FEDERICO ARANI
b.1995. Rome, Italy
Currently living and working between London and Rome.
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Federico Arani’s multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, painting, and site-specific interventions, as well as curating exhibitions and community-based projects. Influenced by the study of proto-sciences, sci-fi literature, archeology and evolutionary biology, Federico shapes an ecosystem of hybrid tools and transmuted presences — footprints of a decayed, post-societal elsewhere that gaze upon us from above, cautiously revealing itself, but never fully graspable.
Salvaged materials, archaeological finds, and parts of old equipment and machinery meld with archaic and alchemical human practices such as ceramic and metal forming in a continuous hybridization and mutual corruption, blurring the line between what is found and what is made.
Thus, uncanny settings and unstable images come to life: impossible and abandoned desires for connection, protection, preservation, and discovery — as if he wanted to unearth lost knowledge, an adrift form of primeval language, in an attempt to process and understand personal traumas and human fears and anxieties.
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) Electrify Limbo, curated by Eleni Kalara, PPC Power Plant Agios Georgios, Athens, Greece
⤳2025 (forthcoming) (Solo Show) curated by Micol Teora and Stefano Giuri / TOAST, Manifattura Tabacchi, Firenze, 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