Riccardo Arena

Milan

Riccardo Arena (Milan, 1979) is an artist, teacher, and independent researcher. His artistic practice is dedicated to creating evocative environments that, combining theoretical and visual research, are conceived as cultural devices of imaginative knowledge. Installations, films, visual reflections, narratives, seminars, and workshops intertwine in a constellation of expressive languages aimed at contemplating in the accidental the universal components that link distant stories, cultures, theories, and myths in time and geography. Animated by these tensions over the years, he has dedicated himself to the development of long-term investigations in various countries around the world: China “Four Times a Tree” (2006–2008); Argentina “Dual Death Ellero and Visual Ecosystem” (2009–2012); Russia “Vavilon” (2013–2017); and Iran, Armenia, and Ethiopia “LuDD! - Topography of Light” (2017–2020). He is currently working on the “Geranos” project, born in 2021 from research on the history and archives of Monte Verità, Fondazione Eranos, Warburg Institute, and the Anthropological Museum of Mexico City.