ALESSANDRO SAMBINI

Rovigo, 1982



The exhibition brings together a heterogeneous selection of images chosen by the artist, originating from diverse contexts and sources. Sambini constructs a narrative with an ironic and provocative tone, in which images are not mere tools but protagonists—displayed in their autonomy and aware of their own form and function.

Images at an Exhibition offers a critical reflection on some of the contemporary aesthetics that populate both domestic and public spaces, navigating between political tensions and decorative layering. This visual weave reveals a baroque sensitivity that resonates with our times, rich in stimuli and contradictions.

Each image stands out for the specificity of its aesthetic and procedural language, generating an open and dissonant dialogue. From these relationships emerges a shared and autonomous exchange, where images act as independent entities, capable of redefining their meaning within the exhibition context.

Sambini invites the public to observe the mechanisms of contemporary visual representation, offering a space where the artwork asserts itself as a living, communicative, and independent presence.

The exhibition forgoes any didactic intent, affirming instead the self-determination of images, regarded as active protagonists within our aesthetic, political, and social imagination.

Alessandro Sambini (Rovigo, 1982).

Born in Rovigo in 1982, he lives and works in Milan. After obtaining a degree in Design and Arts from the Free University of Bolzano and an MA in Research Architecture within the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths' College in London, he moved to Milan. Here he began to work with photography, video and other multimedia supports and to question the needs and methods that regulate the production of new images, their circulation and diffusion and the different areas of relationship between the image itself and its public. Since 2019 he has been working on the public performance 1624, curated by Elena Forin and on project MARIO. In 2017 he participated in the collective exhibition Fuocoapaesaggio curated by Dolomiti Contemporanee and was selected to participate in Plat(t)form 2017 at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur; in 2016 the Fondo Privato Acquisizioni per l’arte contemporanea of ArtVerona selected the work People at an exhibition for acquisition and deposit at MA*GA, Gallarate. The same work was presented on the occasion of the solo exhibition of the same name curated by Denis Isaia in July 2016 at Galleria Michela Rizzo. In the same year he participated in the group show Stories From the Edge, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, at the Kunsthaus in Graz (Austria) and in the exhibition On New Italian Photography, curated by Fantom at the Viasaterna Gallery (Milan 2016). The artist's projects were also presented during: Foto/Industria, 2nd Biennial of Industrial Photography, curated by François Hébel, at MAST (Bologna, 2015); Flags, at Serra dei Giardini, curated by Elena Forin (Venice, 2014); Lo Spettatore Emancipato, curated by Angela Madesani, at Galleria Giovanni Bonelli (Milan, 2014). He has collaborated with various institutions, including MUSEION, FORMA, MUFOCO, MAST, MA*GA and Triennale di Milano; in 2009 he won the XXIII Premio Gallarate Per Le Arti Visive, Terzo Paesaggio. Fotografia Italiana Oggi and was a finalist in the GD4PhotoArt award, promoted by MAST. He is co-founder of the collective POIUYT and his works are in the collections of MAGA, MUFOCO and Fondazione MAST. Now his solo show Images at an exhibition is exhibited in GMR.2 gallery in Mestre until 18 July 2025.