Rooftop, Cineteatro Ariston (Trapani) – On 16 August 2022, during the second event of the series “Salotti Trapanesi”, held on the rooftop of the Cineteatro Ariston in Trapani, Manifest Action No. 20 – “VENERATION” by Gio Montez, in collaboration with performer Violet’Or, took place.
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Apr
Apr
Gio Montez honoured by Nicola Zingaretti for the invention of Art Coefficient Index and the founding of ARTup.
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Trapani – On 25 July 2020, at the Museo Civico G. Perricone in Trapani, Gio Montez presented Action No. 19 – “Isolazione – Atto II”
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Artist Gio Montez receives the Premio Creature 2018 for his pioneering role in urban cultural regeneration through Atelier Montez. Honored by Open House Rome at the Goethe-Institut, Montez was celebrated for leading one of the city’s most innovative participatory art laboratories, transforming industrial space into a living hub for community-driven creativity.
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Jun
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Atelier Montez, Rome – on the occasion of the exhibition Mr Monsters by artist Mirco Campioni, curated by Giancarlo Carpi, the Azione nr. 16 – TATTOOAZIONE took place, a performative action conceived by Gio Montez together with Mirco Campioni himself.
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May
May
The Performance Day is taking place for the fourth time – after the first consecutive years in Wiesbaden, this year for the first time in Frankfurt am Main. The new off-location OSTSTERN provides the former 2500 sqm screening hall near the city center.
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Apr
At the ruined Castello Chigi Albani in Soriano nel Cimino—where nature has reclaimed floors and towers, and climbing plants cover vertical walls—Gio Montez staged a 24-hour collective performance from dawn to dusk.
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Jan
For 168 consecutive hours, Gio Montez turned Berlin’s Art Von Frei Gallery into a live-in laboratory of contemporary dwelling.
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Oct
In the charged intimacy of Rome’s Mondrian Suite, Gio Montez transforms a domestic living room into a trap of desire.
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Dec
Gio Montez presents the performative collective Barbari Sognanti, led by Vitaldo Conte. Positioned between ritual, performance, and documentation, the action transformed a dense, ecstatic performative environment into a field of visual and conceptual experimentation.
Through a dynamic scenic direction and an experimental audiovisual practice—centered on the inhabitable installation known as “the cage”—Montez explored the threshold between self and other, documentation and creation. Video and photography became imaginal devices, deforming reality to generate poetic content. The resulting works—a video and six unique photographs—render the performative bodies as an immaterial presence, a “cloud of smoke enclosed in a cage,” existing only through its relational context.