Matteo Attruia
in collaboration
1973 born in Sacile (PN), Italy, lives and works everywhere
Matteo Attuia is an Italian visual artist whose practice spans installation, writing, neon, photography, video, sculpture and participatory practices. At the heart of his work lies language, viewed not merely as a tool for communication, but as an unstable space in which meanings, identities and relationships can be continually called into question.
Through verbal short-circuits, appropriations and shifts in meaning, Attruia intervenes on words, images and everyday objects. His works, often immediate in form, gradually reveal a more ambiguous fabric: irony and unease, seduction and disenchantment, personal and collective dimensions coexist without resolving into a single interpretation. The public is thus invited to participate actively in the construction of meaning and to question what appears familiar or obvious. With a conceptual approach that is both rigorous and ironic, Matteo Attruia continues to explore the contradictions of the present and the way in which words help to shape our experience of reality. His practice offers no definitive answers: rather, it opens up new avenues, raises doubts and transforms the viewer from an observer into an active participant in the work.
selected solo exhibitions:
2026, VITE, curated by Massimo Mattioli, Parco Sculture Todini, Todi, Stato di Confine, curated by Qui Altrove, The Circle Gallery, Gorizia, 2025, INattesa (ft. Stefano Graziani), curated by Marco Lorenzetti, MLZ Gallery, Trieste, 2024, All I Need Is, curated by Adiacenze, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Praga (CZ), Not Yet, curated by Marco Lorenzetti, MLZ Gallery, Trieste, Via dalla violenza. Sempre, progetto benefico, Centro Antiviolenza, villa Franchin Mestre (VE), 2021, Inedito, curated bySaverio Verini, Marina Bastianello Gallery, Mestre (VE), 2019, A TE, curated by Stefano Monti, SMDOT/Contemporary Art, Udine, La voce è parola, Artissima, Torino
selected group exhibitions:
2026, Mystica Visio, curated by Massimo Mattioli, Sala delle Pietre, Todi, Lines Loops Leaks, curated by Chiara Longhi and Mattia Solari, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, Musa, curated Beatrice Bertini, Triennale, Milano, Colombina Reloaded, curated by Lucia Longhi, Venezia, 2025, Oltris, curated by Michele Bazzana e Federico Rossi, Colonos, Lestize (UD), Life Art, Teatro Borsoni, curated by Ilaria Bignotti and Camilla Remondina, MO.CA. Centro per la Cultura, Brescia, AAV, Voracità della Parola, curated by Elena Forin, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Roma, 2024, Experimentum Crucis, curated by Rosa Anna Musumeci, Ex Caserma Cassonello, Noto (SR), Re-Signation, curated by Stefano Monti, SMDOT/Contemporary Art, Udine, 2023, Time, curated by Giorgio Galotti and Claudia Pignatale, Lea – Nitto Atp Finals, Torino, 2022, Experimentum Crucis, curated by Rosa Anna Musumeci, Ex Caserma Cassonello, Noto (SR), Logos Infinito, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Museo Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati (MC), 202, Nulla dies sine linea, curated by degli studenti dell’Università Cattolica, Milano, 2020, Dove Siamo, curated by Alessio Vigni, ledwall HTM, Mestre, Together We Stand, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venenzia, 2019, Laser Print Show, curated by Campo Base, Torino
