LUCA RESTA

Overview
Monuments, Shelfs #1, 2025, Alabaster, iron, 30 x 80 x 55 cm
Monuments, Shelfs #1, 2025, Alabaster, iron, 30 x 80 x 55 cm

Luca Resta (born in 1982 in Italy, lives and works in Paris) grounds his artistic practice in everyday objects. His work unfolds through processes of accumulation, reproduction, and transformation, drawing from the social and cultural environment around him. Like a form of contemporary archaeology, he collects disposable or ephemeral materials — plastic cutlery, packaging, hybrid objects — creating endless series that probe the codes of standardization and repetition.

 

These familiar forms gradually find a place in his visual vocabulary, which expands the field of sculpture through manual know-how and carefully constructed display systems. His artistic language — seriality, homogenization, industrial accumulation, mechanical iteration — engages with the objects’ narrative potential, turning them into tools for reflection on the systems that produce and consume them.

 

Through sculptural, sonic, or architectural installations, Luca Resta explores the sociocultural logics embedded in the most banal materials. His work challenges our perception of the ordinary, offering new ways of encountering both objects and the structures they represent. Ultimately, he transforms the everyday into a subtle yet powerful aesthetic experience — one of the “invisible, or almost.”

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Biography
Lucas Resta
Lucas Resta

LUCAS RESTA

Born in 1982, Italie

Lives and works in Paris

Resident at POUSH (Aubervilliers)

 

COLLECTIONS

2022 - POC Fondation, Bruxelles, BE

2021 - TA(R)DINO 6 Art Platform, Baku, AZ
2021 - OTO Sound Museum, Zurich, CH
2014 - BACO - Base Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, IT
2013 - VIAFARINI Collection, Milan, IT
2010 - VIAFARINI Collection, Milan, IT
2009 - MOMENTA ART, New York, USA

 

AWARDS

2022 - CARRÉ SUR SEINE, first prize, Paris, FR
2017 - TALENT PRIZE, Museo Macro, finalist, Rome, IT - (Catalog)
2009 - L’AZZURRO PER L’ARTE, Jade Art Gallery, first prize, Bergamo, IT - (Catalog)
2007 - EXTEMPORE X, Medieval town, critics award, Suvereto, IT
2006 - ARTEIMPRESA, Academy of Fine Arts and Industrial Union of Bergamo, third prize, Bergamo, IT - (Catalog)
 
SOLO SHOW
2024 - HAPY TEMPLE BLOCKS, Musée de Grenoble (Saint Ange Residency exhibition), Grenoble, FR
2024 - ALLEGORIA CON ORTAGGI, POLLAME, CESTI E VASELLAME (Allegory with potagis, fowle, baskettes, and vesselle), Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
2022 - À LA PÊCHE À LA LIGNE, L'ASTICOT AUSSI EST INNOCENT, 22,48 m², Paris, FR
2021 - SOLO SHOW ROOM, 22,48 m² show room, Paris, FR
2021 - GRIPIA CITY, OTO Sound Museum, Zurich, CH
2019 - DEPICTION OF NATURE AND SOCIETY, Galerie Italienne, FR
2018 - IT HAPPENES, Galleria del Ponte, Florence, IT (bipersonal)
2014 - J-12 SUPERPOSITION, Paris 8 University Gallery, Paris, FR
2013 - CHAMBREQUATREVINGTCINQ, ARS+L, Bergamo, IT
2010 - FUNZIONI CONTINUE, PROGETTI SENZA SOLUZIONE DI CONTINUITÀ, BoomBoom Gallery, Carrara, IT (bipersonal)
2009 - MAN AT WORK, Placentia Art Gallery, Piacenza, IT
2009 - BOXES, ARS+L, Bergamo, IT
 

SELECTED GROUP SHOW

2025 - LE COSE CHE NON SAPPIAMO, Romero Paprocky, Paris, FR

2024 - PASSIONS PARTAGÉES, Mucem, Marseille, FR
2024 - REVENIR DU PRÉSENT, REGARDS CROISÉS SUR LA SCÈNE ACTUELLE, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
2024 - I TOOK A SCREENSHOT OF THE WHOLE WORLD , Poush, Aubervilliers, FR
2023 - THE GOST BETWEEN THE GUEST AND THE HOST, Gia Viewing Room, Paris, FR
2023 - L'APPETITO VIEN MANGIANDO, 22,48 m², Paris, FR
2023 - LA CASA, Poush, Aubervilliers, FR
2022 - THE ART OF FOOTBALL SCARF, OOF Gallery, London, UK
2022 - LE MÉTIER DE VIVRE, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
2021 - CHI NON SALTA, MUFOCO Museum, Cinisello Balsamo, IT
2021 - CLICK HERE N°5, 22,48 m², Paris, FR
2020 - FESTINA STONATA, Luogo_e, Bergamo, IT
2019 - SHADOWS, Galerie Italienne, Paris, FR
2019 - RITES ET TEMPOS, L’Atelier Blanc - Moulin de Arts, Villefranche, FR
2019 - TOUT VA TRÈS BIEN, Galerie Mansart, Paris, FR
2018 - SENSE AND SENSIBILIA, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, IT
2018 - DO DISTURB #4, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2017 - TALENT PRIZE, Macro Museum, Rome, IT
2017 - THE SERIALIST, Centro Luigi di Sarro, Rome, IT
2017 - TINTO. WITHOUT TINTO, Espace 8, Bruxelles, BE
2017 - CORRESPONDANCES, Galerie Mansart, Paris, FR
2016 - DO DISTURB #2, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2016 - D.A.M.A., Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin, IT
2016 - METAMORPHOSIS, Galerie Italienne, Paris, FR
2016 - REPETITION/S, City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana - SLO
2016 - BRAVE NEW WORLD, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Agia Paraskevi , GR
2016 - BABEL, Contemporary Locus, Former Church of S. Michele all'Arco, Bergamo, IT
2016 - HASARDS HEUREUX, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
2016 - SDS#9, Salon du Salon, Marseille, FR
2016 - UNA QUESTIONE PRIVATA, Yellow artist run space, Varese, IT - (Catalog)
2015 - COMMON PLACE, Rajattila Gallery, Tampere, FIN
2015 - BIENNALE GIOVANI MONZA, Arengario Palace, Monza IT - (Catalog)
2014 - CALCIO D’INIZIO, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin, IT
2013 - RAGAZZE (Openstudio), Viafarini in Residence, Milan, IT
2013 - ALL IN GOOD TIME, Palazzo della Misericordia, Bergamo, IT - (Catalog)
2012 - DAL TRIBUNALE DELLA MENTE, S. Maria Maggiore Cathedral, Bergamo, IT
2011 - LA GRAMMATICA DEL CONTEMPORANEO, Betta Frigeri Gallery, Modena, IT
2011 - STATE OF THE ARTS, Tese of S. Cristopher, 54° Venice Biennal, Academy Pavilion, Venice, IT - (Catalog)
2011 - VERSUS XVII, Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Turin, IT - (Catalog)
2010 - QUALI COSE SIAMO, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, IT - (Catalog)
2010 - IL RACCOLTO D’AUTUNNO CONTINUA AD ESSERE ABBONDANTE, Docva, Milan, IT
2009 - INAUGURAL EXHIBIT, Art Raw Gallery, New York, USA
2008 - BANG BANG – IL RUMORE DIVENTA MUSICA, Oberdan Space, Milan, IT
2008 - ACCADEMIE, L’ARTISTA NEL SUO FARSI, XXV Sculpture’s Biennal, Fabiani Building, Gubbio, IT - (Catalog)