History
2022
Smithsonian Associates, Washington DC. Italian Olive Oil: From Sacred Grove to Contemporary Art Afternoon Lecture/Seminar - May 19, 2022. smithsonianassociates.org
FRANCESCO CIAVAGLIOLI + Olio2Go, open edition, Agricola Due Leoni, February 2022.
2021
Release of the new artist edition by Richard Merkle. Online talk by curator, Dr. Cornelia Lauf, with remarks on the new olive oil harvest by Giuseppe Catalano di Melilli. 30 December 2021.
Agricola Due Leoni Special Collectors’ Edition, including a small selection of eight otherwise unavailable cans. Guillaume Bijl, Ryan Gander, KAWS, Jospeh Kosuth, Richard Merkle, Jonathan Monk, David Shrigley, Heimo Zobernig. December 2021.
RICHARD MERKLE + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, December 2021.
Release of the new artist edition by Jeremy Deller. Online talk by curator, Dr. Cornelia Lauf, with remarks on the new olive oil harvest by Giuseppe Catalano di Melilli. 5 December 2021.
JEREMY DELLER + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, October 2021.
Karolina Liusikova + Agricola Due Leoni, etching on paper, limited edition, 2021.
Artist-in-residence, Edoardo Piermattei, Agricola Due Leoni, 2021.
Artist-in-residence, Nicolas Boulard, Agricola Due Leoni, 2021.
Artist-in-residence, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Agricola Due Leoni, 2021.
Artist-in-residence, Andrea Polichetti, Agricola Due Leoni, 2021.
Permanent site-specific installation, Andrea Polichetti, Untitled, Agricola Due Leoni, 2021.
KAWS + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, 2021.
RICHARD MERKLE + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, 2021 - 2024.
Agricola Due Leoni olive oil featured in the context of the installation Nuancier by Nicolas Boulard, produced for the exhibition Le Grand Mezzé (The grand Mezé), Galerie de la Méditerranée, Mucem, Marseille. Featured in an assemblage of 96 olive oils from throughout the Mediterranean. 19 May 2021 - 31 December 2023. www.mucem.org/en/grand-meze
Edition with Guillaume Bijl, Johan Pas and David Vermeiren, Guillaume Bijl, Multiples and Editions, Antwerp and Cologne: Stockmans Art Books and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021, pp. 148 - 149.
Guglielmo Profeti. Our collaboration with the well-known fashion and lifestyle photographer yielded a series of photographs in which Agricola Due Leoni products were placed in atmospheric interiors in Tuscany. One of Italy’s premiere fashion and product photographers.
Keiko Kawabata, Osaka, Japan. Miniature olive oil diorama for Agricola Due Leoni, coordinated by Yuko Medvigy, photographed by Cathy Medvigy.
2020
JOSEPH KOSUTH + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, 2020.
GUILLAUME BIJL + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, 2020.
HEIMO ZOBERNIG + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, March 2020.
CARLO ANGELINI + Olio2Go, custom edition, Agricola Due Leoni, 2020.
STEVE REINKE + mumok, Vienna. Special edition, produced in partnership with Agricola Due Leoni, 2020.
Artists-in-residence, organized by Edison Pashkaj, featuring Matteo Bertolo, Luca Marignoni, Edison Pashkaj, Filippo Rizzonelli, Maria Giovanna Zannella, summer 2020.
Classicist-in-residence, Ihsan Barış Gedizlioğlu, Agricola Due Leoni, 2020-2021.
Residency of Rose Beaumont, Agricola Due Leoni, 2020-2021.
2019
RYAN GANDER + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, 2019.
MARINA APOLLONIO + mumok, Vienna. Limited edition, produced in partnership with Agricola Due Leoni, 2019.
Jürgen Ostarhild, video for Agricola Due Leoni, 2019.
2 November 2019, Miss Dado presents Ryan Gander, Turin, on the occasion of Artissima. Olive oil launch and tasting at the laboratory kitchen of Francesca Persano. Edition signing by Ryan Gander.
June - July 2019, Barbara Prenka is a summer artist-in-residence at Agricola Due Leoni. Born in Kosovo, attended AccademIa di Belle Arti, Venice, represented by Galleria Massimo De Luca.
Bulgarian-Cuban artist Magda Rumbaut contacted us. She drew, sculpted, cooked when we invited us to join our residency. And she came twice! Magda made a map of Sabina, of all the olive oil producers! Summer 2019.
Nic Liney joined us from University of Oxford, via the British School in Rome, where he is writing on Statius. 2019.
5 May 2019. Presentation on Art & Agriculture in Publishing. Miss Read Book Fair, Berlin. Organized by Cornelia Lauf, with Heike Blümner, Francesco Buonerba, Jonathan Monk, Christian Phillipp Müller, Paolo Sallier de la Tour.
3-5 May 2019. Presentation at Object & Thing, New York City. Design and Lifestyle Fair. Organized by Abby Bangser.
23 April 2019. Presentation Printed Matter, New York City, David Shrigley + Agricola Due Leoni @ Printed Matter. Book signing with David Shrigley at Printed Matter’s flagship store on 10th Avenue.
4 April 2019, Lecture by Cornelia Lauf, on Art & Agriculture, featuring David Shrigley edition, at Rhode Island School of Design Honors Program, Rome.
Wallpaper guide to Rome (published by Phaidon, features Agricola Due Leoni collaboration with Peter Kogler.
Agricola Due Leoni presented in the symposium Turning Point. Pensiero ecologico, in occasion of the exhibition Agricola Cornelia S.p.A. Sulla coltivazione di un luogo ideale, Fondazione Baruchello, Rome. Lecture Art & Agriculture, by Cornelia Lauf. 31 January 2019.
2018
JONATHAN MONK + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, 2018.
COSIMA VON BONIN + mumok, Vienna. Special mumok edition, produced by Agricola Due Leoni, 2018.
DAVID SHRIGLEY + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, 2018.
PETER KOGLER + Agricola Due Leoni, limited edition, 2018.
LIAM GILLICK + Esther Schipper, Berlin. Special edition produced in partnership with Agricola Due Leoni, 2018.
Olive oil tasting dinner at Fondation Coco Lafayette, organized by Cornne Rusch. Featuring Manuel Gorkiewicz vase and glassware curated by Cornelia Lauf. 1 December 2018.
Stefania Pochesci. Scarf for Agricola Due Leoni. Features coat-of-arms of the Catalano di Melilli family, and plants from the garden, as well as olive leaves.
William Hearst Sullivan, residency of this Maryland-based landscape designer and artist, also known as Ivars Steines.
In 2018, Agricola Due Leoni engaged Berlin-based filmmaker Hanna Hildebrand to take photos and create filmic works of the farm. Trained at the Portikus with Wolfgang Tillmans, Hildebrand brings a special poetry to her interpretation of food and agriculture--an eye schooled in art.
Noëma Kosuth, artist based in Rome and Venice, creates a silver tasting dish for Agricola Due Leoni. 2018.
Salon soirée of Rachel Barraclough, London, tasting and presentation at this design curator’s home gallery and viewing space. 2018.
Sirai Bucarelli, animated film for Agricola Due Leoni, 2018.
2017
PETER KOGLER + mumok, Vienna. Special edition, produced in partnership with Agricola Due Leoni, 2017.
Emma Allegretti. Rome/Palermo-based artist Emma Allegretti created a social media post for Agricola Due Leoni. Her clients include Gucci. @allegrettiregretti
Pamela Breda (b. 1982) is a photographer and artist based between London and Italy. She is the winner of numerous prizes and awards and completed an MA at IUAV, with Cornelia as her thesis advisor. An early residency produced portraits of vineyards and olive groves, photographed by this sensitive artist.
2016
Frieze Masters’ VIP event, in conjunction with celebrity chef, Giorgio Locatelli, organized by Cornelia Lauf. Art direction Maria Giovanna Virga. Domitilla Calamai, Giuseppe Catalano di Melilli, and Anna Federici. Presentation of artist olive oil editions at the 2016 frieze art fair, in London. Hosted by Giorgio Locatelli, a Michelin-starred chef with restaurants in London. October 2016.
“How to Make a Salad,” with Alison Knowles, in Art Basel. Agricola Due Leoni provided the salad dressing. June 18, 2016.
Alison Knowles (b. 1933) is an American artist known for performances and artworks in which essential actions and natural process are alluded to in ludic and experimental ways. In a remake of her 1969 performance Make A Salad at ArtBasel, Agricola Due Leoni supplied the olive oil as the dressing to an enormous salad. With special thanks to the artist, Gallery James Lafuente, Hannah Higgins.
Lionel Estève, (b. 1967). Born in France, a longtime citizen of Belgium, with origins in Algeria, Lionel Estève visited Agricola Due Leoni in May 2016. He took over the garden house in the secret garden, spanning a green acetate curtain of the kind found in inexpensive textile shops into a gauzy summer soft sculpture that wafted gently in the breeze. On the walls hung three gilded poppy seeds, now in the collection of Marion Franchetti, as well as one painting by Mariella Simoni.
Christian Philipp Müller. Image for Agricola Due Leoni.
Emilio Corti. Collaboration with this artist based in Northern Italy, on the development of an initial logo for Agricola Due Leoni. Using centuries of heraldry and imagery, Corti distilled the iconography into a rambunctious pair of lions, rearing on their hind legs.
Articles in DiPiù, Olive Oil Times, Il Messaggero, Dagospia.
Film by Miltos Manetas.
2015
Produced stills and films by photographer Hanna Hildebrand, Berlin and Amsterdam, short film.
2014
Miltos Manetas (b. 1964) is a Greek painter and multimedia artist. He was a resident at Agricola Due Leoni from 2014 to 2017. His many works executed in his time at Agricola Due Leoni include tying videocassette tape all over the canteen, catapulting rugs in the air with a handmade catapult, naming a gallery after our helpful property supervisor, and inviting dozens of young people to join him in spontaneous happenings, at the farm he used as his studio, San Sebastiano, and along the river Farfa, among other venues. Many wonderful paintings were created.
2010-2014
An early series of editions by designer Matthew Pfahlert, and artists Diana Thater, Dennis Balk, Emilio Prini, Vladimir Radunsky.
These editions were curated by Cornelia Lauf, produced without a defined house image, and editioned in a very few copies only, along with certificates of authenticity. A larger prior partnership was dissolved and the new editions began under the name Agricola Due Leoni, in 2015, under the direction of Giuseppe Catalano di Melilli.
Permanent site-specific installation, Untitled, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Agricola Due Leoni, 2012.
EMILIO PRINI, Untitled, two 5-liter cans, olive oil, 1-meter copper bar, 2012.
VLADIMIR RADUNSKY, limited edition, 2012.
EMILIO PRINI, Untitled, 250 ml olive oil can, punctured, 2011.
DIANA THATER, limited edition, 2011.
MARC GOETHALS, limited edition, 2011.
DENNIS BALK, limited olive oil edition, 2011.
HEIMO ZOBERNIG, limited olive oil edition, 2011.
MATTHEW PFAHLERT, a limited and designed edition of olive oil for domestic purposes, 2011.
