Michele Ciacciofera

Michele Ciacciofera (Nuoro, 1969) lives and works in Paris. His work is characterized by the use of a variety of media, from drawing to painting, from sound to sculpture created using ceramics, glass, bronze, stone, and assemblages of diverse materials.
Through an anthropological approach, the artist explores a number of themes linked to his native islands, Sardinia and Sicily, through the prism of the Mediterranean. Collective memory, revisited myths, and contemporary political reality are blended in works characterized by a sensitivity to the material and an acute awareness of current issues linked to the reconfiguration of socio-economic and environmental balances.
Based on numerous sources, his research connects to the major themes of contemporary life, which the artist examines through a highly personal narrative, also conveyed through his choice of materials, which play an essential role in his poetics. The sociological and anthropological vision used as a method to develop his creative process allows him to modernize themes such as history and archaeology, to address ecological and political issues, and to universalize events related to the Mediterranean, materializing poetic experiences with a strong communicative power.
His works have been exhibited at Summerhall Edinburgh (2014), the IMMA Museum in Dublin (2015), the 57th Venice International Art Biennale (2017), Documenta 14 in Kassel (2017) and Athens (2017), the MAN Museum in Nuoro (2017), the CAFA Museum in Beijing (2016), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rochechouart, France (2021), the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes (2021), and numerous other international museums.

He received the Civitella Ranieri NYC Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship in 2015-2016. In 2024, he participated with a site-specific work in the 6th International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Mardin, Turkey.
Between 2023 and 2024, he presents solo exhibitions entitled Condensare l’Infinito [Condensing Infinity] at the MA*GA Museum in Gallarate, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni; at BUILDING TERZO PIANO in Milan, curated by Angelo Crespi; and at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Passerelle in Brest, curated by Loïc Le Gall. The entire exhibition project was accompanied by a catalog published by Johan & Levi (Milan) with texts by Alessandro Castiglioni, Loïc Le Gall, Melissa Bianca Amore, and Angelo Crespi. In 2024, he created the public art project Homo Arbor, commissioned by Groupe Emerige Paris and Ville de Gennevilliers, confirming his commitment to environmental and social issues, also through the solo exhibition Natura Naturans at the Michel Rein gallery in Paris. In 2025, he completed an important artistic project, curated by Bianca Cerrina Feroni, creating the monumental sculpture Altare del Tempo e dell’Acqua Feconda [Altar of Time and Fertile Water] in a natural setting. It was presented in conjunction with the 2025 edition of the International Stone Sculpture Symposium, as part of the PNRR Piccoli Borghi [Small Villages] project “Living Lab on climate change in the villages of Fanano.” Among his current and future projects, the artist will participate in the 36th São Paulo Biennial, which will open in September 2025, and will present a solo exhibition at the Braidense Library in Milan in October 2026.