New York, (USA)
  9. Crown Gallery, Bruxelles, (Belgium)

2003

  1. Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Firenze
  2. Cons-Arc, Chiasso
  3. La Cour d’Ecole, Cinemateque de Corse, Porto Vecchio
  4. La Cour d’Ecole, Cité Pietramarina, Ville di Pietrabugno

2001

  1. Serieuze Zaken galerie, Amsterdam
  2. Crown Gallery, Bruxelles
  3. Arndt & Partner, Berlin
  4. La Cour d’ecole, Centre Culturel Una Volta, Bastia
  5. Venice Biennale, Venezia
  6. Serieuse Zaken, Amsterdam Arndt & Partner, Berlin
  7. Gallery Hotel Art, Firenze

2000

  1. Arte e Personae, Firenze
  2. Crown Gallery, Bruxelles
  3. Hotel Des Arts, Toulon, Commission Fotohof, Salzburg
  4. Espace Malraux, Chambery

1999

  1. Le Quartz, Brest
  2. Galerie du Jour Agnes B., Paris

1998

  1. Recontres Internationales de la Photo, Arles
  2. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
  3. Atheneum, Universitè de la Bourgogne, Dijon

1997

  1. Photographer’s Gallery, London
  2. Studio Guenzani, Milano

1995

  1. Galleria ConsArc, Chiasso

1994

  1. Historisches Archiv der Stadt, Koeln

Group exhibitions

2023

  1. DAY to MORROW – Main International Exhibition, DongGang International Photo Festival, South Korea
  2. Detour London. Moleskine Foundation Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London
  3. Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
  4. L’Italia è un desiderio: fotografie, paesaggi e visioni 1842-2022 | Le collezioni Alinari e Mufoco, Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma

2022

  1. Civilization: vivere , sopravvivere, buon vivere, Musei San Domenico, Forlì
  2. Foto in gioco!, La Venaria Reale, Turin
  3. Entre-corps, Puzzle, Thionville
  4. Ridisegnare lo spazio, Labs Contemporary Art, Bologna

2021

  1. Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, Design Museum, London
  2. Civilization: the way we live now, Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Marseille
  3. Natura Risponde, Associazione 21 – Ex complesso officine Gay, Lodi
  4. RIVA Project, MAD Murate Art District, Florence
  5. The Families of Man, Museo Archeologico Regionale di Aosta
  6. Partance, Villa Théo, Le Lavandeu

2020

  1. Shared Space: A New Era, Photographs from the Bank of America Collection, The University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University
  2. Civilization: the way we live now, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand

2019

  1. Electro. From Kraftwerk to Laurent Garnier, Philarmonie de Paris
  2. Civilization: the way we live now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China & National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  3. L’Italia dei fotografi. 24 storie d’autore, M9 Museo del’900, Venezia

2018

  1. Civilization: the way we live now, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2017

  1. Io sono persona, Centro Internazionale di fotografia, Palermo
  2. Contemporary Life!, Guidi&Schoen Arte Contemporenea, Genova
  3. arte! – Uno Spettacolo Italiano, NEXT DOOR by At The Gallery, Antwerpen
  4. Vacances, Hotel Fontfreyde – centre photographique, Clermont-Ferrand
  5. From the Cavern to the Moon, Centro Pecci, Prato
  6. Domenica,  Marcello Farabegoli Projects @ Italian Embassy, Metternich Palace, Vienna
  7. Due South, The Delaware Contemporary, Delaware

2016

  1. Panorama, Musée d’Art de la Province d’Hainaut, Charleroi
  2. Extraordinary Visions. L’Italia ci guarda, MAXXI, Roma
  3. Faszination Fotografie, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
  4. Progetto Nova, Ex-Ceramiche Vaccari, Santo Stefano Magra
  5. ArteFiera, Studio La Città, Bologna

2015

  1. Com’è Viva la Città, Art & the City 1913-2014, Villa Olmo, Como
  2. Antropia, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Firenze
  3. Watershed, New Hall Place, Bexley Heritage Trust, London
  4. Enchanting treasures, Galerie Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg
  5. Italia Inside Out, Palazzo della Ragione, Milano
  6. Ieri, oggi, Milano, Mufoco, Cinisello Balsamo
  7. Liberi tutti, Museo Ettore Fico, Torino
  8. Industry now, Mast Foundation, Bologna

2014

  1. Miami Projects, Benrubi Gallery, Miami
  2. De Rerum Natura, Studio la Città, Verona
  3. The sea. The Other Landscape, Brandts, Odence

2012

  1. L’insouciance, La Maison Guerlain, Paris
  2. Summer Show, BrancoliniGrimaldi, London
  3. Addio Anni ’70. Arte a Milano 1969-1980, Palazzo Reale, Milano
  4. The Deep Element: Photography at the Beach, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  5. Sense of Place – European Landscape Photography, BOZAR Expo, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels
  6. Shared Spaces Photo Espana, Royal Botanical Gardens, Madrid
  7. Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography, Aperture, New York
  8. An Italian perspective, curated by Angela Madesani, Greenberg Gallery, New York
  9. Peripheral Visions. Italian Photography in Context (1950s-Present), curated by Antonella Pelizzari, Hunter College, New York

2011

  1. FOTOGRAFIA ITALIANA: 8 film per 8 fotografi, Auditorium del MAXXI, Roma
  2. Una prospettiva italiana/An Italian perpective. Ma lo sguardo vede?, curated byi Angela Madesani, Studio la Città, Verona

2010

  1. Steidl. Quand la photo devient livre, La Monnaie, Paris
  2. Detour, The Moleskin Notebook Experience, Bund 18, Shanghai (China)
  3. Cento Anni di Imprese per l’Italia, Triennale di Milano, Milano & l’Ara Pacis, Roma
  4. Il Paesaggio Italiano in Fotografia 1950-2000, Pordenone
  5. Human Rites, Bass Museum, Miami (USA)
  6. PastPresentFuture – Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul
  7. The Definition of Self, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo (Japan)

2009

  1. Mi vida. From Heaven to Hell. Life experiences in art from MUSAC Collection, Mcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
  2. Kaleidoscope d’Italie, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Dudelange
  3. Dopo La Sicilia, Galleria del Credito Valtellinese, Milano
  4. PastPresentFuture – Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna
  5. Parrworld: The Collection of Martin Parr, Jeu de Paume, Paris
  6. BAM Photography Portfolio III, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
  7. Naturellement Humain, Centre Culturel Joseph 1 Kessel, Villepointe
  8. Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
  9. Waterland, Galerie Alexandre Cadain, Paris
  10. Italian Genius Now, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma – MACRO Future, Roma
  11. Temperatura Esterna, Palazzo della Provincia, Pordenone
  12. MI VIDA. From Heaven to Hell, Muecsarnok, Budapest

2008

  1. The Allure of Italy; The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA
  2. Las Vegas Collects; The Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
  3. Human/Nature: Recent European Landscape Photography: Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
  4. Join the Crowd Ronchini Arte Contemporanea, Terni (Italy)
  5. Benicassim. El Festival, Sala de exposiciones de Cultura, del Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Canary Islands (Spain)
  6. Art is For the Spirit: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Ropponigi Hills
  7. Mori Tower, Minato-ku, Tokyo (Japan)
  8. Metamorphosis, Jules Brocherel a Massimo Vitali, Comune di Courmayeur, (Italy)
  9. The Good Life, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York

2007

  1. La vida Privada. Coleccion Joseph Ma Civit, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca
  2. La photographie construite, Centre d’art Sébastien à Saint Cyr sur Mer
  3. Jano-La doble cara de la fotografia. Fondos de la collecion permanete, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid
  4. Souvenir dalla Collezione del Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
  5. New Landscapes-Italienische Fotokunst, Kunst Palais, HypoVereinsbank, München
  6. Anatomia dell’Irrequietezza: Il mito del viaggio dal Grand Tour all’Era Virtuale, Palazzo della Permanente, Perugia
  7. Personal Structures, Galerie Hafenrichter & Flügel, Nuremberg
  8. Seestücke- Von Max Beckmann bis Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Glockenglesserwall, Hamburg
  9. Ricardo Reyes Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF
  10. Italian Genius Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi
  11. Note Urbane, C.ARTE Pecci, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Pecci, Prato
  12. Existencias, Musac, Museo de Arte contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon
  13. Disco to Disco, Jarach Gallery, Venezia
  14. Off Time, Saarland Museum, Saarbruechen
  15. Fotokunst, Essl Museum, Klosterneuurg, Vienna
  16. Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
  17. Des leur temps, Musee de Grenoble
  18. Italies – Doubles visions, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris
  19. Seestücke- von Max Beckmann bis Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg
  20. Tempations, The Columns, Seoul
  21. Monumenti e paesaggi, Cesac, Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio
  22. New Arrival and Classix, Galerie Hafenrichter & Fluegel (ex galeria 2000), Nuremeberg
  23. Huge, Arctore Gallery, Toronto
  24. The Big picture, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
  25. 99 Cent $, Ass. Fondo Giovanna Piras, Asti
  26. Detour-the moleskine city notebook experience, Art Directors Club NYC, New York
  27. Local. The End of Globalization, Photo España, Sala Canal Isabel II, Madrid
  28. Ereditare il Paesaggio, Festival internazionale della fotografia di Roma, Arapacis
  29. Le Vif et le Furtif, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Ville Saint Denis
  30. Acquisitions 2006, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
  31. Monumenti e paesaggi-Viaggi verso l’Italia, curated by Bernard Plossu e Paul Martin, Il Filatoio Caraglio, Cuneo
  32. Linee all’orizzonte, Polo Museale di Nervi, Genova
  33. Polyptics, Crown Gallery, Bruxelles

2006

  1. Pre/View, Jarach Gallery, Venezia
  2. 20/30 Vision: Anniversary Exhibition, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
  3. Peintres de la vie moderne Modern-life painters – Donation – Caisse des Dépôts photograph collection Centre Pompidou – Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
  4. Travelling without moving, Gate 24
  5. Contemporary, Falconara Marittima, Ancona
  6. New landscape Italianische Fotokunst Sammlung der Unicredit Group, HVB Kunst Palais, München
  7. Arterritory, Centrale Montemartini, Roma
  8. Hereford Photography Festival 2006
  9. So Now Then, Talk, Hay Festival, Hereford
  10. Photography Festival, Hay on Wye
  11. Photomeetings Luxemburg, Neumunster Abbeye
  12. UBS Collection, Tate Modern, London
  13. Mediterranea, Pinacoteca Comunale di Bari
  14. The Age of Metamorphosis European Art Highlights from the Centro Pecci Collection, MoCA Shanghai
  15. Images d’un Territoire, Centre Culturel Francais des Damas
  16. Ballermann, Die Austellung – The Exhibition Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
  17. Special Exhibition Space recommended Arndt & Partner – Berlin + Zurich, Berlin (Germany)
  18. Des territoires, des patrimoines FRAC – Alsace, Sélestat
  19. Beyond Delirious CIFO Cisneros Fontanals
  20. Art Foundation, Miami
  21. SuperWindow, Galleria Susanna Orlando, Pietrasanta
  22. See into liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado(USA)
  23. Different Realities? Crown Gallery, Bruxelles
  24. Images d’un Territoire Les chateau d’Eau Toulose
  25. Photo meetings Luxembourg 2006, Gallerie Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg
  26. Images d’un Territoire, Galerie le Lieu, Lorient
  27. Suoni e visioni, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova
  28. Highlights from Harn Museum of Photography, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville
  29. Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2006, Arles
  30. From Rome to New York, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte contemporanea, New York

2005

  1. Come la Neve al Mare, Guidi & Schoen, Genova
  2. Collezione Permanente, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci
  3. 6° Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano
  4. Beyond Delirious: Architecture in Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, curated by Christopher
    Phillips Miami Art Central, Miami
  5. Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent, curated by Gabriel Bauret – grilles de Jardin de Luxembourg
  6. Mare Nostrum. Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari
  7. La Dolce Crisi, curated by Bonami-Cannarutto Villa Manin, Udine
  8. III Bienal de Valencia – Agua sin ti no soy, Bienal de Valencia, Valencia
  9. 10 ans de commandes photographiques, Citadelle de Saint Florent, Corse
  10. Il Paesaggio Italiano Contemporaneo, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio
  11. Italia. Doppie Visioni. Palazzo Reale, Milano
  12. Europe in art. (MNAC) Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
  13. Photographic Reality. Crown Gallery, Bruxelles
  14. 57 on 57th Street: Holiday Show. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
  15. Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto
  16. Landschaft als Metapher, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
  17. PHotoEspaña 2005, International Festival of Fotografia and Visual Arts, Madrid

2004

  1. A holiday group show, Bonni Benrubi Gallery,NY
  2. Water Water Everywhere recommended Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York City, NY
  3. Italia – Spazi e Luoghi, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City
  4. Italia. Doppie Visioni. Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma
  5. Sguardi Gardesani. Museo Civico, Riva del Garda
  6. Collection Agnès B. Les Abattoirs-Frac Midi – Pyrénées, Toulouse
  7. Nous Remontons de la “Calle” Toutes le Photographies. Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris
  8. Italy Space and Places. Robert Mann Gallery, New York
  9. L’idea di Paesaggio nella fotografia italiana dal 1850 ad oggi. Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena

2003

  1. L’idea di paesaggio nella fotografia italiana dal 1850, Galleria Civica, Modena
  2. L’attimo fuggente tra fotografia e cinema, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino
  3. Agrupèmonos todos, ARTIUM Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria
  4. Agrupèmonos todos, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo
  5. Vacant Community, Fondazione Olivetti, Roma
  6. Beaufort 2003, Kunst aan zee Triennale, Oostende
  7. Undergang, Kunsthalle, Bergen
  8. Melting Pop, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
  9. La montagna disincantata, Tour Fromage, Aosta
  10. By the Sea. Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
  11. Summer Holiday – Gruppenausstellung recommended Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt Am Main
  12. Temporary exhibition space in Chicago recommended Arndt & Partner – Berlin + Zurich, Berlin
  13. CMYK: Contemporary Color Photography. Benni Benrubi Gallery, New York
  14. Summer Holiday. Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
  15. Alta Densità. Brancolini Grimaldi Arte contemporanea, Firenze

2002

  1. Camere con vista, Il Filatoio di Caraglio (Italy)
  2. Continuità: Arte in Toscana 1968-1989, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia
  3. Cache-Cache, Camouflage, MUDAC Musée de Design et d’Arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne
  4. Trade, Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam

2001

  1. Mediterraneo um nuovo muro?, Culturgest, Lisboa
  2. Effetto Provos, Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano
  3. Kunst und Kur, Kunsthaus Meran, (Germany)
  4. Arkens Samling, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj/Denmark
  5. Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland)Mutamenti+Analogie, Centro Trevi, Bolzano
  6. Biozones, Forum Culturel Blanc-Mesnil, Bobigny Contemporary Artists of the Mediterranean, Culturgest, Lisboa
  7. Collection 3, FRAC, Alsace Painterly Photography, Blains Fine Arts, London

2000

  1. Tempo!, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma
  2. Arte y Tiempo, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona
  3. Toi, Paris, tu m’as pris dans tes bras, Galerie du Jour Agnes B., Paris
  4. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
  5. Kuenstler fuer die Natur, WWF, Munich
  6. La Collection de photograhie d’Agnes b., CNP Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
  7. Desirs de Rivages, 1Biennale internationale de la Photographie maritime, Musee nationale de la Marine
  8. NoConfines, Musei di Porta Romana, Milano
  9. Stadt, Land, Mensch, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
  10. Studio Guenzani, Milano
  11. Le Temps Vite, MNAM Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
  12. Dormir/Sleep, Coromandel Press
  13. Firenze Fotografia Duemila, Fondazione
  14. Studio Marangoni, Polistampa, Firenze
  15. Pique-Nique, Binome, Paris
  16. Art y Temps, Centre de Cultura
  17. Contemporanea, Barcelona
  18. Biozones, Forum Culturel de Blanc-Mesnil, Mesnil

1999

  1. In Uso, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare
  2. Paesaggi Italiani del ‘900, Palazzo dell’Arengario, Milano
  3. Photography from the Martin z. Margulies Collection, The Art Museum at Florida
  4. International University, Miami
  5. The Big Picture: Large Format Photography, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury Espana ‘98, Madrid

1998

  1. Un nouveau paysage humain, XXIX Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
  2. Paisagens do quotidiano, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra
  3. Italian Photojournalism around 1968, Triennale, Milano
  4. Paesaggi Italiani, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze

1997

  1. Un Paese Unico, Museo Alinari, Firenze (Italy)
  2. Europa, Encontros de fotografia, Coimbra
  3. Postwar Italian Photojournalism, Villa Bottini, Lucca
  4. Sguardigardesani, with Gabriele Basilico, Museo Civico, Riva del Garda

1993

  1. Where Olives Grow, Biennale Internazionale
  2. di Fotografia, Torino