Costantino Ciervo

Costantino Ciervo at his exhibition opening, Ortner & Ortner Depot, Berlin, April 2019, Photo by Steve Goedickmeier 2019

Costantino Ciervo (* 1961 in Naples) is an Italian artist, living in Germany.

Life

Costantino Ciervo grew up in Naples. From 1980 to 1982, he studied economics and politics at the University of Economics and Commerce in Naples. After dropping out of college, he began working as a freelance artist. In 1983, he taught screen printing and photomechanics at the juvenile detention center on the island of Nisida in the Gulf of Naples. In 1984, he moved to Berlin and began studying philosophy and art history at Technische Universität Berlin in 1988. In 1993, he participated in the Venice Biennale. Costantino Ciervo is a member of the German Artists' Association. [1] He lives and works in Berlin.

Artwork

Costantino Ciervo is a media artist. In his video installations, Ciervo explores the existence of the human being in today's society, the current economic systems and the rapid regional and global developments and possible liberation strategies. He deals with current topics such as the upheavals in the field of science, technological and genetic research, computer science and communication technology, ethics, complexity and artificial intelligence.

In 2016, he launched his participatory long-term art project ‘SendProtest!’ with a mobile app and internet archive. Some of his installations and video sculptures as well as the ‘SendProtest’ archive are on permanent display at the Museum FLUXUS+ in Potsdam (Germany).

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections (selection)

  • Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
  • Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany
  • World Bank collection, IFC Collection, Washington, D.C., USA[4]
  • Stiftung Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank, Berlin[5]
  • VIDEOKUNST_CH, Collection Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle, Bern, Switzerland[6]
  • collection olorVISUAL, Barcelona, Spain[7]

References

  1. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund website ‘'Members “C” / Costantino Ciervo’' (accessed on July 24, 2025)
  2. ^ "MO_Schaufenster #39: Costantino Ciervo - Die Namen der Toten im Meer" (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-27.
  3. ^ "Touchable/Untouchable" (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  4. ^ "World Bank collection, IFC Collection, Washington, D.C., USA".
  5. ^ "Informations about Foundation Berliner Volksbank, Germany".
  6. ^ "Informations about VIDEOKUNST_CH, Collection Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle, Bern, Switzerland".
  7. ^ "collection olorVISUAL, Barcelona, Spain".
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