Massimiliano Rossetto (b. 1993) is a Swiss–Italian artist.
He lives and works between Zurich and Berlin.

Rossetto’s artistic practice investigates how landscapes, narratives, and bodies pulse, seep, and intertwine, working through a queer ecological perspective. Across photography, sculpture, and multisensory installation, he engages remote and marginal sites—valleys, transitional terrains, and slowly transforming environments—where desire flows, memory lingers, and ecological processes unfold. His practice responds to the urgency of rethinking attention, care, and relationality in a moment defined by ecological and social precarity. Rooted in ancestral origins and personal narrative, he deconstructs and reconstructs images and materials, tracing the strata where matter, bodies, and places continuously shape and transform one another.

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Duo exhibition with Jess Holdengarde – Casa Azul, curated by Greg Tiani (Gordola, Switzerland)
Group exhibition, Offspace +41 (Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland)
Residency at Fundaziun Nairs (Scuol, Switzerland)
Solo exhibition,  SAC-Kunstpreis 2026 – Kunstmuseum Thun curated by Chiara Ottavi (Thun, Switzerland)
Group exhibition, MAN – Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro (Nuoro, Italy)

We left skin in the cracks – Kulturfolger, curated by Sibilla Panzeri (Zurich, Switzerland)
FEROCE – standard/deluxe (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Tra le rocce – Amiamo Caffè (Zurich, Switzerland)
Duo exhibition with Viola Poli – È Fuoco Nell’Iridescenza, Spazio Fervida (Lugano, Switzerland)
Artificio – Micromacro, Atelier Viandanti (Lugano, Switzerland)

Mobile Encounters, AK JOL – Gallery House Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland)
OZEANE FLIESSEN AUFWÄRTS – Hotel Tiger, 6 ½, EWZ Unterwerk Selnau (Zurich, Switzerland)
NewKammer II – Atelier Righini-Fries Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland)
Tutto o Niente – Offspace Refusés (Lugano, Switzerland)
Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom – Offspace Refusés (London, UK)
Condo Satellite – Harlesden High Street hosted by Offspace Refusés (London, UK)
Private Party – Anggrek Agency (Zurich, Switzerland)
PUGLIODROME, Kulturfolger (Zurich, Switzerland)
Oltre la pietra, Matazz Offspace – Castel Grande, Sala dell’Arsenale (Bellinzona, Switzerland)
The Grand Tiger Hotel – Hotel Tiger (Zurich, Switzerland)
Matazz Offspace – Unternehmen Mitte (Basel, Switzerland)
Space Invasion III ! Fabienne Levy Gallery (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Making space, finding forms (Diploma Exhibition MFA) – Toni Areal ZHdK (Zurich, Switzerland)
La Regionale (ACXSI) – Villa Ciani (Lugano, Switzerland)
Of Each Absence – Klimarunde, ETH curated by Judith Welter (Zurich, Switzerland)
GIFT, Toni Areal (Zurich, Switzerland)
Restless in the 1960s – Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo, Japan)
BreggiArte – Associazione Percorsi Culturali (Bruzella, Switzerland)
Playing with the trouble – [SIC] Space for International Cooperation (Athens, Greece)
2nd Quanzhou International Image Biennial – Huaguang Photography Art Museum (Quanzhou, China)
Playing with the trouble – Shared Campus Summer School (Aspropyrgos, Greece)
10th edition – La nuit de la photo, Musée des Beaux-Arts (La Chaux–de–Fonds, Switzerland)
OFF GRID – Material, curated by Elisa Pezza (Zurich, Switzerland)
Chapter II: shapes of water – Oncurating project space (Zurich, Switzerland)
Winter Auction Fine Arts – Fondation ZHdK (Zurich, Switzerland)
Rethinking Nature – Festival Center FOTO WIEN, European Month of Photography (Vienna, Austria)
Genesi creativa – m.a.x. museo, Spazio Officina (Chiasso, Switzerland)
.YOUNG – Kromya Art Gallery (Lugano, Switzerland)
Le stanze dell’arte – Palazzo Civico (Bellinzona, Switzerland)
Wunderkummer – Atelier Viandanti curated by Maria Ares, Francesco Maria Gamba (Lugano, Switzerland)
25th vfg Swiss Young Talent Award for Photography – IPFO Haus der Fotografie (Olten, Switzerland)
Rethinking Nature – Imago Lisboa, European Month of Photography (Lisbon, Portugal)
C’era una volta la Pangea – Offspace +41, curated by Nicolò Latini, Chiara Ottavi (La Saceba, Switzerland)
HOT MESS II – Neuezeit Ost, curated by Yolandé Gouws (Berlin, Germany)
Rethinking Nature – Mois européen de la photographie Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
photoSCHWEIZ – Halle 550, curated by Daniel Bollinger (Zurich, Switzerland)
24th vfg Swiss Young Talent Award for Photography – Kammgarn West (Schaffhausen, Switzerland)
S(P)LACES – Centrale Festival, curated by Laura Davì (Fano, Italy)
HOT MESS – Prince Charles, curated by Yolandé Gouws (Berlin, Germany)
24th vfg Swiss Young Talent Award for Photography – Oslo 8 (Basel, Switzerland)
24th vfg Swiss Young Talent Award for Photography – Photobastei (Zurich, Switzerland)
Generation Z – Noorderlicht International Fotofestival, curated by Robert Jan Verhagen (Groningen, Netherlands)
SPC Photo Awards – Photobastei (Zurich, Switzerland)
Environment Documenta – LoosenArt gallery (Rome, Italy)
Feast of the Peasant – RETA (Zurich, Switzerland)
Les nouveaux sauvages – Le Faubourg (Lyon, France)
The inner forest – Verzasca Foto Festival (Sonogno, Switzerland)
Vicini di casa – Spazio 1b (Lugano, Switzerland)
Sê plural como universo! – LaRada, curated by Carolina Sanchez, Riccardo Lisi (Locarno, Switzerland)
Exhibition École BLOO – Loft 4-40 (Lyon, France)
Vita di lago – Brissago Islands (Locarno, Switzerland)
Low Cost – BLOO gallery (Lyon, France)
Art Tonic – Port Tonic Art Center (St. Tropez, France)
Identità – Ego gallery (Lugano, Switzerland)
Making Life – Castellinaria, International young film festival (Bellinzona, Switzerland)
Self shots – Giu*BoxGallery (Naples, Italy)

ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts — MA in Fine Arts (Zurich, Switzerland)
BLOO — BA in Fine Arts & Contemporary Photography (Lyon, France)

Lac o Le Mon Foundation (San Cesario di Lecce, Italy)
City of Zurich – Kunstsammlung Stadt Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland)

Winner, SAC-Kunstpreis 2026 – Kunstmuseum Thun (Thun, Switzerland)
Nomination, Kunst am Bau Projekt «Bain & Co» (Zurich, Switzerland)  
Special mention, Premio Fondazione Verzasca (Vogorno, Switzerland)
Finalist, KSW Kantonsspital Winterthur Kunstpreis (Winterthur, Switzerland)
Finalist, H&B Real Estate AG Kunstpreis (Zurich, Switzerland)
Winner, 24th vfg Swiss Young Talent Award for Photography (Zurich, Switzerland)
3rd prize, Vita di lago – Verzasca Foto Festival (Brissago, Switzerland)

Fundaziun Nairs (Scuol, Switzerland)
Luoghi di Seconda Origine – MAN_Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro (Nuoro, Italy)
Simposio di pittura – Lac o Le Mon Foundation (San Cesario di Lecce, Italy)
Shared Campus – Restless in the 1960s, Summer School (Tokyo, Japan)
Shared Campus – Critical Ecologies, Summer School (Athens, Greece)

Kulturförderung Kanton Zürich / Fachstelle Kultur (Zurich, Switzerland)
Repubblica e Cantone Ticino / Fondo Swisslos (Lugano, Switzerland)
Focus Photo – Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council
What’s next_Compass – Z-Kubator at Zurich University of the Arts (Zurich, Switzerland)
Fondation Felix Leemann (Lugano, Switzerland)
Fondation Zangger Weber (Zurich, Switzerland)

Review Magazine, Issue No. 1  (London, UK)
LOVE, with Anaïs Strübin, Arthur Heck, Élisa Féraud, Inês Henriques and Francisca Patrocínio, published by ZHdK (Zurich, Switzerland)
FEROCE – Respiro Cosmico, Self–published (Zurich, Switzerland)
Voci d’Artista – Orizzonti, Cooperazione, Issue No. 24 (Basel, Switzerland)
Mineralien und Gesteine, Self-published (Zurich, Switzerland)
Naturalia, photo–letter (Berlin, Germany)
A Hybrid Transmedia Storytelling, HGK Basel FHNW Editions (Basel, Switzerland)
Fisheye Photo Review 2021.22, Fisheye Éditions (Paris, France)
ENTKUNSTUNG III (Berlin, Germany)
L’appel d’une forêt perdue, Fisheye Magazine (Paris, France)
PF – Fotografie Magazine, Issue No. 4 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Workshop, Schule für Gestaltung Bern und Biel (Zurich, Switzerland)
Workshop on Funding, What’s next_Compass – Z–Kubator (Zurich, Switzerland)
Incontri di Corippo, Fondazione Verzasca (Corippo, Switzerland) 
What’s next_Compass – Z–Kubator (Zurich, Switzerland)
Shared Campus – Restless in the 1960s, Summer School (Tokyo, Japan)

LOVE BOOK – Supported by ZHdK MA Fine Arts Department
Member of near. – Swiss association for contemporary photography
Photobook: RESET by “Self Publish, Be Happy” – EMOP Opening Days, hosted by C/O Berlin
Reflexions Masterclass founded by Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret
Co-founder of YET MAGAZINE