Johannes Bosisio

Johannes Bosisio (born in Cavalese, Italy, in 1994) lives and works in London. He studied at Cademia in Ortisei before completing his BA at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (2014–2020), including an Erasmus period at Chelsea College of Arts (2018–2019), and later obtained an MA from the Royal College of Art (2020–2022).

Central to his research is the manipulation of surface: polished metallic appearances are interrupted by scratches, abrasions, ruptures, and deposits, generating objects and images that register change as both material condition and conceptual field. His use of heterogeneous materials, including steel, synthetic compounds, pigments, adhesives, and industrial residues, expands painting into a spatial language where surface becomes sculptural and narrative.

His years in Berlin and London have also informed a broader reflection on cultural hybridity, displacement, and the coexistence of contrasting visual systems, while references to cyborg theory, dystopian imaginaries, and speculative literature inform an ongoing investigation into the relationship between mechanical structures and human identity.

In 2025, he presented Silent Forces at Fertile, Brescia, and participated in Età Étas at Hofburg Brixen Diocesan Museum. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Always turning at Galleria Doris Ghetta (2024), Another Self at Night Café, London (2024), It Is Not Made of Mud And Cannot Dream Of Returning to Dust at Brownie Project, Shanghai (2024), the duo exhibition Welcome to my Melancholy at Supermarket Gallery, Tokyo (2023), and SHARP HYBRID CRASH at Galleria Doris Ghetta (2022).

His work has been presented internationally in exhibitions such as Prisma Art Prize in Rome (2025), Do Cyborgs Dream of Electric Sheep in Berlin (2024), Trespassing Threshold at ZÉRUÌ, London (2024), Junger Berliner Salon in Munich (2023), and Slides at Wonespace, Shenzhen (2023).

In 2025, he is also artist in residence at Palazzo Monti.

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