Angelica Mesiti

Angelica Mesiti b. 1976 Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Paris.

Angelica Mesiti is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice combines performance with video, sound and spatial installation to create immersive environments of absorption and contemplation. Her works focus on disaporic cultures, gestural communication and sensory togetherness, introduced through musicality and movement.


EDUCATION

Masters of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Australia
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Australia


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025   
Acoustic Light, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
Angelica Mesiti: Future Perfect Continuous. cur. Nilüfer Sasmazer, ARTER museum, Istanbul, TR

2024   
The Rites of When, Commissioned video installation, TANK - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
 Sidereal, Commissioned video installation, Public art: Projet MIRE, gare du Chêne-Bourg, coproduction avec le Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève, CH
Peace More Real, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR

2023    
Commande du film TREMBLEMENT pour la série BY NIGHT par Misia Films et les Galeries Lafayette, FR
Première au Festival Isola Edipo, 80ème Festival international du Film, Lido, Venise, IT

2022
ASSEMBLY , National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU
Future Perfect Continuous,  Anna Swartz Gallery, Melbourne, AU

2021
In The Round, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburg, Edimbourg
A Hundred Years: Australian War Memorial Commission, AU
Over the Air and Underground, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR

2020
ASSEMBLY, Arnolfini Contemporary Art Centre, Bristol, UK
Mother Tongue. Auckland Art Gallery, NZ

2019
ASSEMBLY, 58th Venice Biennale, cur. Juliana Engberg, Australian Pavillion, Venice, IT
Quand faire c’est dire / When Doing is Saying, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Mother Tongue, Auckland Art Gallery, NZ

2018
Relay League, Art Sonje Centre, Seoul, KR
Relay League, Protocinema at Kunsthalle Tbilisi, Tbilisi, GE
Citizens Band, University Art Gallery, Sewanee / University of Southern Tennessee, US

2017   
Mother Tongue, Aarhus 2017, European Capital of Culture commission, Aarhus, DK
Angelica Mesiti: Polyphonies, Basis, Frankfurt, DE
Relay League, Griffith University Museum, Melbourne, AU
Angelica Mesiti: Five works, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU
Relay League, Artspace Sydney Commissioned project, AU
Tossed by Waves, Anna Schwartz, Melbourne, AU

2015
The Colour of Saying, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, AU
The Colour of Saying, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, SE
An Ocean of Air, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
Angelica Mesiti: The Calling, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, CA
Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band, Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK

2014
Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band, Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, US
Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, CA
The Calling, Ian Potter moving image commission, ACMI Melbourne, Melbourne, AU

2012
Rapture (silent anthem), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day, 24HR Art Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Parap, AU

2011
The Begin-Again, C3West Project Commission Par The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and Hurstville City Council, Sydney, AU

2010
Rapture (silent anthem), Centre for Contemporary Photography (projection window), Melbourne, AU
Natural History, Gallery 9, Sydney, AU
Heritage Park, Heritage Week Film Commission, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, AU

2009
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day, Dubbo Regional Gallery, Dubbo, AU

2008
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill, AU

2003
The Rockets Red Glare, Mori Gallery, Sydney, AU


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025   
These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, The University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia, AU
EXPERIENCE POMMERY #18, Mélodies en sous-sol, Domaine Vranken Pommery, Reims, FR

2024
Sky Gazing, ARoS AARHUS KUNSTMUSEUM, Aarhus, DK
Science/Fiction — Une non-histoire des Plantes, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FR
Peace More Real, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
Prosodic Grains, BY ART MATTERS, CN
Je ne suis pas toujours là où je crois être, Présentation des étudiants des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Louvre, Paris, FR
CRUELLA DE-VIL, Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR
A New Sense of the Shared World, Daejon Museum of Art, Dajeaon, KR

2023
Portrait 23 : Identity, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Court Ballet, NUCRE Rassegna di Arte Contemporanea, Municipality of Ceglie Messapica, IT
Echos d’une collection – Œuvres du Frac Franche-Comté, 1èreBiennale du Son, Le Manoir de la ville de Marigny, Valais, CH
The recent, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
The Part In The Story Where Our Accumulating Dust Becomes A Mountain, SeMA, Seoul, KR
Festival Côté Court, Pantin, FR
Partenariat Mondes Nouveaux et les Beaux-Arts de Paris, exposition de groupe des étudiants de l’Atelier Mesiti et publication d’un vinyl, FR

2022
Projection croisée Misia Films & Atelier Xavier Veilhan, cinéma Le Brady, Paris, FR
La Fabrique du Nous #1, Des voix traversées, Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes, FR
Les échos d’un temps lointain arrivent en sifflant sur le sable, Poush, Aubervilliers, FR
INTERSTICES: TURNS #3, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
Aller contre le vent, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR

2021
The Musical Brain, Highline Art, New York, USA
Borås Art Biennale: Deep Listening for Longing, Borås Art Museum, SE

2020
Books at an Exhibition. An Exhibition in Ten Chapters, Busan Biennale, KR
Force of Listening, Art Maebashi, JP
The Blue Peal Of Bells, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, KR
The Future of Silence: When your tongue vanishes, Nam Juin Paik Art Center, Seoul, KR
Points of Light, MAC Montreal, Montreal, CA

2019
Autralia. Antipodean Stories, PAC Milano, Milan, IT
Time Cubism, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, KR
Atelier e Progretti, Museo d’arte contemporanea di Roma, MACRO, Rome, IT
Here We Meet, Kadist San Francisco, USA

2018
Moving Stones, Kadist, Paris, FR
Balance of Non-Sculpting, Changwon International Sculpture Biennale, KOR
Dark MoFo Festival, Hobart AU
Here We Meet, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, CN
Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art: Divided Worlds, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, AU
DO DISTURB, Festival of Live Art, with Uriel Barthélémi, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR

2017
Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art and Everything, QAGOMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
Moving Histories: Future Projections, dLux, AU
ART-O-RAMA, Galerie Allen, Marseille, FR
Playlist, cur. Fabien Danesi, Ange Leccia Art Cetnre, Oletta, Corsica, FR
The Score, cur. Jacqueline Doughty, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, AU
Aarhus 2017, European Captial of Culture, Commission project, DK
Point Triple de la Matière, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, FR
Rock the Kasbah, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, FR

2016
Rebel Rebel, Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, BE
Prix Meurice for Contemporary Art, Finalist exhibition, Hôtel Meurice, Paris, FR
Unlisted, Icebox Project Space Philadelphia, US
Telling Tales, Cur. Rachel Kent, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, AU
LOVE...more than a four letter word, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, AU
Static & Silence, The Lock-Up Galery, Newcastle, NSW, AU
Chantiers d’Europe, festival Par Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Invention, Memory and Places, Musee de la Chartreuse, Duai, FR
Spirit Your Mind, Cur. Isabelle Kowal, Marie Maertens & Anissa Touati, Chalet Society, Art Basel, Miami, US
Hacking Habitat. Art of Control, Old Prison, Wolvenhoekplein, Utrecht NL

2015
Station to Station: Project, by Doug Aitken, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Spirit Your Mind, Cur. Isabelle Kowal, Marie Maertens & Anissa Touati, Chalet Society, Art Basel, Miami, US
24 Frames Per Second, Carriageworks, Sydney, AU
Tu dois changer ta vie!, Lille 3000: Rennaissance, Tri Postal, Lille, FR
Nuit Blanche, Paris, FR
Light Moves, Festival of Screendance, Limerick Ireland
Cosmic Love Wanderlust: The Imperial Slacks Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney College of the Arts gallery, AU
People Like Us, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, AU

2014
The Immigration Songs: Angelica Mesiti and Malik Nejmi, MAXXI, Rome, IT
Open Museum/Open City, MAXXI, Rome, IT
Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
No Sound is Innocent, Marabouparken Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU
The Australian Club, Melbourne, AU
Transcendence: Nell, Angelica Mesiti, Aura Satz, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU
IMPACT, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AU

2013
Everyday Magic, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
Turns – Possibilities of Performance, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
Mom, am I Barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR
Seven Points (part two), Embassy of Australia, United States of America, Washington DC, US
Buyuhyn-wana: The transformative persona, Lismore Regional Gallery, AU
Awakening Where are We Standing? Earth, Memory and Resurrection, Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, JP
If you were to live here… The 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, NZ
Guirguis New Art Prize 2013, University of Ballarat Post Office Gallery, Art Gallery, Ballarat, AU
Rendez-vous 13, Institut d’art contemporainVilleurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, FR
Sharjah Biennale 11, Cur. Yuko Hasegawa, Sharjah, UAE
We Used to Talk About Love, Balnaves Contemporary Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, AU
The space between us: Anne Landa Award for video and new media 2013, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, AU
Seven Points (part one), Embassy of Australia Gallery, Washington DC, US

2012
1st Kochi-Mizuris Biennale, Kerala, IN
Montevideo Biennial: El Gran Sur, cur. Alfons Hug, Montevideo, UY
TarraWarra Biennial: Sonic Spheres, cur Victoria Lynn, TarraWarra Museum of Art, TarraWarra, AU
NEW12, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU
Volume One: MCA Collection (permanent display), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU

2011
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas, Sao Paulo, BR
London Australia Film Festival (Artists Film program) The Barbican Art Centre, London, UK
Videonale 13: Festival for Contemporary Video Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE
South by Southeast; Recent Video from Australia and New Zealand, 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art and AlternativeVisions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, JP
Selectively Revealed, Aram Art Gallery, Goyang, Seoul, KR

2010
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); Auditorium of the Ministerio de Cultura (Madrid, Spain); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany); FR, ES, DE
No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London, UK
Move on Asia, Loop Gallery Seoul Korea, LABoral, Gijon, ES
Experimenta Utopia Now; Biennale of Media Art, Federation Square Melbourne, Carriageworks Sydney, Museum of Old and New Art Tasmania, AU
Nightshifters; Liveworks Festival, Performance Space Carriageworks ,Sydney, AU
Hardbodies, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, AU
Time and Space, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, AU

2009
58th Blake Prize (winner), NAS Gallery, Sydney, AU
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship: Finalist Exhibition, Artspace, Sydneyy, AU
VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, ES
Souvenirs from Earth, TV Channel for Contemporary Art, DE and FR
Les Recontres International Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany), Reina Sofia National Museum         (Madrid, Spain), DE and ES
Loop 09, Video Art festival, Barcelona, ES
Event; New Moving Image Works, Artspace, Sydney, AU
Australia, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, AU
   
2008
Les Rencontres Internationales, Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Paris, FR
National Film and Sound Archive’s Big Screen 08, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill, AU
Loop 08, Video Art festival, Barcelona, ES
Face to Face, Australian regional touring exhibition, AU

2007
Five x Five, Ivan Dogherty Gallery, Sydney, AU

2006
Game On, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, AU
Play: Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and New Zealand, Adam Art Gallery New Zealand and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, NZ

2005
O.K Video Festival, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, ID

2004
Video Spell 4: Cartographies, The Performance Space, Sydney, AU
Work Rest Play (Escape), Imperial Slacks Collective, Artspace, Sydney, AU
720 x 576 Ate, Phatspace, Sydney, AU

2003
Sidney Kahn Summer Institute, The Kitchen, New York, USA

2002
Desk Job, Mori Gallery, Sydney, AU
Video, Film, Sound, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney, AU
Broken Hotel, Tour dLux, Broken Hill, AU
Projekt Issue 2, Kings ARI Melbourne, AU
Positive Overkill, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Surry Hills, AU