Andrea Galvani Italian, 1973

Andrea Galvani (Verona, Italy, 1973)

Born in Verona in 1973, Andrea Galvani graduated in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (1999) and in Visual Arts from the University of Bilbao (2002).

From childhood he cultivated a fascination for the invisible and the infinitesimally small: this intellectual drive has shaped the trajectory of his research, which spans sculpture, photography, video‑performance, and monumental installations.

Active since the early 2000s, Galvani develops ambitious research projects often conceived as real physical experiments carried out in situ. Among his most significant works are Higgs Ocean (2008–2011), which involved a sailing‑boat crossing of the Arctic with the collection and re‑emission of sunlight back into the universe, and Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth (2018–2020), in which mathematical formulas are translated into neon sculptures.
Recent installations include The Void Migrates to the Surface (2025), a multichannel video installation presented at Fotografiska in Shanghai, exploring the life cycles of butterflies in ultra slow motion and redefining the perception of time.

His works address fragility and monumentality, time, and the relationship between individual and collective inquiry, moving across politics, philosophy, and science.

He has exhibited internationally in leading institutions such as the Whitney Museum (New York), the Moscow Biennial, Mediations Biennale (Poznań), MART (Trento), MACRO (Rome), GAMeC (Bergamo), and is represented in numerous public and private collections: the Dallas Museum of Art, the Deutsche Bank Collection, the UniCredit Art Collection, the Library of Congress in Washington, and MAXXI in Rome.
In 2011 he won the New York Exposure Prize and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
In 2016 MART in Trento hosted his first European mid‑career retrospective; in 2017 he was selected to represent the Deutsche Bank Collection at Frieze New York; in 2019 he received the prestigious Audemars Piguet Prize.

The artist currently lives and works between New York and Mexico City.