Born in Montevarchi, Tuscany.
Lives and works in Bologna.

Solo exhibitions

2022

Anima Latina
Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris (France)

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

2024

Ettore Fico. Dialoghi contemporanei. Un artista, un museo, una collezione
Fondazione MACC – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Calasetta (Italy)
Curated by Andrea Busto

Conterranei – Contemporary Artist Residency
Castello di Cireglio PT (Italy)
Curated by Matteo Innocenti, Enrico Vezzi

Not so quiet, please.
Galleria Giovanni Bonelli , Milano (Italy)

RADICI
Palazzo dell’Acqua, Bari (Italy)
Curated by Annachiara Balducci, Diletta Branchini

L’ORO BLU
Museo dei Bronzi Dorati, Pergola PU (Italy)
Curated by Leonardo Regano

DIADI
Fondazione Nicola del Roscio, Roma (Italy)
Curated by Collettivo Curatoriale Luiss, Master of Art XIII edizione

2023

Like an Open Door Leading Us Where We Would Never Have Consented to Go
< rotor > Center for Contemporary Art, Graz (Austria)
Curated by Elisa Del Prete, Silvia Litardi, Iris Kasper, Anton Lederer, Magarethe Makovec

Ettore Fico. Dialoghi contemporanei. Un artista, un museo, una collezione.
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia (Italy)
Curated by Andra Busto

In Bianco. La porcellana nella ceramica d’arte italiana contemporanea
Palazzo del Podestà, Faenza RA (Italy)
Curated by Matteo Zauli, Xiuzhong Zhang

CAR DRDE @ UMBERTO DI MARINO
Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Napoli (Italy)

Studiolo Lounge #3
Cabinet Studiolo, Milan (Italy)
Curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi, Antonio Di Mino

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 MonfalconeGorizia (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