Jacopo Belloni
Jacopo Belloni lives and works in Geneva.
Jacopo Belloni’s practice explores the symbolic and narrative structures that human beings adopt to define their cultural sphere. Through sculptures, installations, and performances, he seeks to challenge these definitions by disrupting the boundaries between human and non-human, reality and fiction, the animate and the inanimate. His works embrace the possibility of transformation in both time and space, constantly influenced by the exhibition site, the audience, and by each other, thereby highlighting their fragile and incomplete condition. The aim of his research is to re-enchant reality by investigating the processes of theatricalization that underlie it, like studying a fairy tale through the imaginative and cruel language of the fairy tale itself.
Jacopo Belloni is a graduate of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan (2014), the University of Milan (2018) and has a MFA diploma from HEAD, Geneva (2021). In 2021, Jacopo Belloni was selected for the Biennale College Arte, and has been awarded a scholarship from the Istituto Svizzero in Rome for the 2023-2024 session.
Jacopo Belloni was among the selected artists following the 2024 Open Call for 2025, which gathered 1405 applications (1267 for the Residency and 138 for the Associate Artists). A first shortlist was created by independent curators Marina Christodoulidou and Daisy Lambert, followed by the final selection made by curator Line Ajan and artist Paul Maheke, with Victorine Grataloup and Camille Ramanana Rahary for Triangle-Astérides. The preselection and selection juries, who are invited and compensated, change every year in order to bring different perspectives.