Michela de Mattei

Michela de Mattei (b.1984, Rome, Italy) works across different formats and media, often developing fictional scenarios and unusual ecosystems in which animal-human affairs are hijacked by technologies. In doing so, her works question standards of authority and control, speaking to issues of animal agency and the changing dynamics of communication systems.

Select exhibitions include Michela de Mattei & Natália Trejbalová: Read More About Atlantis and Connect the Dots, IUNO, Rome, Italy (2026); Toby Christian & Michela de Mattei: Flash_Looking, Belmacz, London, UK (2024); RETROFUTURE, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Italy (2024); Blushing, Belmacz, London, UK (2019); Please Forgive Me That Little Bit of Disturbance I Bring, SPACES | NON SPACES #2, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome, Italy (2014).

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Turning red | text by Lavinia Filippi

A journey through observation | Where’s Art interview

Bodikon | limited edition poster

Ahahaha…, | limited edition screenprint

available works

online portfolio

Artworks

Michela de Mattei
The World, Part I: Mirage, 2019

moving image
04 minutes, 35 seconds
Michela de Mattei
Handsightings EXP I, 2024

scratch card drawings on photo prints, acrylic frame and iron hooks
60 x 94 cm
Michela de Mattei
Handsightings EXP II, 2024

scratch card drawings on photo prints, acrylic frame and iron hooks
60 x 94 cm
Michela de Mattei
Handsightings EXP III, 2024

scratch card drawings on photo prints, acrylic frame and iron hooks
60 x 94 cm
Michela de Mattei
Until lions have their historians, hunters will always be the heroes, 2023

lenticular print
51 x 40 cm
Michela de Mattei
Animal Attacks, Drawing Series (V), 2022

pencil and pen on paper
70 x 50 cm
Michela de Mattei
Animal Attacks, Drawing Series (V) (detail), 2022

pencil and pen on paper
70 x 50 cm
Michela de Mattei
Not (here), 2019

thermochromic paint, nichrome wire and timer relay
160 × 120 cm
Michela de Mattei
Not (one), 2019

thermochromic paint, nichrome wire and timer relay
160 × 120 cm
Michela de Mattei
Blushing, 2019

moving image
07 mins 58 secs, 5 + 1 AP
Michela de Mattei
Estée Lauder VR experience, 2022

print
variable
Michela de Mattei
Estée Lauder – Hypnosis session, 2018

[still] single channel video
08'08"
Michela de Mattei
Carl, 2019

photograph and watercolour
39.5 × 24.5 cm
Michela de Mattei
Estée Launder, 2016

fountain pen, blue ink, eraser on paper
48 x 75 cm
Michela de Mattei
Graft #8: Round Around, 2015

oak wood on fig tree
92 × 92cm
Round Around, Graft #8, 2015

oak wood on fig tree
92 × 92cm
Natura Morta, 2018

dry prickly pear fibre
21.5 × 12.5 × 15.5 cm

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