Born in Montevarchi, Tuscany.
Lives and works in Bologna.
Solo exhibitions
2020
Ritratto di uomo con caminetto
Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris (France)
Eliminare la carne
La Portineria, Florence (Italy)
Curated by Matteo Innocenti
2019
David Casini
Surplace, Varese (Italy)
Curated by Rossella Moratto
Nirvana
Galleria CAR DRDE, Bologna (Italy)
2017
Madonna Casini
Edicola Radetzky, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Lacarpia
2015
Geometrie per un canone rovesciato
Galleria CAR DRDE, Bologna (Italy)
Ogni mio presente
TESCO, Faenza RA (Italy)
2014
Light, measured. One soon gets used to it
Plutschow Gallery, Zurich (Switzerland)
David. Vita, morte e miracoli
SRISA Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence (Italy)
2012
Tout Semble Fonctionner
Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (Switzerland)
Back home
Spazio Morris, Milan (Italy)
2008
Kristallòs
Galleria CAR Projects , Bologna (Italy)
2007
David Casini
Mar, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ravenna (Italy)
Curated by Daniela Lotta
2006
Corruptible Matter
Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (Switzerland)
Espax
Galleria T293, Naples (Italy)
2005
Planète bleue
Present Future, Artissima , Turin (Italy)
2004
Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (Switzerland)
2003
Galleria T293, Naples (Italy)
Duplex , Geneva (Switzerland)
Curated by Boris Magrini
Group exhibitions
2022
MUTAFORMA. Mutazioni ceramiche del codice CZ
Alchemilla Palazzo Vizzani, Bologna Italy
Curated by Collettivo NN
PER UNA NUOVA SCULTURA. Sperimentazioni e traiettorie lungo la via Emilia
Ponte Alto, Modena Italy
Curated by Andrea Capucci, Alessandro Mescoli
Who killed bamby?
Spazio di Casso al Vajont, Casso PN Italy
Curated by Gianluca d’incà Levis
IMBOSCATA
Bosco di Corniola, Empoli Italy
Hid In bianco. La porcellana nella ceramica d’arte italiana
Padiglione Italia, Int. Ceramic Art Biennale, Ceramic Art Avenue Musem, Jingdezhen China
Curated by Matteo Zauli, Xiuzhong Zhang
2021
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN #CERAMIC
Swing Design Gallery, Benevento Italy
Curated by Angela da Silva, Antonella Palladino
TRECENTO Workshop
Galerie Italienne, Paris France
Curated by Azad Asifovich, Adrienne Roger-Jaffè
Hidden Displays 1975-2020 – Progetti non realizzati a Bologna
MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna Italy
Curated by Elisabetta Modena, Valentina Rossi
Têtê-à-Têtê David Casini/Giovanni De Francesco
CABANAmad, Lisbon Portugal
Titolo l’edito inedito Cap.V
Société Interludio, Turin Italy
Curated by Francesco Carone
Officine Saffi AWARD 4
Officine Saffi, Milan Italy
Le Voyageur, l’Obstêcle, la Grâce
Centre d’art contemporain de Briançon, Briançon France
Curated by Akim Pasquet
A/Essenze. Opere scelte dalla Collezione Cattelani
Museo di Villa Carlotta, Tremezzina Lago di Como Italy
Curated by Fulvio Chimento
2020
REFOLDED. Percorsi meta-artistici
Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome Italy
Curated by Collettivo Curatoriale Luiss Master of Art X
Non giudicare
Antico Convento di San Francesco, Bagnacavallo RA Italy
Curated by Viola Emaldi
Come le lucciole
Galleria CAR DRDE, Bologna Italy
Atomi
Motelombroso, Milan Italy
Curated by Giorgio Galotti
2019
A cultural interpretation of stone part. 1
Galerie Le Cabinet d’Ulysse, Marseille France
Curated by Marta Jecu
Premio Ducato Prize
Palazzo del Podestà, Castell’Arquato Piacenza Italy
Cèramica 2019
Museo della ceramica Montelupo Fiorentino Florence Italy
Curated by Matteo Zauli
Doppio Circuito – David Casini, Claudia Losi, Sabrina Mezzaqui
Auditorium Scandicci Florence Italy
Curated by Matteo Zauli
Hortus Conclusus
Fondazione 107, Turin Italy
Curated by Federico Piccari
Alchemilla
Palazzo Vizzani-Sanguinetti, Bologna Italy
Curated by Fulvio Chimento
Panorama. Approdi e derive del paesaggio in Italia
Fondazione del Monte, Bologna Italy
Curated by Claudio Musso
2018
Premio Lissone 2018
MAC – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone (Italy)
Curated by Alberto Zanchetta
Thinga Things
Špica Prule, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Curated by Alessandro di Giampietro
Recto/verso 2
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (France)
Organized by Secours populaire français et LVMH / Moët Hennessy
2017
X talent prize 2008-2017 il decennale
MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, (Italy)
La ballade des pendus
Plasma Plastic Modern Art, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Giovanni De Francesco
Fuocoapaesaggio
Forte di Monte Ricco, Pieve di Cadore (Italy)
Curated by Dolomiti Contemporanee
Exodus Stations #1
Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada, Azores (Portugal)
Curated by Marta Jecu
Solo Figli
Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna (Italy)
Curated by Irene Guzman, Sergia Avveduti
2016
Off The Wall
Galleria CAR DRDE, Bologna (Italy)
Canone e fuga
MADEINBRITALY Gallery, London (UK)
Curated by Viola Emaldi
Capri / The Island of Art- II edition-
Villa Lysis, Punta Tragara, Capri (Italy)
Curated by Marco Izzolino
BRUMA
Centro Climatico Marino, Milano Marittima Ravenna (Italy)
Curated by Marco Samorè
Vitello Tonnato
Plutschow Gallery, Zurich (Switzerland)
2015
Horizons
Plutschow Gallery, Zurich (Switzerland)
Ripensare il medium – Il fantasma del disegno
Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, S. Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo (Italy)
Curated by Saretto Cincinelli, Cristiana Collu
MoRE Spaces, percorsi nell’archivio del non realizzato
Palazzo Pigorini, Parma (Italy)
Curated by Valentina Rossi, Elisabetta Modena, Marco Scotti
Progetto Città Ideale. Atrii / Sez. Volumi
La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Mirko Canesi, Samuele Menin
New Babylon; David Casini, Laura Porter, Florian Sumi
Galerie Escougnou-Cetraro, Paris (France)
Curated by Valeria and Edouard Escougnou-Cetraro
Distances
Galerie Escougnou-Cetraro, Paris (France)
Curated by Matteo Innocenti, Valeria Cetraro, Edouard Escougnou
Deriva
Lato, Prato (Italy)
Curated by Matteo Innocenti and Deriva (Valeria Cetraro, Edouard Escougnou)
2014
Simone Berti, Sergio Breviario, David Casini, Enza Galantini
MK Search Art, San Giovanni Valdarno Arezzo (Italy)
Seance Room
Galleria Cart, Monza (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Lacarpia
Artist Run Space International Show
Artist Run Space, Taegu, (Korea)
Affinità elettive
Label 201, Roma (Italy)
Curated by Elena Giulia Abbiatici, Valentina Levy
Biennale Disegno Rimini
Ala nuova / Museo della Citta, Rimini (Italy)
Lumen
The Workbench, Milan, (Italy)
Curated by Pietro di Lecce, Andrea Lacarpia
Se di-segno
Padiglione Esprit Nouveau, Bologna (Italy)
Curated by Sergia Avveduti
8+1. Otto artisti in dialogo, e una presenza
Lato & bbs, Prato, (Italy)
Curated by Matteo Innocenti
2013
Immagine d’Io
Triennale di Milano, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Alessandro Guerriero, Luciana di Virgilio, Margherita Sigillò
Arte ceramica oggi in Italia
Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Jean Blanchaert, Viola Emaldi
Everywhere but now
4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
Fuori! Artisti
Fondazione Sandro Penna, Turin (Italy)
Curated by Maurizio Bongiovanni
David Casini / Valerio Nicolai / Gianni Pettena / Sara Rossi / Serena Vestrucci
Casabianca, Zola Pedrosa Bologna (Italy)
Curated by Guido Molinari
Madeinfilandia 2013
Madeinfilandia, Pergine Valdarno (Arezzo) (Italy)
Past Forward
Chiesa di S. Agostino e Palazzo Panichi, Pietrasanta (Italy)
Curated by Alessandro Romanini
Growing Up!
DFA Partners, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Valentina Casacchia
Thomas Schunke, David Casini, Fischli & Weiss
Halle Nord, Geneva (Switzerland)
Curated by Carole Rigaut
XXII
Spazio Morris, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Alessandra Pedrotti Cantoni
2012
Bianca feat. Mars
Bianca Arte Contemporanea, Palermo (Italy)
curated by Antonio Di Mino, MARS Milano
The Mediterranean Approach
SESC Pinheiros, San Paulo (Brazil)
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
Il lato oscuro della luna
Jarach Gallery, Venice (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Bruciati
Teoria del valore
CO2 Gallery, Rome (Italy)
Nature vs Nurture
Fama Gallery, Verona (Italy)
Tu sei un nome che respira e muove
Museo della Città, Rimini (Italy)
Curated by Dacia Manto, Franco Pozzi
Passato Prossimo, XXXII Biennale Roncaglia
Rocca Estense, San Felice sul Panaro (MO) (Italy)
Curated by Ilaria Bignotti, Elisabetta Modena, Valentina Rossi, Marco Scotti
The Mediterranean Approach
MAC, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (France)
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg, Thierry Ollat
2011
The Mediterranean Approach
Palazzo Zenobio, Venice (Italy)
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg, Thierry Ollat
Oceanomania
Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (Principality of Monaco)
Curated by Mark Dion
Il ramo d’oro
Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Udine (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Bruciati, Eva Camuzzi
2010
Ente comunale di consumo
CIAC, Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Rome (Italy)
Curated by Claudio Libero Pisano
Portraits de Collectionneurs
MURO Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland)
Curated by Jocelyne et Fabrice Petignat
Celebration
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, (Greece)
Curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis
2009
Fuori registro
MIDeC – Museo Internazionale Design Ceramico, Cerro di Levano Mombello, Varese (Italy)
Curated by Emma Zanella, Alessandro Castiglioni, Lorena Giuranna
Spacioux
Lambretto Art Project, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Michela Arfiero, Paola Gallio, Daniela Lotta
Qui è altrove
Palazzo de Sanctis, Castelbasso, Teramo (Italy)
Curated by Francesca Referza, Francesco Poli
Oltre lo specchio
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Belgrade, (Serbia)
Curated by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola, Sasa Janjic
Nouvelle vague! Festival Interational de Mode & de Photographie 2009
Villa Noailles, Hyeres, (France)
Curated by Kris van Assche
A fior di pelle
Depot GC AC, Palazzetto Veneto di Monfalcone, Gorizia (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Bruciati
2008
Focus on Contemporary Italian Art. Nuove acquisizioni
MAMbo, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, (Italy)
Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello
Nothing but sculpture
XIII Biennale Internazionale, Carrara (Italy)
Curated by Francesco Poli
Soft-cell. Dinamiche nello spazio in italia
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone (GO) (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Bruciati
Collectors 2, La collezione Renato Alpegiani
Il Filatoio, Caraglio, Cuneo (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Busto
Notebook Numero Zero
Galleria Neon>FDV, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Michela Alfiero, Daniela Lotta
Stultifera Navis: La nave dei folli
Porta Sant’Agostino, Bergamo (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Bruciati, Marco Tagliafierro
2007
Deutsche Bank Collection, Italy
Deutsche Bank, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Frank Boehm, Friedhelm Hutte, Claudia Schicktanz
2006
Everything is wrong
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (Switzerland)
Curated by Antonia Donze-Van Saanen
Il marmo è nobile
David Casini – Mat Collishaw, Galleria Nicola Ricci, Pietrasanta (LU) (Italy)
Curated by Guido Molinari
Los Caprichos
Galleria Rizziero, Pescara (Italy)
Curated by Viola Emaldi
Odiseado tra tempo
Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich (Switzerland)
Curated by Charlotte Mailler
Napoli Presente
PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples (Italy)
Curated by Lorand Hegyi
Padiglione out of Biennale
Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Italy)
Curated by Guido Molinari
Ask the dust
Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (Italy)
Curated by Daniela Lotta
The Simple Life
Secondary school, Hydra (Greece)
Curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis
Il punto d’estensione
Galleria Ar/ge Kunst, Bolzano (Italy)
Curated by Guido Molinari
Femme(s)
Musée de Carouge, Geneva (Switzerland)
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
2004
The Black Album
Maureen Paley Interim Art Gallery, London (Great Britain)
Con cura
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Molinella, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza ((Italy)
Curated by Daniela Lotta
2003
Assenze/Presenze: Une nouvelle génération d’artistes italiens
Le Botanique, Bruxelles (Belgium)
Curated by Emanuel Lambion
Moto a Luogo
Rocca di Carmignano, Carmignano, Prato (Italy)
Curated by Saretto Cincinelli
Tracce di un seminario
Viafarini, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Angela Vettese, Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Giulio Paolini – visiting professor
De l’autre cote des alpes
Galleria Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea, Florence (Italy)
Curated by Charlotte Mailler
Working
Ex Meccanotessile, Florence (Italy)
Curated by Sergio Risaliti
Spazio aperto al disegno
Galleria d’Arte Moderna Villa delle Rose, Bologna (Italy)
Curated by Dede Auregli, Chiara Bertola, Roberto Daolio, Claudio Marra, Claudio Spadoni, Alessandra Vaccari, Peter Weiermair
Italian boys
Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (Switzerland)
Curated by Stefano Arienti
2001
Such a Joy
Galleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea, Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna (Italy)
Curated by Daniela Lotta, Guido Bartorelli, Marco Altavilla
Emporio
Viafarini, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Guido Molinari, Alessandra Galletta, Luca Beatrice
Prizes
2019
Premio Ducato Prize (finalist)
Palazzo del Podestà, Castell’Arquato Piacenza Italy
2018
Carapelli For Art 2018 (winner)
2013
Premio Suzzara (finalist)
Galleria Premio Suzzara (Italy)
2009
Talent Prize (winner)
Museo Centrale Montemartini Rome (Italy)
Workshop
2013
Se io disegno, workshop with students
Accademy of Fine Art of Bologna (Italy)
2008
Festival Arte Contemporanea “Il senso del luogo /04”
Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (Italy)
Curated by Daniela Lotta
2005
Residenza d’Artista. Workshop di Ceramica Contemporanea (invited ad Guest Artist)
Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (Italy)
Curated by Daniela Lotta
2002
Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva della Fondazione Ratti
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (Italy)
Curated by Angela Vettese, Giacinto di Pietrantonio Giulio Paolini – visiting professor