Niccolò Masini
Niccolò Masini is an artist, filmmaker and researcher whose work stands at the intersection of narrative and craft, but also poetry and anthropology. His work seeks to provide a vehicle for observing tangible and intangible processes, mappings, and traces in relationship to borders, identity and postcolonial / post-materialistic discourses. Entwining moving-image, creative methodology, experimental ethnography and teaching, his research engages with the limits of the possible and the impossible by recognizing a starting point in the re-discovery of the indeterminate, the unknown, the unquantifiable. Scrutinizing the inheritances carried within the politics of time, space and memory, recent projects revolved around questions of displacement, diaspora, territorialization/deterritorialization processes, and the histories and legacies of colonialism.
His works and research have been exhibited in several international venues, including, The Museum of Contemporary Art / Moca Skopje (2021/2023); The Watermill Center, New York (2022); The Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali (2022); Amaneï, Aeolian Islands (2021/2022); Palazzo Ducale, Genoa (2018/2020), MUST / Museo Storico Città di Lecce, Lecce (2021), Ring gallery / Meštrović Pavilion, Zagreb (2019); Momo Gallery, Cape Town (2019) and the National Museum of Life and Ethnography of Macedonia and Thrace, Thessaloniki (2019). Among others, residency programs included The Boghossian foundation / Villa Empain, Bruxelles (2024), The Losari Foundation / Yayasan Bali Purnati, Bali (2023), The Watermill Center, New York (2022), Amaneï, Aeolian Islands (2021/2022), La Ira De Dios, Buenos Aires (2021) and Residenze per l’arte / Premio Italia Argentina, Buenos Aires (2019). He received the Miller-Zillmer Foundation Vision into the Future fellowship (2019/2021), the Project Anywhere program (2019 and 2022), VAA - Video Art Award 2019, and, in 2018, he was awarded Best Young Artist Of The Year (Painting & Sculpture) by the GAMMA competition and GM conference of Tokyo. To date, he lives and works between Genoa and the Aeolian Islands.
