Andrea Abbatangelo is a visual artist who graduated with Distinction from Central Saint Martins with an MA in Fine Art: Digital. He has developed an interdisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, printmaking, public art, and socially engaged methodologies. His work has been exhibited internationally across Europe, Africa, and the United States, including presentations at Phoenix Art Space (Brighton), Atelierhaus LEW1 (Darmstadt), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (Harare), and within Manifesta 11 (Zurich).
His research-driven practice explores the intersections of consciousness, biodiversity, and non-human intelligence through site-specific installations and participatory frameworks. Central to his work is the ongoing series New Observations on the History of Bees, which investigates pesticide impact on pollinator cognition by bridging Western scientific methodologies with traditional knowledge systems, including Vedic and Theosophical frameworks. This body of work, supported by a UAL Postgraduate Scholarship (2021-2023), has been featured in The Unfold Project: a Graduate Showcase and will be published by Lonely Stone Press.
Currently, Abbatangelo is developing BioViscous during his residency at Alias Studio x Serpentine's Future Art Ecosystems (April - July 2025). This project comprises two converging directions: BeeVision, an AI-driven immersive installation that simulates how pesticides affect bee perception using computational systems trained on environmental data, and speculative bio-materials research exploring protective barriers for pollinators. His practice consistently engages with collaborative research, working alongside biologists, hypnotherapists, and community groups to explore multi-species consciousness and environmental care.
Abbatangelo's works integrate diverse media—from traditional printmaking techniques like drypoint to contemporary bio-materials and computational systems—always in service of investigating perception, memory, and multi-species communication. His recent series Inkblot for Bees draws inspiration from Rorschach tests to engage both human and non-human consciousness through symbolic abstraction, while incorporating Reiki practice and active visualization into his artistic process.
His commitment to socially engaged practice is demonstrated through public art projects such as Radical Time(2017-2020), an assemblage installation that evolved from his participation in Gustav Metzger's Remember Nature at Serpentine Galleries (2015), addressing themes of climate crisis and sustainability within contemporary art practice.
Abbatangelo's work has been recognised through significant residencies including the 12. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie at Atelierhaus Ludwig-Engel-Weg (2023), where he collaborated with biologists at Technische Universität Darmstadt to explore bio-toxicology and pollinator decline, and CTG(R): Zimbabwe (2018). His exhibitions span major institutions including Tate Liverpool, MOCAD Detroit, the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and venues across Europe. Through this approach, Abbatangelo creates accessible yet conceptually rigorous artworks that invite audiences into expanded modes of sensing and understanding across species boundaries.
EDUCATION
2024
Certificate: Socially Engaged Art: Curating for Empowerment and Disruption, Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin (DE)
2023
MA Fine Art: Digital, graduated with Distinction from UAL - Central Saint Martins, London (UK)
Shared Campus Summer Schools 2022: “Commoning Curatorial and Artistic Education”, Documenta 15, Kassel (DE) and “Rivers: Jugular Veins of Empire”, London (UK)
2017
Masterclass: Across the Board, Kunstinstituut Melly [Former Witte de With], Rotterdam (NED)
2014
Art Direction for Film, Central St Martins, London. (UK)
Fictional – Storytelling, Liverpool Biennal and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. (UK)
2009
Drawing for Art & Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London (UK)
2005
BA Sociology of Cultural Processes, University degli of Perugia, Perugia.
COLLABORATION
2018
A Silent Opera on the Life and Art of Tehching Hsieh (2017/18), Tehching Hsieh and Li-E Chen, Live Art Development Agency; Tête-à-Tête: The Opera Festival, London. (UK)
2017
Une pensée pour la culture, Le Quotidien de l’Art & Palais de Tokyo, Paris. (FR)
2015
Remember Nature - A Day of Action with Gustav Metzger and the students of St Martins, Serpentine Gally and St Martins,
London (UK).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Work, London (UK)
Open, Southwark Park Gallery, London (UK)
The Hollow Hour, Art’otel Hoxton, London (UK)
2023
CSM MA' Final Degree Show2023, Central Saint Martins, London (UK)
A.A.LLES, #12 Darmstadter Tage Der Fotografie, Atelierhaus Ludwig-Engel-Weg 1, Darmstadt (DE) Solo
Visionary, The Earth Vision -13 Soho Square, London (UK)
2022
MERCH 2022, Koppel X, London (UK)
Press & Play, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton (UK)
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Work, London (UK)
Project RadioLondon 2015 - 2019, Airlock, Chicago (US)
This is Not a Party, MA Interim Show 2022, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London (UK) curated by Central St Martins
2021
PSX a decade of performance art in the UK, VSSL Studio, London (UK)
PSX a decade of performance art in the UK, ]Performance Space[, London (UK)
2020
Will the Sun raise again after Covid?, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (ZW)
2020
Prospettive - Public Art Project in Calderara di Reno, curated by Adiacenze, Calderara di Reno (IT)
2020
Emergency Fundarising, MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (US)
2020
Radical Time, CRAC Gallery, Terni (IT)
2019
I 10 Indipendenti, ArtVerona 2019, Verona (IT)
Mois de la Photo - Off, Neri Gallery, Paris (FR)
Cabinet de curiosite' | Wunderkammer, Le 6B, St Denis (FR)
2018
CTG-R: Zimbabwe 2018, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare. (ZW)
The Warmest Cord of Care, performance, in collaboration withSpazio Y, Border Crossing, Collateral Events, Manifesta 12, Palermo
2017
Screening: CF / The Digital Aesthetic inUtopia of Access, Reasearch Pavillon, Viva Arte Viva - 57 Biennale di Venezia, Sala del Camino, Venice.
Une pensée pour la culture, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
2016
Forms & Object,Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi. (IT)
Zunftmeister Cabaret der Künstler - Zunfthaus Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich. Curated by Christian Jankowski (CH)
2053: A Living Museum, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool. (UK)
FUCK / LIVE / ART, MORI + STEIN, London. (UK)
2015
Deep East Winter, Mayors Parlour Gallery, London. (UK)
2014
Intenditore di eco, C.A.O.S. Centro per le Arti Opificio Siri, Terni. Solo. (IT)
2013
Tell mum everything isok, Palazzo Penna – Centro per la cultura contemporanea, Perugia. (IT)
Archivio Queer Italia, The Independence - Art Verona, Verona, curated by Cuntemporary. (IT)
Miniatures / Marseille Provence 2013 – European Cultural Capital, La Friche, Marseille. (FR)
2012
Untouchable– support for a southwark LGBT network, Mori + Stein Gallery, London, curated by Franko B. (UK)
Current Mood #3 – Ecco come sarà il futuro, performance / solo show for Winning Hearts & Minds, Railway Lecture Hall, Documenta 13, Kassel, 2 07 2012, curated by Critical Art Ensamble. (DE)
2011
Dansem Festival, Klap, Marseille. (FR)
54 Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto. (IT)
Miniature, TownHouse Art Gallery, Cairo. (EGY)
2008 – 2009
Today Art Museum, Beijing. (CH) World Minute Exibition: MASP, Sao Paulo (BR); Fundacao Gulbenkian, Lisboa, (PO); Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, (IT)
2007
BAC! 07 - Babylon, CCCB, Barcelona. (SP)
W.A.Y. - What About You, during Terni Festival, C.A.O.S. / Ex-Siri, Terni. Solo. (IT)
Love is ConTemporary, C.A.O.S. / Ex-Siri, Terni. (IT)
Three Imaginary Worlds, Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary. Solo. (IT) catalogue
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024
Andrea Abbatangelo, An Imagined Walk, published by LUARTS - University of Loughborough, (UK) - artist book
99 Future Blue-Chip Artists, pages 32-33, curated by Artsted, published by Artifact ltd, UK
2023
12. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, pages 62-63, catalogue
99 Future Blue-Chip Artists, pages 32-33, curated by Artsted, published by Artifact ltd, UK
2022
Prospettive 2020 / 2021, catalogue
2020
Boom Cantiere Creativo, N 01, catalogue
2019
ArtVerona 2019, catalogue, pag 246
Romeo G., #HastagArt- Dallo Stile alla neutralizzazione, Skira
2018
Forum dell’arte contemporanea italiana 2018, conference at MAMBO Museum, Bologna
2017
Contemporary Performance Almanac, catalogue, pages 24, 25
2016
Objects & Forms/ Death and Romance in the XXI Century, pages 94 - 95 - catalogue
Cabaret der Künstler Zunfthaus Voltaire- Joint Venture Performances, Manifesta 11, Manifesta Foundation - artists book
Andrea Abbatangelo, in Enclave Land Art, catalogue, pages 11, 12
2013
Contemporary Performance Almanac, catalogue, pages 190, 191
+50 Sculture in Citta, catalogue, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive - Museo Carandente, pages 94-95 - catalogue
Andrea Abbatangelo, in Miniatures - Officinae, 2013, published by Indisciplinarte
2012
Andrea Abbatangelo, in Arte Mondadori
2011
Lo Stato dell’Arte - Umbria/ Palazzo Collicola - Museo Carandente, pages 22 - 23, catalogue
Andrea Abbatangelo, in Loving Effect, Quodlibet, pages 86 - 91 - artists book
2007
Bac! 07 Festival, catalogue of the exhibition at the CCCB, Barcelona (ES) - catalogue
What About Abbatangelo, Inside Art, n 36
Andrea Abbatangelo, in Three Imaginary Worlds, pages 8 - 15 - catalogue
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