Agostino Iacurci

Place: Foggia

Born: 1986

Biography:

Agostino Iacurci is an Italian-born, Berlin-based artist. He studied Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. His practice spans multiple media, including painting, murals, sculpture, drawing, and installation. Often driven by a site-specific approach, Iacurci collects and reworks heterogeneous materials to generate images and visions that freely narrate and interweave cultural history, personal memories, literary references, and vernacular tales. He has exhibited his work in both solo and group shows, including Pensare come una montagna #2, GAMeC, Bergamo (2024); Ruinenlust at Garage Bentivoglio, Bologna (2024); The Traveling Landscape , PDC Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Alien Horti Picti , Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (2023); Of My Abstract Gardening , Ex Elettrofonica, Rome (2022); Hortus , IIC, Prague (2022); Tracing Vitruvio , Musei Civici, Pesaro (2019); Talent Prize 2019 , Mattatoio, Rome (2019); Gypsoteca , M77 Gallery, Milan (2018); Trompe-l'oeil , Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City (2017); Urban Art Biennale , Völklinger Hütte, European Centre for Art and Industrial Culture (2017); Cross the Streets , MACRO Museum, Rome (2017); and the 16th Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan (2015). Since 2009, Iacurci has created monumental wall paintings and installations for public and private institutions. Recent commissions include Ensemble at Casa Italia, Le Pré Catelan, Paris (2024); Grüne Oase , Tertianum Project, Frankfurt-am-Main (2024); Côte-des-Neiges Mural project, Montreal (2022); MURALU for Ludwigs-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (2021); Life is Beautiful , Las Vegas (2021); Principal Place, London (2020); Yakutsk Biennale, Yakutsk (2017); and many others. His work has been shown in many exhibitions, festivals and projects in Europe, USA, Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Australia, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.