Andrea Familari

Italy, 1987. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Andrea Familari is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans contemporary art, theater, and music. Active internationally since 2011, his work emerged from the underground media art scene, where he began experimenting with the materiality of the image and its supporting technologies.

Familari’s current research explores how AI and technology shape human relationships. His recent works invite audiences into conversations with virtual beings, reflecting on intimacy, communication, and perception. Using video, generative systems, and multi-screen setups, he creates spaces for emotional and critical encounters with machines.
 
His repertoire is regularly showcased in theaters, concert halls, festivals, and museums.

In 2013 he moved to Berlin.

Since 2011 he runs FAXstudio, a multidisciplinary studio curating audio-visual performances, light design, scenography, videoclip production.
In 2017 he founded psst.one, a video-research channel focused on weekly interviews of artists whose practices relate to the audio/visual field.
In 2019, he co-founded Fronte Vacuo, an artistic group, together with Marco Donnarumma and Margherita Pevere. He was part of the group until 2024.

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SELECTED PERFORMANCES
/with Fronte Vacuo
℧R, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK, 2022
ΣXHALE Ep.1-2-3-4-5-6, Volkstheater, Wien, AU, 2022
ΣXHALE Ep.1-2-3-4, Tanzhaus, Düsseldorf, DE, 2022
ΣXHALE Ep.1-2-3-4, CTM Festival, Berlin, DE, 2022
4.0.1 The Ether Sessions, Theater RAMPE, Stuttgart, DE, 2021
℧R, Touch Me Festival, Kontejner, Zagreb, HR, 2021
ΔNFANG, Romaeuropa Festival, Pelanda Theatre, Rome, IT, 2020

/solo
Roma Europa Festival, IT – A/V Impro. with Demetrio Castellucci, 2018
Spektrum, Berlin, DE – A/V Impro. with various artists, 2016-2019
MainOFF Festival, Sala Perriera, Palermo, IT – A/V Live, 2017
Adiacenze Gallery, Bologna, IT – A/V Impro. with Andrea Taeggi, 2016
Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna, IT – A/V Impro. with Valerio Maiolo, 2016
University Of Oslo, Oslo, NO – Interactive Installation, 2016 
Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, NL – A/V Live, 2016
Robot Festival 08, Palazzo Re Enzo Bologna, IT – A/V Live, 2015
Flussi, Teatro Gesualdo, Avellino, IT – A/V Live, 2015
Mira Festival, Fabra I Coats, Barcelona, ES – Visual Impro. 2014
FORUM Przestrzenie, Krakow, PL – A/V Live, 2014
Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk, Berlin, DE – A/V Live, 2013
Mapping Festival, Le Zoo, Geneve, CH – Visual Impro. 2013

SELECTED TALKS
/solo
Zip-Scene Conference, Prague, CZ, 2025
Artistic Demo, IVA 2025, HTW Berlin, Berlin, DE, 2025

/with Fronte Vacuo
Arebyte Gallery, London, UK, 2022
Until The Doom, Volkstheater, Wien, AU, 2022
Presentation of funded project ΣXHALE, Autonom Symposium, Berlin, DE, 2021
Public presentation of “ΣXHALE”, Ki und theater, Düsseldorfer, DE, 2021
Talk “Body and Digitality”, Enjoy Complexity, Online, 2020

SELECTED EXHIBITION
Group Exhibition, Archipel, Vorfluter, Berlin, DE
Solo Exhibition, Dortmunder U, Dortmund, DE, 2024
Group Exhibition, Neun Sonnen, Dortmunder U, Dortmund, DE, 2022
Group Exhibition, HerMAP Art Projects, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, IR, 2021
Group Exhibition, HerMAP Art Projects, BOZAR, Brussels, BE – 2021
Solo Exibhition, BERLIN-WEEKLY, Berlin, DE, 2020
Solo Exibhition, NESXT, Independent Art Festival, Spazio Ferramenta, Turin, IT, 2017
Solo Exibhition, Adiacenze Gallery, Bologna, IT, 2017
Glasswall, FLUX-US, Cubo Unipol, Bologna, IT, 2015
39000 light straws, Galleria d’Arte Tornabuoni, Florence, IT, 2014

SELECTED COMMISSIONS
H.09 from the series “Tribute to the Noise”, Dong Gallery Taipei, TW, 2019
V.12 from the series “Tribute to the Noise”, Framed, Yokohama, JP, 2019 

SELECTED SCREENING
FILE, Centro Cultural Fiesp, São Paulo, BR, 2018
CSW Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk, PL, 2018
MSU The Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, RS, 2018
TADAEX,Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition, Tehran, IR, 2018
MA/IN, Fondazione Sassi Matera, IT, 2017
ADAF, Athens, GR, 2017
Blooming Festival, Pergola, IT, 2017

SELECTED RESIDENCY
/with Fronte Vacuo
Theater RAMPE, Stuttgart, DE, 2021
 PACT Zollverein, Essen, DE, 2019
Centre des Arts – CDA, Enghien-les-Bains, FR, 2019

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