Niccolò Masini is an artist, researcher, and PhD candidate in New Media and Critical–Curatorial Practices of Contemporary Creation at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. Scrutinizing the inheritances carried within the politics of time, space, and memory, his work seeks to provide a vehicle for observing tangible and intangible processes, mappings, and traces in relationship to postcolonial and post-materialistic discourses. Through research-driven and territorially based approaches, he investigates how situated practices shape individual, intra-, and collective identities, engaging with the possibilities that arise between spatial modalities and socio-cultural frameworks.
Ranging across media, territories, and perspectives, his recent projects revolve around questions of displacement, processes of de-territorialization, and other-than-human entities. From these associations, he dissects narratives, myths, and their archives, reconstructing them visually, epistemologically, and poetically, while engaging imagination’s role in critically enhancing counter-historical conditions across contemporary practices.
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His work have and research have been exhibited extensively including: Silent Green, Berlin (2026); The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska / MSURS (2024), The Museum of Contemporary Art / Moca Skopje (2021/2023); The Watermill Center, New York (2022); The Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali (2022); Amaneï, Aeolian Islands (2021/2022); Palazzo Ducale, Genoa (2018/2020), MUST / Museo Storico Città di Lecce, Lecce (2021), The Meštrović Pavilion, Zagreb (2019); Momo gallery, Cape Town (2019) and the National Museum of Life and Ethnography of Macedonia and Thrace, Thessaloniki (2019). Among others, residency programs included The Montresso Foundation / Jardin Rouge, Marrakesh (2025), The Boghossian Foundation / Villa Empain, Bruxelles (2024), The Losari Foundation, The Taut Seni Foundation and The Yayasan Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Java and Bali (2023), The Watermill Center, New York (2022), Amaneï, Aeolian Islands (2021/2022), La Ira De Dios, Buenos Aires (2021) and Residenze per l’arte / Premio Italia Argentina, Buenos Aires (2019). He received the Italian Council XIII Edition – Research grant Award (2024), the Miller-Zillmer Foundation Vision into the Future fellowship Award (2019/2021), the Project Anywhere program (2019 and 2022), the VAA – Video Art Award (2019), and, in 2018, he was awarded Best Young Artist Of The Year (Painting & Sculpture) by the GAMMA competition and GM conference of Tokyo.
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Working on the metaphor of the “island”, since 2018 part of his research has focused on the ongoing long-term project, Islands of Time, a trajectory exploring the relationships between the formulation of intangible feelings of belonging and the construction of geographical identity. Under the support of the Miller-Zillmer Foundation and the Project Anywhere program, this ongoing research includes on-site field research phases into different locations, which are all situated in geographical borders, borders of migration and/or political displacements.
Alongside, he co-founded Progetto Amalgama, a trans-disciplinary educational roaming program for adolescents. The project “amalgamates” theoretical, scientific, and experiential approaches, emphasizing observation, “learning by doing,” and interdisciplinary skills in emerging and future generations.
To date, he lives and works between Genoa and the Aeolian Islands.
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