Yuval Avital is a multimedia artist, composer, and guitarist based in Milan, Italy.

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HUMAN SIGNS

Constellation n.6

HUMAN SIGNS – Global participatory artwork of voice and gesture – large scale
Online – www.human-signs.com
March, 2020 – December 2021
https://www.human-signs.co m

Born during the COVID-19 seclusion, interpreting the viral aesthetic of this unique historical moment, HUMAN SIGNS has gathered over 200 performers from 54 countries, each proposing a deep individual art-testimony which converges into a powerful expressive multimedia fresco.

The project begins with Avital’s self-recorded art-testimony in which he expresses with his voice all the feelings experienced during isolation. The result was a mantra that, “replicating” the aesthetics of the virus, travelled throughout the globe entering into the artists’ homes inviting them to respond through voice and gesture – two of the most fundamental forms of human expression.
Human Signs has been constantly spreading, involving more artists, and shifting towards new forms of proliferation. The different art testimonies are not only personal expressions of life in isolation during the pandemic, but are also part of a collective reflection on a unique historical moment; all the voices and gestures become part of a living digital archive.

The dialogues took the form of Ensembles and Constellations, offering complex dynamic compositions, or static frameworks that resemble allegoric frescos with layers of meaning and metaphors to explore.

Bringing a deep sense of togetherness, Human Signs aims to overcome the physical distance and isolation. And in doing so, it invites us to explore differently the spaces, languages, and forms of interconnection, as part of a collective reflection on a unique historical time.

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RIVERS (2020)

RIVERS, GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna and Contemporanea and Barriera di Milano, Turin, Italy, 2020

GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna and Contemporanea and Barriera di Milano, Turin, Italy – September 29-30, 2020

Rivers is a performance composition, designed to be presented in museums, art centers and galleries, avoiding stages or theatres and allowing the public to walk freely next to the performers.
The two elements of RIVERS are a Crowd Music ensemble (an anti-choir of sound composed of non-musicians using their voice as an instrument of beauty) and loudspeakers.

The Vocal Crowd, composed of refugees and asylum seekers, doesn’t need to know how to read music or to have any previous musical experience. The performers have 10 elements to perform both with gesture and with voice. Some elements could be done walking, some should be done standing, some sitting, some lying down.

These elements could be performed freely by the group for an unlimited duration.

The loudspeakers play elaborated sound recordings of local flowing waters. There should be used a minimum of four channel looped tracks (duration 27,20”) which should be disposed in a large mostly empty space in which, according to the space or the amount of new sonic material, could be multiplied (8, 12, 16 etc.).

Rivers is both a metaphor as a concrete sound-action, in which Voice, Gesture and Recorded materials thread into it a complex sensorial and spatial experience, inviting the audience to immerse and seek an intimate human meeting.

BOSCO DI LECCE – sculptures

Plaster tree man no. 4, 45 x 85, Plaster, vinyl glue and putty with metal core, 2023 Exhibition: Bosco di Lecce, MUST, Lecce, 2023

During a month-long residency in the City of Lecce, the artist collaborated with local artisans to create a series of sculptures made from papier-mâché, ceramics, iron, mosaic, and embroidery. These works introduce new physiognomies and inhabitants to an imagined forest.

The towering tree-men, with iron cores and wicker weaves, symbolize ascension, contrasting sharply with the grounded, weighty sculptures crafted from plaster and papier-mâché.

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FOLD (2019)

Performance Fold, Inauguration of THE RATTLES GARDEN, Mulinum San Floro, Catanzaro, Italy, 2019

Inauguration of THE RATTLES GARDEN – permanent sound sculpture
Mulinum San Floro, Catanzaro, Italy – 14 July, 2019

FOLD is an investigation into the iconography of femininity in the Mediterranean, starting from the origins, from the matriarchal cult of the Mother Goddess, of Aphrodite, of Gaia, of the Alma Mater, and going as far as the birth of a hidden world – which develops along all the shores of the Mediterranean, in Europe, Maghreb, the Middle East – in which women with women share songs, rituals, prayers in response and opposition to the establishment of a new patriarchal society.

The collective performance-ritual that Yuval Avital proposes is connected to an ancient essentiality but is at the same time profoundly contemporary and stems from the lived experience of the performers who, through gesture and voice, will put on a series of archetypes and create an experience that is precious first of all for themselves and then shared with the audience.
In FOLD – enigmatic title, which wants to make us reflect on the concept of folding and unfolding and how this has to do with both memory and the Mediterranean – a sort of temporary creative community is created, generating a performative work that does not aim at spectacularisation, but at introspection and an intimate and collected dimension.

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SITE – SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS AT PALAZZO MARCHI

Rivers Icons In Trasparence, Persona, Palazzo Marchi, Parma, Italy, 2022

Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
Palazzo Marchi, Parma, Italy – September 10 – October 30, 2022

The exhibition is a journey through the magnificent halls and collections of Palazzo Marchi in which, in a dialogue with the space, the artist has created site-specific installations including a variety of artworks featuring Avital’s Sonic Masks, sound art, video art, photography and performance.

HUMAN PLASTIC – permeant installation
Inside the wooden model created by architect Petitot and his pupils, Yuval Avital places 50 prints on transparent Plexiglas of varying sizes. These prints depict characters from the ‘Delizie Farnesiane’ engravings, showing scenes from the court of Francesco and Antonio Farnese. The characters, emerging from 18th-century everyday life, come to life within the three-dimensional reproduction of the small temple, creating a theater of interactions.

EXODUS HALL
In the center of the room a wool carpet of masks, forming an ascension path on an open staircase. Yuval Avital has placed human miniatures from various origins (Parma, Italy, and Asia) from the Palazzo Marchi collection along this path, all facing away from the viewer to symbolize humanity’s journey toward the unknown. To the right, a statue of a Moor gazes perplexedly at a volume about the wedding of Ferdinand of Bourbon and Maria Amalia, reflecting on the scene and perhaps our present.

RIVERS ICONS IN TRASPARENCE – permanent installation
On the pages of volumes featuring Petitot’s drawings and Benigno Bossi’s engravings, Yuval Avital integrates photographs from his “Rivers Icons” series. For the Palazzo Marchi itinerary, this series, created during performances in Biella (2015), Montelupo Fiorentino (2018), and the GAM in Turin (2020) includes 27 acetate prints of varying formats of migrants and asylum seekers interacting with vases and Greek-style masked figures, blending seamlessly through varying opacity levels until they almost disappear.

LULLABIES FOR THE LAND
In this sound installation, Yuval Avital presents a participatory work created in response to the outbreak of war in Ukraine with an open call to collect lullabies from Ukrainian women. The installation features a circle traced by Avital with yellow chalk, subtly visible on the 18th-century floor. Silver bowls filled with water reflect the blue sky, evoking the Ukrainian flag. The installation interacts with a wooden statuette of the Madonna inside the altar, representing the universal archetype of the mother.

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LESSICO ANIMALE. PROLOGO – photographic series

Lessico animale. Prologo n.408, Teatro Due, Parma, Italy, 2022, Fine art print on cotton paper Canson on 3 mm thick dibond panel, 150 x 225 cm Exhibitions: Lessico Animale. Prologo, APE Museo, Parma, Italy, 2022; Lessico Animale. Mysterion, Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy, 2023

photographic series, 2022

Lessico Animale is a cross-media art opus investigating the relationship between man and animal. Through the mediums of performance, video art, photography, sound sculptures and sound, the artist aims to answer to the question where does humanity end and animality begin?

Lessico Animale. Prologo was created in 2022 as part of the macro-opera The Bestiary of the Earth, conceived by Avital on the occasion of Reggio Parma Festival and realized with nineteen actors from the Casa degli Artisti Course of High Formation by Teatro Due in Parma.

The photographic series is created by the artist itself during the performance that he conceived and directed and includes both photographs of the process and of the final transformation into animals.
Once it is accomplished, the performers, wearing costumes designed by the artist and realized by master costume designers, perform bestial scenes entirely documented by Avital through photographs and video.
During the first experience of Lessico Animale. Prologo, there were nine animals impersonated by the performers, inspired by medieval bestiaries.

Lessico Animale. Prologo. Performers: Gaia Amico, Gianluca Ariemma, Camilla Berardi, Riccardo Canzini, Antonino Cicero Santalena, Federico Cornoni, Elena Cupidio, Anna Dall’Olio, Simone De Sarno, Rita Agatina Di Leo, Francesca Di Prima, Andrea Ferrara, Massimo Giordani, Domenico Indiveri, Nicola Lorusso, Francesca Marchionni, Andrea Mattei, Giulia Meniconi, Claudia Scuro.

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INK SERIES – LANDSCAPES

Untitled, Ink Series, cm 28.5x40, Ink on paper, 2020

The ink series’ drawings bring out the imaginary and oneiric world of Yuval Avital. Anthropomorphic animals, human figures and dreamlike scenes come to life through the fine line of Indian ink, sometimes mixed with coffee and/or watercolours.

The media of the ink let him to concentrate in the inessential traits in order to highlight and lead the viewers to his dreamy (sometimes dystopian) vision. As for his other paintings, Yuval narrates stories, expressing his subconscious complex spirit in a nude manner, going deeper into the discovery of his intimate self, reaching to a collective visceral spirit.

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LESSICO ANIMALE. PROLOGO – photographic series

Lessico animale. Prologo n.304, Teatro Due, Parma, Italy, 2022

photographic series, 2022

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MATERIC PHOTOGRAPHIC OBJECT

Materic Photographic Object from Rivers Icon I / 14, Mixed media on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2021 Exhibition: Art for Social Impact, Ecolint Geneva, 2021

from Rivers Icon created using UNHCR Reports, 2021

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ABOUT BIRDS – photographic series

About Birds n.48, cm 33x55, fine art print on cotton paper with frame, Zocca, Italy, 2022 Exhibition: About Birds, FMAV, Modena, Italy, 2023

Photographic Series, Modena, 2022

From the string quartet score ‘About Birds’ and the series of watercolours begun during the first lockdown in 2020, a complex Opus was subsequently derived, a dramaturgy based on an open process, encapsulated under the title About Birds, enriched with new elements and a multiplicity of media such as photography, video art and new technologies.
In order to re-elaborate and reconnect with the experience lived in the first lockdown, in June 2022 Avital self-enclosed for a week with three musicians in an ancient villa surrounded by woods in the Modenese hills.
In the rooms of the villa and in the surrounding woods, the participants, under Avital’s guidance, slowly undergo a transformation: in self-induced isolation, like birds in a cage, they undertake a complex introspective journey in search of their own perception of the pandemic experience, which, at the end of the journey and through a succession of actions full of meaning, will finally be overcome, culminating in a cathartic cry for rediscovered freedom.
The restitution of the performance created ad hoc by Avital for the Opus takes place through a photographic series showing the various phases of the characters’ transformation.

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TIMELINE

Upcoming
Opening: December 17, 2024
ALMA MATER
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Curated by TALIA AMAR
Light installation by ENZO CATELLANI – Catellani & Smith
Sound space design by ARCHITETTURA SONORA
Video art featuring LILIANA COSI and ORIELLA DORELLA
ALMA MATER: Embodying the spirit of the archetypal “Great Mother,” Yuval Avital’s sound, video, and light installation envelops visitors in a metaphorical womb and offers hope and reconnection. Curated by Talia Amar, Curator of Interdisciplinary Art, this presentation is a new site-specific adaptation created especially for the Israel Museum. At the heart of this site-specific installation stands one of the Museum’s most treasured artifacts – the 233,000-year-old female figurine from Berekhat Ram, regarded as the world’s oldest prehistoric artwork ever found.
2024
May 23, 2024 – July 27, 2024
Per Grazia Ricevuta – collective exhibition
curated by Alberto Mattia Martini
Giovanni Bonelli Gallery, Milan, Italy
April 15, 2024 – May 15, 2024
The legendary power of creativity on paper – collective exhibition
Moleskine Foundation Collection
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
April 4, 2024 – July 1, 2024
Opus Liber – collective exhibition
curated by Angela Madesani
Building Terzo Piano, Milan, Italy
March 5, 2024
Foreign Bodies Action – performance
Atlas of Performing Culture by Cristiano Leone’s book presentation
Performed by the dancers of La Scala Theatre Ballet Corps - Stefania Ballone, Gabriele Corrado, Letizia Masini and Benedetta Montefiore
Triennale, Milan, Italy
Foreign Bodies Action is the live performance of Opus and is therefore closely connected to the corporeal vocabulary used in the performances realised in nature. A corporeal, vocal and emotional score that the performers learn and use freely in dialogue with the space that hosts them and the interactions that ensue. In addition to the iconographic sequences that are strictly part of the language of Foreign Bodies, the performers use what can be defined as psychological, bodily and vocal warm-up rituals common to all the artist's performances.
2023
November 19, 2023 - February 4, 2024
Bosco di Lecce - solo exhibition
curated by Lorenzo Madaro
MUST, Lecce, Italy
A relational art project that brings the artist and the city into dialogue in a process of collective creation, performances, art rituals, material compositions and works conceived together with citizens and artisans, ideally transforming the inhabitants of Lecce into trees and the city into a human forest.
July 15, 2023 - January 7, 2024
Lucus - solo exhibition
curated by Massimo Guastella
Biscozzi | Rimbaud Foundation, Lecce, Italy
Through ninety works, some of them created for the exhibition, Lucus, the sacred forest, unfolds in four moments between the exhibition spaces. Archaic forms, dreamlike drawings, technological plastic-sound assemblages, surreal plaster figurines and lightboxes suggest a metaphor of the Mediterranean landscape, lost but persistent in memory.
10 June - 13 August, 2023
The Twilight of the Earth – collective exhibition
Biennale Le Latitudini dell’Arte - Göteborg
curated by Virginia Monteverde and Paul Thomassen
Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, Sweden
April 23 - July 9, 2023
What does water dream when it sleeps? - collective exhibition
curated by Valentina Buzzi
Italian pavilion, 14th Gwangju Biennale, Republic of Korea
Site-specific installation featuring an excerpt from the opus FOREIGN BODIES (2017- 2022) through 5 parallel screenings from Foreign Bodies N. 3 and excerpts from Foreign Bodies N.1 and Foreign Bodies N. 2
April 23, 2023
Foreign Bodies Action – performance
Opening: What water dreams when it sleeps?
Italian pavilion, 14th Gwangju Biennale, Republic of Korea
Foreign Bodies Action is the live performance of Opus and is therefore closely connected to the corporeal vocabulary used in the performances realised in nature. A corporeal, vocal and emotional score that the performers learn and use freely in dialogue with the space that hosts them and the interactions that ensue. In addition to the iconographic sequences that are strictly part of the language of Foreign Bodies, the performers use what can be defined as psychological, bodily and vocal warm-up rituals common to all the artist's performances.
April 22 - May 14, 2023
Can creativity change the world? – collective exhibition
Moleskine Foundation Collection
Saint Blaise Church, Arles, France
March 23 - June 10, 2023
ABOUT BIRDS - solo exhibition
curated by Elisa Camesasca
FMAV, Modena, Italy
The exhibition was created in close correlation with the world premiere of the homonymous icon-sonic string quartet, conceived by Avital, that took place at the Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre in Modena. Among the numerous artworks on show, a series of watercolours depicting birds, created by the artist during the first lockdown and a photographic series depicting the performance that took place during the artistic seclusion in an old villa in the Modenese hills, where, under the artist's direction, Meitar Ensemble while learning the score, slowly experienced a metamorphosis into birds.
March 24, 2023
ABOUT BIRDS – icon-sonic string quartet n.2
Performing: Meitar Ensemble
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello,) + live electronics, live performance, live video projection (back screen), software programming
L'Altro suono Festival as part of Modena UNESCO City of Media Arts
Teatro Comunale “L. Pavarotti” Modena, Italy
About Birds, interpreted in both its musical and performance parts by Ensamble Meitar, presents a complex score (written by Avital in his first lockdown), with an amount of musical references - such as tight rhythmic writing, modal melodic ‘chants’, timbral and post-spectralist sections, atonal polyphony, aleatory parts and graphic sections - and an extremely rich and articulate performance part - symbolic actions, gestural ‘testimonies’, elements of musical theatre and singing.
February 25 - April 23, 2023
LESSICO ANIMALE. MYSTERION - solo exhibition and live performance
curated by Cristiano Leone
Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
2000 square meters exhibition presenting the second chapter of Lessico Animale, a cross-media art opus investigating the relationship between man and animal through the mediums of performance, video art, photography, sound sculptures and sound. Opening with two days of live performances in the spaces of the Mithreum, Lessico Animale. Mysterion ties in with the symbolism of the Mithra cult.
2022
December 10 - 11, 2022
MOSTRARIO III – large scale
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Mostrario represents the epilogue and the heart of Il Bestiario della Terra. Using different mediums and languages – theatrical performances, photography, video art and works of visual art visual artwork - the artist presents 18 scenes in three theatres, also located in unusual spaces, actualizing the medieval bestiary by using current topics and symbols of modernity.
December 2-3-4, 2022
MOSTRARIO II – large scale
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
Teatro Due, Parma, Italy
Mostrario represents the epilogue and the heart of Il Bestiario della Terra. Using different mediums and languages – theatrical performances, photography, video art and works of visual art visual artwork - the artist presents 18 scenes in three theatres, also located in unusual spaces, actualizing the medieval bestiary by using current topics and symbols of modernity.
November 18-19-20, 2022
MOSTRARIO I – large scale
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
Teatro Regio, Parma, Italy
Mostrario represents the epilogue and the heart of Il Bestiario della Terra. Using different mediums and languages – theatrical performances, photography, video art and works of visual art visual artwork - the artist presents 18 scenes in three theatres, also located in unusual spaces, actualizing the medieval bestiary by using current topics and symbols of modernity.
October 1 - November 13, 2022 
MEMBRANE - solo exhibition
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
curated by Marina Dacci
Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy
The exhibition is the fourth of the meta-opera Il Bestiario della Terra and represents the cry of the last man on Earth, adult and aware of his separation from the state of Nature. Membrane presents the 3 chapters of the opus Foreign Bodies through photography and 14 parallel projections in close dialogue with a visual apparatus composed of paintings, drawings and sound sculptures that are both an invitation to break the rigid boundaries between man and nature.
September 10 - October 30, 2022
PERSONA - solo exhibition
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022 and Parma 360
curated by Chiara Canali and Camilla Mineo
Palazzo Marchi, Parma, Italy
The exhibition is a journey through the magnificent halls and collections of Palazzo Marchi in which, in a dialogue with the space, the artist has created site-specific installations including a variety of artworks featuring Avital's Sonic Masks, sound art, video art, photography and performance.
September 10, 2022
RIVERS - performance
Opening: Persona - solo exhibition – Reggio Parma Festival 2022 and Parma 360
Performed by Artemis Danza
Palazzo Marchi, Parma, Italy
Rivers is a performance composition, designed to be presented in museums, art centers and galleries, avoiding stages or theatres and allowing the public to walk freely next to the performers.
The two elements of RIVERS are a Crowd Music ensemble (an anti-choir of sound composed of non-musicians using their voice as an instrument of beauty) and loudspeakers.
19 July 2022 - Permanent installation
Cadavre Exquis -– large scale
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
Realized by Simone Ferrarini
Azienda Speciale Farmacie Comunali Riunite, Reggio Emilia, Italy
16 July - 3 September, 2022
The Twilight of the Earth – collective exhibition
Biennale Le Latitudini dell’Arte V edition – Sweden and Italy
curated by Virginia Monteverde and Stefania Giazzi
Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
July 7 - October 16, 2022
LESSICO ANIMALE. PROLOGO – solo exhibition
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
curated by Cristiano Leone
APE Museo, Parma, Italy
The exhibition presents the creative process of Lessico Animale a complex exploration and investigation of the relationship between Man and Animality through video projections, photographic prints, plaster casts and other objects related to the performance which took place over six immersive days with nineteen actors from the Casa degli Artisti at the Teatro Due in Parma in May 2022.
10 June - 9 October, 2022
Il Canto dello Zooforo – icon-sonic installation
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
Casa del Suono, Parma, Italy
As the starting point of the macro-opera Bestiary of the Earth, Avital has realised "Il canto dello Zooforo" (The song of the zoophorus), an unprecedented icon-sonic installation for the Casa del Suono in Parma. The composition is strongly inspired by the bas-reliefs of Benedetto Antelami's Zooforo carved on the walls of the Baptistery of Parma.
June 8 - November 27, 2022
ANATOMIE SQUISITE – solo exhibition
Il Bestiario della Terra – Reggio Parma Festival 2022
curated by Alessandro Gazzotti
Musei Civici Reggio Emilia, Italy
"Anatomie Squisite" is an exhibition in close dialogue with the Civic Museums' collections, especially the Spallanzani Collection. It features Avital's "Cadavres Exquis," hybrid and fantastical creatures in vivid colors, inspired by Surrealist games. These drawings lead to collaborative artworks with local artists, showcasing Avital's relational approach to art.
May 11-22, 2022
Detour: see the world through creativity – collective exhibition
Moleskine Foundation Collection
ASPIRE at One World Observatory, One World Trade Center, New York, USA
May 1, 2022
Lullabies for the land - installation
Performance by OKNO
Piazza Castello, Turin
Lullabies for the land is an installation by the artist and composer Yuval Avital, created in response to the current historical - political scenario, in collaboration with the Ukrainian pianist Anastasia Stovbyr, (voice curator) and the Ukrainian artist OKNO (performance designer).

March 13, 2022
Lullabies for the land – Installation
Performance by OKNO
Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan
Lullabies for the land is an installation by the artist and composer Yuval Avital, created in response to the current historical - political scenario, in collaboration with the Ukrainian pianist Anastasia Stovbyr, (voice curator) and the Ukrainian artist OKNO (performance designer).
February 24- April 23, 2022
SONG OF THE CHIMERAS - solo exhibition
Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
Incorporating pieces from Avital’s most significant series of works, the show offers a multi-sensory experience through sculpture, sound, painting, drawing, photography, and video. The ‘Singing Tubes’ and ‘Singing Masks’ engage viewers with their spatial presence and sound, while the expressive lines and bold colors of the paintings and drawings explore surreal compositions.
February 9 - 20, 2022
Detour 2.0: a journey through creative catalysts - collective exhibition
Moleskine Foundation
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2021
November 13 - 22, 2021
HUMAN_SIGNS_LOOP/ED
LOOP Festival City Screen 2021
curated by Savina Tarsitano
Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture, Barcelona, Spain
https://www.human-signs.com

HUMAN SIGNS LOOP/ED is the first physical exhibition of HUMAN SIGNS since its creation during the first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020. This global participatory voice and gesture artwork is presented as an immersive polyptych installation with 7 parallel projections and a site-specific installation made of daily objects allowing viewers to merge into their own emotional worlds, surrounded by the choral work of 218 artists from over 50 countries.

October 23 – 31, 2021
ETERNAL FEMININE | ETERNAL CHANGE – collective exhibition
XIII edizione Florence Biennale - Padiglione Cavaniglia
curated by Fortunato D'amico
Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
October 10, 2021
HUMAN SIGNS - LIVE GRID n.5 Turin
Global online participatory dance and voice project
Gesture: Elisa Spagone (Italia), Marian Codrut Cojocaru aka Bboy Cojo (Italia), Paolo Bergonzi (Italia)
Voice: Cristina Pistoletto (Italia), Ivana Messina (Italia), Nicola D'Ambrosio (Italia)
Piazza Castello, Turin, Italy
Human Signs LIVE GRID is a series of live performances taking place in different cities of the Human Signs community. Carrying the Human Signs streaming aesthetics into the space, the LIVE GRID becomes a physical stage in which the artists are invited to perform live; bringing the best of the Human Sings experience into public spaces, creating a sense of unity and connection, transcending the recent fear of closeness.
September 23 - October 31, 2021
SOCIAL IMPACT IS AN ART 2021: 1ONE AND 1ONE MAKES 3THREE - collective exhibition and performance
Ecole International de Genève - Centre des Arts, Geneva, Switzerland
"Social Impact is an Art No4", an educational and contemporary project based on artist Michelangelo Pistoletto's concept of "The Third Paradise" in relation to the 17 sustainable development goals set by the United Nations for 2030. This flagship event at the Centre for the Arts featured an exhibition bringing together a number of international contemporary artists, including Yuval Avital.
September 4 – 19, 2021
MIKVÉ (Holy Bath) - site-specific installation
Milan Design and Art Week - Parenti Art & Design District
Bagni Misteriosi, Milan, Italy
Yuval Avital's site-specific installation in the Sala Mosaico features fifteen sound sculptures, including "Heart of Etna" (2021), a Corten steel cube resonating with the infrasonic song of Sicily's volcano, and two groups of seven "Singing Masks” (2019) created in dialogue with Tuscan master craftsmen.
July 24, 2021
FOLD – performance
FestivAlContrario
Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena (SV), Italy
FOLD is an investigation into the iconography of femininity in the Mediterranean, starting from the origins, from the matriarchal cult of the Mother Goddess, of Aphrodite, of Gaia, of the Alma Mater, and going as far as the birth of a hidden world - which develops along all the shores of the Mediterranean, in Europe, Maghreb, the Middle East - in which women with women share songs, rituals, prayers in response and opposition to the establishment of a new patriarchal society.
May 27, 2021
Foreign Bodies Action - Performance
Performed by Stefania Ballone, Benedetta Montefiore, Frank Lloyd Aduca, Andrea Crescenzi (La Scala Theatre Ballet Corps) and Anita Lorusso
BUILDING Gallery, Milan, Italy
Foreign Bodies Action is the live performance of Opus and is therefore closely connected to the corporeal vocabulary used in the performances realised in nature. A corporeal, vocal and emotional score that the performers learn and use freely in dialogue with the space that hosts them and the interactions that ensue. In addition to the iconographic sequences that are strictly part of the language of Foreign Bodies, the performers use what can be defined as psychological, bodily and vocal warm-up rituals common to all the artist's performances.
May 5 – June 19, 2021
RIVERS for RIVA PROJECT – collective exhibition
In collaboration with Tempo Reale, for RIVA 2018 Project
MAD - MURATE ART DISTRICT, Florence, Italy
The sound Installation presented is based on the performance Rivers (2018) in which two rivers intertwine in a sound continuum: on the one hand, the soundscape of the river Arno, recorded and electronically processed by Yuval Avital; on the other hand, the human river created by the layering of voices, animal verses, breaths and fragments of stories whispered in different languages by the Con-Fusion choir, directed by Benedetta Manfriani, that performed Avital’s performance. Rivers represents both a metaphor and a concrete sound action, in which Voice, Gesture and Recorded Materials intertwine in a spatial and sensorial experience, inviting the audience to immerse themselves and seek an intimate and human encounter with the river.
April 8 – June 26, 2021
E T E R E - solo exhibition
curated by Annette Hofmann
BUILDING Gallery, Milan, Italy
E T E R E is an exhibition project specifically designed for the four floors of BUILDING that gathers more than a hundred works, many of them presented for the first time. It is a dream-like narrative divided into four sections, in which each space becomes a microcosm that encloses and reflects a defined environment, connected to the others by an upward path.
LIVE GRID N.4 - Milan, Italy
Realized in collaboration with the World Anthropology Day – Antropologia Pubblica a Milano, Milano-Bicocca University.
Voice: Yuval Avital (Israel/Italy), Naby Eco Camara (Guinea/Italy), Anna Maria Civico (Italy), Michele Ferrara (Italy), Francesco Grigolo (Italy)
Gesture: Stefania Ballone (Italy), Azzurra Esposito (Italy), Christian Fagetti (Italy), Giulio Galimberti (Italy), Sveva Gaudenzi (Italy), Denise Maria Gazzo (Italy), Anna Kolesarova (Slovakia/Italy), Charlotte Lamotte (Belgium/Italy), Benedetta Montefiore (Italy), Britta Oling (Sweden/Italy), Emanuela Tagliavia (Italy)
Casa degli Artisti, Milan, Italy
https://www.human-signs.com

Human Signs LIVE GRID is a series of live performances taking place in different cities of the Human Signs community. Carrying the Human Signs streaming aesthetics into the space, the LIVE GRID becomes a physical stage in which the artists are invited to perform live; bringing the best of the Human Sings experience into public spaces, creating a sense of unity and connection, transcending the recent fear of closeness.
2020
November 24, 2020
HUMAN SIGNS - LIVE GRID N.3 Tel Aviv
Global online participatory dance and voice project - Manifesta 13 Biennale
Gesture: Rina Schenfeld (Israel), Avi Kaiser (Israel), Sergio Antonino (Italy/Israel/Germany), Arianna Di Francesco (Italy/Israel), Roni Argaman (Israel), Sapir Shalev (Israel), Liad Tavori (Israel), Johanna Offer (Israel), Ayala Jaacov (Israel), Ravid Abarbanel (Israel), Ohad Kalmy (Israel), Nicholas Garlo (USA/Israel)
Voice: Stephen Horenstein (USA/Israel), Esti Kenan Ofri (Israel), Keren Hadar (Israel)
Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel
https://www.human-signs.com

Human Signs LIVE GRID is a series of live performances taking place in different cities of the Human Signs community. Carrying the Human Signs streaming aesthetics into the space, the LIVE GRID becomes a physical stage in which the artists are invited to perform live; bringing the best of the Human Sings experience into public spaces, creating a sense of unity and connection, transcending the recent fear of closeness.
November 19, 2020
HUMAN SIGNS - LIVE GRID N.2 St. Petersburg
Global online participatory dance and voice project - Manifesta 13 Biennale
Gesture: Liliya Burdinskaya (Russia), Victoria Maksakova (Russia), Elena Churilova (Russia), Krestina Yolkina (Russia), Irina Poskorkova (Russia), Alena Tarasova (Russia), Andrey Spiridonov (Russia)
Donco, St. Petersburg, Russia
https://www.human-signs.com

Human Signs LIVE GRID is a series of live performances taking place in different cities of the Human Signs community. Carrying the Human Signs streaming aesthetics into the space, the LIVE GRID becomes a physical stage in which the artists are invited to perform live; bringing the best of the Human Sings experience into public spaces, creating a sense of unity and connection, transcending the recent fear of closeness.
October 25,2020
HUMAN SIGNS - Live Grid n.1 New York
Global online participatory dance and voice project - Manifesta 13 Biennale
Gesture: Muna Tseng (USA), Iréne Hultman Monti (Sweden/USA), Walter Dundervill (USA)
Voice: Peter Sciscioli (USA), Luisa Muhr (Austria/USA) Chanan Ben Simon (Israel/USA), Jen Anaya (USA)
Union Street, New York, USA
https://www.human-signs.com

Human Signs LIVE GRID is a series of live performances taking place in different cities of the Human Signs community. Carrying the Human Signs streaming aesthetics into the space, the LIVE GRID becomes a physical stage in which the artists are invited to perform live; bringing the best of the Human Sings experience into public spaces, creating a sense of unity and connection, transcending the recent fear of closeness.
October 10, 2020
Foreign Bodies Action
Opening Performance at Woolbridge Gallery
Performed by: Stefania Ballone, Chiara Amazio, Charlotte Lamotte, Eliz Erkut, Endi Bahaj, Giuseppe Dagostino, Mattia Tortora (La Scala Theatre Ballet Corps)
Woolbridge Gallery, Biella, Italy
Foreign Bodies Action is the live performance of Opus and is therefore closely connected to the corporeal vocabulary used in the performances realised in nature. A corporeal, vocal and emotional score that the performers learn and use freely in dialogue with the space that hosts them and the interactions that ensue. In addition to the iconographic sequences that are strictly part of the language of Foreign Bodies, the performers use what can be defined as psychological, bodily and vocal warm-up rituals common to all the artist's performances.
September 29-30, 2020
RIVERS
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Barriera di Milano, Turin, Italy
Rivers is a performance composition, designed to be presented in museums, art centers and galleries, avoiding stages or theatres and allowing the public to walk freely next to the performers.
The two elements of RIVERS are a Crowd Music ensemble (an anti-choir of sound composed of non-musicians using their voice as an instrument of beauty) and loudspeakers.
September 25 - November 30, 2020
Real Utopias – collective exhibition
Biennial MANIFESTA 13 - Marseille
curated by Bianca Cerrina Feroni and Melania Rossi
https://www.human-signs.com

During Manifesta 13 Art Biennial, Human Signs launched its website-as-a-museum through A Door to Human Signs, a Living Digital Archive that host the various artists’testimonies created during lockdown and united by Avital’s Mantra. Moreover, global performances titled Human Signs Live Grid spread during the Biennial in different cities around the globe. Contradicting the physical nature of the exhibition, the project presents itself with a series of QR codes and live streaming events united through a large portal in which the spectator can meet the art contributions of this creative community.

September 2020
MEDITATIONS ON THEATRUM MUNDI
MSCTY EXPO in partnership with London Design Festival 2020
curated by Nick Luscombe and Clare Farrow
Online at mscty.space/

“Meditations on ‘Theatrum Mundi’” is a sonic response in 12 movements by Yuval Avital to Daniel Libeskind’s “Theatrum Mundi” (1983), a series of 12 abstract works. The musical composition interprets the visual work as a mandala and their titles as poetic vectors. For his work, the artist was inspired by the use of compositions in terms of time and collage, using his three accordion pieces as "raw material elements", processed and digitally manipulated as "the sound grammar of the artwork", with layers of electronic sound and voice.
September 12 - 20, 2020 - collective exhibition
Giardini Disobbedienti
Curated by Maria Sabina Berra e Pio Tarantini
Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy
Twenty-one photographers from different generations and stylistic orientations interpret the theme of the garden, not only from a documentary point of view, but ranging in different conceptual spheres that make this place so characterised in reality, a place of the mind and imagination. An approach that justifies the title, Disobedient Gardens, because it responds more to the unpredictable poetics and conceptions of the exhibited photographer-artists.
March, 2020 – December 2021
HUMAN SIGNS - Global participatory artwork of voice and gesture – large scale
Online – www.human-signs.com
Born during the COVID-19 seclusion, interpreting the viral aesthetic of this unique historical moment, HUMAN SIGNS has gathered over 200 performers from 54 countries, each proposing a deep individual art-testimony which converges into a powerful expressive multimedia fresco.
February 6, 2020 (premiere)
HORIZON AND SIREN by YUVAL AVITAL for alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, live electronics and poetry
curated by Adenzia
Performing: Gianpaolo Antongirolami baritone saxophone, Michele Selva alto saxophone, Nicola Casetta live electornics
AngelicA - International Music
Festival, Centro di Ricerca Musicale, San Leonardo Theater, Bologna - February 6th 2020 (premiere)
The composition, based on a previous work for saxophone and viola in 2015, is faithful to the composer's multidisciplinary vocation: an intimate poetry which gives birth to a score including also graphic images and suggestions, breaking apart the traditional sign, to create the sonic result swinging between obligatory musical gestures and brutal cries of the siren, falling into and delicate suggestion timbers of improvisational nature.
2019
December 17, 2019 – January 30 , 2020
ANGELS
collective exhibition
curated by Ayşe Pınar Akalın
Saint Antoine Church, Istanbul, Turkey
In the collective exhibition "Angels," Yuval Avital explores the concept of angels through various media, highlighting their symbolic and cultural significance. His contributions include an original sound sculpture made of soil, iron, and plaster, two photographs from the series "Light Beings," and watercolors from the series "Rorschach Angels."
November 15, 2019
Fuga Perpetua – Icon-sonic opera N.5
With the sponsorship of UNHCR
Performing: Meitar Ensemble
Ethos Melos International Festival of Contemporary Music, Slovakia
“Fuga Perpetua” - musical terms meaning ‘always running’ – is a total artwork, combining virtuosic music for ensemble, a dynamic surround-sound installation in constant motion, video projections and a ‘vocal crowd’.
November 1 – December 1, 2019
Icon-Sonic Postcards N.2 – Postcards from Rome (III step)
curated by Giorgio de Finis and co-curated by Fabio Benincasa, Stefania Crobe, Michele Marinaccio, Flavia Matitti, Roberta Melasecca, Francesco Saverio Teruzzi, Luca Valerio
Macro Asilo, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy
The final stage of Postcards from Rome presents all the material collected by Avital during the year long process through icon-sonic artwork divided into 7 chapters that recall the 7 Lightbox scores inside the exhibition. Each scene has been processed in terms of image and sound and related to the others up to a maximum of 9 scenes simultaneously.
October 3 – December 31, 2019
NEPHILIM
Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy
The immersive exhibition-installation is the result of an extended collaboration with twenty-four Tuscan craftsmen. Each artisan, working with a primary material such as ceramics, iron, bronze, wood, fabric, or feathers, collaborated with Avital to create an infinite chorus of superhuman melody through 60 original Sonic Masks.
September 20 – October 9, 2019
MEDITERRANEAN ALTAR N.2
Centre des Arts - Ecole Internationale de Genève, Switzerland
Mediterranean Altar n.2 is a Sound Sculptures composed by three wheat-like iron sculptures placed in a dark space on which are hanged bells and rattles form all over the Mediterranean countries. The sounds from The Rattles Garden is played in the background in a perpetuate dialogue with the sounds of the bells played by ventilators.
September 1, 2019
#URLA - Massive Sonic Work n. 6
Open Sound Festival, official main event of Matera 2019, European Capital of Culture
Matera, Italy
"Urla" ("shout") is an immersive, itinerant sonic work involving over 300 performers in the streets of Sassi di Matera. It includes significant and rare musical traditions of the Basilicata region, interpreting a contemporary score. The performance features clusters of electric guitars, basses, drum sets, theatrical actions, megaphones, and mobile loudspeakers in a meta-parade.
August 28 – September 2, 2019
URLA CHAMBERS
Ex-convent Le Monacelle, Matera, Italy
"Urla Chambers" explores the power of the human voice through 4 immersive sound installations. The exhibition is the representation of the experience lived by Yuval Avital in Basilicata inviting viewers to engage with the primal and emotional dimensions of sound. Each chamber highlights different vocal expressions, integrating video projections and sculptures to create an experiential space of fruition.
Inauguration July 14, 2019 - permanent
THE RATTLES GARDEN
In collaboration with Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto
Mulinum San Floro, Catanzaro, Italy
A 1500-square-meter kinetic sound-art work featuring hundreds of bells and rattles from Mediterranean lands on wheat-like metallic sculptures. Played by the wind and visitors, it creates a contemporary yet ancestral symbol. This participative sound sculpture embodies Mediterranean traditions, rebirth, and collective responsibility, uniting the diverse voices of the sea connecting three continents.
July 14, 2019
FOLD
Inauguration of THE RATTLES GARDEN - permanent sound sculpture
Mulinum San Floro, Catanzaro, Italy
FOLD is an investigation into the iconography of femininity in the Mediterranean, starting from the origins, from the matriarchal cult of the Mother Goddess, of Aphrodite, of Gaia, of the Alma Mater, and going as far as the birth of a hidden world - which develops along all the shores of the Mediterranean, in Europe, Maghreb, the Middle East - in which women with women share songs, rituals, prayers in response and opposition to the establishment of a new patriarchal society. "Fold" is a performance that follows the poetic concept of Crowd Music, portraying seven archetypal poses and movements and bringing together women from Calabria.
July 3, 2019 – September 1, 2019
Grades of Foreignness V.2
Artistic curator: Andrea Hilger
Main Installation - Ostrale Art Biennale
Dresden, Germany
The projects is made of two different but interconnected part: Lands v.2 and Foreign Bodies (n.1 Valle di Blenio, n.2 Saxony), parts of the Avital’s Three Grades of Foreignness multimedia triptych presented for the first time at the La Fabbrica del Cioccolato Foundation in 2017 (Val di Blenio, Switzerland) related to the delicate relationship between man and nature in our contemporary.
July 3, 2019 - performance
OPENING EVENT OSTRALE BIENNALE
Performed by Ensemble AuditivVokal Dresden and dancers
The site-specific performance on July 3rd involves soloists from the AditivVokal ensemble, local dancers, and a vocal crowd.
In parallel to the Biennale opening (and also inside it) was carried a performance, guided by a written musical and behavioral score written in 2019 especially for the event, performed by AuditivVokal ensemble, one of today’s leading experimental and contemporary ensembles.
May 14 -19, 2019
Icon-Sonic Postcards N.2 – Postcards from Rome (II step)
curated by Giorgio de Finis and co-curated by Fabio Benincasa, Stefania Crobe, Michele Marinaccio, Flavia Matitti, Roberta Melasecca, Francesco Saverio Teruzzi, Luca Valerio
Macro Asilo, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy
In the second phase, each participant became the 'master of his or her own voice' by performing Avital's visual scores, either in small groups or as soloists, within the Macro Asilo. They were accompanied by the voice of the enigmatic 'Mostrino', a mobile totem that had been reproducing the vocal fresco in various non-places throughout the city for months. Simultaneously, the artist travelled through every neighbourhood in Rome - visiting homes, offices, clubs, and markets where the city's lifeblood flows - recording more than 100 'icon-sonic postcards', tableaux vivants of selected figures, based on five criteria: Icons, Myths, Cultural Diversity, Creatives, and Heroes.
May 4, 2019
Rivers at ACCENTS, ACCENTI, АКЦЕНТЫ Festival
curated by Dimitri Ozerkov
Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
A one-night festival dedicated to creativity and culture, curated by Dimitri Ozerkov, Head of Contemporary Art Department of Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg
April 16, 2019
Echi all’infinito
Performing: Stefano Grasso, Lodovico Berto and Marta Soggetti
Palazzo Gromo Losa, Biella, Italy
First execution of a musical work for 3 percussionists, written for the exhibition “Padre e Figlio” (curated by Alberto Fiz) and dedicated to Michelangelo Pistoletto, performed by striking his new art installation “Abbraccio all'Infinito”.
April 4, 2019
Fuga Perpetua – Icon-sonic opera N.5
With the sponsorship of UNHCR
Performing: Meitar Ensemble
Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
“Fuga Perpetua” - musical terms meaning ‘always running’ – is a total artwork, combining virtuosic music for ensemble, a dynamic surround-sound installation in constant motion, video projections and a ‘vocal crowd’.
2018
December 01 – 07, 2018
Icon-Sonic Postcards N.2 – Postcards from Rome – (I step) – solo exhibition
curated by Giorgio de Finis and co-curated by Fabio Benincasa, Stefania Crobe, Michele Marinaccio, Flavia Matitti, Roberta Melasecca, Francesco Saverio Teruzzi, Luca Valerio
Macro Asilo, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy
In the first stage, over 300 participants, directed by the artist, expressed and diffused their voices following the 7 visual scores, which were displayed as 7 Lightboxes in the exhibition. This orchestration included sighs, murmurs, songs, and timbres from a diverse crowd, comprising students, pensioners, dancers, artists, musicians, and athletes. This created a unanimous polyphony, where the unique vocalities of each individual brought them closer together, fostering a sense of co-participation and co-implication that can be truly defined as human, or, in Avital's words, veritable.
September 30, 2018
RIVERS
Closing event of Tempo Reale Festival in collaboration with RIVA Art Project
Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy
Rivers is a performance composition, designed to be presented in museums, art centers and galleries, avoiding stages or theatres and allowing the public to walk freely next to the performers.
The two elements of RIVERS are a Crowd Music ensemble (an anti-choir of sound composed of non-musicians using their voice as an instrument of beauty) and loudspeakers.
May 30 - June 1, 2018 - World Premiere
JOB - Icon-Sonic Opera N.6
Performing: PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble (Conductor: Tonino Battista), Auditivvokal Dresden (conductor: Olaf Katzer)
Libretto by: Haim Baharier and Magda Poli
String quintet (2 violins, viola, 2 cellos), 5 soloist voices (2 soprano, tenor, 2 basses), 2 percussions, 3 cantors of the 3 monotheistic religions, live electronics 2 narrators and visuals
Duration: 85 minutes
Terme di Diocleziano, Rome, Italy
Premiered in Rome’s Terme di Diocleziano from May 30 till June 1st, the opera takes the ancient biblical text and brings it to the heart of humanity’s contemporary ethical clashes between good and evil. Departing from the tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust of the World War II, Yuval, proposes a path of observation of humanity’s atrocities embodied as particles in the corpse of the great ‘Leviathan’ monster, the Grace of waters, the endless powers of the Sun above us, and the silent Job himself - embodied here in the silent presence of Senator Liliana Segre, an Italian Jewish Auschwitz survivor and human rights activist.
June 22, 2018
KANAF - for Bass clarinet, video, tape & live electronics
Eterotopie Piano Festival - Mantova Musica
Performing: Paolo De Gaspari - bass clarinet
Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy
2017
November 16 – December 10, 2017
VARIATIONS ON HARMONIC TREMOR - solo exhibition
Cusumano Masterpieces
National Science Museum Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy
The exhibition is the culmination of a year-long, in-depth exploration of the distinctive cultural and natural landscape of Etna in Sicily, Europe's largest active volcano. It features over 400 photographs, a new sound sculpture, several video art pieces, and a principal sound and visual polyptych comprising more than 75 scenes with over 350 participants.
October 15 – November 5, 2017
ICON-SONIC POSTCARDS N.1 - POSTCARDS FROM REGGIO EMILIA - solo exhibition
Festival Aperto
Chiesa di San Carlo, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Over 170 people from Reggio Emilia contributed to the creation of 68 tableaux vivants - icon-sonic postcards - showcased in 3 parallel projections, complemented by additional loudspeakers and lightboxes. Each postcard reflects an unexpected environment juxtaposed with a directed, staged scene, guided by vocal cues and intuitive interpretation.
September 27, 2017
Fuga Perpetua – Icon-sonic opera N.5
With the sponsorship of UNHCR
Performing: Meitar Ensemble
Music days Festival
Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Fuga Perpetua - musical terms meaning ‘always running’ – is a total artwork, combining virtuosic music for ensemble, a dynamic surround-sound installation in constant motion, video projections and a ‘vocal crowd’. The leading storytellers of the work are refugees in Kenya, Israel, Italy and the UK, narrating beyond words, through our senses of hearing and sight, intuition and imagination.
June 21, 2017
OPEN FENCE - permanent sound sculpture
East End Studios, Milan, Italy
Departing from a unique fence designed by Mario Milana and produced by East-End Studios Italy (also commissioner and executive producer of Avital’s artwork), Open Fence is a large-scale sound-sculpture created by Yuval Avital, transforming the object into a huge collective percussion to be played a Crowd Music Ensemble composed of numerous musicians and non-musicians alike.
May 14, 2017
Requiem Monumentale - Massive Sonic Work N.5
2 parallel compositions: choir of 14 voices and marching brass band of 100 elements
Monumental Cemetery of Milan, Milan, Italy
Requiem Monumentale is a large-scale new work, commissioned by the Association Friends of the Monumental Cemetery of Milan to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the foremost cemetery. The opera will be performed at different stages in different locations of the city of Milan. The first part was premiered on 14 May 2017 in front of an audience of over 1500 people.
April 22 – August 1, 2017
THREE GRADES OF FOREIGNNESS - solo exhibition
La Fabbrica del Cioccolato Foundation, Valle di Blenio, Switzerland
The exhibition stemming from intensive research in the Blenio Valley, features three artworks delving into the complex relationship between humans and nature, engaging in a dialogue with the exhibition spaces. The immersive path weaves together sound, photography, video art and lights, showcasing the first chapter of "Foreign Bodies", the sound installation "Lands," and "Reh'em".
Third Paradise Score
Vocal Crowd Music ensemble
Third Paradise Seat, Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
2016
October 1, 2016
Version 2, REKA - Massive Sonic Work n.4
For six traditional Vocal Soloists, two percussions, and a Crowd Music Ensemble Commissioned by Warsaw Autumn Festival
Festival Aperto 2016
Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
REKA ("background" in Hebrew) is a large-scale sonic experiment that blends diverse vocal techniques, shouts, and whispers. It features residents, six soloists with rare ancient vocal skills, and virtuoso percussionists playing gongs and a 'string piano'. Accompanied by projections from a graphic score, the immersive performance lasts 90 minutes.
July 13 – 17, 2016
IZAAC & DEBORAH - video & sound installation
Icon-Sonic Postcards from Fuga Perpetua N. 1
Contaminafro 2016
CRT Teatro dell'arte, Triennale di Milano, Italy
May 31, 2016
Silent Quartet - Icon-Sonic String Quartet N.1
Icon-sonic chamber work for string quartet, video, tape & live electronics
Performing: Quartetto Lyskamm
Jewish in the City
Cinema Anteo, Milan, Italy
SILENT QUARTET is the story of a journey. The journey of people - men and women of different ages and nationalities - whose silent faces, large and in the foreground, are shown looking towards the viewer: all share a journey of emigration, all are the faces of people who have a story to tell and that become the symbol of this path.
May 22, 2016
Fuga Perpetua - Icon-Sonic Opera N.5
With the sponsorship of UNHCR
Performing: Meitar Ensemble
NEAT Festival
Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham, UK
Fuga Perpetua - musical terms meaning ‘always running’ – is a total artwork, combining virtuosic music for ensemble, a dynamic surround-sound installation in constant motion, video projections and a ‘vocal crowd’.
May 20, 2016
Fuga Perpetua - Icon-Sonic Opera N.5
With the sponsorship of UNHCR
Performing: Meitar Ensemble
Brighton Festival
Brighton, UK
Fuga Perpetua - musical terms meaning ‘always running’ – is a total artwork, combining virtuosic music for ensemble, a dynamic surround-sound installation in constant motion, video projections and a ‘vocal crowd’.
April 19, 2016
KANAF - for Bass clarinet, video, tape & live electronics – concert
Performing: Paolo De Gaspari - bass clarinet
Royal College of Music of London, UK
March 22, 2016
KANAF - for Bass clarinet, video, tape & live electronics – concert
Performing: Paolo De Gaspari - bass clarinet
Closing of Festival Cinque Giornate
Teatro Verdi, Milan, Italy
March 13 -18, 2016
Fields - Sound installation
with Enzo Catellani's light installation & Architettura Sonora
Light & Building, Pad 1.2, Frankfurt, Germany
March 12, 2016 - world premiere
Fuga Perpetua - Icon-Sonic Opera N.5
With the sponsorship of UNHCR
Performing: Meitar Ensemble
Teatro Comunale “L. Pavarotti”, Modena, Italy
Fuga Perpetua - musical terms meaning ‘always running’ – is a total artwork, combining virtuosic music for ensemble, a dynamic surround-sound installation in constant motion, video projections, and a ‘vocal crowd’.
2015
November 16, 2015
KANAF
for Bass clarinet, video, tape & live electronics
Performing: Paolo De Gaspari - bass clarinet
Festival Internacional de Clarinetistas
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
October 10, 2015 - world premiere
Multiplications N.1
for viola, Saxophone, Percussions, analogue synthesizer & live mixing
Performing: Ensemble Tempo Reale
Festival Tempo Reale
Centro di ricerca Tempo Reale, Sala Limonaia, Florence, Italy
The musical score of Multiplications N.1, written having in mind the unique capacities of the members of TEMPO REALE ELECTROACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE MUSICA, requires four high level soloists of contemporary music with important improvisation and real-time composition skills and an electronic musician capable of writing custom softwares for the live electronics and mixing section. The score, which includes sonic textures, complex polyrhythm patterns, melody, groove, spectral fields and ostinato parts, is dialoguing in its vocabulary with a very wide prism of musical genres outside the box of “classical” contemporary music scene: Rock (Metal, psychedelic), free Jazz, noise, Jungle, film music.
September 26, 2015
RIVERS
Opening of the Third Paradise Center by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Rivers is a performance composition, designed to be presented in museums, art centers and galleries, avoiding stages or theatres and allowing the public to walk freely next to the performers.
The two elements of RIVERS are a Crowd Music ensemble (an anti-choir of sound composed of non-musicians using their voice as an instrument of beauty) and loudspeakers.
September 26, 2015
KANAF - for Bass clarinet, video, tape & live electronics – concert
Performing: Paolo De Gaspari - bass clarinet
Koninklijk Conservatorium, Ghent, Belgiu
September 05 – 20, 2015
Fields - Sound installation
with Enzo Catellani's light installation & Architettura Sonora
Piazza Vecchia & Giardino Tresoldi, Bergamo, Italy
August 24, 2015
Dimdum - version for concert flute
Performing: Gianluigi Nuccini
After Mater, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Dimdum means in Hebrew “twilight”, is a rereading all the emotional nuances related to this evocative moment of the day, when the light start dying. Written in 2010, Dimdum! It develops by crossing the experimental sounds with the Mediterranean tradition and its archaic echos.
July 25, 2015 (world premiere)
KANAF - for Bass clarinet, video, tape & live electronics
Performing: Paolo De Gaspari - bass clarinet
ClarinetFest
Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain
July 14, 2015 (world premiere)
OFEK - for viola & alto Saxophone
Performing: Maurizio Barbetti - Viola, Michele Selva: Alto Saxophone
Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte, Montepulciano, Italy
July - August, 2015
ALMA MATER - Icon-Sonic installation
Milan EXPO 2015
For a forest of 140 loudspeakers, legendary etoile of Teatro Alla Scala e lacemakers, in dialogue with Il Terzo Paradiso by Michelangelo Pistoletto
La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
"Alma Mater" is a 1200-square-meter icon-sonic installation that evokes ancient symbols of motherhood through a synthesis of sound, light, video, design, craft, and art. It metaphorically represents femininity as a 'forest' of 140 loudspeakers that unite voices of grandmothers worldwide—chants, lullabies, fairytales, mantras, whispers, and songs—with sounds of 'mother nature,' including seismic vibrations, volcanoes, oceans, and water drops.
March 30, 2015
Dimdum - for bass flute
Performing: Lavinia Guillari FONTANAMIX ENSEMBLE
Musica Insieme concert season
Oratorio San Filippo Neri, Bologna, Italy
February 28, 2015
Guitar Monologues, Songs of hope and Fear
electric guitar, live electronics & 6 digital automatons / 8 strings classical guitar
Performing: Yuval Avital
Atipografia, Arzignano, Italy
February 26, 2015
Moonshine Sonata (collective improvisation)
Performing: PAT MOONCHY - voice, analogue electronics, YUVAL AVITAL - electric guitar & live electronics, ROBERTO DEL PIANO - electric bass
Moonshine, Milan, Italy
February 24, 2015
Guitar Monologues, Songs of hope and Fear, Interview
electric guitar, live electronics & 6 digital automatons / 8 strings classical guitar
Performing: Yuval Avital
France Musique, Radio France, Paris, France
February 7, 2015
Guitar Monologues
For electric guitar, live electronics & 6 digital automatons
Performing: Yuval Avital
Limewharf, London, UK
2014
October 25 - 27, 2014
Silent Quartet - Icon-Sonic String Quartet N.1
For string quartet, video & electronics
Opening Concert Xenia ensemble
Commissioned by EST-OVEST Festival
Est-Ovest Festival, Turin, Genova, Italy
SILENT QUARTET is the story of a journey. The journey of people - men and women of different ages and nationalities - whose silent faces, large and in the foreground, are shown looking towards the viewer: all share a journey of emigration, all are the faces of people who have a story to tell and that become the symbol of this path.
September 23, 2014
REKA - Massive Sonic Work N.4
For six traditional Vocal Soloists, two percussions, and a Crowd Music Ensemble Commissioned by Warsaw Autumn Festival
Warsaw Autumn Festival 57th edition
Warsaw, Poland
REKA ("background" in Hebrew) is a large-scale sonic experiment that blends diverse vocal techniques, shouts, and whispers. It features residents, six soloists with rare ancient vocal skills, and virtuoso percussionists playing gongs and a 'string piano'. Accompanied by projections from a graphic score, the immersive performance lasts 90 minutes.
September 16, 2014
REKA - Massive Sonic Work n.4
For six traditional Vocal Soloists, two percussions, and a Crowd Music Ensemble Commissioned by Warsaw Autumn Festival and co-production of MiTo SettembreMusica
MiTo SettembreMusica
Milan, Italy
REKA ("background" in Hebrew) is a large-scale sonic experiment that blends diverse vocal techniques, shouts, and whispers. It features residents, six soloists with rare ancient vocal skills, and virtuoso percussionists playing gongs and a 'string piano'. Accompanied by projections from a graphic score, the immersive performance lasts 90 minutes.
April 27, 2014
Music For Seven N.3 – For 7 Contrabass Tuba - "UN PORTO GRIGGIO"
Closing Concert, Dedicated to Bjork
Soloists - Dirk Hirthe, Anne Jelle Visser, Eros Sabbatani, Giuseppe Scarati, Max Wagner, Simon Sailer, Francesco Porta
Italian Low Brass Festival
Teatro G. Verdi, Segrate, Italy
2013
November 13, 2013
NOISE FOR SYD - Icon-Sonic Opera N.4
In memory of Syd Barrett
REC Festival
Teatro Cavallerizza Reggio Emilia, Italy March 2013
Quintet (piano, viola, cello, bass clarinet, flutes) + live electronics, Mobile Sound theater (32 loudspeakers), visuals (back and frontal screens), crowd music ensemble
The Wagnerian concept of a “total opera” meets the psychedelia in a poetic study dedicated to the controversial personality of Syd Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd.
A total opera where sounds, images, gestures, objects and actions complete one another thanks to the creative partnership of a truly unique Italian “task-force”: soloists from the Teatro alla Scala, legendary artists from the electronic music scene, a great visual artist, dancers, performing everything from ballet to avant-garde theatre, with post-punk and contemporary musicians.
September 4, 2013
UTOPIE N.1 - "Rayol" - world premiere
For Percussions, tape & video
Percussions: Lorenzo Colombo
Conservatorio G. Verdi summer season, Milan, Italy
In "The Aesthetics of Emotion" (G. Cupchik, "The Aesthetics of Emotion", Cambridge University Press, 2016) Yuval writes: "In Israel, where I was born, there are almost no vacation houses. It is too small, too young and too connected to immigration traumas (my father always used to say: the best vacation is – at home!). During my first year in Europe, ten years ago, I was exposed to vacation houses for the first time in my life. At the beginning I had the disturbing thought that for 26 years I had lived in a crazy place, with no calm or beauty. Later on, after observing more carefully, I noticed that while the beauty of the places was extraordinary, the human level was in a way split into 2 contrasting layers: the formal one (calmness of the vacation), and the psychological/emotive level, in which the stressed man due to his debts becomes more and more stressed, the problematic couple becomes more and more passive-aggressive...and so on. It is like as if the inner conflicts did not subside but, rather, got amplified. A trap."
July 6, 2013
Two solo concerts
Songs of hope & fear for classic & prepared guitar
Electric monologue for electric guitar & live electronics
Atto 2° music happening, Biella Piazzo, Italy
February 21, 2013
KARAGATAN - Massive Sonic Work N.3
The closing event of Tunog Tugan 1st International Gong & Bamboo Festival
For 100 traditional Performers of gong & metal percussions from 10 countries of Southeast Asia.
Conductor: Chino Toledo
Dipolog City, Mindanao, Philippines
On February 21, 2013, 100 traditional Asian musicians of gongs and bamboo music had played as one to interpret Karagatan, as a closing piece for the Tunog-tugan Festival, the First International Gongs and Bamboo Festival which takes place from February 16 to 22 in Dipolog City, February 22 to 26 in Maasin, Iloilo and February 27 to 28 in Metro Manila, Philippines. Karagatan (Filipino term for ocean) is a rare musical experience, bringing together modern and traditional as well as disciplined and freestyle expressions.
February 3, 2013
La Tua Arpa, Vuota
for guitar & narrator, texts from Dos lid funem oysgehargetn yidishn folk by Yitzhak Katzenelson
Yuval Avital - Electric & Classic Guitar
Laura Curino - Narrator
Auditorium di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Teatro Sociale di Como, Como, Italy
January 23, 2013
OTOT Symphonic
Video & Live Electronics for Chamber Orchestra, 5 Percussions, 3 Accordions
Teatro Sociale, Como, Italy
OTOT (in Hebrew signs or signals) is a poetic investigation in sound and image of the cultural mechanism of sign/signal interpretation, in which the source of the "message" is uncertain in its nature or even in its existence.
2012
October 5 - 21, 2012
Space, unfolded - world premiere - sound installation
In collaboration with Pilippe Zarka from the Observatory of Paris and Alexander G. Kosovichev - Stanford University (and collaborator of SOHO NASA / ESA)
BergamoScienza Festival
Convento di San Francesco, Bergamo, Italy
October 19, 2012
Unfolding space - world premiere - concert
concerto for guitar, live electronics, visuals & sonic translations of the Cosmic Space
live electronics - Giovanni Cospito
In collaboration with Marcello Coradini, coordinator between ESA & NASA, Philippe Zarka from Observatoire de Paris, Alexander G. Kosovichev - Stanford University (and collaborator of SOHO NASA / ESA
Bergamo Science and Contaminazioni Contemporanee
BergamoScienza Festival
Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, Italy
In Unfolding Space Avital uses three basic shared components between cosmic space and music: TIME, ENERGY & STRUCTURE T I M E is the strongest common denominator of all, it is the basic frame in which events take place, both in physics as in music. Time is also relative hence can also be re-proportioned in an external frame: a sonic event or a visual sequence from the Sun, that lasts for example 40 days, could be accelerated into a 2-minute sequence.
July 5, 2012 - July 7, 2012 - July 12, 2012
Yuval & Wisam duo - Italian tour - Music
Yuval Avital - Classic & Electric Guitar, Live Electronics
Wisam Gibran - Oud & Violin
Museo del 900°, Piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy
Villa Faraldi Festival, Villa Faraldi, Imperia, Italy
Piazza Cisterna, Biella, Italy
The Israeli composer and guitar player Yuval Avital and the Palestinian composer and oud master Wisam Gibran create in their duo a new creative approach to the sonic world inspired by middle eastern traditions and cultures.
January 26, 2012
GARON - Massive Sonic Work - Music
Dedicated to Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner
Closing Concert Dirty Corner by Anish Kapoor
For 40 tubas, 5 Contrabass Tuba Soloists, 6 percussions, Choir, Extended Vocal Technique soloists & live electronics
La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
A one-of-a-kind large-scale sonic experiment, GARON (in Hebrew - "throat") is a unique contemporary concert designed to involve the public and performers in an architecture of sounds and structures.
GARON is a journey of listening, written in an unknown language - archaic and new at the same time, with an exceptional overwhelming orchestration, used for the first time in the history of music.
2011
October 26, 2011
Music for Seven n. 1 “Cycles” - world premiere
For 7 tenor recorders  erforming The Running Seven recorders ensemble - Daniele Bragetti, Stefano Bragetti, Josè Manuel Fernandez, Mario Lacchini, Lorenzo Lio, Marco Rosa Salva, Seiko Tanaka
Romaeuropa Festival
Teatro Palladium, Rome, Italy
October 26, 2011
Sonata for piano “Ombre, sogni e paessaggi” - world premiere
piano - Maria Grazia Bellocchio
Romaeuropa Festival
Teatro Palladium, Rome, Italy
October 26, 2011
Music for Seven n. 6 “Horror vacui” for 7 accordions - world premiere
accordions - Sergio Scappini, Michele Bracciali, Oscar Taboni, Nadio Marenco, Giancarlo Calabria, Augusto Comminesi, Paolo Vignani
Romaeuropa Festival
Teatro Palladium, Rome, Italy
October 26, 2011
Leilit - world premiere
for a recorders consort, an accordion consort, piano, improvising soloist using live electronics, two keis cantors & video
classical guitar - Yuval Avital; cantors - Keis Eli Wande Montesanut & Keis Baruch Mesert; conductor - Sandro Gorli
Romaeuropa Festival
Teatro Palladium, Rome, Italy
April 4, 2011
Dimdum for bass flute - Premiere
Gianluigi Nuccini - bass flute
Frazione Saliana, Pianello del Lario, Como, Italy
February 28, 2011 – March 2, 2011
MISE EN ABÎME - Massive Sonic Work
For a crowd of 100 people, 34 Accordions, Soloists & 4 Conductors.
Premiere RAI Studios, Milan, Italy
2010
December 14, 2010
Concert of Yuval Avital & Mohsen Mohammadi
Yuval Avital - classical guitar& live electronics; Mohsen Mohammadi - setar  
Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
In the year 2010, we decided to perform together in Italy in a musical dialogue that contained both traditional music and innovation. We decided to conclude the concert with the traditional song "Sari Gelim". It is a song which can be found in many versions all over West Central Asia; in many of its versions, it tells a sad story of love between a man and a woman that cannot be fulfilled because of difference of origin or faith between them.
September 21, 2010
SAMARITANS - Icon-Sonic opera n.2
MiTo Settembre Musica Festival
For a Samaritan Vocal Choir, Ensemble, Video, Electronics, Stage Design.
Teatro Nuovo, Milan, Italy
Samaritans create an unusual bridge between the musical and ritual tradition of one of the most ancient peoples of the Mediterranean and contemporary performing arts and music. Combining a Samaritan choir, an ensemble of contemporary music, live electronics, video, stage design, and narration, Avital presents complex storytelling that shares the collective past of the Samaritans, their individual present, and the sacred and mystical dimension of this unique culture.
September 3, 2010
Corpo
for two dancers & live electronics
Fondazione A.Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
2009
December 8, 2009
Lefkara Moirai
For 4 Musicians, 2 Singers, Video, Actor, Craftsmen & Live Electronics
Lefkara Festival, Lefkara, Cyprus
LEFKARA MOIRAI is a unique multi media opera was presented in a unique place - the town's square of the village of Lefkara had hosted for the first time in its history an ensemble of important artists of video, sound, theatre and music, directed and composed by Yuval Avital. The project titled Lefkara Moirai, had opened the traditional Lefkara Festival with a complex performance involving local and international musicians, video artists and dancers together with 25 habitants of the village, craftsmen and singers, lace wavers and silver workers.
October 24, 2009
Festa del teatro 2009
L’ultimo Viaggio di Sinbad
Music for theatre, Live Electronics
Spazio MIL, Milan, Italy
Trialogo Festival 2009 - Tour
July 23, 2009 | Museo Diocesano, Milan, Italy
July 22, 2009 | Festambiente Sud, Monte Sant’Angelo, Foggia, Italy
July 19, 2009 | Centro d’Arte Piana dei Colli a Villa Alliata Cardillo, Palermo, Italy - World Premiere
July 13, 2009 – July 18, 2009 | Nautoscopio, Foro Italico, Palermo, Italy - creation
Solo Recital
April 2, 2009 “Songs of Hope and Fear” for Scordatura and prepared classic guitar
Crossroads No. 3 by Benjamin Yusupov Europian Premiere, Festival Notturni, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy
March 8, 2009, Guest artists : Ranzie Mensah and Maura Susanna, Teatro Giacosa, Aosta, Italy
February 8, 2009
Concert of Yuval Avital & Pietro Pirelli - Music
Yuval Avital - Classical Guitar
Pietro Pirelli - Percussions and Objects
AKA, Largo Francesco Richini, Milan, Italy
2008
KOLOT Icon-Sonic Opera
for 12 traditional singers, Mixed Ensemble, Video & Live Electronics
October 16, 2008 - World Premiere, The opening event of REC Festival - Cavalerizza Reale, Reggio Emilia, Italy
October 17, 2008, Teatro dal Verme, Milan, Italy
October 23, 2008, The opening event of XXVI edition of the Parma Theatre Festival, Teatro Due, Parma, Italy
KOLOT (Hebrew - "voices") is an observation of Israel in all its cultural complexity - old Jewish traditions, Christian and Muslim cultures, ancient populations and contemporary reality which travel in cycles of holiness, memory, thirst, pain, hope and modern frenetic day life; clashing and merging, separating and joining. The voice is treated as a symbol, a carrier of the sacred word, an extension of individual and collective emotions, and a testimony of life and reality.
July 17, 2008
Masà for tape & two performers - Music
Yuval Avital: Classical Guitar & Live Electronics
Riccardo Sinigaglia: Piano, Winds & Live Electronics
Conservatorio G. Verdi, Sala Puccini, Milan, Italy
July 7, 2008
Roman games - Music
Game score for an infinite amount of musicians
La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
July 6, 2008
Concerto – Lettura per la Pace
Yuval Avital - Classical Guitar & Live Electronics
Oretta Dalle Ore (Italy) – Poet
Alid Hussein (Palestine) – Percussions
La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
May 10, 2008
Fiera del Libro Torino 2008
Yuval Avital - Classical guitar & Live Electronics
Oretta Dalle Ore (Italy) - Poet
Alid Hussein (Palestine) – Percussions
Artintown Cultural Center, Turin, Italy
March 17, 2008
'L'age d'or' of L. Bunuel; Live soundtrack - Music
Yuval Avital: Guitar, Voices, Objects Corrado Saija: Pianoforte and synth
Piccolo Cinema Paradiso, Brescia, Italy
March 15 and 16, 2008
Cave Canem Choreography by Avi Kaiser & Sergio Antonino - Performance
music for 12 dancers, vocalists, guitar & electronics
Sound design by Matteo Salvemini
Teatro Pavarotti, Modena, Italy
2007
December 25, 2007
Gala Solo recital
American premiere of Bdidut for prepared guitar
Toronto Performing Arts Center, George Weston Hall, Toronto, Canada
December 10, 2007
Trialogo Festival 2007
Palazzo La Marmora, Biella, Italy
September 9, 2007
Trialogo Festival 2007 - Music
Festival dei Saperi, Pavia, Italy
September 8, 2007
Special concert for the White Night of Rome
Yuval Avital - Guitar & Composition
Imitrius Tsantidis (Germany) - Live Video
Matteo Salvemini - Live Electronics
Joe Legwabe (South Africa) - Voice & Jambe
Kang Ying Liu (China), Miyuki Hayakawa (Japan) & Riccardo Rugieri – Voices
Matteo Cigna – Percussions
Emanuele Zumella - Clarinet and Sax
Luca Bertinelli - Double Bass
Mauro Quassu - Didjuridu and Voices
La Notte Bianca di Roma, Ostiense train station, Rome, Italy
September 7, 2007
Trialogo Festival 2007
Festival dei Saperi, Pavia, Italy
September 6, 2007
Trialogo Festival 2007
Festival dei Saperi, Pavia, Italy
August 3, 2007
Cave Canem Choreography by Avi Kaiser & Sergio Antonino World Premiere
Music for 12 dancers, vocalists, guitar & electronics
Sound design by Matteo Salvemini
360° Festival, Theaterlabor, Bielefeld, Germany
July 30, 2007
Packman vs. Escher V.2
for 10 dancers, guitar, cello, percussions, craftsmen & painters
Biarteca Festival, Rosazza, Biella Italy
July 15 and 16, 2007
Trialogo Festival 2007
Cittadellarte Pistoletto foundation, Biella, and Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan, Italy
July 5, 2007
Trialogo Festival 2007 opening concert
Yuval Avital - Classical guitar & Artistic Director
Piris Eliyahu (Daghestan /Israel) - Tar
Mark Eliyahu (Daghestan /Israel) - Kamancheh
Cittadellarte Pistoletto Foundation, Biella, Italy
6 - 17 May, 2007
Cave Canem Choreography by Avi Kaiser & Sergio Antonino World Premiere
Music for 12 dancers vocalists, guitar & electronics
Sound design by Matteo Salvemini
Duisburg, Germany
May 5, 2007
Performance with Kaiser - Antonino Dance
Yuval Avital – Music for Coreography of 12 dancers, vocalists, guitar, and electronics
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Three Plucked Strings - Tour in Germany
March 17, 2007 | City Kirche, Wuppertal, Germany
March 14, 2007 | Schumannhaus, Bonn, Germany
March 5, 2007 | Kaethe Kollwitz Museum, Koeln, Germany
March 3, 2007
After the Darkness - World Premiere
Indigenous ensemble, male choir, and Harpsichord
Closing event of The Second Rondalla Festival
Yizhar Karshon - Harpsichord
2nd Rondalla Festival, City Hall | Bagiuo, The Philippines
This composition is based on the transition between darkness and light (sometimes published as "after the darkness"), expressed through a poetry (first written in Hebrew, then translated until arriving the local dialect) that parts from a study of the indigenous agricultural culture, in which takes part the rice god, which can take shape both as a demon or as a blessing.
February 28, 2007
Masterclass
UP Diliman College of Music, Manila, The Philippines
Three Plucked Strings - Tour in The Philippines
2nd Rondalla Festival
March 2, 2007 | Munoz, The Philippines
February 28, 2007 | UP Diliman College of Music, Manila, The Philippines
February 25, 2007 | Freedom Park, Dumaguete, The Philippines
February 23, 2007 | Sibulan, The Philippines
February 22, 2007 | Silliman University, Silliman, The Philippines
February 20, 2007 | Oriental Negros Convention Center, Dumaguete, The Philippines
February 19, 2007 | Oriental Negros Convention Center, Dumaguete, The Philippines
Three Plucked Strings - Tour in Israel
13 February, 2007 | Beit HaSfarim, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, ISRAEL
14 February, 2007 | Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dark Red City Gamescore - World Premiere - 16 February, 2007 | Levontin 7, Tel Aviv, Israel
February 5-6-7-8-9, 2007
ENVIRNments explorations
solo guitar
Miami Art Basel, Fendi Casa, Miami, USA
2006
December 20, 2006
Magà
created and directed by Yuval Avital and Alessio Mazzolotti
Yuval Avital - classical guitar, Wisam Gibran - violin and oud, Raneen Hanna and Yael Tai - vocalist
Sala delle Cariatidi, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
September 19, 2006 – September 26, 2006
Trialogo Festival 2006 Tour - 5th event
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Triennale, Milan, Italy
August 24, 2006 – August 30, 2006
Trialogo Festival 2006 Tour - 4th event
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Triennale, Milan, Italy
July 29, 2006 – August 4, 2006
Trialogo Festival 2006 Tour - 3rd event
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Triennale, Milan, Italy
Forte Marghera, Mestre, Italy
18 July 2006
Pacman vs Esher
Bi Arteca Festival
Rosazza, Italy
June 24, 2006 – July 1, 2006
Trialogo Festival 2006 Tour - 2nd event
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Triennale, Milan, Italy
Forte Marghera, Mestre, Italy
Maison Musique, Turin, Italy
June 1, 2006 – June 8, 2006
Trialogo Festival 2006 Tour - 1st event
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Triennale, Milan, Italy
Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venezia, Italy
Maison Musique, Turin, Italy
Three plucked strings
May 23, 2006 | University of Pavia, Italy
May 25, 2006 | Bamberg, Germany
May 18, 2006
Crossroads n.3 for classic guitar by Benjamin Yusupov - World premiere

Slow Horizons - World Premiere
Collaboration with 12 Kazakh Indigenous players, storyteller, 2 dancers, & guitar
visuals by Michal Rovner

Nyruz 21 Festival, Almaty, Kazakhstan
The Slow Horizons project aim to unite ancient nomad traditions with the contemporary nomadic reality, created not through tradition but through immigration. These realities will be united through a realization of a poly-cultural multi-media event, involving both indigenous and western artists. The western world, in a way, had created new "nomads", single Individuals that travel far away from where they were born, some of them travel continually, until their identity cannot be any longer connected to one point of reference. The first SLOW HORIZONS project had taken place in Kazakhstan, and dealt with the contradiction between the Nomad reality and the economical reality of the oil fields.
Solo recitals
March 2, 2006 | Garage, Biella, Italy
April 1, 2006 - April 20, 2006 | Various venues, Israel
February 16, 2006
Performance
Collaboration with Luigi Cannillo - Poet
Sala Verde, Milan, Italy
January 17, 2006
Music for guitar
Electronic music and narrator - Alessio Mazzolotti
Text curated by Lorella Borri - Actress
Galianico, Italy
2005
October 23, 2005
Masterclass
Music Academy, University of Manila, Philippines
October 20, 2005
Ensemble, solo Improvisation - Music
Collaboration with Shanghai Blues
Africa meets China Festival, National Conservatory, Beijing, China
October 18, 2005
Solo Recital
The world premiere of H. El-Dabh’s “Adamaelard” for solo Guitar and electronic music
Tape: Halim El-Dabh
Africa meets China Festival, National Conservatory, Beijing, China
October 6, 2005
Parole, Musica, Silenzio World Premiere - Music
14 miniatures for guitar and soprano, for the poetry of Oretta Dalle Ore
Performed by Nicoletta Petrus - soprano
Libreria Hoepli, Milan, Italy
September 4, 2005
Hamesh World Premiere - Music
Guitar, Percussions, Winds, and electronic music.
Curated by Alessio Mazzolotti
Vercelli, Italy
Hamesh is a meeting point between music and word, between instrumental sound and the human voice, between the natural and the electronic sound. The work as a whole comes from the desire to create a suggestive metaphor for Jewish pluralism, across the human history and all around the world. Hamesh in Hebrew means “five”. Five are the movements of this concert-performance. Each of them starts from one of the five books of the Torah, the Pentateuch.

The Music, composed by Yuval Avital, explores sounds coming from very different Jewish traditions, using musical instruments alongside historical recordings elaborated through electronic music. The play was written and staged by Alessio Mazzolotti, an Italian writer, director and screenwriter, and uses the actors as additional instruments in the orchestration of the whole. The human voice holds a dialogue with the musical instruments and crosses original texts, Torah words, contemporary Israeli literature, biographies, kabalistic speculation, poetry, and traditional shtetl folk stories.
August 13, 2005
Solo recital
D. Fleiss East West Artists Symposium and Festival
Carei, Romania
May 15, 2005
Solo recitals compositions by H. Alexander and A. Ehrlich - world premieres
Cultural Laboratory
Belém, Portugal
Three plucked strings
March 3, 2005 | Omanut, Haus zum Lindengarten, Zurich, Switzerland
May 12, 2005 | Teatro Vittorini, Genova, Italy
May 13, 2005 | Aula Congressi, Bagnatica, Italy
January - December, 2005
Solo recitals
Italy, Portugal, Philippines and Israel

December 13, 2005 | Sala Biblioteca, Milan, Italy
November 11, 2005 | Rossetta Festival, S. Bernardino, Vercelli, Italy
October 22, 2005 | Israeli Ambassador’s house, Manila, Philippines
September 4, 2005 | Vercelli, Italy
June 15, 2005 | Vail Auditorium, Kfar Shmaryiahu, Israel
June 14, 2005 | Ha Maabada, Jerusalem, Israel
June 10, 2005 | Italian Jewish Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
May 17, 2005 | Pessoas e Saberes, Lisbon, Portugal
January 1, 2005 | Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal
1977
Born in Jerusalem

Intro

Art

Music

Statement

Terminology

Intro

BIO

Born in Jerusalem in 1977 and living in Milan, Yuval Avital investigates archetype and structure, ancestral and current human condition, nature and hybridity, ritual and science.
Both a polyhedric artist working with numerous mediums (paintings, photography, sculptures, sound installations, video art, performance) as a musical composer, Avital develops his works in a variety of spaces, including public venues, industrial archaeological sites, theatres and museums, challenging the traditional crystallized categories that separate the arts.

Each of Avital’s artworks is a unique experiential, poetic and emotional microcosm with its own identity. In his exhibitions, art events, immersive installations, total-operas, large-scale musical ‘rituals’, and concerts one can find dancers, contemporary music ensembles, masters of ancient cultures, recruited individuals or communities, multi-video projections, meditative tactile ambientes, advanced technological instruments, archive materials, scientific data, sound-sculptures, large-scale site-specific murals and art films.

Avital created Italy’s biggest sound sculpture until now – OPEN FENCE – a massive Sound- Sculpture of 320 tubular bells, 64 meters long and 4 meters high, playable by 80 visitors simultaneously (East End Studios, Milan).

He is also the author of the largest sound installation in Italian history – ALMA MATER -, covering an area of 1200 sqm with a “forest” of 140 loudspeakers, projections and light (Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan 2015).

His sound and visual artwork is HUMAN SIGNS, a Global participatory online dance and voice artwork, conceived during COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, with the participation of over 200 artists from over 50 countries. It has been presented digitally in MANIFESTA 13 Marseille as a part of “Real Utopias” exhibition and as a large-scale physical exhibition at LOOP FESTIVAL: CITY SCREEN 2021 in Barcelona.

In 2022, Avital was invited by the Reggio Parma Festival to create a year-long project, presenting his meta-opera ‘Bestiario della Terra’ (=‘Bestiary of the Earth’), consisting of four monographic exhibitions, installations and total take overs of the two cities main theatres and Opera houses.

Art

BIO

Making of Il Canto dello Zooforo, Teatro Regio, Parma, 2022 Ph. Roberto Ricci

In the variegated world of Yuval Avital, whose practice transcends boundaries and disciplines, an ongoing dialogue with the universe invites viewers on a voyage of self-discovery intertwining archetypes, visceral experiences, and a deep connection to nature through a rich sensory tapestry of sounds, images, symbols, and movements.

Avital’s interdisciplinary practice, encompassing painting, performance, sculpture, sound, new technologies, video-art, photography and art-rituals, constructs a universe ripe with archetypal beings, reflecting a contemporary humanism and his relentless quest for the Anima Mundi.

Avital’s practice is relational and transformative—sparking connections and change. This framework not only nourishes the artist but also deeply engages participants, fostering a dynamic interplay between life and art that transcends mere representation and offers profound meditative reflection.

In embodying a nomadic spirit across geographies and languages, Avital’s practice becomes a magma of stratified visions—from ancient cultures, shamanic rituals to cutting edge science— in a fusion of influences that resonates with the essence of nature, culture, and humanity.

His oeuvre captures the essence of ancestral instincts, drawing viewers into a realm where connections and tensions between humanity and nature are vividly depicted and symbolic and archetypal themes are evoked. Figures like devils, angels, and mythic creatures weave through his work, uniting the divine and the terrestrial. The omnipresent female figure symbolizes generative force and spiritual sexuality, reinforcing a dialogue with the earth.

Avital’s fusion of visual, auditory, and tactile elements forms a coherent narrative that transcends conventional boundaries, inviting audiences to partake in a sensory exploration that merges the tangible with the intangible in a harmonious dance of existence.
Avital’s installations create immersive habitats that viscerally connect viewers to the material and bodily. His “icon-sonic” works integrate sound and visual elements, offering a holistic existential experience.

By blurring the boundaries between the material and the immaterial, the seen and the unseen, Avital’s work, offering a glimpse into a realm where the boundaries between art and life dissolve, becomes a site of convergence for humanity’s collective psyche and universal energies.

Avital’s artworks have been presented in more than 20 solo exhibitions and some collective shows including MANIFESTA Biennial, Gwangju Biennale, Ostrale Dresden Biennale, Florence Biennale, Biennale Le Latitudini dell’Arte (Genoa/Gothenburg), Baths of Caracalla Rome, LOOP Festival – Barcelona, Palais de Tokyo, One World Trade Center New York, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, GAM Gallery of Modern Art – Turin, La Fabbrica de Cioccolato Foundation – Switzerland, Saint Antoine Church – Istanbul, Marino Marini Museum – Florence; National Science and Technology Museum “Leonardo da Vinci” – Milan, MUST Museum and Biscozzi | Rimabud Foundation – Lecce.

In addition, he had presented two solo exhibitions in galleries: ETERE (2021) at Building – Milan and SONG OF THE CHIMERAS at Gowen Contemporary – Geneva.

BUILDING, located in Milan, is the gallery that represent the artist internationally.

Music

BIO

Avital’s musical world is complex, layered hybrid, involving often visual, theatrical and performance elements. An arena in which sound expression (musical, digital, vocal and noise) has equal importance to visual expression (video-art, installation, performance art). It manifests with complex scores, with a very wide amount of musical references – tight rhythmic writing, modal melodic ‘chants’, timbral and post-spectral sections, atonal polyphony, aleatory parts and graphic sections.

Many of his works are entire stage works defined as ‘icon-sonic’, an arena in which sound expression (musical, digital, vocal and noise) has equal importance to visual expression (video-art, installation, performance art), in some challenging musical score blends performative actions, alternating moments of sound and symbolic actions on stage, revealing an intimate experience, ready to be shared with the audience, totally overcoming the anonymity insinuated and often desired in the figure of the performer present in so-called ‘classical music’. Others are works of great complexity in which the sound and artistic dimensions are connected to interdisciplinary and transcultural implications.

Many of his works could be placed as ‘relational art’ musical works, in dialogue with ancient traditions and their unique manifestations. The dialogue between creative practices and musical ‘alterities’ with dense cultural and identity implications; the trend of Crowd Music, pursued with always innovative solutions; a massive use of technologies (understood in the widest possible meaning) that go from the “technologies of the word” to the reinvention of traditional instruments, from the sound system to the electronic elaborations.

Each of his creations has his specific characteristics, but also organic links with the rest of his production, as if to constitute the momentary outcome of a constant creative flow.

His compositions and stage works were presented opera houses, venues and festivals such as Parma Opera House Teatro Regio, TeatroDue Parma, Modena Pavarotti-Freni Opera House, Teatro Valli Reggio Emilia, Teatro Comunale di Como, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Centre Pompidou Paris, NAURYZ XXI Contemporary Music Festival, Almaty, Kazakhstan, National Conservatory of China, Tel Aviv Museum, Palazzo Reale Milan, Warsaw Autumn Festival, London Design Festival, Brighton Festival, MiTo SettembreMusica Festival, Palazzo Reale Milan, RomaEuropa Festival, Matera European Capital of Culture, Tunog Tugan Gongs and Bamboo Festival Philippines.

Statement

BIO

My creative practice serves as an intricate translation of the ineffable through a variety of mediums, each inherently limited. It functions as a chain of private and intimate, or public and collective art-rituals aimed at bridging the collective subconscious, hidden truth, and reality. This exploration delves into the dynamics between Human and Nature, Hybridity and Mystery, the Inner-child and Ancestral connections, to rediscover lost connections within the intricate fabric of existence.

My narratives – ranging from modest ink drawings to elaborate multimedia installations – are the culmination of an experiential journey through primal instincts, dreams, and archetypes. They guide both myself and others in a transformative introspection, seeking deeper meanings and connections. My art endeavours to create a nexus — a space for contemplation, reflection, dialogue, dream and truthfulness, embodying the intertwined Animal and Anima within us, representing boundlessness, vulnerability, and openness.
Each of my artworks can be understood as a testament, a self-portrait, a microcosm, an exploration of the deep self with its angels, demons, and daimons. I believe in the necessity for humanity to embark on a journey of rehumanization by dismantling barriers and divisions, rediscovering our shared origins, our place in nature as a part of nature, to find new ways of including ritual as a bridge, in order to navigate the complexities and challenges of our contemporary reality with a deeper understanding and unity.

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Monographic Exhibition Catalogues

MACRO ASILO DIARIO – PROJECT ROOM YUVAL AVITAL

Texts by: Francesco Saverio Teruzzi, Stefania Crobe, Roberta Malasecca e Michele Marinaccio, Flavia Matitti
Size: 21×27 cm
Pages: 16
Languages: Italian

The booklet dedicated to Postcards from Rome by Yuval Avital is part of the MACRO Asilo Diario, a collectible catalogue series. This edition documents Avital’s one year long immersive exploration of Rome, blending sound, imagery, and text to convey his unique artistic impressions of the city. Through photographic sequences and thoughtful notes, this booklet captures Avital’s Rome, a place where ancient history, everyday sounds, and personal reflections come together in a layered, multifaceted narrative.

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ICONIC -SONIC POSTCARDS TRIPTYCH N.1

Edizioni del Teatro Municipale Valli, 2017
Texts by: Gabi Scardi, Roberto Fabbi
Size: 18 x 22 cm
Pages: 76
Languages: Italian

The catalogue for ICONIC-SONIC POSTCARDS TRIPTYCH N.1 features two curatorial essays by Gabi Scardi and Roberto Fabbi (curator of the exhibition), accompanied by a collection of photographs capturing each tableau vivant that comprises the artwork. These vivid images document the entirety of Postcards from Reggio Emilia, offering readers a comprehensive visual journey through Yuval Avital’s immersive work, where sound and image interweave to create a unique narrative of place and memory.

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Il BESTIARIO DELLA TERRA

Silvana Editoriale, 2023
Curated by: Marina Dacci
Texts by: Luigi Ferrari, Marina Dacci, Carine Fol, Alessandro Gazzotti, Cristiano Leone, Chiara Canali, Anna Maria Meo e Barbara Minghetti, Paolo Cantù e Roberto Fabbi, Paola Donati
Size: 24 x 28 cm
Pages: 176
Photos: 200
Languages: Italian, English
ISBN: 9788836654734

This visual atlas of the Bestiary of the Earth, the artistic project promoted in 2022 by Reggio Parma Festival Association (made up of the Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma, Fondazione Teatro Due, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia and the two cities of Parma and Reggio Emilia) returns the reader to the visionary and complex meta-work of Yuval Avital. In this project, the artist connects and puts into dialogue different artistic languages: from sound to performance, from painting to drawing, from video to icon-sonic installations. All the stages in which his work has taken place have come to life in different places and spaces in the provinces of Parma and Reggio Emilia, creating an intense dialogue with the territory.

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Nephilim – Una moltitudine di maschere sonore

Polistampa, 2019
Texts by: Stefano Ciuoffo, Tommaso Sacchi, Patrizia Asproni, Gianni Lamioni, Luciano Barsotti, Angelo Crespi, Paolo Naldini, Nicola Scaldaferri
Size: 21×27,5 cm
Pages: 160
Language: Italian
ISBN: 9788859620587

The catalogue of the exhibition held from 5 October to 30 December 2019 at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence is dedicated to the ‘sonic masks’ created by Avital together with 24 Tuscan artisans, in collaboration with Artex and Associazione OMA – Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte.
“Yuval Avital’s creations,” writes Nicola Scaldaferri, “are striking for the plurality of practices they bring into play and the density of meanings they reveal. Each one of them constitutes a sort of coupe en largeur of paths that run through his entire production, returning in different ways, reinvented with each experience, which may from time to time play roles of limelight or background, while continuing to be present and intersecting in the creative journey”.

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LUCUS

Cimorelli Editore, 2023
Curated by: Massimo Guastella
Texts by: Dominique Rimbaud, Paolo Bolpagni, Massimo Guastella
Size: 17×24 cm
Pages: 104
Languages: Italian, English, French
ISBN: 9791255610359

This volume presents the fifth exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Biscozzi | Rimbaud, dedicated to Yuval Avital. For the occasion, Yuval Avital has conceived and realised a site-specific project inspired by the sacred forest, the lucus, dear to the ancient Romans but equally considered by the arts. Ninety works, some recent and others specially created, all characterised by versatility in the use of languages and means of expression, of a creativity that is never tame, at times restless, combining traditional art making with multimedia.

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THE AESTHETICS OF EMOTION

Cambridge University Press, 2016
by Gerald C. Cupchik, University of Toronto
Pages: 387 pages
Languages: English
ISBN: 9781139169301

Gerald C. Cupchik builds a bridge between science and the humanities, arguing that interactions between mind and body in everyday life are analogous to relations between subject matter and style in art. According to emotional phase theory, emotional reactions emerge in a ‘perfect storm’ whereby meaningful situations evoke bodily memories that unconsciously shape and unify the experience.

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SONIC ETHNOGRAPHY – Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy

Silvana Editoriale, 2022
by Lorenzo Ferrarini and Nicola Scaldaferri
Size: 24 x 10 cm
Pages: 240
Languages: English
ISBN: 9781526152008

Sonic ethnography makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of social life and as an ethnographic form of representation. This volume explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. With an approach that cuts across sensory anthropology, sound studies and ethnomusicology, Sonic ethnography demonstrates how acoustic tradition is made and disrupted and acoustic communities are brought together in shared temporality and space.

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PROGETTO RIVA

Silvana Editoriale, 2022
Curated by: Valentina Gensini
Size: 225 x 255 mm
Pages: 272
Languages: English and Italian
ISBN: 9788836648658

For years, the RIVA Project, directed by Valentina Gensini, has fostered a critical and interdisciplinary investigation aimed at designing a river park in the heart of the city, involving the participation of artists, curators, scientists, biologists, and architects, both Italian and international. This volume provides an overview of the most significant interventions carried out over the past five years, starting from the 50th anniversary of the flood.

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ARTE MISTICA COMUNITÀ / Art, Mysticism, Community

Postmedia books, 2024
Curated by: Veronica Caciolli
Size: 21 x 15 cm
Pages: 102
Languages: Italian
ISBN: 9798884843134

This book collects the proceedings of the conference Art, Mysticism, Community, conceived and curated by Veronica Caciolli, held at MUSEC – Museum of Cultures in Lugano on February 11-12, 2022. Now in its second edition, Art, Mysticism, Community continues to gather the visions of researchers, intellectuals, and artists around the relationships between visual and imaginal production and society: a phenomenology that expands the boundaries of knowledge, both past and present.

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PERIFERI@

Castelvecchi, 2022
Curated by: Giorgio De Finis, Claudia Pecoraro
Size: 24 x 17 cm
Pages: 600
Languages: Italian
ISBN: 9788832906288

What is the periphery? A place? A time? An existential condition? The absence of a city, an alternative city, the city of tomorrow? This volume, edited by Giorgio de Finis and Claudia Pecoraro, compiles a significant portion of the disciplinary, cultural, and political contributions gathered by the RIF Museo delle Periferie and the IPER Festival delle Periferie during their first two years of activity, all centered around the theme of the city on the margins. This exploration begins in Rome but examines the urban phenomenon on a global scale, creating a vast archive enriched with multimedia content produced and amplified through the museum’s platforms and social media channels.

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