Andreas Zampella

Andreas Zampella (b. 1989) is an artist from Campania, Italy. After graduating in Decoration from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, he moved to Milan, where he developed a practice that merges painting, sculpture, and installation. Working with clay, oil, and materiali poveri, Zampella favors a raw and symbolic language. His works stage objects suspended between life and death, turning them into protagonists of a motionless and silent theater.

Painting is understood as scenography, and sculptures as stage props: everything contributes to the construction of a stage where reality appears deformed, suspended, and in a constant shift between presence and absence. Zampella starts from the premise that daily life is a continuous performance, and that the still life is today the purest form of spectacle.

His works reflect particularly on themes of emptiness and solitude. Through a poetics that unites theatricality and stillness, Andreas constructs pieces that oscillate between exhaustion and tension, irony and melancholy, obligation and boredom. His installations resemble half-open thresholds: they evoke a missed or imminent action—a waiting that remains unresolved. The human element disappears in favor of things, of objects that seem endowed with their own sensibility. In this way, the work becomes a mute spectacle, questioning the viewer on the possibility of a voiceless narrative and on the meaning of representation today.

Zampella lives and works between Milan and Campania.

Recent Solo Exhibitions:

• Passaggio al buio, as part of the Portfolio cycle of the Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo Braschi (2023).
• Dove nascono gli uccelli, Nashira Gallery, Milan (2023).
• Eravamo cuori in Atlantide, z2o Project, Rome (2024).

Selected Group Exhibitions:

• Lettere intorno ad un giardino, curated by Marta Ferrara and Mario Francesco De Simone, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples (2024).
• Premio Lissone, curated by Francesca Guerisoli, MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone (2023).
• Di città, di boschi, di uccelli, curated by Lucrezia Longobardi and Nora De Blasio, Officine San Carlo, Naples (2022).