Brauner Karton mit trockenen Zweigen auf einer weißen Oberfläche, umgeben von Papieren und Texturen in neutralen und dunklen Farbtönen.

“My goal is to really think about how nature could look in the future. I’m interested in creating a work where materials and shapes and textures can speak about an attitude.” 


Luca Vanello is an Italian-Slovenian artist that works with sculpture and installations. His works create speculative environments that explore the relationships between technology and the cycles of nature, investigating how natural and man-made matter intimately form conditions of vulnerability, vitality, and coexistence. 

Schwarz-Weiß-Bild eines Mannes mit weißem T-Shirt, umgeben von hängenden, trockenen Blättern, der in die Kamera blickt.

Luca Vanello

Schwarzer Pfeil, der auf einem weißen Hintergrund nach links zeigt.

Vanello’s practice explores how non-human entities interweave within the distribution of the visible. Plants, objects, images, affects, and energies are treated as part of a single organic whole. Physical manipulation becomes a conceptual tool where intimate narratives and material cycles intertwine. Processes such as evaporation, digital image alteration, compression, fragmentation, and absorption turn alteration into a form of abstraction — a way of thinking through both collective and individual narratives.