about

Gabriella Sacco (2002) is a visual artist and filmmaker.

Fascinated by the condition of the image and the cinematic medium, she works with computer graphics and video installations.

She is currently a master student of Experimental and Documentary Film at the University of Lucerne (HSLU).

In 2025 she graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan with a thesis about the relationship between image, death, and absence.

Exhibitions/Screenings

Fondazione Antonio Ratti / with Ed Atkins, curated by Annie Ratti and Lorenzo Benedetti, Como (2025).

AA29 Gallery / Caserta (2025).

CICA – Czong Institute for Contemporary Art / Gyeonggi-do (2025).

Klet Gallery / Zagreb (2025).

Animafest Zagreb / Cinema SC, Zagreb (2025).

Palazzo Avogadro / Brescia (2025).

Al deserto / Chiavenna (2025).

Art Gallery Finestreria / curated by Claudia Ponzi and Irene Follador, Milan (2025).

Icona Film Festival / online screening (2024).

Grafixx 2024 / De Cinema, Antwerp (2024).

Digital Kunst Festival / Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2024).

London Lift-Off Festival / online screening (2024).

Sàff Film Festival / Chiesa dei Cristallini, Naples (2024).

Spazio Pantaneo / Rome (2024).

Awards

Absurd Film Festival / Best don't watch it when you're eating Award, Milan (2024).

Sàff Film Festival / Best animation nomination, Naples, Italy, (2024).

Lift-Off Film Festival / Audience Award (2024).

Artistic Residencies

Low Realism Artists Research Laboratory with Ed Atkins / Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, 2025.

Education

Master Experimental and Documentary Film / HSLU, Lucerne, 2025-present.

Bachelor Set Design / Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, 2021-2024. Graduation thesis: Images and Abscence. Diego Marcon's Cinema. Graduation Project: Untitled (Swing). Grade: 110 cum laude out of 110. Mentor: Diego Zuelli.

Internship at Studio Azzurro, Milan, 2023. Set up project for the light installation Epifània - installed in Bergamo, 2023.

Accademia Ibrida: Artistic Practice, Pedagogy, and New Technologies with Valerio Rocco Orlando / Brera Academy of Fine Arts, 2022.

Dramaturgy of light: Light and contemporary technologies for performance with Angelo Linzalata and Vincenzo Sansone / Brera Academy of Fine Arts, 2022.