Gabriella Sacco (Italy, 2002) lives and works in Lucerne.
Her artistic practice centres on the digital processing of images. These serve as structural elements of scenes and installations where, through editing, is tested the implicit narrative and emotional charge they convey despite their mechanical and artificial nature.
Having graduated in Set Design in 2025 from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, she is currently enrolled in a Master’s degree in Experimental Film at the University of Art and Applied Sciences in Lucerne.
Her works have been exhibited at international venues including Fondazione Antonio Ratti (2025), Rencontres Internationales Traverse (2026), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (2025) and Art Gallery Finestreria (2025), as well as screened at festivals as experimental animated short films at Animafest Zagreb (2025), Grafixx (2025), Digital Kunst Festival (2024) and Sàff Film Festival (2024) among others.
Gabriella Sacco 2026.
art exhibitions and screenings
Kunstpause, Zug, CH (2026).
Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Centre Culturel Bellegarde, Toulouse, FR (2026).
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Aperto, curated by Annie Ratti and Lorenzo Benedetti, Como, IT (2025).
AA29 Gallery, Caserta, IT (2025).
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gwangju-si, KR (2025).
Palazzo Avogadro, The Long Now, Brescia, IT (2025).
Al deserto, Micelio, Chiavenna, IT (2025).
Art Gallery Finestreria, Visioni Oltre, curated by Claudia Ponzi and Irene Follador, Milan, IT (2025).
film festivals and awards
LokaFilmFest, Morbegno, IT (2026)
Golden Lion International Film Festival, Kolkata, IN. Best Experimental Short: Untitled (Swing), (2025).
Animafest, Cinema SC, Zagreb, HR (2025). / Klet Gallery, Zagreb, HR (2025).
Icona Film Festival, mixed screening, Corfù, GR. (2024).
Grafixx 2024, De Cinema, Antwerp, BE (2024).
Digital Kunst Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE (2024).
London Lift-Off Festival, online screening (2024).
Sàff Film Festival, Chiesa dei Cristallini, Naples, IT. Best animation nomination: Portrait Of a Mute Man (2024).
Lift-Off Film Festival, online screening. Audience Award: Portrait Of a Mute Man (2024).
Absurd Film Festival, Milan, IT. Best don't watch it when you're eating Award: Portrait Of A Mute Man (2024).
art residencies
Low Realism Artists Research Laboratory with Ed Atkins, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (2025).
publications
education
Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Lucerne, CH. Master of Arts in Experimental and Documentary Film (2025-present).
Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, IT. Bachelor in Set Design (2021-2024). Graduated with 110 cum laude.
Studio Azzurro, Milan, IT. Internship (2023).