How to blow soap bubbles that last for months or even years at Alta Art Space in Malmö, Sweden. 2025.

DUO WITH JOSEF JÄGNEFÄLT. IMAGES

The Most Familiar Stranger, 2025. Scenography for ballet at HNK Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
IMAGES CHOREOGRAPHY: ALESSANDRO GIAQUINTO / MUSICAL COMPOSITION FOR ORCHESTRA AND ELECTRONICS: RAFAŁ RYTERSKI

Giants at 'The Curse of an Unstoppable Appetite' Greenlight Triennial at Telemark Kunstsenter in Skien, Norway. 2024.

IMAGES DOWNLOAD TEXT AND FULL DOCUMENTATION GREENLIGHT TRIENNIAL WEBSITE CURATED BY POWER EKROTH

Dreamers — Glacial Bodies, 2024. Permanent public commission in three parts in Slottsskogen in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Lukewarm, 2024. Temporary public work in Bredäng Centrum, Sweden.

OPEN DOCUMENTATION CURATED BY JUN-HI WENNERGREN NORDLING; COMMISSIONED BY STOCKHOLM KONST.

The impossibility of total destruction, 2023. Video.

TEXT MANUEL SCHWAB — ACTING ANNA NOLTE — MUSIC BEN OSBORN — CAMERA KARL-OSKAR GUSTAFSSON — DRONE HECTOR MANUEL BARRERA YARANGA — SOUND CARL-JOHAN RENNER — EDITING ASSISTANT LUCIA DIAZ LOSANTOS. DIRECTED BY CHIARA BUGATTI AND PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY THE SWEDISH ARTS GRANTS COMMITTEE.

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Getting lost in the middle of a sentence at Haninge Konsthall, Sweden. 2023.

OPEN DOCUMENTATION

EXHIBITION FOLDER WITH TEXT BY ESTUDIO JOCHAMOWITZ RIVERA

Of being forgotten (Calcium). Limestone fossil, human tooth, seashell, piano strings. 2023.

Ascaresa, 2023. Scenography for contemporary ballet at Schauspielhaus Staatstheater Stuttgart, Germany.

OPEN DOCUMENTATION CHOREOGRAPHY ALESSANDRO GIAQUINTO — COSTUMES MYLLA EK — LIGHT RÜDIGER BENZ — MUSIC ARRANGEMENT CLAUDIO BORGIANNI

Untitled at Roos Stockholm, Sweden. 2023.

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TEXT BY JONAS ROOS

Rehearsing Brutality, until it is totally destroyed, 2022.

Installation and performance series for 'The Vibration of things' Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Germany.

IMAGES TRIENNALE KLEINPLASTIK FELLBACH WEBSITE CURATED BY ELKE AUS DEM MOORE

Water glass, magnetic field. 2022.

Marble and diatomaceous earth are formed when seashells, algae, and other remains of dead organisms — creatures that inhabited the Earth long before humans — are buried deeply and accumulate in the older layers of the Earth. Slow natural processes and imperceptible vibrations transform matter into material, functional resources for the development of the human species. (...)

Diatomaceous earth becomes central in the ongoing series Rehearsing Brutality, until it is totally destroyed. This material is the result of million years of sedimentation of diatoms, a big family of one-celled algae which today generate a significant amount of oxygen on the planet. This ancient and fragile powdered stone is shaped here into seemingly solid cubical forms. Set in a spatial structure of movable wall elements, the state of precarious tranquility of the casts gets repeatedly interrupted by a group of classical ballet dancers, who rehearse poses and gestures from historical monuments depicting humans (typically male bodies) as invincible and heroic figures. Vibrations serve here as a medium to put bodies into a literal relationship with the material.

By rescaling her research objects, Bugatti makes clear that humans are terrestrial beings, locally anchored and deeply involved in the material environment around them. Her gaze focuses on our presence on Earth and questions the consequences of our biggest, as well as smallest, actions.

FULL TEXT BY SEBASTIAN SCHNEIDER

Diatomaceous earth, gypsum drywall boards. Performance by classical ballet dancers. 2022.

Movement Patterns, 2022. Views from Mint Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden

LINK TO IMAGES AND TEXT, MINT KONSTHALL FOLDER WITH TEXTS BY INGRID SVAHN

All and one point. We were things she swallowed. HD video diptych, 2022.

But there were four seasons and the hours run their cycle around midday and midnight. Alpine marble (crushed, filtered and washed), 2016.

Studies for a Monument, 2022. Views from Släpljus at Carl Eldh Ateljémuseum, Sweden.

IMAGES CURATED BY JOANNA NORDIN

Study for a Monument IV, Brita Eldh. Levitating replica of a garden stone, gilded. 2022.

It was the fire that made me into what they call marble, 2021. Views from Palazzo Monti and Bunkervik in Brescia, Italy.

MORE ABOUT BRUTE FORCE

Brute Force, Il Bigio (Foolish). HD video 14min. 53sec. 2021

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ARTICLE AND INTERVIEW ON SITE MAGAZINE

Study for a Monument I. Jellified Carrara Marble, 2021. In the images: day 1 and 2.

Rehearsing Brutality, until it is totally destroyed — soft, solid, heavy, short, angry, fragile.
Ballet dancer, crossed Carrara marble. 2021.

Bunkervik is the name of the air raid shelter built in the 1940s to ensure protection to the citizens of Brescia under World War II. The space consists of two long underground corridors and was restored in 2016 by Brescia municipality.

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A process of rehearsing, the cube and random moments of destruction, 2021. Studio visit with Sarie Nijboer for Akademie Schloss Solitude.

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A Place of Fantastic Flora, 2020. Views from group exhibition Beyond Walls at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany.

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A Place of Fantastic Flora, 2019. Views from FFKD Fabrikken for Kunst og Design in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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(details) Burnt and unglazed clay, mineral water, farming salt lick, computer fans. 2019.

(details) transfers from floral reliefs into non-woven geotextiles en vehicle sun shields, electrical components. 2019.

Between here and there and No one else in the world, 2018. Views from A Grin without a Cat, Borås International sculpture biennial, Sweden.

MORE CURATED BY POWER EKROTH

Mundo Perdido, 2018. Views from Ozymandias at Galleri CC in Malmö and Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden.

PH. RAFFAELE PIANO

Mundo Perdido, Sculptural Series. Building material samples from the room in which the work is presented (wood, sand brick, concrete, drywall), powdered pink marble, 2016.

Mundo Perdido, Collage Series. Details from aerial photographs over melting glaciers and found images of architectural details, 2016.

Mundo Perdido, Sculptural Series. At Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden.

Contra el Viento, 2017-2018. At Galleria C plus N in Milan, Italy.

LINK TO DOCUMENTATION PRESS RELEASE AND TEXT BY DOMENICO DE CHIRICO

In the beginning there was an explosion, 2016. Views from degree exhibition Digging for Fire at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden.

In the beginning there was an explosion. Pyrite, concrete (three concrete enlargements of natural crystals, 1:32 miniature scale). 2016.

Who can comprehend the loneliness of Gods? Brick (a hundred 15ml sand samples from private collection, clay). 2016.

And there were four seasons and the hours run their cycle around midday and midnight.
Alpine marble (crushed, filtered and washed), 2016. 300 kg of crushed alpine marble have been raked on the floor of the exhibition space. Each fragment is approximately 1-2 mm thick and has been washed and filtered by hand.

Creating Heavens, 2015. At Spazio Multiplo in Padua, Italy.

LINK TO DOCUMENTATION AND TEXT BY DANIELE CAPRA (ITA)

The Most Familiar Stranger, 2025. Scenography for ballet at HNK Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.

CHIARA BUGATTI