Délio Jasse (Luanda, Angola, 1980) vive e lavora a Milano. Dopo 17 anni a Lisbona, l'artista raggiunge Milano nel 2015, per poi stabilirsi in Italia. Tra le mostre recenti, il Padiglione Angola alla 56a Biennale Arte di Venezia (2015), SAVVY Contemporary, Berlino (2017), African Metropolis, Museo MAXXI, Roma (2018), MOMENTUM Biennale, Moss (2021), A World in Common - Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern, Londra (2023), The Colonies will be Countries, EGEAC Culture em Lisboa, Lisbona (2024) Inequalities, 24a Esposizione Internazionale, Triennale, Milano (2025), The Angolan File, AF Gallery, Bologna (2026).

Nato nel 1980, Luanda, Angola. Vive e lavora a Milano, Italia.

Formazione

2007 Corso di formazione professionale, laboratorio di serigrafia Ponto Preto con Jorge Bastos, Lisbona, Portogallo
2003 Laboratorio di serigrafia Aladino Jasse, Lisbona, Portogallo

Mostre personali

2025 Jardim do Império, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbona, Portogallo
2024 The Colonies Will be Countries, Galerias Municipais, Lisbona, Portogallo
Caducado, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria
2023 Olhar Do Outro, Jahmek Contemporary Art, Luanda, Angola
Não contes à mãe, Zet Gallery, Braga, Portogallo
2022 Città Foresta, SRISA - Santa Reparata International School of Art, Firenze, Italia
Anulado, Spazio Bidet, Milano, Italia
2021 E se mais mundo houvera, Museo Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portogallo
2019 Arquivo Urbano, Tiwani Contemporary, Londra, Regno Unito
2018 Nova Lisboa, Jahmek Contemporary Art, Luanda, Angola
Urban Landscape Series, Tiwany Contemporary, Londra, Regno Unito
2017 The Mobility of Things, Spazio 1929 - Biennale dell’immagine, Lugano, Svizzera
2016 The Lost Chapter: Nampula, 1963, Tiwany Contemporary, Londra, Regno Unito
2015 o_afecto_pelo_archivo, Iwalewahaus, Università di Bayreuth, Germania
2014 Ausência Permanente, SMAC Gallery, Città del Capo, Sudafrica
Terreno Ocupado, Galeria Baginski, Lisbona, Portogallo
2012 Pontus II, Galeria Baginski, Lisbona, Portogallo
Pontus, Galeria Unap, Luanda, Angola
2010 Identidades; Causa e Efeitos, Arte Contempo, Lisbona, Portogallo
Schengen, Galeria Baginski, Lisbona, Portogallo

Mostre collettive selezionate

2024 Souvenir d’Italie, Institut Culturel de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Vermelho Vivo, MIS - Museu da imagem e do som do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brasile
Abril Vermelho, CAV - Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portogallo
Theatre of Dis-Operations. (Act I. A Disarmament), ArtNoble Gallery, Milano, Italia
2023 A World in Common - Contemporary African Photography, TATE Modern, Londra, Regno Unito
Sovra Esposti / Over Exposed, Museo Irpino, Carcere Borbonico, Avellino, Italia
Black Transmission - A Thousand Paths to Humanity, Af-Flux - Biennale Transnationale, Montréal, Canada
Stratificazioni, ArtNoble Gallery, Milano, Italia
L’Africa & Napoli - Identità, memorie e contemporaneità, Maschio Angioino, Napoli, Italia
2022 E22 - Hacking identity, dancing diversity, Möllerei / Esch-Belval, Lussemburgo
The Walther Collection, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germania
The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Norval Foundation, Città del Capo, Sudafrica
Il Cono d’Ombra - Narrative decoloniali dell’oltremare, Maschio Angioino, Napoli, Italia
Stratificazioni, ArtNoble Gallery, Milano, Italia
2021 Europa, Oxalá, Mucem, Marsiglia, Francia
Europa, Oxalá, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbona, Portogallo
L’inarchiviabile, KunstRaum Goethe, Roma, Italia
A Mecânica do Efémero, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbona, Portogallo
MOMENTUM Biennale, Moss, Norvegia
2020 Cyanotypes, PHOTOFAIR, Shanghai, Cina
2019 Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments, Fotodol, Utrecht, Paesi Bassi
Future Genealogies, Sixth edition of the Biennale of Lubumbashi, Repubblica Democratica del Congo
The Other Chapter, PhotoESPANA, Madrid, Spagna
Fourth edition of FOTO/INDUSTRIA, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italia
Summer Aperture Open: Delirious Cities, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
Two over Two, Narrative Projects, Londra, Regno Unito
2018 Recent Histories, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Schengen, Villa Romana, Firenze, Italia
African Metropolis. An Imaginary City, MAXXI, Roma, Italia
2017 Recent Histories: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection Space, Neu-Ulm, Germania
That, Around Which the Universe Revolves, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlino, Germania
Afrotopia, Bamako Encounters, Bamako, Mali
8th edition, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie en Gaspésie, New Richmond, Canada
Living on the Edge, Lagos Biennial 2017, Lagos, Nigeria
Metropolis Afrique Capitales, La Villette, Parigi, Francia
Selling the Shadow, C-Gallery, Milano, Italia
Afriques Capitales: Vers le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, Lille, Francia
Daqui Para Frente, Caixa Cultura, Rio de Janeiro, Brasile
2016 Recent Histories: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection Space, New York, USA
Paysages Urbains, Stade Municipale de Ouagadougou / Goethe-Institut, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The City in the Blue Daylight, International Exhibition, Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
2015 Angolan Pavilion: On Ways of Travelling, 56th Venice Biennale, Italia
Angolan Pavilion, World Expo, Milano, Italia
The View from Here, Tiwani Contemporary, Londra, Regno Unito
Mashup, Iwalewa Haus, Università di Bayreuth, Germania
FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time, Iwalewa Haus, Università di Bayreuth, Germania
Remember To Come Back, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, USA
Trek, SMAC Gallery, Città del Capo, Sudafrica
You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Galeria Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portogallo
2014 BES Photo, Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbona, Portogallo
Novo Banco Photo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, San Paolo, Brasile
2013 Arquivo Morto, BAI Arte, Luanda, Angola
Além Margem(s), Plataforma Revolver, Lisbona, Portogallo
Ghostbuster (Haunted by Heroes), SAVVY Contemporary, Berlino, Germania
Próximo Futuro, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbona, Portogallo
Open Monument, Kunstraum Bethanien / Kreuzberg, Berlino, Germania
2012 Os Culturofagistas.II, Fabrica ASA, Guimarães European Capital of Culture, Guimarães, Portogallo
Cem Obras / Dez Anos, Museu Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva, Lisbona, Portogallo
Exposição #15 - Paisagem Humana, BES Art & Finança, Lisbona, Portogallo
Pour un Monde Durable, Tour & Taxis, Bruxelles, Belgio
2011 9th Rencontres de Bamako (African Photography Encounters), Museo Nazionale del Mali, Bamako, Mali
1st edition of the Movement of Young Angolan Artists (JAANGO), Edificio Escom, Luanda, Angola
Parasol Project, Giardino della Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbona, Portogallo
Arte Lusófona Contemporânea, Galeria Marta Traba, San Paolo, Brasile
Idioma Comum, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbona, Portogallo
2010 Vestigios, Pavilhão 28, Lisbona, Portogallo
Africa, Museo Nacional de História Natural - SIEXPO, Luanda, Angola
A Museum is to Art What a Great Translator is to a Writer, Galeria Baginski, Lisbona, Portogallo
2009 Anteciparte, Museu do Oriente, Lisbona, Portogallo
Voyeur Project View, Lisbona, Portogallo
2008 Input, Museo Nacional de História Natural - SIEXPO, Luanda, Angola

Residenze e premi

2022 Residenza presso Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italia
2015 Iwalewa Art Award 2015, Iwalewahaus, Università di Bayreuth, Germania
2014 BES Photo - finalista, Portogallo
2013 Residenza LisbonBudapest, Budapest History Museum, Ungheria
2011 1st edition of the Movement of Young Angolan Artist (JAANGO), Luanda, Angola
2009 Anteciparte Award, Portogallo

Collezioni selezionate

Artphilein Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
BES Arte e Finança, Lisbona, Portogallo
BESA, Luanda, Angola
Foundation Blachère, Apt, Francia
Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Ungheria
PLMJ, Lisbona, Portogallo
The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germania

Bibliografia

Chika Okeke-Agulu e Joseph L. Underwood, African Artist: From 1882 to Now, Phaidon, 2021
Amzat Boukari-Yabara et al., Europa Oxalá, Edições Afrontamento, 2021
André Magnin e Mehdi Qotbi, African lights, Casablanca: Langages du Sud, 2018
Charlotte Othman (ed.), Afrotopia, Éditions Dilecta, 2017 (catalogo di mostra)
Sam Hopkins e Nadine Siegert (eds), Mashup the Archive, Revolver Publishing, 2017 (catalogo di mostra)
Délio Jasse, Cidade Em Movimento, Artphilein Editions, 2017
Daniela Baumann, Joshua Chuang e Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Recent Histories, Steidl, 2017 (catalogo di mostra)
Simon Njami (ed.), Afriques Capitales, Kehrer Heidelberg, 2017 (catalogo di mostra)
Simon Njami (ed.), Reenchantments: The City in the Blue Daylight, Kerber Verlag, 2016 (catalogo di mostra)
António Ole (ed.), On Ways of Travelling, Non-Verbal Club, 2015
Nuno F. de Carvalho (ed.), BES Photo 2014: Délio Jasse, Silvadesigners

Délio Jasse (Luanda, Angola, 1980) lives and works in Milan. After 17 years in Lisbon, the artist moved to Milan in 2015, where he later settled permanently. Recent exhibitions include the Angola Pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Biennale (2015), SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2017), African Metropolis, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2018), MOMENTUM Biennale, Moss (2021), A World in Common – Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern, London (2023), The Colonies Will Be Countries, EGEAC Culture em Lisboa, Lisbon (2024), Inequalities, 24th International Exhibition, Triennale Milano (2025) and The Angolan File, AF Gallery, Bologna (2026).

Born in 1980, Luanda, Angola. Currently lives and works in Milan, Italy.

Education

2007 Professional training course, Ponto Preto screen-printing atelier with Jorge Bastos, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 Aladino Jasse screen-printing atelier, Lisbon, Portugal
 
Solo exhibitions

2025 Jardim do Império, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 The Colonies Will be Countries, Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, Portugal 
Caducado, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria
2023 Olhar Do Outro, Jahmek Contemporary Art, Luanda, Angola
Não contes à mãe, Zet Gallery, Braga, Portugal
2022 Città Foresta, SRISA - Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
Anulado, Spazio Bidet, Milan, Italy
2021 E se mais mundo houvera, Museo Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
2019 Arquivo Urbano, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
2018 Nova Lisboa, Jahmek Contemporary Art, Luanda, Angola
Urban Landscape Series, Tiwany Contemporary, London, UK
2017 The Mobility of Things, Spazio 1929 - Biennale dell’immagine, Lugano, Switzerland
2016 The Lost Chapter: Nampula, 1963, Tiwany Contemporary, London, UK
2015  o_afecto_pelo_archivo, Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, Germany
2014 Ausência Permanente, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Terreno Ocupado, Galeria Baginski, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 Pontus II, Galeria Baginski, Lisbon, Portugal
Pontus, Galeria Unap, Luanda, Angola
2010 Identidades; Causa e Efeitos, Arte Contempo, Lisbon, Portugal
Schengen, Galeria Baginski, Lisbon, Portugal
 
Selected group exhibitions

2024  Souvenir d’Italie, Institut Culturel de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Vermelho Vivo, MIS - Museu da imagem e do som do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
Abril Vermelho, CAV - Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
Theatre of Dis-Operations. (Act I. A Disarmament), ArtNoble Gallery, Milan, Italy
2023 A World in Common - Contemporary African Photography, TATE Modern, London, UK
Sovra Esposti / Over Exposed, Museo Irpino, Carcere Borbonico, Avellino, Italy
Black Transmission - A Thousand Paths to Humanity, Af-Flux - Biennale Transnationale, Montreal, Canada
Stratificazioni, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan, Italy
L’Africa & Napoli - Identità, memorie e contemporaneità, Maschio Angioino, Napoli, Italy
2022 E22 - Hacking identity, dancing divesity, Möllerei / Esch-Belval, Luxembourg
The Walther Collection, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Il Cono d’Ombra - Narrative decoloniali dell’oltremare, Maschio Angioino, Napoli, Italy
Stratificazioni, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan, Italy
2021 Europa, Oxalá, Mucem, Marseille, France
Europa, Oxalá, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
L’inarchiviabile, KunstRaum Goethe, Rome, Italy
A Mecânica do Efémero, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
MOMENTUM Biennale, Moss, Norway
2020 Cyanotypes, PHOTOFAIR, Shanghai, China
2019 Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments, Fotodol, Utrech, Netherlands
Future Genealogies, Sixth edition of the Biennale of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
The Other Chapter, PhotoESPANA, Madrid, Spain
Fourth edition of FOTO/INDUSTRIA, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
Summer Aperture Open: Delirious Cities, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA 
Two over Two, Narrative Projects, London, UK
2018 Recent Histories, Huis Marseilles, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Schengen, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
African Metropolis. An Imaginary City, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2017 Recent Histories: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection Space, Neu-Ulm, Germany
That, Around Which the Universe Revolves, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Afrotopia, Bamako Encounters, Bamako, Mali
8th edition, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie en Gaspésie, New Richmond, Canada
Living on the Edge, Lagos Biennial 2017, Lagos, Nigeria Metropolis Afrique Capitales, La Villette, Paris, France Selling the Shadow, C-Gallery, Milan, Italy
Afriques Capitales: Vers le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, Lille, France
Daqui Para Frente, Caixa Cultura, Rio de janerio, Brazil
2016 Recent Histories: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection Space, New York, USA 
Paysages Urbains, Stade Municipale de Ouagadougou/Goethe-Institut, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 
The City in the Blue Daylight, Internetional Exhibition, Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
2015 Angolan Pavilion: On Ways of Travelling, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
Angolan Pavilion, World Expo, Milan, Italy
The View from Here, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Mashup, Iwalewa Haus, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time, Iwalewa Haus, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Remember To Come Back, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Trek, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Galeria Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal
2014 BES Photo, Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Novo Banco Photo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
2013 Arquivo Morto, BAI Arte, Luanda, Angola
Alem Margem(s), Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal
Ghostbuster (Haunted by Heroes), Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Proximo Futuro, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Open Monument, Kunstraum Bethanien/Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Alem Margem(s), Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 Os Culturofagistas.II, Fabrica ASA, Guimaraes European Capital of Culture, Guimaraes, Portugal
Cem Obras/Dez Anos, Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon, 
Portugal Exposiçao #15 - Paisagem Humana, BES Art & Finança, Lisbon, Portugal 
Pour un Monde Durable, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
2011 9th Rencontres de Bamako (African Photography Encounters), National Museum of Mali, Bamako, Mali 
1st edition of the Movement of Young Angolan Artists (JAANGO), Escom Building, Luanda, Angola
Parasol Project, Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Arte Lusófona Contemporânea, Galeria Marta Traba, São Paulo, Brazil
Idioma Comum, PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 Vestigios, Pavilhao 28, Lisbon, Portugal
Africa, Museo Nacional de História Natural - SIEXPO, Luanda, Angola
A Museum is to Art What a Great Translator is to a Writer, Galeria Baginski, Lisbon, Portugal
2009Anteciparte, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal
Voyeur Project View, Voyeur Project View, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 Input, Museu Nacional de História Natural - SIEXPO, Luanda, Angola

Residencies and Awards

2022 Residency at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy
2015 Iwalewa Art Award 2015, Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, Germany
2014 BES Photo - shortlisted, Portugal
2013 LisbonBudapest residency, Budapest History Museum, Hungary
2011 1st edition of the Movement of Young Angolan Artist (JAANGO), Luanda, Angola
2009 Anteciparte Award, Portugal

Selected collections

ilein Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtensteion
BES Arte e Finança, Lisbon, Portugal
BESA, Luanda, Angola
Foundation Blachère, Apt, France
Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary
PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, ArtphGermany

Bibliography

Chika Okeke-Agulu and Joseph L Underwood, African Artist: From 1882 to Now, Phaidon, 2021 Amzat Boukari-Yabara et al., Europa Oxalá, Edições Afrontamento, 2021
André Magnin and Mehdi Qotbi, African lights, Casablanca/MA: Langages du sud, 2018 Charlotte Othman (ed.), Afrotopia, Paris/FR: Éditions Dilecta, 2017 (exh. cat.)
Sam Hopkins and Nadine Siegert (eds), Mashup the Archive, Berlin/DE: Revolver Publishing, 2017 (exh. cat.) Delio Jasse, Cidade Em Movimento, Lugano/CH: Artphilein Editions, 2017
Daniela Baumann, Joshua Chuang and Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection, Göttingen/DE: Steidl, 2017 (exh. cat.)
Simon Njami (ed.), Afriques Capitales, Berlin/DE: Kehrer Heidelberg, 2017 (exh. cat.)
Simon Njami (ed.), Reenchantments: The City in the Blue Daylight, Bielefeld/DE: Kerber Verlag, 2016 (exh. cat.) António Ole (ed.), On Ways of Travelling, Porto/PT: Non-Verbal Club, 2015
Nuno F. de Carvalho (ed.), BES Photo 2014: Délio Jasse, Lisbon/PT: Silvadesigners, 20