learner, gatherer, keeper
based in Berlin
co-founder and curator at Palazzo Bronzo
learner, gatherer, keeper
based in Berlin
co-founder and curator at Palazzo Bronzo
Pietro Lugaro (he/she/they)
is a research-oriented artist and practitioner based in Berlin, originally from Genoa, Italy. Their work is intrinsically multidisciplinary and multimedia, spanning artistic and performative practices, visual and sonic research, and theoretical inquiry.
Their current research focuses on morphological infrastructures in ontogenesis, with particular attention to pre-semantic structures emerging in children’s drawings and scribbles, understood as proto-diagrammatic or proto-linguistic systems.
Lugaro graduated with highest honours from the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara (BA) and Urbino (MA). They are currently completing a second Master’s degree in Design and Computation, an interdisciplinary program between UdK Berlin and TU Berlin, within the platform New Practice in Art and Technology.
Since 2025, has been a member of The New Centre for Research & Practice, an international para-academic research network dedicated to critical theory and the arts.
From 2024 to 2025, Lugaro worked as a Research Assistant within New Practice in Art and Technology, contributing to the organization of public programs (Loops), event documentation, and the maintenance of the platform’s public presence.
Since 2022, they have been a co-founder and active member of Palazzo Bronzo, a collective and artist-run space, where they are responsible for curatorial development and coordination of research-based exhibitions and public programs, research on collectives and contemporary art contexts, archive management, and grant and project development.
In 2024, together with Alessandro Mac-Nelly, Lugaro was awarded the Grand Prize at the Campus Award of Ars Electronica.