Luca Trevisani (1979 Verona, Italy) lives and works between Milan and Berlin.
Trevisani’s work explores the unstable territories where sculpture abandons the rigidity of stone to become a biological, chemical, and temporal process. Rather than imposing a fixed form on matter, his research yields to its continuous flow of metamorphosis, decay, and regeneration. By orchestrating poetic collisions between organic elements and artificial constructs, Trevisani transforms the sculptural act into a philosophical reflection on the porosity of bodies, demonstrating that nature and culture are not separate realms, but a single ecosystem in permanent transition.
The most recent and radical synthesis of this methodology is the project Kotikeye, winner of the 13th edition of the Italian Council. Drawing from the study of prehistoric footprints preserved in the Toirano Caves, the artist developed a series of porous ceramic sculptures that investigate interspecies alliances between humans and animals, as well as the very concept of domestication. Through a series of itinerant performative banquets, these works function as genuine relational and sensory devices, inviting the shared act of consumption to restore touch to its role as a primal language.
Luca Trevisani’s work has been exhibited in numerous international institutions. Among his recent exhibitions and projects, a standout is the solo show Kotikeye at the Casa Museo Jorn in Albissola Marina, preceded by performative presentations at FRAC Corsica, the Académie Internationale de la Céramique in Geneva, the National Museum of Modern Art in Zagreb, and Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, prior to entering the permanent collection of the Museo Madre in Naples. His research has also been presented by, among others, the Museo del Novecento in Milan, MACRO and MAXXI in Rome, Museion in Bolzano, GAM in Turin, and the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Notes for dried and living bodies in Corso Umberto, Platea, Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, 2022Photo by Alberto Messina
Luca Trevisani, Spazio Lima, Milan, 2022
Wireless Fidelity, MAXXI L’Aquila, permanent
Daniel Day Lewis for Gestus, Teatrino Palazzo Grassi, 2021
In bocca, Pinksummer, Genoa, 2021
38° 11′ 13.32” N 13° 21′ 4.44” E 44° 24′ 27.4” N 8° 55′ 60.0” E, Pinksummer, Genoa, 2018
Clinamen, Pinksummer, Genoa, 2006
Luca Trevisani (1979 Verona, Italy) lives and works between Milan and Berlin.
EDUCATION
2005 Advanced Course in Visual Arts Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2003 BA in Drama, Art, and Music Studies (DAMS), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Bologna (110/110 with honors), Bologna, Italy
1997 High School Diploma in Science and Technology
PRIZES
2023 Italian Council (DGAAP), Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo
2023 exChange, Eurac research, Bozen, Italy
2021 Cantica21, Ministero della Cultura
2020 Premio Rotary, Artefiera, Bologna, Italy
2017 Italian Council, (DGAAP) Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività culturali e del Turismo
2015 Premio Artevisione Sky e Careof
2013 Premio Moroso
2011 Premio Ettore Fico
2010 Selected for premio Ars Viva Prize 2010/11
2009 Premio New York, Ministero degli Affari Esteri
2009 Premio Emerging Talents, La Strozzina, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
2008 Premio ACACIA, Milan, Italy
2007 Premio Furla per l’arte
2006 Selection for Premio Artegiovane, Milano e Torino incontrano l’Arte, Italy
RESIDENCIES
2023 Crespo Foundation, ArtNature/NatureArt, Glenkeen Garden, Ireland
2017 Belvedere Museum/ 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
2016 Viaggio in Sicilia #7, touring residency Planeta per l’Arte e il Territorio
2015 Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, France
2010 ISCP, New York, USA
2009 Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2008 Fondazione Buziol, Venice, Italy
TEACHING
The artist currently teaches at: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Design and Art, Bolzano; NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan; IUAV University, Venice
Past Teaching Experience: Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Bologna, Seminar Lecturer, Workshop Leader (2003–2006); Master’s Degree Program in Fashion Systems and Communication, University of Bologna, Rimini Campus (2004–2006); Cladem, Bachelor’s Degree Program in Fashion Design, Rimini (2005); NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan (2009); Carlo Zauli Museum, Faenza (September 2009); Accademie Eventuali, Bologna – MAMbo, Bologna; Furla Foundation, Bologna, Seminar Lecturer, Workshop Leader (April 2012).
SOLO SHOWS
2026
Kotikeye, Casa Jorn, Albissola, Italia
2025
Kotikeye, performances: FRAC Corsica, Oletta, France – IAC, Usine Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland – National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia – Casa Jorn, Albissola Marina, Italy
La Natura della Natura della Natura, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
2024
Luca Trevisani, Insalata di Fossili, COLLI, Foligno, Italy
2023
Del taglio, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Spazio Campo XS, Genoa, Italy
2022
Notes for dried and living body, Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, Italy
Flour Fossils of Lemon Flavor, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Luca Trevisani, Spazio Lima, Milan, Italy
Naturalmente la natura non esiste, Platea, Lodi, Italy
2021
In bocca, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy
C-ART-OFF-LINE, Casa Museo Palazzo Maffei, Verona, Italy
2019
Pièce Unique IV, Dream Republic, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
2018
38° 11′ 13.32” N 13° 21′ 4.44” E 44° 24′ 27.4” N 8° 55′ 60.0” E, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
Hot, Melange, Cologne, Germany
2017
Caldo, Base progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy
2016
Marselleria Milan, Italy
Cerchio, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy
2015
Possibilità, Vitrine, Gam, Turin, Italy
Grand Hotel ed des Palmes, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid, Spain
Grand Hotel ed des Palmes, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, France
Grand Hotel ed des Palmes, Museo Civico di Castelbuono, Palermo, Italy
2014
Glaucocamaleo, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
Placet experiri, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
2013
To the point of your fingers, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Macro, Rome, Italy
Fino alla punta delle tue dita, Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Private, Studio Geddes, Rome, Italy
2011
Interval Training, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Placet Experiri, ReMap KM III, Athens, Greece
2010
NIMK / Montevideo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lo spazio è un giardino da coltivare, (special project for MACRO), MACRO, Rome, Italy
2009
Identity is a cloud, a cura di D. Lotta, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italia
The truth is that the truth changes, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
2008
Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy
Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Luca Trevisani / Gianni Pettena, Sistemi binari.1, Neoncampobase, Bologna, Italy
2006
Clinamen, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Mediterranea. Visioni di un mare antico e complesso, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Per grazia ricevuta, Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro, Neaples, Italy
Vibrant Matter, Fondazione Bonollo, Vicenza, Italy
2024
Diorama – Generation Earth, MAN, Nuoro, Italy
The Glenkeen Variations, Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
The Morbid Palace, Pinksummer at former Church of the Guardian Angel, Genoa, Italy
2023
Nova Express: Avvento dei desideri e dei diritti, Ciacca Levi, Milan, Italy
Postcard from Genova. An exhibition in collaboration with Pinksummer, Wouters Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Dimensions of Civilization, Art Museum of Sichuan, Chongqing, China
Panpestato, Panorama L’Aquila – ITALICS Art
Bojan Šarčević & Luca Trevisani, Pinksummer goes to Milan, Sanfermosette, Milan, Italy
2022
No Neon No cry, Mambo, Bologna, Italy
Eclettica!, MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
Mutaforma. Mutazioni ceramiche del codice CZ, Alchemilla, Palazzo Vizzani, Bologna, Italy
2021
Gestus, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Friendship. Nature. Culture. 44 Years of the Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Point of Equilibrium. Thought Space Light from Toyo Ito to Ettore Spalletti, MAXXI L’Aquila, Italy
Artists’ Library: 1989–2021, Museo MACRO, Rome, Italy
Italian Twist, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy
Come pesci nell’acqua, curated by G. Verzotti, Villa Nigra, Miasino, Palazzo Tornielli Ameno, Italy
2020
Real Italy, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Material Matters, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
La forma della terra Fondazione Malvina Menegaz per le Arti e le Culture, Castelbasso, Italy
2019
To be played, Giardino Giusti, Verona, Italy
Negativer Raum, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Equilibrium. Un’idea per la scultura italiana, Mazzoleni, London, UK
2018
Low Form, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Into the wild, Kunst Merano arte, Merano, Italy
Classic Reloaded, Rethinking Classicism in contemporary Italian art, Villa Audi Mosaic, Beirut, Lebanon – Kunst Merano arte Museum, Merano, Italy – Museo Nazionale del Bardo, Tunisi, Tunisia
– WunderMoRE, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Raymond, Grand Hotel et des Palmes, Palermo, Italy
Raymond controfigura, Museo civico di Castelbuono, Palermo, Italy
2017
Lost in Narration, MAC, Belfast, Ireland
Hämatli & Patrae , Museion, Bozen, Italy
In between, the library as a medium, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Deposito d’arte italiana presente, Turin, Italy
Global Learning, Maga, Gallarate, Italy
Solo Figli, Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna, Italy
2016
In Retrospect: Good & Plenty, Too, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Process, Performance, Presence, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
XVI Quadriennale, Rome, Italy
Urban Mining, XXV Premio Gallarate, Maga, Gallarate, Italy
The Camera’s Blind Spot III, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna, Italy
Avviso di Garanzia, FuoriUso 2016, Pescara, Italy
Che il vero possa confutare il falso, Siena, Italy
HAEMOLACRIA. The complete words of Marcel BloodTears Artistic literary homage to Marcel Broodthaers, Laboratorio del dubbio, Turin, Italy
Terra provocata, Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, Italy
2015
Function follows vision, vision follows reality, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The camera‘s blind spot II, Extra City_Kunsthal Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Exo-evolution, Zkm, Zentrum für kunst und medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Comunità Italia, Milan Triennale, Italy
La Scrittura degli Echi, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Un museo ideale, Museo del novecento, Milan, Italy
Growing roots, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Vanità/Vanitas – Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
Collecting for Tomorrow: New Works at Museion – MUSEION, Bozen, Italy
Andy Warhol sul comò – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
Notyetseeninberlin – Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
2014
Conceptual & Applied III, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
We have Never Have Been Modern, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, South Korea
Vanitas, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
Krobylos, un groviglio di segni, drawing Biennale, Rimini, Italy
2013
Bestiario Contemporaneo, Museo di Storia Naturale, Venice, Italy
From Albers to Warhol to (now), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy
AB, by Gabriele de Sanctis, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
2012
Premio Italia , MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Dior seen by, Milan Triennale, Italy
D’apres Giorgio, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa De Chirico, Rome, Italy
Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt?, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Gli artisti italiani della collezione ACACIA, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Periplo della scultura italiana, MUSMA, Matera, Italy
Berlin. Status (1), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Live Arts Week / Gianni Peng, Bologna, Italy
Epipedon, curated by L. Pratesi, CO2, Rome, Italy
Casabianca, Bologna, Italy
2011
Suspence, curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Arabella Natalini, EX3, Florence, Italy
ITaliens, curated by A.Pace e M. Sorbello, Italian Embassy in Berlin, Germany
2010
SI – Sindrome Italiana, la jeune création artistique italienne, curated by Yves Aupetitallot, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
Ampersand, Daimler Kunstsammlung, Berlin, Germany
High ideals & CRazy Dreams, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
The Berlin Box, CCA Antrax, Mallorca, Spain
Fuori centro, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Elogio della semplicità, curated by G. Verzotti, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy
Linguaggi e Sperimentazioni, curated by G. Verzotti, MART, Rovereto, Italy
ARS – Artists in Residence Show, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
The bearable lightness of being – the metaphor of the space 2, Arsenale Novissimo, Biennale Architettura 2010, Venice, Italy
La Scultura Italiana del XXI secolo, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
For Istance, curated by L. Bruni, SUN, studio rosso, Florence, Italy
2009
Evidence of the Paranormal, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, USA
Abc, Berlin, Academie die Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Up Against The Wall, curated by R. Pinto, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
Cui Prodest ?, curated by F. Stocchi, New Galerie de Francia, Paris, France
Arrivals & Departures Europe, curated by A. Bruciati, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Fuorisalone 2009, Plusdesign, Milan, Italy
Spaciux, curated by D. Lotta, M. Arfiero, P. Gallio, Lambretta, Milan, Italy
Non Voltarti Adesso/Don’t Look Now, Cà Pesaro, Venice, Italy
Nothing but a Show, curated by A. Ascari, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy
Una collezione trasversale, curated by F. Cavallucci, Spazio ALT, Alzano Lombardo, Italy
Emerging talents, CCCS Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy
Through the looking glass, curated by C. Alinovi, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
Lo sguardo di Giano, curated by F. Stocchi, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2008
Manifesta 7, curated by A. Budak, Rovereto, Italy
50 Moon Of Saturn, acurated by D. Birnbaum, Turin Triennale, Italy
Biennale di Sydney, curated by C. C. Bakargiev, Sydney Australia Online venue
Sguardo periferico, corpo collettivo, curated by C. Diserens, Museion, Bozen, Italy
…a lady’s shoe lost in the grass, curated by A. Grulli, Italian Cultural Institute C.M. Lerici Italia – Stockholm, Sweden
XV Quadriennale, Rome, Italy
Sporgersi prego, Lange & Pult, Zurich, Switzerland
Paperweight, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Notebook n° 0, curated by D. Lotta and M. Arfiero, Neon fdv, Milan, Italy
Soft Cell. Dinamiche nello spazio in Italia, GC.AC Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
2007
The space of your future, MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
Looking for the border, Cultuurcentrum, Strombeek, De Garage, Mechelen, curated by Luk Lambrecht, Roberto Pinto and Koen Leemans, Fondazione Stelline, Milano, Italia
On mobility, Premio Furla per l’arte, curated by C. Parisi and G.Maraniello, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy
The importance of not being seen, curated by Luca Cerizza, Cafe Moskau for Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
In dialogo, curated by M. R. Sossai, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
Bellavita, New Chinatown Barbershop, Los Angeles, California, USA
Albedo: a new perspective in italian moving images, curated by A. Bruciati, GC.AC, Monfalcone, Italy; XII International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Wroclaw, Poland; Teatro Junghans, Venice, Italy
videoREPORT ITALIA: 04_05, curated by A. Bruciati, MMSU, Rijeka; V 07 – Venice VideoArt Fair, Venice, Italy
2006
L’immagine del vuoto. Una linea di ricerca nell’arte in Italia 1958-2006, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
First Sudden Gone the One. First Sudden Back, Project 133, London, UK
Workscape-Cantiere d’autore, Biennale d’architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Dialogo II – Athanasios Argianas, Tobias Putrih, Luca Trevisani, curated by S. Menegoi, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
videoREPORT ITALIA: 04_05, curated by A. Bruciati, GC.AC, Monfalcone (GO); MAN, Nuoro, Italy
Cortocircuito: coincidenze ed incontri segnici, curated by M. Tagliaferro, ex Palazzo Enel, Novara, Italy
Manomettere, Galleria Comunale d’arte contemporanea, curated by D. Lotta, Castel S. Pietro terme, Bologna, Italy
Tracce di un seminario, curated by A. Daneri and R. Pinto, Assab One, Milan, Italy
Il vuoto al centro, curated by E. De Cecco and T. Ponziani, Montesilvano, Pescara, Italy
Il vento dal settecento all’arte contemporanea, Fondazione Torino Tremusei, Castagneto Po, Italy
2005
Punto d’estensione, curated by G. Molinari, AR/Ge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bozen, Italy
Anigma, 2nd Novosibirsk International Festival. Digital Imaging and Animation, curated by M. Gorni and A. Martynov, Novosibirsk, Russia
Padiglione Italia out of biennale, Flash art museum, Trevi, Italy
Report, Villa delle Rose, curated by C. Parisi, Galleria d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Estetica della Resistenza, curated by R. Pinto, ex Ticosa, Como, Italy
No location relocation, Galleria Comunale d’arte contemporanea, Castel S. Pietro terme, Bologna, Italy
Architettura nel secondo Novecento in Emilia-Romagna, curated by M. Lupano and P. Orlandi, Galleria d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2004
ad’ a, curated by R. Daolio, Imola, Bologna, Italy
Enpowerment/ Nazione Italia, curated by M.Scotini, Genoa, Italy
Me without you, Biagiotti arte contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Assab One 2004. Curated by R. Pinto, Milan, Italy
Chance, T293, Neaples, Italy
2003
Collaudi, curated by D. Lotta and M. Altavilla, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy
In Movimento, curated by G. Scardi, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MAXXI Collection, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Farnesina Collection, Ministero per gli Affari Esteri, Rome, Italy
Museion Collection, Bozen, Italy
Macro Museum Collection, Rome, Italy
Villa Adriana e Villa d’Este Collection, Tivoli, Rome, Italy
Museo del 900 Collection, Milan, Italy
Museo Civico di Castelbuono Collection, Palermo, Italy
ACACIA Collection, Milan, Italy
Luca Trevisani
Walking Loaves, 2023
NERO
Pages: 230
Language: Italy
ISBN: 978 88 8056 1927
Luca Trevisani
Via Roma 398. Palermo , 2018
Humboldt Books
Pages: 151
Language: English
ISBN: 978 8899385477
Luca Trevisani
Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, 2015
NERO
Pages: 132
Language: English / Spanish
ISBN: 978-8897503569
Luca Trevisani
Luca Trevisani, 2014
Snoeck
Pages: 319
Language: English
ISBN: 978 3864421068
Luca Trevisani
Water Ikebana. Stories About Solid and Liquid Things , 2014
Humboldt Books
Pages: 216
Language: Italian
ISBN: 978 8890841866
Luca Trevisani
Museo Carlo Zauli. Residenza d’artista. 8ª edizione Workshop di ceramica nell’arte contemporanea , 2009
Silvana Editoriale
Pages: 131
Language: Italian / English
ISBN: 978 8836615964
Luca Trevisani
The Effort Took Its Tools, 2008
Argobooks
Language: English
ISBN: 978 3981228427
