Giovanni Kronenberg
The work of Giovanni Kronenberg (Milan, 1974, lives and works in Milan) comprises essentially sculptures and drawings: unusual or rare objects and natural artifacts – like rocks and stones, minerals and precious crystals, horns, bones, furs, sea sponge and ostrich eggs – which the artist defines as “not worn out by gazes”. Often collectible objects, Kronenberg operates on them with minimal insertions and transformations that bring together distant times, often unreachable. Through actions like twisting, occluding, replacement, and superimposition – but also, on the contrary, using slight and temporary interventions – the artist crafts unexpected objects with an eccentric, magnetic, and at the same time disturbing presence. The creation of a “combinatorial grammar” is the operation at the core of his work: a language that effects the slow sedimentation of the evocative qualities inherent in objects, on their subsequent alteration, through forms of intrusion. This relation between objects and reality, mostly ambiguous and elusive, also represents a key to Kronenberg’s drawings. Here, the image, suspended in an abstract dimension, gives rise to a space without references that seems to translate the figure’s presence into a kind of epiphany or apparition.
Among his recent solo shows: z2o Sara Zanin, Rome (2016, 2019 and 2022); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2017 and 2020); Quartz Studio, Turin (2020); Galleria Fuoricampo, Siena/Brussels (2014); and Studio Guenzani, Milan (2006, 2007 and 2012). Recent group exhibitions include: Museo Civico Villa La Rinchiostra, Massa (2021); Museo Diocesano, Foligno (2021); z2o Sara Zanin, Rome (2020); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2020); Civic Medieval Museum, Bologna (2020); Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza (2013); MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2012); The Polish Institute of Rome (2012); Nomas Foundation, Rome (2012); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2011); Castello Colonna di Genazzano, Genazzano (2010); Peep-Hole, Milan (2009 and 2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Lugano (2009); MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (2007); Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone (2008); Arte all’Arte X, San Gimignano (2005); Viafarini, Milan (2004 and 2005); and Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (2003).
The work of Giovanni Kronenberg (Milan, 1974, lives and works in Milan) comprises essentially sculptures and drawings: unusual or rare objects and natural artifacts – like rocks and stones, minerals and precious crystals, horns, bones, furs, sea sponge and ostrich eggs – which the artist defines as “not worn out by gazes”. Often collectible objects, Kronenberg operates on them with minimal insertions and transformations that bring together distant times, often unreachable. Through actions like twisting, occluding, replacement, and superimposition – but also, on the contrary, using slight and temporary interventions – the artist crafts unexpected objects with an eccentric, magnetic, and at the same time disturbing presence. The creation of a “combinatorial grammar” is the operation at the core of his work: a language that effects the slow sedimentation of the evocative qualities inherent in objects, on their subsequent alteration, through forms of intrusion. This relation between objects and reality, mostly ambiguous and elusive, also represents a key to Kronenberg’s drawings. Here, the image, suspended in an abstract dimension, gives rise to a space without references that seems to translate the figure’s presence into a kind of epiphany or apparition.
Among his recent solo shows: z2o Sara Zanin, Rome (2016, 2019 and 2022); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2017 and 2020); Quartz Studio, Turin (2020); Galleria Fuoricampo, Siena/Brussels (2014); and Studio Guenzani, Milan (2006, 2007 and 2012). Recent group exhibitions include: Museo Civico Villa La Rinchiostra, Massa (2021); Museo Diocesano, Foligno (2021); z2o Sara Zanin, Rome (2020); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2020); Civic Medieval Museum, Bologna (2020); Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza (2013); MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2012); The Polish Institute of Rome (2012); Nomas Foundation, Rome (2012); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2011); Castello Colonna di Genazzano, Genazzano (2010); Peep-Hole, Milan (2009 and 2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Lugano (2009); MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (2007); Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone (2008); Arte all’Arte X, San Gimignano (2005); Viafarini, Milan (2004 and 2005); and Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (2003).

- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 202019th century wooden form for hats and Brazilian sodalite, 35x19x18 cm. Exhibition: Giovanni Kronenberg – Richard Nonas, z2o project, Roma. Courtesy l’artista e Sara Zanin. Ph. Giorgio Benni
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2021Ostrich egg covered with a mixture of resin and minced lapis lazuli, 13x16x12 cm. Exhibition: Giovanni Kronenberg – Richard Nonas, z2o project, Roma. Courtesy l’artista e Sara Zanin. Ph. Giorgio Benni
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Agate, 22k gold leaf, variable dimensions. Ph. Masiar Pasquali
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2019Colored pencils on paper, 44x31,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2019Colored pencils on paper, 44x31,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2022Colored pencils on paper, 64x57 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2022Colored pencils on paper, 52x37 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Granted That Aging Brought Forth Good Judgment from the Impatience of Youth, 2011Whale vertebra, hand-engraved 925 silver, 60x60x40 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Vicenza stone, ash, Ø 43 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Anthropological Excoriation n.9, 2019Sea sponge, perfume, 50x35x15 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2017Ostrich egg, cement, 11,5x14x12 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Empirical Conversation of a Silence into an Alphabet, 2017Desert rose, powder cobalt pigment, 80x30x57 cm. Ph. Emanuele Bianchi.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2016Rock crystal, baroque black pearl, 96x16x16 cm.
Ph. Cosimo Filippini - Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2017Amethyst, rock crystal, cm 71x30x10
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2019Dry leaf, gold marker, 12x20x8 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Soluzione del cubo di Lemarchand, 2019Iron, 22K gold leaf, 18x21x19 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2017Mammoth's fossil rib and brasilian sodalite, ca 60 cm
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2017Colored pencils on paper, 103x73 cm. Ph. Emanuele Bianchi.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Colored pencils and 22K golden leaf on paper, 31x24 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, L’antinomia di Capitan Blicero, 2016Moose horn, silver, 60x57x21 cm
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Cinetico anche nella stasi, 2016Icelandic mouflon fur, glass, wood, approx. 63x38x32 cm.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2014Graphite on paper, 70 x 50 cm
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2021Colored pencils and 999 pure silver leaf on black paper, 43x30 cm
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Senza titolo, 2019Colored pencils and gold foil on paper, 53x37,5 cm
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2021Colored pencils and 24k gold leaf on paper, 30,5x22 cm


- Giovanni Kronenberg

- Giovanni Kronenberg

- Giovanni Kronenberg

- Sophie Ko,
- Giovanni Kronenberg
Apr 1-3, 2022
Established
Pav. 3 – Booth B07

- Giovanni Kronenberg,
- Margherita Moscardini,
- Serena Vestrucci
Nov 5 – 7, 2021
Main Section
Corridor Dark Blue 9

- Giovanni Kronenberg
Nov 1 – 3, 2019
Drawing Section
Booth Purple DS 18