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Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla is a London-based artist known for his elaborate re-contextualizations of popular and found imagery, as well as his pioneering use of digital imaging technologies in video installation and art. Brambilla’s work has been internationally exhibited and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum (New York); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ARCO Foundation (Madrid); CENTQUATRE-PARIS (Paris); Kunsthalle Vogelmann (Germany); and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C). Notable shows include New Museum, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art (Retrospective); Seoul Biennial, Korea; Broad Art Museum; and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.

Brambilla has worked with Creative Time and Art Production Fund in New York to present public art installations, including his Nude Descending Staircase No.3 presented at the Oculus world trade center during Frieze New York. Notable collaborations include 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, an opera by Marina Abramović first presented at the Opéra National de Paris, France; and Pélleas et Mélisande, presented by the Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, Belgium. Brambilla is a recipient of the Tiffany Comfort Foundation and Tiffany Colbert Foundation awards. His work has been featured at the Venice Film Festival and Sundance Film Festivals, as well as Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland.

Exhibitions

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Marco BrambillaLimit of Control

November 14 – January 16, 2025

New York City

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Untitled Art

December 4 – December 8, 2024

Untitled Art, Miami

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Marco Brambilla King Size, 2023 Video (color, sound) Dimensions variable, portrait or landscape orientation 3 min, 15 sec Edition of 6, 1 AP

Marco BrambillaDouble Feature

June 22 – October 7, 2024

at Fotografiska Shanghai

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Claudia Hart The Ruins Series, Henri Faintain Latour 1.0, 2021/2024

Contemporary Istanbul

October 23 – October 27, 2024

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Marco Brambilla RPM

World on a Wire

June 28 – August 10, 2012

New York City

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News & Press

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December 6, 2024designboom

hollywood protest meets AI news in marco brambilla’s US media critique video installationVisual artist Marco Brambilla unveils Limit of Control, his first solo exhibition with bitforms gallery, New York, a two-channel video installation that interrogates America’s media landscape, civil unrest, and the visceral intersection of violence, power, and news coverage in contemporary society.

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November 20, 2024Cultured Mag

The Crowd Goes Wild: Marco Brambilla’s Timely Video Confections of Violence and ProtestA new installation at bitforms gallery weighs the possibilities and pitfalls of A.I. art in a moment of political upheaval, our critic reports.

Marco Brambilla Times Square Arts Opening Reception

June 24, 2024Surface Magazine

Marco Brambilla Debuts a Times Square UtopiaOn June 18, film artists Marco Brambilla took over more than 95 of Times Square’s LED billboards with Approximations of Utopia.

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June 4, 2024Maxim

THESE TRIPPY ‘APPROXIMATIONS OF UTOPIA’ ARTWORKS ARE TAKING OVER TIMES SQUAREFor Approximations of Utopia, Marco Brambilla harnessed AI to help produce the visuals—all based on archival imagery from six World’s Fairs, starting with the 1958 edition in Brussels through the 2010 edition in Shanghai.

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January 28, 2024The Art Newspaper

Going big: digital artists who show on a grand scale at immersive institutionsMarco Brambilla, the London-based film-maker and digital artist, made a version of his Hollywood epic Heaven’s Gate for Outernet, London, in January 2023, and King Size, a work about the rise of Las Vegas and the death of Elvis, at Sphere.