about

Gabriella Sacco (2002) is a visual artist working with computer graphics and video installations.
Fascinated by the condition of the image and the cinematic medium, she graduated in 2025 from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan with a thesis about the relationship between image, death, and absence. She is now a student of Experimental and Documentary Film at HSLU Lucerne.
Her works have been showcased at international venues such as Animafest Zagreb, De Cinema Antwerp, Theaterhaus Stuttgart and Fondazione Antonio Ratti among others.
Exhibitions / Awards

Fondazione Antonio Ratti / group exhibition Aperto curated by Annie Ratti and Lorenzo Benedetti during CSAV led by Ed Atkins, Como, Italy, 2025.
CICA – Czong Institute for Contemporary Art / group exhibition Text-ure, Samdo-ro, Korea, 2025.
AA29 Gallery / group screening Video Project, Caserta, Italy, 2025.
Klet Gallery / Behind the scenes of Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia, 2025.
Animafest Zagreb / Student Competition - Official Selection and screening at Cinema SC, Zagreb, Croatia, 2025.
Palazzo Avogadro / group exhibition The Long Now, Brescia, Italy, 2025.
Al deserto / group exhibition Micelio, Chiavenna, Italy, 2025.
Art Gallery Finestreria / group screening Oltre Visioni curated by Claudia Ponzi and Irene Follador, Milan, Italy, 2025.
London Lift-Off Festival / Official Selection and online screening, 2024.
Icona Film Festival / Official Selection and online screening, 2024.
Grafixx 2024 / Official Selection and screening at De Cinema, Antwerp, Belgium, 2024.
Digital Kunst Festival / Official Selection and screening at Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2024. 
Lift-Off Film Festival / Official Selection, Audience Award and online screening, 2024.
Sàff Film Festival / Best animation nomination and screening at Chiesa Dei Cristallini, Naples, Italy, 2024.
Spazio Pantaneo / group exhibition Simposio, Rome, Italy, 2024.
Absurd Film Festival / Best don't watch it when you're eating Award, Milan, Italy, 2024.

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

Education
Master Experimental and Documentary Film: Lucerne Univeristy of Fine Arts (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.

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.
Internship at Studio Azzurro, Milan, 2023.