Roberto dell’Orco

Artist, landscape architect and architect. Co-founder of SPORA.

Education

1999-2005: degree in architecture, Politecnico di Bari
2019-2020: Advanced Certificate in Landscape Studies, ENSP Versailles, project “Mycorrhizae, education and the right to the city”

ROTTING HEGEL at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (work phase; exhibition in 2024). Growing edible mushrooms on a library of Hegel’s books, where the mycelium breaks down the cellulose of the volumes, thereby exploring the ideas of the German monument-philosopher.

PARC DE LA THEUILLERIE in Ris-Orangis. Project lead at Urban Eco. Redevelopment of a 4-hectare park for the town of Ris-Orangis: after thirty years of neglect, the town wishes to make this park a central point of the community.

INDICIBILE at the Fondazione Lac O Le Mon, Lecce, Italy. Research project on altered states of consciousness and collective rituals, exploring in particular trance and group work. First cycle in 2017, a pause, then resumed in 2021 in another form.

GIARDINI VENERDÌ in Matera, Italy, with the Scuola del Terzo Luogo. During Matera European Capital of Culture, creation of a shared garden on a derelict urban plot in a historic neighbourhood of the city, in collaboration with primary school children and residents.

ASFALTO MON AMOUR at the Manifatture Knos, Lecce. Depaving and transformation of a 10,000 m² car park into a public garden. Carried out in collaboration with Coloco and Gilles Clément.

CHE PESCI PRENDERE at the Molo di S. Antonio, Bari. In a former fishmonger’s, collection of stories from people whose surname is the name of a fish.

ADELFIA/FRATELLI along the Milies railway, Greece. On the tracks built by Evaristo de Chirico, father of the famous painter Giorgio and of Alberto Savinio, a group of artists explores the imaginary of the two brothers.

Co-founder of the collective ilMotorediRicerca, artistic projects between Italy and the Balkans.

ROTTING UNCONSCIOUS, « Fungal Cultures », ifk, International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, soloshow SPORA, Wiener Pilzfestspiele 2025, Vienne, Autriche

ÇANAKKALE ART BIENNALE, Archaeological Museum of Troy, cur. Matteo Locci, Turquie
ROTTING HEGEL, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, cur. Stephen Wright & Tamarind Rossetti, solo / SPORA, Stuttgart, Allemagne
MYCÉLIUM AU LYCÉE, résidence territoriale DRAC en milieu scolaire, Lycée Adolphe Chérioux, Vitry-sur-Seine

MYCOGRAPHIE MUTANTE, programme de recherche/actions & DSAA Alternatives Urbaines, Vitry-sur-Seine
MYCÉLIUM GARDEN, projet collaboratif avec Diane Schuh, ArTec Paris, Université Paris 8 (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Saint-Denis)
SYMBIOSIS, ISEA 2023, Forum des Images, Paris

WORKSHOPS SPORA, Potager du Roi, École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles, avec Jérôme Legros, mycologue
LA PRÉSÉANCE DU VIVANT, 2e édition de la Biennale d’architecture et de paysage d’Île-de-France, cur. Coloco et Gilles Clément, Potager des Autres, Versailles
ÉTÉ CULTUREL, ateliers art et mycologie, soutien DRAC Île-de-France
ESTIVALES DE LA PERMACULTURE, Murs à pêches, Montreuil
CHASSE AU RÉSEAU, Journées du Patrimoine, La Preuve par 7 / invitation du « Lycée avant le Lycée », en collaboration avec ALEA (Miriam Josi et Stella Lee), Bagneux
FORUM MYCÉLIUM, Institut Mondial de Mycologie, Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid
FESTIN PSYCHOACTIF & MOTHER’S THERAPY, groupshow, cur. SPORA, Le Wonder, Clichy
CIMELIO, SPORA avec la Scuola del Terzo Luogo, Livourne, Italie