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. Landscapes are treated as living systems that remember, resist, and respond. From within them, images, scent, light, sound, and sculptural elements surface and gather, forming immersive encounters where self and terrain intertwine, fragility unfolds into resilience, and memory courses through every surface and gesture. Queer ecology shapes both method and perspective—messy, interdependent, entangled. Rossetto proposes ways of sensing, inhabiting, and imagining the world that shift perception and presence, insisting that these gestures themselves enact change and invite new forms of connection with one another and the landscapes we inhabit.
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January 2026 | Group exhibition, Condo Satellite – Harlesden High Street hosted by Offspace Refusés (London, UK)
February 2026 | Group exhibition, Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom – Offspace Refusés (London, UK)
March 2026 | Group exhibition, Tutto o Niente – Offspace Refusés (Lugano, Switzerland)
April 2026 | Group exhibition, NewKammer – Atelier Righini-Fries Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland)
May 2026 | Solo show – Kulturfolger (Zurich, Switzerland)
May and June 2026 | Artist residency at Luoghi di Seconda Origine – MAN_Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro (Nuoro, Italy)
August 2026 | Duo showwith Jess Holdengarde – Casa Azul (Gordola, Switzerland)
September and November 2026 | Artist residency at Fundaziun Nairs (Scuol, Switzerland)
2027 | Group exhibition, MAN_Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro (Nuoro, Italy)
Solo exhibitions
2025 | FEROCE – standard/deluxe (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2025 | Tra le rocce – Amiamo Caffè (Zurich, Switzerland)
2024 | Artificio – Micromacro, Atelier Viandanti (Lugano, Switzerland)
Group exhibitions (selection)
2025 | Group exhibition, Private Party – Anggrek Agency (Zurich, Switzerland)
2025 | PUGLIODROME, Group exhibition at Kulturfolger (Zurich, Switzerland)