Davide Stucchi

(b. 1988, Vimercate, Italy) works across installation, scenography, and exhibition making, through subtle gestures of subtraction and reconfiguration. Built around minimal interventions, his works engage with the tension between presence and forms of removal, intimacy, and distance, activated through carefully choreographed objects and spatial atmospheres. Each installation operates as an environment in its own right, inviting viewers into spaces where intimate traces, desire, and collective imaginaries converge. Permeating the practice is a sustained ambiguity, a refusal of resolution, enriched by deliberate references to fashion, advertising, domesticity, and coded narratives that unsettle normative representations of identity and the body. Through this layering, Stucchi constructs fragile architectures of perception, where meaning is continuously destabilized and reassembled.

Stucchi’s work has been exhibited internationally, with solo shows at Triennale Milano (2026); Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (2025); Museion, Bolzano (2024); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2023); MACRO/Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (2014). A presentation of Stucchi’s work in dialogue with the work of Salvo was staged across several rooms at the 2020 Rome Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at Museion, Bolzano (2024); Palazzo Tiepolo, Venice (2024); Between Bridges, Berlin (2023); Palazzo Ducale, Genoa (2023); MACRO, Rome (2020); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2020, 2016); Stadtgalerie Bern (2020); Villa Romana, Florence (2019); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2018); Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2018); and MAXXI, Rome (2015).