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Vito Pace (born 22 December 1966 in Avigliano) is an Italian sculptor.

Biography
Vito Pace studied at the Accademia di belle arti di Firenze in Florence and completed his studies in 1988, earning a degree in sculpture. From 1989 to 1992, he worked in Lomazzo with the sculptor Francesco Somaini. In the 1990s, he moved to Germany.

In the years 2002/03, he received a residency grant from the Kunststiftung Baden- Württemberg in the artist studios of Stuttgart and Berlin. In 2009, Vito Pace founded the publishing house Baustellen Büro Art Project Edition, a publishing house for books, catalogs, and essays on the topics of art, design, and art theory.

From 2017 to 2023, Pace taught Plastic arts and drawing at the Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau. In 2021, he was appointed as an honorary professor at the Faculty of Design at Hochschule Pforzheim. Since 2023, Vito Pace has been a professor sculpture and the fundamentals of three-dimensional design at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. He continues his creative and artistic activities, participating in international exhibitions, workshops, and discussions. He is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and the Deutscher Werkbund. He lives and works in the Karlsruhe and Frankfurt am Main regions.

Artistic process
Vito Pace was interested in naturalistic sculpture at a young age, but soon distanced himself from it in favor of a more conceptual approach that focuses on spatial analysis and the dimension of the creation and perception of an artwork.

As a conceptual artist, he creates works that allow for a reading on different levels, with the eye of the viewer being the determining factor. His studies are based on the idea of expanding the boundaries of art, emphasizing irregularities and differences, and overcoming all barriers that limit the creative process. To this end, he often collaborates with artists and cultural professionals.

Another characteristic of his artistic expression is the political approach that finds space in some specific projects, but never proposes solutions, only provides suggestions.

Exhibitions and work
He made his German debut in 1995 in Stuttgart with the solo exhibition Coincidences, created through a collaboration with several young German artists in the then cultural center Alpha Jetzt, then stuttgarter kunstverein e.v.

In 2013 Pace participated in the VIII Shiryaevo Biennial Screen: Between Europe and Asia ." His work Social Democracy of the Landscape depicts society's utopian orientation towards equality and democracy, which seem increasingly unattainable. The installation consists of a viewing apparatus built by Pace as a kind of frame for observing the social democratic landscape, which is in fact any part of the landscape. This is accompanied by a soundtrack by Igor Vaganov, composed of music, sound collages, and fragments of speech. Since the apparatus acts only as a frame, depicting what is in front of it, the work is a provocation, suggesting that the only form of social democracy that can succeed is that of the environment in which the viewer finds himself, and that this has nothing to do with the actions of the state or other authorities .

Pace continued his political reflections in 2016 with the exhibition Portrait of the artist and an autobiographical reflection for an exhibition in a post-social democratic and populist society . This exhibition at the LAF project space in Pforzheim featured first-person text posters in the style of political pamphlets from the 1970s, as well as a portrait of Vito Pace.

In 2017, Pace participated in the international project NEW TEXTS in Minsk (Belarus), organized by the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in Minsk and curated by Ekaterina Kenigsberg, study coordinator of the Academy's Center for Contemporary Art, and by Prof. Mikhail Barazna , 2011 curator of the Belarusian pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia.

He was the only Italian invited to this event, where he gave lectures and a workshop for the Academy's students.

Exbition (Selection)

 * 2000 Ein megaphon und Eine Naemaschine, Stuttgarter Kunstverein, Stuttgart
 * 2005 Gastrocnemius,


 * 2006 der Transfer ist aus, Centro culturale Durchblick, Casa di Tolleranza, Milan
 * 2007 PS, Casa di tolleranza, Milan
 * 2008 Ateljén, Emma Ricklund Foundation, Saxnäs
 * 2010 Art news outdoor, project at stops in the cities of Russia – Samara
 * 2016 Portrait des Künstlers und autobiografische Reflexion für eine Ausstellung in einer postsozialdemokratischen und populistischen Gesellschaft, Laf Projektraum, Pforzheim
 * 2016 ''Fünfzig Zigarren für das Licht der Zukunft / cinquenta puros para la luz del futuro“, Kunstverein KISS, Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen e.V.,  Untergröningen
 * 2017 New Texts, Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk
 * 2018/19 Vito Pace – Inhalt ,
 * 2024 Vito Pace - ZUR SACHE, Curated by Dr. Giovanna-Beatrice Carlesso, Kunstverein Brackenheim e.V., Brackenheim

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