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.

Education. Michela de Mattei (b.1984, Rome, Italy) studied Philosophy at Universita di Roma la Sapienza.

Select exhibitions. chez, Paint It Black, Torino,
Italy (2024); Flash_Looking, Belmacz, London, UK (2024); RETROFUTURE, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), Rome (2024); Dive-In, Porto Design Biennale, Porto (2023); SOTTOPALCO, Campo Teatrale, Milan (2023);  Estée Lauder, Expanded/Extended,  MAXXI L’Aquila, Rome, and IL MAXXIVERSO, online (2022); .The animated cloister – space is just noise, Museum of Rome in Trastevere, Italy (2022); Post-Turismo (curated by Giuliana Benassi), Post ex, Rome, Italy (2022);  Aquaria -The illusion of a boxed sea, curated by Angela Rui, MAAT museum, Lisbon (2021); Hypermaremma, Terme di Vulci (2021); Nuovo Cinema Galleria, Galeria Vera Cortez, Lisbon (2020); Hypermaremma ( Chapter II ), Antica Città Di Cosa, Italy (2019); Blushing, Belmacz, London (2019); Estée Lauder series (curated by Lavinia Filippi), Italian Cultural Institute, London (2018); The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, Part 1: Language (curated by Filipa Ramos and Lucia Pietroiusti), Serpentines Galleries / ZSL London Zoo (2018); Allevamento di Tiranni, Una Vetrina, Rome (2017); Bodikon, Belmacz, London (2017); There is no place like home 4°, Riverside dock, Rome; InterKontinental, Belmacz, London (2016); La Pelle, Project by FONDACO, Officina, Brussels (2016); Rétrospective I: Fail Compilation, Détail, Paris (2016); Feets, Don’t Fail Me Now, Belmacz, London (2015); Vogliatemi perdonare quel poco di disturbo che reco, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome (2014); Innesto #6, Orientamento | Michela de Mattei, Sala Santa Rita, Rome (2013).

Awards and residencies. In 2019 Michela was in residence at the Alserkal Arts Foundation, Dubai.

Michela lives and works in Milan.