The SMACH Biennale 2023 presents 10 artworks that respond to SPROUTING, the keyword of the 6th edition of the open air exhibition.

The theme of the Biennale 2023 is a verb declined in the gerund indicating an action already in progress on a visible level or on invisible, microscopic, metaphorical levels. The term has a wide range of applications from botany to molecular biology to the development of the neural system.

The winning projects, selected from more than 300 submissions, declined the term SPROUTING by reflecting on the subterranean connections of the natural world and its capacity for resilience; on the return to the human-environment symbiosis; on the often reckless use of natural resources; on aspects of the alpine landscape that we took for granted and on the birth of alpine legends.

The Biennale took place in 10 locations selected for their historical, mythological, botanical and geological characteristics that were located along a 65-kilometer trek.

SMACH é n concurs internazional por artisć. SPROUTING, caidlan. Le tema de SMACH 2023 é n verb tla forma dl gerunde che dá dant n’aziun che é bele tl laur da sozede a n livel visibl o a liví nia ciamó da odëi, miscroscopics, metaforics. La parora vëgn adorada te n ciamp d’aziun ampl, che vá dala botanica, ala biologia molecolara, al svilup dl sistem neural.
Te chësc momënt, i nes un prësc lascé le COVID do da nos, viunse n tëmp caraterisé da veres, inflaziun, crisa climatica y energetica. Al é n tëmp de instabilité, che gonot fej rima cun pücia fertilité. Cun SPROUTING orunse ves stimolé da imaginé ci che pó nasce te chësc tëmp. Ciünes é pa les somënzes che i oresses somené? Ciügn é pa i fios che i oresses odëi caidlan? Ci oresses pa fá crësce (o cherié) y ti lascé ales generaziuns che vëgn?
La bandida é jüda da dezëmber a merz 2023. Indöt él gnü ite passa 300 laurs da 29 naziuns desfarëntes. Chëstes é gnüdes analisades da na iuria tecnica y artistica che chirí fora i 10 davagnadus dla 6. ediziun dla Bienala SMACH.

La SMACH Biennale 2023 presenta 10 opere d'arte che rispondono a SPROUTING, la parola chiave della sesta edizione della rassegna.
Il tema della Biennale 2023 è un verbo declinato al gerundio che indica un'azione già in corso a livello visibile o a livelli invisibili, microscopici, metaforici. Il termine ha un'ampia gamma di applicazioni, dalla botanica alla biologia molecolare allo sviluppo del sistema neurale.
I progetti vincitori, selezionati tra oltre 300 candidature, declinano il termine SPROUTING riflettendo sulle connessioni sotterranee del mondo naturale e sulla sua capacità di resilienza; sul ritorno alla simbiosi uomo-ambiente; sull'uso spesso sconsiderato delle risorse naturali; sugli aspetti del paesaggio alpino che diamo per scontati e sulla nascita di leggende alpine.
La Biennale si svolge in 10 località selezionate per le loro caratteristiche storiche, mitologiche, botaniche e geologiche, situate lungo un percorso di 65 chilometri.

ARTISTI VINCITORI SMACH 2023

Die SMACH Biennale 2023 präsentiert 10 Kunstwerke, die auf SPROUTING, das Stichwort der sechsten Ausgabe der Ausstellung, reagieren.
Das Thema der Biennale 2023 ist ein Verb, das im Gerundium dekliniert wird, um eine Aktion zu bezeichnen, die bereits auf einer sichtbaren Ebene oder auf unsichtbaren, mikroskopischen, metaphorischen Ebenen im Gange ist. Der Begriff hat ein breites Anwendungsspektrum, das von der Botanik über die Molekularbiologie bis hin zur Entwicklung des Nervensystems reicht.
Die Siegerprojekte, die aus über 300 Einreichungen ausgewählt wurden, interpretieren den Begriff SPROUTING, indem sie über die unterirdischen Verbindungen der natürlichen Welt und ihre Widerstandsfähigkeit nachdenken; über die Rückbesinnung auf die Symbiose zwischen Mensch und Umwelt; über den oft rücksichtslosen Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen; über Aspekte der alpinen Landschaft, die wir für selbstverständlich halten, und über die Entstehung von alpinen Legenden.
Die Biennale findet an 10 Orten statt, die aufgrund ihrer historischen, mythologischen, botanischen und geologischen Besonderheiten ausgewählt wurden und sich entlang einer 65 Kilometer langen Route befinden.

GEWINNER DES SMACH 2023

Federica Beretta is director at Hauser and Wirth Monaco, Monte-Carlo. She previously managed art galleries in Mayfair and Chelsea for ten years, where she curated forty exhibitions for renowned Contemporary artists and photographers. Federica worked as a full-time journalist and she collaborated with the art magazine Artribune, covering international art fairs and reviewing art exhibitions. Besides, she has curated various public art projects in collaboration with Westminster City Council, Art in Mayfair, City of sculpture and London Gallery Weekend in Berkeley Square, Marble Arch, Grosvenor Square and Bond Street. She was a juror in the selection committee of the Accessible Art fair at the Centre for Fine Art Bozar in Bruxelles, Art Rooms Fair and Art Apartments in collaboration with the Estorick Collection, museum of Modern Italian art in London. She organised tours to members of the Bank of America Arts and Creative Club in national museums and international auction houses. She studied Art and Finance, Marketing and Strategy at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Federica holds a master’s degree in Culture, Policy and Management at City University London.

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Jasmine Deporta is a multidisciplinary visual artist mainly working in the field of photography. After her Bachelor in Design and Arts in Bolzano (IT) she completed her master's degree in Photography at Ecole Cantonal d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in Switzerland, where she is currently based.  Wihtin her practice she works by means of photographic methods and experimental working approaches in a transdisciplinary field between different media. Her work has been part of solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, London, Tokyo and in Switzerland, Greece and Italy.

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Giulia Ferracci is an art curator living in Rome. She has collaborated with MACRO-Museumof Contemporary Art of Rome (2004-2006) and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage–Architecture and Art Department (2006-2009). Since2010, she has been working at the MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, where she has curated numerous catalogues, monographic and collective exhibitions including Gino De Dominicis. The Immortal (2010) ; William Kentridge. Pensiero verticale (2012); Clemens von Wedemeyer. The Cast (2013); PREMIO MAXXI (2012-2014-2016); PREMIO MAXXI BVLGARI (2018-2020-2022); Zerocalcare. Scavare fossati-nutrirecoccodrilli (2018). She was also co-curator with H.U.Obrist and G.Kvaran of Indian Highway (2011); with E.Motisi of The Independent(2013-2020); with H.Hanru of the following exhibitions: Huang Yong Ping. BâtonSerpent (2014); Jimmie Durham. Sound and Silliness (2016); Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors (2017); with Z.Badovinac of Bigger Than me. Voci eroiche dall'ex Jugoslavia (2021). Among the exhibitions as independent curator: Timezone, Wien (2016); Senza Eroi. Zerocalcare, Peccioli (2020).

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Emanuele Masi, with an academic background in music, has directed his professional activity towards theatre curating and organisation. Artistic Director of the International Bolzano Dance Festival since 2013, he has relaunched the event on an international level, expanding its roots in the territory. In 2020 his project 'EDEN - dance for a single spectator', created in response to the pandemic, won the Danza&Danza Prize, while in 2022 the Politecnico di Milano awarded him the Gianluca Spina Prize for Digital Innovation. He has also served as Artistic Director of the Teatro Comunale in Bolzano and the dance seasons of the Teatro Sociale in Trento. Since 2015 he has collaborated with the Haydn Foundation of Bolzano and Trento and since 2021 he has been a consultant to the Fondazione Musica per Roma for the programming of dance activities at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and for the direction of the Equilibrio Festival, the restart of which he curated in 2022.

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Stefan Sagmeister has designed for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones and the Guggenheim Museum. He’s a two time Grammies winner and also earned practically every important international design award.
While his work is steeped graphics, he has also directed a film, created furniture, made products, designed a watch and ventured into clothing.
His books sell in the hundreds of thousands and his exhibitions have been mounted in dozens of museums around the world. His exhibit ’The Happy Show' attracted way over half a million visitors worldwide and became the most visited graphics show in history.
A native of Austria, he received his MFA from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and, as a Fulbright Scholar, a master’s degree from Pratt Institute in New York.

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Peter Zumthor, born in Basel in 1943, works in his studio with around three dozen employees in Haldenstein in Switzerland, where he designs architectural originals such as the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Therme Vals, the Kolumba Museum in Cologne or the Steilneset Memorial in Vardø.

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