Micol Assael

Micol Assael was born in 1979 in Rome, Italy. She currently lives and works in Greece and Rome. She had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel (2007) and at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009), and group exhibitions including the 28th Biennial of São Paulo, …5 Minutes Later, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and Italics, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (all 2008). Berlin Biennale (2006), Venice Biennale (2003/2005), the Moscow Biennale (2005). Micol Assaël’s sculptural work develops from natural phenomena that can normally be perceived through coincidence only. These phenomena function according to invisible laws and principles, which Assaël attempts to reconstruct in her research with the assistance of scientific and technological experts. The sculptural outcome is an almost technological object or installation that makes the invisible “tangible”. Her work directly engages the viewer who completes it by perceiving the invisible.