FRANCESCO JODICE

1967    
Born in Naples; lives in Milan
1995    
Starts to work with photography, film-making, maps and writings
1996    
Graduates as architect
2000    
Founding member of Multiplicity, an international network of artists and architects. Among Multiplicity projects: Tokyo Voids; USE: Uncertain States of Europe; Solid Sea
2004    
Named Professor of Theory and practice of the mtechnological image, Faculty of Design and  Art,University of Bolzano, Italy
2005    
Named Professor of Photography, NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy
2008    
Commissioned by United Kassel, La Biennale di Venezia, Bienal de Sao Paulo, Liverpool Biennal, ICP Triennial of photography and video New York

His works has been exhibired at: Tate Modern, Reina Sofía, Castello di Rivoli, Bard College

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

2008     
The chaos theory, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid
Film retrospective, Kunsthalle, Lugano

2007     
Secret Traces 1997-2007, Tinglado2, Tarragona           

2006     
São Paulo _ Citytellers, broadcasted Rete Globo/TV Cultura, Brasil
Ghost in the shell, broadcasted Canal+ Europe, Spain
Agent Provocateur, galleria Umberto di Marino, Naples
Rear Window, broadcasted Canal+ Europe, Spain
Hikikomori, broadcasted Television Española/TV Metropolis, Spain

2004     
Private Investigations, Galerie Mudimadue, Berlin

2003     
What We Want, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
The Crandell Case, Photo&Contemporary, Turin

2001    
WWW What We Want, Virtual Gallery, Galleria Civica di Modena
WWW What We Want, Galleria Dryphoto, Prato.
WWW What We Want, Galleria Le Bueau des Esprits, Milano.

1999    
The Phantom Limb, (video installazione con Stefano Boeri), Film+Arc Biennale, Graz.
Cartes postales d’autre espaces, Centre Culturel “Les Chiroux”, Liege.
Cartes postales d’autre espaces, Gallerie FNAC Etoil, Paris.

1998    
Cartoline dagli altri spazi (5 inediti), Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano.

1997    
Cartoline dagli altri spazi, Galleria Grazia Neri, Milano
Bagnoli. Risonanze meccaniche, Galleria Contemporanea, Pescara.

1993    
Uno sguardo da Napoli. Da Virgilio a Virgilio. Casa del Mantegna, Mantova.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

2009     
New Entries! , Museion, Bolzano
Periferias , Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
En cualquier lugar en ninguna parte , Centro de Arte la Panera, Lleida; MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo
Paraísos Indefinidos , Centro de Fotograía Universidad de Salmanca

2008 
Stories on Human Rights, Théâtrenational de Chaillot. Paris
Gustos, colecciones y cintas de video, Centro de Arte dos de Mayo. Móstoles, Madrid.
On Cities, The Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm, Sweden
Occasional Cities. Post-it city and other forms of temporality, Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona
L'Alba di Domani: Arte Contemporanea in Italia da Collezioni italiane, Museo Elgiz, Istambul
No Place - Like Home. Perspetives on Migration in Europe, Centro d´Arte Audiovisiva di Bruxelles
Beautiful world, Kulturforum Alte Post, Dusseldorf

2007     
Cine y casi cine, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
La civiltà dei superluoghi, Urban Center, Bologna
Existencias, MUSAC Museo deArte Contemporàneo de Castilla y Leòn, Leòn
Terra Infirma, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
Global cities, Tate Modern, London
Spectacular City, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
36th International Film Festival, Rotterdam
How to live together, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago
54th Sydney Film Festival, Sydney

2006     
New Landscapes, Kunst Palais, Monaco 
How to live together, XXVII Biennial of contemporary art, Sao Paulo
Spectacular City, NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute), Rotterdam
Cities, architecture and society, 10th International
Architecture Biennial, Venice 
Ecotopia, II° ICP Triennial (International Center of Photography), New York
Saison Italienne, MEP(Maison Européenne de la Photographie), Paris 

2005    
I luoghi e l’anima, Palazzo Reale, Milan
6 x torino, GAM (Galleria civica d’arte moderna econtemporanea), Turin
Ciudad, PHE05 (PHotoEspaña), Madrid
Emergencies, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
          
2004     
Going Public 04, Modena, (with Zapruder)
Tourisms, Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcellona (with Multiplicity)
International 04, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool,
Empowerment, Villa Croce Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Genua, Italy

2002   
DOCUMENTA 11, Kassel, Germania (with Multiplicity)
USE. Triennale di Milano, Milano. (with Multiplicity)
Strategies, Stadtgalerie, Klagenfurt. Germania.
Da guarene all’etna 2002. Padiglione Italia, Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
Da Guarene all’Etna  2002, Venezia Imagine, Venezia.
Perth internatinal arts festival, Perth, Australia. (with Multiplicity)
VOID, Rice Gallery/G2, Tokyo, Japan (with Multiplicity)
Space World – a Void workshop, CCA,  Kitakyushu, Japan  (with Multiplicity)
Side Effects, Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italia
the Crandell Case, ARTOMI, New Cork
Idea di Metropoli, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea di Villa Ghirlanda

2001    
Instant city, Museo Pecci, PratoStrategies, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
Il Dono, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
Poetics of vision, italian landscapes 1971/2001, Galleria Photo & Co., Torino
Da Guarene all’Etna, Galleria credito valtellinese, Milano
Strategies, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano
In-pressione Bovisa, AEM, Milano
Revolving Doors, Galleria Spazio Erasmus, Milano
Il Dono \ The Gift, centro Candiani, Venezia
Strategies, Rupertinum, Salzburg
Urban Pornography, Artists space, New York

2000    
Biennale de architettura, Venezia
Da Guarene all’Etna, Modena
Nuove acquisizioni, Galleria civica di Modena, Modena
Mutations, Bordeaux (with Multiplicity)
1999     Museo di arte contemporanea, Francavilla
The Phanom Limb, (video installazione con Stefano Boeri), Film+Arc Biennale, Graz.
Da Guarene all’Etna, Taormina Arte, Taormina

1998    
Triennale di Milano, Milano

1997    
Teatro Rendano, Cosenza
Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli

1996     Fondazione Marangoni, Firenze
           

MAJOR PROJECTS

What We Want. An on-going Atlas of social and urban behaviors through
            fifty world metropolises
Secret Traces. An on-going research based on the photographic
            shadowing of unknown people in several cities across
            the world. Observing and comparing the lifestyle of  
            anonymous citizens through their daily routines
100 Stories. One hundred short photo-animations of unaware
            people spied on while doing meaningless gestures
Natura. A series of films reconstructing criminal or bizarre
            events that took places in various rural areas around
            the world. Among which:
            The Crandell Case (upstate New York, 2002),
            Il caso Monte Maggiore (Caserta,  2003
            with Kal Karman) and
            The Mersey Valley Case (Liverpool, 2004)
Hikikomori. Docu-film (with Kal Karman). The film explores the
            behaviours of 900.000 young japanese who decided
            to live their lives inside their domestic walls. 
Rear Window. 2 films (1 minute each) spying people in their
            everyday lives inside their homes. An investigation of
            normality.
Citytellers. Series of docu-film on the theme of
            self-orgnizations phenomena in contemporary hyper-cities.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
UniCredt & l’Arte, Italy
MAXXI_Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma, Italy
MART Museo d' arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto  Re Baudengo, Torino, Italy
FNAC Fonds National d´Art Contemporain Paris, France
The UBS Art Collection, Switzerland 
Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano, Italy
Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
MUSAC Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y León, León, Spain
Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain