CV / bio

Luca Pozzi (1983) is a visual artist and cross-disciplinary mediator.

Inspired by the worlds of art, physics, multi-messenger cosmology and computer science, after graduating with a degree in painting at the Accademy of fine art of Brera in Milan and specializing in computer graphics and systems, he collaborates with visionary scientific communities, including Loop Quantum Gravity (PI), Compact Muon Solenoid (CERN) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (INFN, NASA).

Studying quantum gravity, cosmology and particle physics, the theoretical research is converted in a series of hybrid installations characterized by magnetized sculptures, levitating objects, VR/AR experiences and a performative use of photography based on a strange feeling of frozen time and multi-dimensionality.

His work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy and abroad, and his pieces are part of prestigious public and private collections, including the Mart in Rovereto, the MAMbo in Bologna, the MEF in Turin, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs La Farnesina and the Archive of Spatial Aesthetics and Praxis of New York. He is known for his photographic series “Supersymmetric Partner”, documenting real jumps in front of the Renaissance paintings of Paolo Veronese, and for his use of electromagnetic levitation technologies in futuristic installations such as “Schroedinger’s cat through Piero Della Francesca influence “(Museo Marino Marini, 2010), “9 Churches 9 Columns” (Moscow Biennale, 2011) and “The Star Platform” (Marrakech Biennale, 2012). In 2013, he invented the device of light drawing by remotely “Oracle” (DLD, Haus der Kunst, Monaco); 2015 was the year of the show “The Messengers of Gravity” (MEF, Turin), and 2017 he creates the cross-disciplinary “Blazing Quasi-Stellar Object” project (CERN, Geneva). At the same time, he attended “Documenta 14” as part of the “Eternal Internet Brotherhood community” (Kassel).

Subsequently he worked on immersive site-specific installations in historical environments (The Grandfather Platform – Sala Carracci, Palazzo Magnani, Bologna, Art City, 2018). In 2019 and during the pandemic crisis from Covid-19 he deepens the tools of augmented reality with the “Dark Collection Brera” and “Dark Collection Sistine-Chapel” series, while in 2020 his first work in Virtual Reality “Rosetta Mission 2020” was the winner of the European fund ERC An-Iconology (History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images) of the Statale University of Milan. In September 2021 he inaugurates the Hyperinascimento project at the FMAV (Fondazione Modena Arti Visive) focused on the definition of a new hyper-technological humanism, while in 2022 it is part of the 23rd Milan Triennale “UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS” curated by ESA astrophysics Ersilia Vaudo.

He is the winner of the VDA Award for digital Arts in 2023.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2024

“Shelter Island / Meta-Conference for Peace and Multi-Platform Exhibition” Museo M9 and Galleria Marina Bastianello.

2023

“The Messages of Gravity”, curated by Stefania Rispoli and Sergio Risaliti, Museo del

Novecento, Florence.

2022

“Dragon’s Egg Trilogy”, curated by Manuela Valentini at TAG Airport, during Artcity Bologna.

2021

–“Hyperinascimento” curated by Lorenzo Respi, FMAV (Fondazione Modena Arti Visive), Modena.

-“Rosetta Mission” curated byThe Swan Station, Elisabetta Modena, Sofia Pirandello, and produced da An-Icon in collaboration with Università Statale at Casa Degli Artisti, Milan.

2020

-”Arkanians” curated by Fondazione Elpis and Galleria Continua, Mezzano di Primiero, Trentino.

-”The Dark Collection Sistine Chapel” curated byThe Swan Station, Vatican Museums, Vatican City.

2019 –”The Dark Collection” a cura di The Swan Station, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

-“Degrees of Freedom” curated by Francesca Campana, at Contemporary Cluster, Rome.

– “Mikey Explosion” curated by Milena Becci, at Sondare L’altrove, Pesaro.

2018 – “The Grandfather Platform” curated by Maura Pozzati, Unicredit Italia and Fondazione del Monte, Quadreria di Palzzo Magnani, Bologna.

2017 – “Blazing Quasi-Stellar Object” curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi -INTERNET SAGA, in collaboration with Fermi Telescope, INFN and Nasa at CERN, Geneve.

2016 – “Discovery & Premonitions” curated by Carson Chan at Alexander Levy Gallery, Berlin.

2015 -“The Messengers of Gravity” curated by Gianluigi Ricuperati at MEF (Museo Ettore Fico), Turin.

-“Detctors”, at FL Gallery, Milan.

2014 -“Instagram Time Paradox”, performance at Museo del Novecento, Milan, Hocgallery.

2013 -“The Messages of Gravity”, curated by Mario Margiani at The Grimmuseum, Berlin. -“Oracle”, Riot Studio, Naples.

2012 -“Waiting 4 Oracle”, curated by Emanuele Catellani, Barriera Foundation, Turin.

-“Waiting 4 Orcle [1560-2012]”, Kabe Contemporary, Miami, FL, USA.

2011 -“Loops” C.I.S.C. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientìficas, Madrid.

2010 -“U-Drawings”, curated by Carson Chan, Galleria Federico Luger, Milan.

-“O.S.O.B.E. [Other Side Of Brane Experiment]”, Complesso Monumentale di Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna.

-“A.E.W.O.M. [Le strabisme du dragon] Aleph Exeriment Without Mass”, curated by Alberto Salvadori, Museo Marino Marini, Florence.

2009 -“M. [Southern California – Italy] 1995/2009”,  curated by Valerio Borgonuovo, Galleria Astuni, Bologna/Pietrasanta.

-“W.O.G.U.[Pennsylvania-Italy] 1983/2009”, curated by Valerio Borgonuovo, Federico Luger, Milan.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2024 – L’opera d’arte nell’epoca dell’AI, curated by Chiara Canali, Davide Sarchioni and Rebecca Pedrazzi, Parma.

2022 -“UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS” 23°Triennale di Milano, curated by Ersilia Vaudo, Milan.

– “La visione di Leonardo”, curated by Be Part, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica, Milan.

2020 -71° Premio Michetti, curated by Guido Molinari, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla.

2019 – “There is no wind on the moon”, Contemporary Cluster, Rome.

-”Hypergames”, Galleria Federico Luger, Milan.

-”Contemporanee/Contemporanei”, curated by Denis Isaia, Università di Verona.

-”Da Guarene all’Etna” curated by Filippo Maggia, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene.

-”Materialize” curated by State Studio, Berlin.

-”Living in the Chtuhlucene” curated by Valentino Catricalà,Embassy Cultural Center, New Delhi.

2018 – “Do Disturb”, curated by Vittoria Matarrese, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

2017 – ”DOCUMENTA 14”, participation at the Eternal Internet Brotherhood, with Angelo Plessas Andreas Angelidakis, Miriam J. Carranza, Bill Kouligas, Caspar Jade Heinemann, Kolbeinn Hugi, Stephanie Kretowicz, Imaad Majeed.

-Nautilus Part I, Curated by Zoe De Luca at Marselleria, Milan.

2016 -”Friends Only, Internet is Present”, curated by Karolien Buurman and  Florian Mecklenburg and Very Very Contemporary.

-”Selfmanagment” Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna.

-“A Mystical Staircase” curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi at 63rd-77 Steps, online Exhibition.

-“Rilevamenti 1” CAMUSAC, curated by Bruno Corà, Cassino.

2015 -“NOTHING ENDURES BUT CHANGE”, curated by Chefanie Greimel & Johannar T. Wallenborn at Lehrter Siebzehn, Berlin.

-“Free Things”, curated by Jack Fisher, On line exhibition based in Leeds, UK.

2014 -“One step ahead moving backwards”, curated by Elisa R. Linn, Lennart Wolff and Hicham Khalidi, Leap, Berlin.

-“Me, Me, Mirror”, curated by Kathrin Oberrauch, Hariviera Gallery, Tel Aviv.

-“Fata Morgana”, curated by Antonia Alampi, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna.

-“Group show II”, Alexander Levy Gallery, Berlin.

-“Italian Project -1″, Dimora Artica, Milan.

-“The Ñewpressionism” Swiss Institute, Milan.

2013 -“Open Monument”, curated by Marta Jecu, Bethanien Kunstraum, Berlin; “Italian stories”, Bologna art fair, Bologna.

2012 -“Marrakech Biennale, Higher Atlas”, curated by Nadim Samman and Carson Chan, Teatre Royal, Marrakech; Morocco.

2011 -“T.O.E [theory of everything]”, Centre d’art Bastille, Grenoble.

-“Focus on Contemporary Intalian Artist”, Collezione Permanente; MAMBO, Bologna.

-Broken Fall, Organic, curated by Alessandra Pace and Govanni Jovane; Galleria Astuni, Bologna.

2010 -“La Scultura Italiana del XXI sec.”, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan.

-“2nd Moscow International Biennale For Young Art ’Qui Vive?”, The White Hall, Moscow.

-“Languages and Experimentations, Young artists in a contemporary collection”, curated by Giorgio Verzotti and Hans Ulrich Obrist; MART Rovereto, Italy.

-“Atmosphere”; Galerie Pangée, Montreal, Quebec.

2009 -“La différence?”, C.A.B. Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble.

-Sensibili Energie, Galleria d’arte contemporanea, Arezzo.

2008 2007 -“Situazionisola, A New Urbanism”, Isola Art Center, Milan.

 

EDUCATION & RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

2022 AI4FUTURE residency, creative Europe media Programme in collaboration with MEET.

2021 An-Iconology ERC: (History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images) Statale University, Milan.

2014 Eternal Internet Brotherhood Residency, Dead Sea, Israel-Palestine (http://eternalinternetbrother­hood.tumblr.com).

2012 Guest at The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo Ontario, Canada and at The Penn State University, State College, USA.

2011 Mazama Residency /2011, Mazama Washington State, United States

(www.mazamaresidency.org).

2011 Loop Quantum Gravity Seminary, C.I.S.C. / Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cienfìcas, Madrid;

2010 Program | initiative for Art+Architecture Collaborations, Berlin

(www.programonline.de).

2010 Guest at The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Berlin.

2009 Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, Centre International d’ accueil et d’echanges des Rè­collets. Paris (www.denafoundationd.com).

2007 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Painting.

2005 Albe Steiner Institute, Milan, 3D modeling and Informatic Systems.

GRANTS & AWARDS

2023 VDA Var Digital Art Award, Winner.

2019 Special mention, Comune di Milano, public sculpture prize Leonardo Da vinci.

2012 First prize, Ettore Fico award, Turin.

2012 Finalist at Talent Prize, MACRO, Rome.

2012 Special mention, Premio Moroso.

2011 First Prize, Icona, Art-Verona.

2009 Finalist at Premio Cairo, Milan.

2006 First Prize, Premio Internazionale Scultura Piemonte, Regione Piemonte.