Pietro Lugaroresearcher, artist, curator
learner, gatherer, keeper
BioCVborn in Genoa
based in Berlin
co-founder and curator at Palazzo Bronzo
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P.L.Ontogeny and Abstraction2025_ongoing
P.L., Sena Doğan, Lilli-Carlotta Grube
Under the Gaze
2025
P.L., Franco Ferrari, Alessandro Queirolo-u/-dys2025
P.L. & Alessandro Mac-Nelly
ACV (Algorithmic Cultural Vandalism)
2024_ongoing
P.L., Engy El-Shenawy
Cuteness2024_ongoing
Palazzo BronzoIperromantico2024
P.L. & Luca Gerry ConteHestia2023
P.L.
Larsen - trying to dig a decent grave
2022
P.L.mefistofeledocumenta (2014-2021)
2021
Revolving Doors, mefistofeledocumenta, Federico ZuraniIl Caro Piotre2021
P.L.
Il giardino dei sentieri che si biforcano
2020
mefistofeledocumentaIl Vuoto al Centro del Monte2020
mefistofeledocumenta
Sidùn
2019
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Education
M.A. Design and Computation
UdK / TU Berlin (DE)
2023 – current
M.A. in Sculpture: Visual Art Languages and Production Technologies
Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino (IT)
2019 – 2022
B.A. in Sculpture
Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara (IT)
2015 – 2019
Member of The New Centre for Research & Practice
2025 – current
International para-academic research network in critical theory and the arts.
Employment Research Assistant at Design and Computation / New Practice in Art and Technology
UdK / TU, Berlin (DE)
2024 – 2025
Curator / Project Coordinator
Palazzo Bronzo (NPO), Genoa (IT)
2022 – current
Production Assistant (Internship-based position)
Petrit Halilaj Studio, Berlin, DE
2023 – 2024
Gallery Intern
Tekè Gallery, Carrara (IT)
2018 – 2019
ReferralsPalazzo Bronzo
Salita di Mascherona 18r, 16123 GE
crampodigesso@gmail.com
Academic contact
p.lugaro@udk-berlin.com
lugaro@campus.tu-berlin.de
Skills
I can think
Read
Cook
Write
Draw
Sculpt
Install complex stuff and exhibitions
Build complex stuff
Use the computer
Do books
Project events
Walk for a long time with headphones
Collect little and big magic objects
Talk about metaphysics
Talk with children about life
Recently I’ve been learning how to build an AI model
Exhibitions
(upcoming)
Thresholds of Remembering, at 48 Stunden Neukölln, curated by Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya, 2026
u-/dys-, as curator and project manager, Palazzo Bronzo (Genoa), research-based group exhibition on contemporary psychogeography and alternative temporalities, 2025
With ACV (Algorithmic Cultural Vandalism)
. at Bauhaus Temporary Archive, Berlin,
exhibition and four-day workshop, part of the Bauhaus Werkstattprogramm, 2025
. at LNDW Magdeburg,
exhibition and workshop,
Felicia Festival, 2025
. exhibition as part of DA Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2025
. at TTT2025, conference participation, Ljubljana, 2025
. at Falling Walls Foundation,
exhibition and workshop, part of Berlin Science Week, Berlin, 2024
. at Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft, Berlin, 2024
. at Virtual Matters, group show, part of Ars Electronica, Linz, 2024
. at Rundgang, UdK Berlin, 2024
Under the Gaze, research-based project and interactive installation realised within the Studio Module of MA Design & Computation, realised with Sena Doğan and Lilli-Carlotta Grube, exhibited at My Computational Romance, New Practice, Berlin, 2024
Dissezione di un sogno, sonic performance with Ludovica Dalla at Chapelle du Grand Hospice, Brussels, 2024
Iperromantico, events review and book release at Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, 2024
LIKES & LAMENTS I, month-long exhibition project curated by Young Agamben, secret location, Milan, 2024
cute film.mp4, video projection at BAITO – Area Eventi Ex Inceneritore, Genoa, 2024
Entangled, group show at New Practice, Berlin, 2023
Vesta, residency restitution at Garage OST, Leipzig, 2023
PSYOP, film projection at Urbino Film Festival, Urbino, 2023
Moyocoyatzin III, performance at Vietato Ballare Festival, Genoa, 2022
Recanto, performance with Guia Bertorello, Genoa, 2022
Orda, performance with Jacopo Benassi, Pontremoli, 2022
Neon Genesis, collective show at Palazzo Bronzo, Genoa, curated by Federica Balletto, 2022
Purge the world of bourgeois sickness, collective show and solo performance at Guidi & Schoen Gallery, Genoa, 2022
Anitra/Cuniggiu,
live performance
at Divago Festival II, Via del Campo, Genoa, curated by MIXTA, 2021
Un retrovisore su Babilonia, retrospective exhibition on mefistofeledocumenta at Sampierdarena Patagruelica, Genoa, curated by MIXTA, 2021
Prima di nascere, performance for Carrara Marble Week, Carrara, 2021
La pepita bollente, artistic residency in Canavaccio, Urbino, live performance and installations, 2021
Il Caro Piotre, performance at Libera Collina di Castello, Genoa, 2021
Moyocoyatzin I & II, performer for Marco-Augusto Basso at Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, 2021
Eldorada, live performance at Chiesa Riformata Svizzera, Genoa, curated by Mefistofeledocumenta, 2020
Festival, residency and happening at Posta Vecchia, Urbino, curated by Tommaso Origoni, 2020
Why Should Not We Enjoy an Original Relation to the Universe?, live performance at Senarega, Genoa, curated by Pinksummer Contemporary Art, 2020
Desenvolvimento de uma máquina do tempo, installation and performance at Tubo de Ensaios 1819, FBAUP, Porto, Portugal, 2019
Il giardino dei sentieri che si biforcano, collective show at CFF Festival, Genoa, curated by Bronzo Studio, 2019
La Catastrofe, duo show at Spazio6, Carrara, 2019
Sidùn, four-day happening at Divago Festival I, Genoa, curated by MIXTA, 2019
Ultracorpi, group show at Area Archeologica Luzzati, Genoa, curated by Mefistofeledocumenta, 2018
Incroyable vie des choses, group show at Studio Bronzo, Genoa, curated by Bronzo Studio, 2018
Postmediterraneo, group show at LUME, Milan, curated by Bronzo Studio, 2018
31, collective show, Carrara, 2018
Orbita, collective show at Essenzarte, Massa, 2017
Variation 3, John Cage, workshop and performance in Piazza Aranci, Massa, curated by Gianni Dessi, 2016
AwardsGrand Prize at the Campus Award
Ars Electronica
2024
Eternity Prize,
Maurizio Cattelan / ABA Carrara,
2018
Press
‘Palazzo Bronzo presenta u-/dys-: mostra di psicogeografie, ucronie e discronie dal mondo contemporaneo’, Mentelocale,
2025
‘DA FEST 10 – æŋˈzaɪəti (Anxiety): Signals from an Uncertain World’, National Academy of Sofia News,
2025
‘AGON/MIMICRY/ALEA/ILINX‘, The Italian Art Guide,
2025
Under the Gaze, New Practice in Art and Technology,
2025
‘Presentazione di Palazzo Bronzo’, Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti,
2025
‘Rooted in the Real World’, by Sybille Nitsche, Magazine "We/Four" - Issue No. 3
TU Berlin in the Berlin University Alliance (BUA)
2025
Retrospective, Bauhaus Exhibitions,
2025
‘Crushing Béarn or the diplomatic relation of invented tradition’, by dorian e geneste,
2025
‘Mit Robotern und KI zeichnen (Drawing with robots and AI)’, Felicia Fetsival Magdeburg,
2025
ACV (Algorithmic Cultural Vandalism) An interactive installation by Pietro Lugaro and Alessandro Mac-Nelly’, Museumsportal Berlin,
2025
‘Campus Award Ceremony’, Ars Electronica Campus Award 2024,
2024
‘How resilient is a symbol?
Notes on UdK Rundgang 2024, by Theresa Zwerschke, Arts Of The Working Class,
2024
‘Award for innovative depiction of collaboration between an AI-controlled robot and humans’, by
Anne Stiller, TU Berlin News,
2024
‘Students of the "Design & Computation" program win the Grand Prize of the Ars-Electronica Campus Award 2024’, UdK Berlin News,
2024
‘Palazzo Bronzo - progetto editoriale’, Platea | Palazzo Galeano,
2024
‘Platea project: tavola rotonda degli iperromantici Palazzo Bronzo’, il Sole 24Ore, Askanews,
2024
‘How To Coexist In A Collective’, by Giorgia Massari, Collater.al,
2024
‘Una “specchiante”, mutevole e relazionale collettività. L’intervista a Palazzo Bronzo, by Nicoletta Biglietti, Artslife,
2024
‘Platea | Palazzo Galeano presenta “Yours Mine”, RM e “Iperromantico”, Palazzo Bronzo | Sabato 23 marzo 2024, ore 19‘, by Giovanni Manzo, Artslife,
2024
‘Sacra Sagra‘, The Italian Art Guide,
2024
‘UOVA a Palazzo Bronzo, neonato artist-run space genovese‘, by Arianna Maestrale, ATP Diary,
2022
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