Andrea Melloni

In Cubificio, Melloni creates an artistic institution dedicated to the study of organisms with cuboidal forms. The works bear witness to their existence: collections, environments, images and documents bring fiction, observation and scientific language into relation.

Stem cells project investigates the matrix of cubic life beyond the classification of organisms. Slow eye movements marks an early departure from the creatures and develops an enquiry into perception within a cuboidal grid.

Between 2008 and 2017 he continued working through artistic collaborations and practices spanning art, ceramics and bonsai. In Berlin he had a studio at Uferhallen, also home to the Suteki Bonsaizentrum.

In 2011 he participated in Uferhallen Kunstaktien, making three art shares. The project was revisited in 2022 in an exhibition organised by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein at Uferhallen.

Cubificio’s research is documented in the Viafarini Archive. Oikistika appears in the On air programme documented by Careof.

Mitate mono (2013), reassembly and mixed media on canvas, is documented by the Farnesina Collection on Google Arts & Culture. The work belongs to the artist and is on loan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

A graduate of the Bologna Fine Arts Academy, with a student exchange at Wimbledon School of Arts. Selected for the Fondazione Antonio Ratti CSAV and an Axel Springer studio grant in 2003; music/sound fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2005–2006.