Andreas Zampella

Andreas Zampella (1989, Campania, Italy) is an Italian contemporary artist living and working between Milan and Campania. Trained in Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, he has developed an interdisciplinary practice that combines painting, sculpture, and installation, focusing on representation, theatricality, and contemporary still life. Zampella works with clay, oil paint, and humble materials, creating a raw and symbolic visual language. His works function as silent stages where objects, suspended between life and death, become central actors in a static dramaturgy. Painting operates as scenography and sculpture as stage prop, forming installations that reflect on emptiness, solitude, and the performative nature of everyday life. Starting from the idea that reality itself is a continuous performance, his work explores the tension between presence and absence, irony and melancholy. His installations appear as semi-open thresholds, suggesting missed or imminent action while shifting focus away from the human figure toward objects endowed with subtle agency. Recent solo exhibitions include Passaggio al buio at the Quadriennale di Roma Portfolio cycle at Palazzo Braschi (2023), Dove Nascono gli uccelli at Nashira Gallery (2023), and Eravamo cuori in Atlantide at z2o Sara Zanin Gallery (2024).