Marco Angelini

Marco Angelini (Rome, 1971) lives and works between Rome and Warsaw. A graduate in Sociology, he has focused his attention on the study of the urban phenomenon, exploring the cultures and subcultures that take shape in contemporary metropolises. Cities, with their layers and contradictions, represent for the artist a privileged setting where unconscious drives confront the opportunities offered by technology, becoming an ideal habitat for the paradoxes of human existence.
His artistic research spans multiple themes: from the relationship between nature and technology, to the concepts of time and memory; from interreligious dialogue to the dimension of the sacred; and to the intersections between art and science, energy and sustainability. Abstraction proves to be the most suitable expressive form to convey a fluid poetics, in constant transformation, that leaves space for subjective interpretation and the perception of multiple realities.
Angelini does not seek to direct the viewer’s gaze, but rather to stimulate an intimate encounter with the work, which becomes a mirror of the soul and a device for inner projection. The artist attributes a strong social value to art, capable of generating awareness and opening new horizons of com...

Marco Angelini’s works are part of various private and public collections, including the Fondazione Roma (Museo del Corso) and the Sleńdziński Gallery in Białystok.
Among his exhibitions, the following are noteworthy: his participation in the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011; solo exhibitions in 2011 at Galleria XX1 in Warsaw; in 2015 at the Carlo Bilotti Museum in Rome, curated by Raffaella Salato; in 2016 in Szczecin (Dom Kultury 13muz / 11th MFSW inSPIRACJE / Oksydan); in 2017 at Museion in Bolzano; in 2018 at the Museum-Laboratory of Contemporary Art at Sapienza University of Rome, curated by Raffaella Salato; in 2019 at the Mattatoio in Testaccio, Rome, curated by Giusy Emiliano; also in 2019, on the occasion of the 15th Giornata del Contemporaneo, at the Bastion 23 - Palais des Raïs Museum in Algiers; in 2020 at Borghini Contemporary Art Gallery in Rome, curated by Giusy Emiliano; in 2022 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago de Chile, curated by Raffaele Gavarro; in 2022 at the Museum of Industrial Heritage in Bologna; in 2023 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Marseille; in 2024 at Test Gallery in Warsaw (Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury), curated by Jan Kozaczuk; in 2024 at YAY Gallery in Baku, organized by the Italian Em...