Marcello Maloberti

Works

Cielo2022

CHAOS CALM, Bangkok Art Biennale, 2022

Installation

89,7 x 400 cm

M2024

Installation

320 x 250 x 30 cm

METAL PANIC2024

Video Performance

55' 19"

IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS2024

Installation

72 x 183 x 43 cm

PETROLIO2024

Installation

Variable Dimensions

Via Padova 3552024

Inkjet print

90 x 65 cm

HO LASCIATO AL MARE IL MIO RUMORE2024

Neon installation

201 x 140 cm

IL MIO NOME HA LA VOCE DI MIA MADRE2024

Neon installation

239 x 123 cm

CHI MI PROTEGGE DAI TUOI OCCHI2023

Neon installation

190 x 160 cm

Martellate – Le montagne sono i denti di dio2022

Marker on paper, steel binder clips

134 × 96 × 10 cm framed

Martellate – Il cielo macchiato di vento2022

Marker on paper, steel binder clips

134 × 96 × 10 cm framed

Martellate - Quando ho pensato al bello ho sempre sbagliato2022

Marker on paper, steel binder clips

134 x 96 x 10 cm framed

Cuore Mio2020

Inkjet print

50 × 33 cm; 55 × 39 cm framed

SIRONI2024

Inkjet print

150 x 100 cm

Ed. of 3 + 2 AP

VIR TEMPORIS ACTI2018

Photo inkjet print

150 × 100 cm; 153 × 103 × 5 cm framed

Vir Temporis Acti India2017

Inkjet print

110 x 37 cm

...Ma l'Amor Mio Non Muore

Inkjet print

86 × 130 cm; 90 × 134 cm framed

Medusa2018

Photo inkjet print

70 × 52 cm; 72,8 × 54,8 × 4 cm framed

La vertigine della signora Emilia1992-2019

inkjet print on Barytata Canson paper

30 × 45 cm; 39,5 × 54,5 × 5 cm framed

Famiglia Metafisica1990-2015

Gelatin silver print

30 × 40 cm

Marmellate2018

Collage

32 × 58 cm

Marmellate2018

Collage

Marmellate2018

Collage

32 × 58 cm

Biography

Marcello Maloberti was born in 1966 in Codogno (Lodi), Italy. He lives and works in Milan.
He works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 1999.

Malobertiʼs artistic research draws inspiration from trivial events and urban contexts, paying attention to shapeless and precarious states of life. His observations, however, go beyond the ordinary evidence of everyday life experience thanks to an often estranged and visionary neorealistic approach. His performances and multimedia installations take place in both private and public spaces having a strong interactive impact for the audience. The artist puts together an extremely condensed, theatrical narrative and suspenseful atmospheres for the viewer to watch and feel. The performersʼ bodies belong to each other, they are part of a dialogue as they set up a participatory event. Maloberti also emphasizes the relationship between art and life researching new approaches to photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture and drawing, as to form a contemporary gesamtkunstwerk.

Recently, his artworks have been shown at Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, at Museion, Bolzano, and at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow. In 2018 he was the artist chosen by AMACI association for a series of diffused exhibition on Italian ground; he realized a performance for Manifesta, Palermo, and at Centro Pecci in Prato. Following its debut at the 16th Quadriennale d’Arte, in Rome (2016), Maloberti presented his performance Vir Temporis Acti at the Pune Biennale, in India (2017). In 2013 he participated to the 55th Venice Biennale (as part of the Italian Pavillion), the Thessaloniki Biennale, and the project All’Aperto, Zegna Foundation, Trivero. Institutions that have devoted solo exhibitions to the artist include MACRO in Rome (2012), the Generali Foundation in Vienna (2010) and GAMeC Bergamo (2009).

Institutions that have devoted solo exhibitions to the artist include: PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea Milano (2024); MAXXI, Rome (2023) Triennale di Milano (2022); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2021); MACRO, Rome (2012); Generali Foundation, Vienna (2010); GAMeC, Bergamo (2009). He has participated in a number of exhibitions in major public and private spaces, such as the Bangkok Art Biennale (2022); MACRO, Rome (2020); MAXXI, Rome (2019); Stazione dell’arte, Ulassai (2019); Haus Wittgenstein–Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut, Vienna (2019); Mac / Val de Vitry (2012); Kunstverein di Frankfurt (2012); Copenhagen Art Festival (2012); Triennale di Milano, Milan (2015, 2012 e 2008); Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (2011); Nuit Blanche, Paris (2011); CAC Bretigny, France (2011); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010); Performa, New York (2009) and Yvon Lambert Collection (2005).

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Gallery Exhibitions

Public exhibitions

TU SEI LA MEMORIA DELLA MIA NOTTE
23 January – 27 April 2025
Memoriale della Shoah di Milano
METAL PANIC
26 November 2024 – 9 February 2025
PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
ITALIA 70 – I NUOVI MOSTRI
8 April 2024
Fondazione Trussardi, Milan
IL FUTURO NON FINISCE MAI DI INIZIARE
La Biblioteca del Mondo
13 December 2023 – 21 April 2024
Fondazione Memmo, Roma
Invitami notte a immaginare le stelle
CHAOS : CALM
22 November 2022 – 23 February 2023
Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
Martellate
25 March – 25 April 2022
Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy
Platea
9 June – 26 August 2021
Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, Italy
Malincuore
2 September – 5 September 2021
Panorama, Procida, Italy
I am the happiness of the world
10 September 2021
Kestner Gesellschaft , Hannover, Germany
RAID
23 October 2020 – 10 January 2021
Centro Pecci , Prato, Italy
Biennale Gherdëina 7
8 August – 20 October 2020
Biennale Gherdëina, Urtijëi
Museum for Preventive Imagination — EDITORIAL
17 July – 27 September 2020
MACRO, Rome
Marcello Maloberti …ma l’amor mio non muore
27 October – 3 November 2019
Hotel Principi di Piemonte di UNA Esperienze, Turin
Marcello Maloberti. Cuore Mio
19 June 2019
Performance, MAXXI, Rome
Brixia
RAID
13 October 2018
Performance at Centro Pecci, Prato
Circus Revival
14 June 2018
Performance at Manifesta 12, Piazza Garraffello, Palermo
Vir Temporis Acti
13 April 2018
Performance at GAM, Milan
La Voglia Matta
1 January 2013
La Biennale di Venezia
Blitz
16 March – 3 June 2012
Macro, Rome

Press

Ritratto d'artista
Arbiter
April, 2023
Il mio studio è la stanza del mio immaginario.
Il Foglio
April 22, 2023
Senza utopia non si vive
Lampoon
April 3, 2023
A Milano, un’installazione per riflettere su un futuro migliore
Elle Decor Italia
March, 2023
Così la luce vince sul buio dell'orrore
7, Corriere della Sera
February 24, 2023
Marcello Maloberti nella camera dei pensieri dove crea le Martellate
la Repubblica
February 09, 2023
Corpi Sonori
Interni
November 2020
IL SUBLIME VEGGENTE | Conversazione con Marcello Maloberti
ATP Diary
April 30, 2020
Archaeology of Vision: Marcello Maloberti
Mousse
Spring 2019
In The Beginning Was The Gesture: Marcello Maloberti
Mousse
March 2019
Marcello Maloberti
Arte
July 2018
Marcello Maloberti per Zegna
Flash Art
October-November 2013
Italy's Venice pavillon: not a distaster
ArtReview
September 2013

Publications

METAL PANIC
Curated by Diego Sileo
Silvana Editoriale
PAC, Milano
2025
Cuore Mio
Marcello Maloberti
Treccani
Roma
2023
Strata. Arte italiana dal 2000. Le parole degli artisti
Vincenzo De Bellis and Alessandro Rabottini
Lenz Press
Milan
2023
MARTELLATE. SCRITTI FIGHI 1990-2020. LYDIA MANCINELLI LEGGE MARCELLO MALOBERTI
Marcello Maloberti
Xing
Bologna
2021
MARTELLATE (SCRITTI FIGHI 1990-2019)
Marcello Maloberti
Flash Art Books
Milan
2019
Other times, Other myths
NERO
Rome
2016
Marcello Maloberti
Edited by Barbara Casavecchia
Mousse Publishing
Milan
2014
Marcello Maloberti: Blitz
Edited by Stefano Chiodi
Quodlibet
Macerata
2012
Marcello Maloberti: RAPTUS
Edited by Alessandro Rabottini
Damiani Editore
Bologna
2009

Videos

METAL PANIC: la nuova mostra di Marcello Maloberti al PAC di Milano
2025
Una canzone per Milva
2023
...Ma l'Amor Mio Non Muore
2019

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