Costantino Ciervo

Costantino Ciervo (b. 1961 in Naples, Italy) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Ciervo is one the relevant pioniers of interactive video installations and sculptures. He studied Economics and Political Science at the University of Economics and Trade, Naples and Philosophy and History of Art at the Technische Universität (Technical University), Berlin. 1993 he participated at the Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. He was nominated for 11th Marler Videokunstpreis (Video Art Prize), Marl (2004) and for the Käthe-Kollwitz-Prize, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2006). Since 2009 he is a member of the prestigious Deutscher Künstlerbund association. 2012 he was a grant of the Hans and Charlotte Krull foundation, Berlin.

Selected international exhibitions (solo and group shows) include: OUT-LOOK, museum Fluxus+, Potsdam, Germany (2019), here and now, O&O DEPOT, Berlin, Germany (2019), READYWASTE, Temporary Installation, Pavilion of the Berliner Volksbühne, Kunstwort & Bildtext, Kunsthaus Zofingen, Switzerland (2018), Der Duft der Bilder – Werke der colecciòn olorVISUAL, Barcelona“, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany (2018), Protest – Aktuelle Formen politischer Teilhabe, Kunstfestival Ortstermin 17 in Berlin Mitte/Moabit, Kunstverein Tiergarten/Galerie Nord und im Stadtraum, Berlin, Germany (2017), re:publica 2017 – Lightning Talk about „Send Protest – A Participatory Art Project with App and Database“, Berlin, Germany (2017), Times They are a Changin‘, Park, Platform for visual arts, Tilburg, Netherlands (2016) Berlin, Germany (2016), POLITIC(S), Art Stays ‒ 14th Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Slovenija (2016), boom, bubble, blast, Motorenhalle, Art Association riesa efau, Dresden, Germany (2015), Competition, TRA Art Association Treviso, Italy (2014), Ferhat Özgür /Costantino Ciervo, Gallery Bernhard Bischoff & Partner and collection Videokunst.ch, Bern, Switzerland (2014), Looking for Video, Gallery Claudine Papillon in partnership with Palais de Tokyo during the exhibition "Nouvelles Vagues", Paris, France (2013), Dive and Run, q21, Museumsquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria (2013), Macht der Freiheit ‒ Freiheit der Macht, museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany (2012), Destroy Linear Time, dispari & dispari project, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2011), auto.MOBIL, Art Association Erfurt, Peterskirche Erfurt, Germany (2011), Sign & Time, transmediale.11, Art Association ConcentArt e. V., Berlin, Germany (2011), Erased Walls, Mediations Biennale Poznan 2010, Poland (2010), House Bugs, International Cyber Art Festival 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia (2010), Perversion of Signs, CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2009), Notation. Form und Kalkül in den Künsten, Center for Art and Media, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2009), El Mundo Fleuye/ El Món Flueix, Museu Marítim de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2009), Nation and Nature, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel (2009), Radical Theories, Fondazione (Foundation) Mudima, Milan, Italy (2007), La vida privada. Colección Josep M. Civit, CDAN Centro de Arte e Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain (2007), Some from Bern, some from elsewhere ‒ Sammlung Carola und Günther Ketterer-Ertle, Museum Liner Appenzell, Appenzell, Switzerland (2007), Deutsche Video-Kunst 2002-2004, 11. Marler Videokunstpreis, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany (2004), Declaration ‒ 100 Artists for Peace, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2004), Linke Hand – Rechte Hand, 798 Space Art & Culture, Beijing, China (2003), CollageWelten 1 – Das Experiment, Kunst-Museum Ahlen, Germany (2001), After the Beginning and Before the End – Instruction Drawings/ Instruksjonstegninger, From The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2001), Zeitskulptur, Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie Linz, Austria (1997), Cluster Images, 2. Werkleitz Biennale, Dessau, Germany (1996), Oniscus Murarius, with Ottomar Kiefer, Kunst-Werke, Berlin Germany (1994) and Deterritoriale, XLV. Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (1993).