Davide Bramante Italian, 1970

Davide Bramante (Syracuse, Italy, 1970)

Born in Syracuse in 1970, Davide Bramante began his artistic journey at art high school in his hometown before moving to Turin to attend the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti.

After completing his studies, he travelled extensively between Italy and the United States, refining his expertise in video art, installations, and photography.

“My way of photographing is identical to my way of remembering, thinking, dreaming, hoping. Everything happens through temporal and spatial overlays”, he says, describing his approach. In 1998 and 1999, he was awarded two prestigious scholarships from the Franklin Furnace Foundation, and he participated in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. 

Bramante’s works are characterised by simultaneous visions, creating layered compositions that blur the boundaries of past, present, and future. Over the years, he has showcased his work in numerous exhibitions at renowned museums, foundations, and galleries worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Sarajevo (1998); Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (2001); Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m, in Bologna (2001); Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena (2003); the Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin (2005); Museo di Trastevere in Rome (2014); the Bongsan Cultural Center in Busan, South Korea (2014); the Gallery of Modern Art in Palermo (2015); the RISO – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palermo (2015); the Korea Foundation in Seoul (2016); and the Istituto Marangoni in Miami (2021).

In 2018, he was awarded the Canova Prize. His works are part of several significant public and private collections, including the GAM – Gallery of Modern Art in Turin, the Gallery of Modern Art in Palermo, Castello Sforzesco in Vigevano, and the Schauwerk Foundation in Sindelfingen, Germany.

Since 1999, Bramante has lived and worked in Syracuse, returning after thirteen years spent in Turin, Rome, Milan, and New York. Currently, he teaches Photography and Mass Media at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Photo UniCredit Group (Sebastiano Pellion di Persano)