FEDERICO ARANI
b.1995. Rome, Italy
Currently living and working between London and Rome.
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Federico Arani’s multidisciplinary work spans sculpture, painting, sound and site-specific installations, as well as curating exhibitions and community-based projects.
Rooted in the study of beliefs-systems, archeology, proto-sciences and evolutionary biology, Federico shapes an ecosystem of hybrid fragments and transmuted presence - footprints of a decayed, speculated elsewhere that defies straightforward interpretations.
Salvaged materials, archaeological finds and parts of old equipment and machinery meld with archaic and alchemical human practices such as ceramic and electroplating in a continuous hybridization and mutual corruption, blurring the line between what is found and what is made, between function and speculation.
Thus, uncanny settings and unstable images come to life: impossible and abandoned needs for communication, connection, protection and discovery - as if he wanted to unearth lost knowledge, an adrift form of primeval language, in an attempt to process and understand collective traumas and human fears and desires.
Federico is also co-founder of the studio and artist-run space Porto Simpatica in Rome and founder and curator of Scoppio Project in Umbria, Italy.
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EDUCATION:
2020-23 MFA Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2014-18 BA Painting and Visual Arts at NABA, Milan, IT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
⤳2025 (forthcoming) (Solo Show) curated by Micol Teora and Stefano Giuri / TOAST, Manifattura Tabacchi, Firenze, IT
⤳2025 Ford Festa, curated by Andrea Elia Zanin & Ilaria Leonetti / Porto Simpatica, Rome, IT
⤳2025 To My Student, curated by Irene Angenica and Giulia Gaibisso / Litografia Bulla, Rome, IT
⤳2025 Falene, curated by Zoë De Luca / Limbo Contemporary, Milan, IT
⤳2025 Salón ACME 12 / Mexico City, CDMX
⤳2025 (Solo Show) Study for Dowsing / Commonage, London, UK
⤳2024 Dumping Ground, curated by Marietta Moor, Andrew Kernan and Noëlle Turner / Hypha Studios, London, UK
⤳2024 Transition Landscape, curated by Davide Allieri / Bolle, Bergamo, IT
⤳2024 Great Expectation, curated by Giulia Gaibisso / Spazio Mensa, Rome, IT
⤳2024 Annual Sadness, curated by Claudia Rose / The Organ Factory, London, UK
⤳2023 Soldi e Paura, curated by Micol Teora and Sebastiano Bottaro / Spazio Mensa, Rome, IT
⤳2023 (Duo-Show) stye in your eye / The Split Gallery, London, UK
⤳2023 The Perf. End, curated by Arnold Braho and Camilla Giaccio / Via Privata Passo Pordoi, Milan, IT
⤳2023 Graduate Degree Show / Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
⤳2023 Burning Desire | Danuser & Ramirez Gallery, London, UK
⤳2023 Eviction Notice!, curated by Akshay Bhoan / Pocket Trap Contemporary, London, UK
⤳2022 Slade Interim Show / Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
⤳2022 Scoppio Terzo, curated by Federico Arani w/ Arianna Tremolanti / Scoppio Acquasparta (TR), IT
⤳2022 Mal d’Uve, curated by Scania and Bea Roggero Fossati / Nizza Monferrato, IT
⤳2021 Scoppio Secondo, curated by Federico Arani / Scoppio Acquasparta (TR), IT
⤳2021 Guest Artists Section - ReA! Art Fair, curated by Artoday Projects / Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
⤳2021 DucatoPrize 2021 / Volumnia, Piacenza, IT
⤳2020 Scoppio / Scoppio Acquasparta (TR) IT
⤳2019 De Architectura, curated by Andrea M. Bassan / Galleria Moitre, Turin, IT
⤳2018 Premio Città di Treviglio, curated by Sara Fontana / Spazio Sala Crociera, Treviglio (BG), IT
⤳2018 Itaca non è Nulla, curated by Andrea M. Bassan / Spazio Angur, Milan, IT
⤳2017 FOUR, curated by Emanuele Tira and Mariachiara Baccanelli / Fondazione A. Pini, Milan, IT
⤳2017 My body can’t hold your gaze, curated by Adrian Paci and Bianca Baroni / Fondazione A. Pini, Milan, IT
⤳2017 Itaca 2, Studi festival #3, curated by Andrea M. Bassan / Studio G. Feltrinelli + Cararmati Studio, Milan, IT
⤳2017 The Great Learning, curated by Marco Scotini / Triennale di Milano, Milan IT
⤳2016 Itaca, curated by Andrea M. Bassan / Studio G. Feltrinelli, Milan, IT
⤳2016 Era Pacifica Pare, curated by Careof and Marco Belfiore / Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
GRANTS ANS AWARDS:
⤳Gilbert Bayes Trust Grant, UK, 2023
⤳Ducato Prize, IT, 2021 / Finalist
⤳Premio Città di Treviglio, IT, 2018 / Finalist
⤳17° Ricas Prize, IT, 2016 / Finalist
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS:
⤳Lab For New Imaginations, workshop, MACRO, Rome, IT, 2023
⤳UVA Artist-in-residence - Tenants, curated by Scania e Bea Roggero Fossati, IT, 2022
⤳Era Pacifica Pare, workshop curated by Careof, Milan, IT 2016