Exhibitions

Antonino Cardillo will present the seminar ‘Depth architecture—The aesthetic nature of the psyche’ as part of the autumn 2025 Analytical Psychology Training Program curated by Julia Budai at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich.

At the invitation of Professor Antonio Biancucci, Cardillo outlines his journey, shaped by his childhood in Trapani and his encounter with Antonietta Iolanda Lima in Palermo, during the lecture ‘Style, Form, Proportion, Position,’ part of the main series of conferences ‘La giovane architettura 4,’ organised by the Department of Architecture at the University of Palermo.

At the invitation of Professor Thomas Di Santo, Cardillo discussed the phenomenology of self-documentation of his work in the conference ‘Architecture of a historiography: antoninocardillo.com’ during a visit to his project, house Elogio del Grigio, as part of California Polytechnic State University’s History/Theory Workshop.

At the invitation of curator Gaia Maria Lombardo, Andrea Paolo Massara guides the visitors through the Off Club project of Cardillo, part of the ‘Open House Rome 2024’ program.

After an introduction by the anthropologist Rita Cedrini, Cardillo presents his constructed projects during the conference ‘Anthropology in Architecture’, part of the cultural events series of the Agostino Pepoli Regional Museum in Trapani.

At the invitation of curator Gaia Maria Lombardo, Cardillo guided the visitors through the House of Dust, part of the ‘Open House Rome 2023’ program. The work also celebrates the opening day of the Festival by also hosting the first of nine ‘Nine by Night’ aperitifs.

At the invitation of curator Gaia Maria Lombardo, Alfredo Vattimo’s guided tours of the House of Dust, part of the ‘Open House Roma 2021’ program.

After an introduction by Professor Johannes Kister, Cardillo interprets seven images of his architectural works during the conference ‘A synchronicity of cultures and civilisations’, part of the Dessau Talks series at the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Bauhaus Campus.

At the invitation of curator Diego Grammatico, Cardillo talked about his relationship between video games and architecture in the conference ‘From Zak McKracken to House of Dust’, part of a panel for the Rome Video Game Lab festival of the Istituto Luce at the Cinecittà Studios.

At the invitation of the students of the Royal College of Art, Cardillo discussed his nightclub project during the conference ‘The making of Rome’s Off Club’ in the Inside/Out conferences series curated by representatives Yara Boulos and Riccardo Rizzetto of the Interior Design department.

At the invitation of curator Stephan Burkoff, Cardillo spoke about the archetypes of the language of architecture in the conference ‘Vaults, grottoes, arches and polychromy’, at the Heinze ArchitekTOUR congress in the halls of the former Berlin Station.

At the invitation of directors Jeanette Kunsmann and Stephan Burkoff, Tim Berge interviewed Cardillo about his beginnings, his attitude towards antiquity and the sexuality of architecture at the Mitte/Rand lounge on Berlin’s Marienstraße.

The curator Beppe Finessi exhibited the House of Dust among the fifty representative Italian interior architecture projects from 1925 to 2016, part of the ‘Rooms. Novel Living Concepts’ exhibition at the Palazzo dell’Arte of the Triennale di Milano.

At the invitation of Professors Chris Dähne, Frederike Lausch and Bettina Rudhof, Cardillo presented the ‘Seven Houses for No One’ series and spoke about the faked reality in the conference ‘The Dream Houses of Antonino Cardillo’, part of the Constructed Realities series of Goethe University at the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt.

At the invitation of director Abraham Thomas, the bespoken series of seven sculptures Min were part of the exhibition ‘Space and Light’ in the breakfast room at number 12 of Sir John Soane’s house-museum in London.

At the invitation of Professors Ana Araujo and Takero Shimazaki, and student Alexandra Savtchenko-Belskaia, Cardillo presents his recent project in Rome at the conference House of Dust and supervised the field trip to Sicily, part of the Intermediate Unit 2 course of the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

Curator Hubertus Adam exhibited some publications on the House of Convexities and mentions the ‘Cardillo phenomenon’ in the ‘Building images. Photographie focusing on Swiss architecture’ exhibition at the Swiss Museum of Architecture in Basel.

At the invitation of Professor Ana Araujo, Cardillo recounted his computer-generated images in the ‘Light and Rendering’ lecture part of the BA Interior and Spatial Design course at Chelsea College of Arts and Design.

Journalist Ellie Stathaki exhibited the Lime and Limpid Green House model in the ‘Wallpaper* Future 30’ exhibition at the Chabot Museum for the IV International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam.

At the invitation of musician John Foxx, exhibition of a print of Ellipse 1501 House and the video ‘Tales of Light’ on four projects (later called ‘Houses for No One’) part of the exhibition on the artists he inspired at The Horse Hospital in London.

Curators Nikolai Fedotov and Sergei Kovaliov exhibited three boards on the projects Canto Sospeso, Let There Be More Light, Ellipse 1501 House and Birnbeck Island, part of the Artindex ‘Architectural Dialogue 04’ exhibition at the Central Communication Museum A.S. Popov of St. Petersburg.