Biography 2026 — Andrea T. Barbiero

Andrea T. Barbiero (Vicenza, 1984) grows up in a “non-conventional” creative environment, where art is a way of observing the world even before being a discipline. This attitude accompanies him from the beginning and becomes the foundation of his research: understanding human behavior through forms, materials, and landscape.

Early Years and Barcelona

In 2010 he moved to Barcelona, a city that marked the beginning of his artistic path. There he came into contact with pop surrealism and began exhibiting in galleries and public spaces, developing an instinctive, narrative visual language closely tied to imagination.

Residencies in France

From 2014 to 2017 he participated in residencies with the St. Henri association in Castelnaudary, near Toulouse. The French experience strengthened his relationship with manual work, collective dimension, and dialogue with the landscape—elements that would become central to his future practice.

Return to Vicenza and Transition to Sculpture

Between 2017 and 2018 he returned to Vicenza, where he also exhibited for the Festival Biblico. During these years he approached sculpture, deepening his exploration of form, balance, and tension. In 2019 he presented his first solo exhibition at &Artgallery, initiating new collaborations and a more structural research approach.

The Shift to Land Art

From 2020 onward, his practice moved toward Land Art and site-specific installations. He created works for institutions and territories, including:
Municipality of Bassano del Grappa (VI)
Biennale del Baldo Festival (VR, 2021), in collaboration with Fondazione Cariverona
Bacchiglione Springs Park (VI, 2021)
Municipality of Sesto al Reghena (PN, 2024)
Municipality of Fontaniva (PD, 2025)
His installations often use bamboo, scaffolding, and natural materials, treated as temporary organisms that interact with the site. The structure becomes a living body: flexible, resistant, balanced between order and instability. This material choice forms the DNA of his language.

Performance and Research on Limits

In 2022 he created 504, a 21-day continuous performance inside the C.U.B.O. space, where he explored confinement as a tool to investigate limits, time, and self-perception. The work marked a decisive shift toward a practice combining body, endurance, and architecture.

Themes and Poetics

Barbiero’s research focuses on:
inner calm as a form of resistance
unconscious human behaviors
duality as an interpretative key
landscape as an organism to coexist with

Artistic Profile

Visual artist whose research centers on the relationship between body, structure, and landscape. His practice develops through sculpture, site-specific installations, and performance, with particular attention to human behavior, natural processes, and duality as a conceptual key. He uses bamboo, scaffolding, and natural materials as primary architectural elements, treating them as temporary organisms that interact with the context. His works explore balance, limits, resistance, and inner calm.

Research Areas

Sculpture and ephemeral architectures
Environmental installations and Land Art
Performances related to physical and perceptual limits
Study of human behavior and unconscious languages
Relationship between nature, structure, and balance
Duality as a conceptual matrix (tension/calm, interior/exterior, fragility/resilience)

Materials and Language

Bamboo and scaffolding structures form the architectural foundation of his work. These materials, chosen for their resilience and flexibility, become tools to investigate the relationship between stability and transformation, construction and adaptation. The works are conceived as temporary organisms that “breathe” with the place and interpret its tensions.

Poetic Summary

inner calm as a compass
unconscious human behavior
duality as an interpretative key
landscape as an organism to coexist with
Barbiero’s practice originates from observing human behavior and natural processes. His works—whether sculptures, installations, or performances—are devices that question how we inhabit space, time, and our own limits. Inner calm, repetition of gesture, construction as meditation, and relationship with landscape are central elements of his work.

CV

Andrea T. Barbiero
Visual artist – Sculpture, Installation, Land Art
Born 1984, Vicenza (Italy)
Lives and works in Italy

Artistic Collaborations

Assistant to the artist Freaks of Nature (2022)
Artwork for the album Born With a Basic Goodness (2020)
Restoration of works by artist Matilde Fabregat Mora (2013–2014)
Artwork for the album Panda Kid & Hawaiian Family (Barcelona/Vicenza, 2011)
Art-Surprise, small format (EL-DRAC, 2011)

Auctions

Iori Auction House, Piacenza – ARTPRICE listing (June 2023)
St. Henri Artists Association, Payra Sur l’Hers, Castelnaudary, Toulouse (France)
Regular archived auctions: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Publications

ArtTribune, 15/11/2022
Giornale di Vicenza, 25/11/2022
Corriere del Veneto, 01/12/2022
Vicult, 12/2022
Artistiche Menti, www.vpocket.it (June 2020)
La reseca de dulcinea magazine n.2 (November 2012)
Veritas catalog, Metamorfosi Gallery, with the work Luz dorada (2017)

Performances

504 – 21 days, 24h/24, one work per day
C.U.B.O. / Art & Gallery, Povolaro–Dueville, Vicenza (13/11/2022 – 03/12/2022)
The Mills, Teatro Preara, Montecchio Precalcino (Vicenza, 2019)
The Mills, Sarcedo Summer Fest, Sarcedo (Vicenza, 2019)
Tambien tienes alas utilizalas, Espai Jova, San Gervasi, Barcelona (Spain, 2017)

Artist Residencies

Convergenze Festival – IN-FINITO nuovo INFINITO, Sesto Reghena (PN), 2024 – Installation
Sentieri nell’arte, Baldo Festival, Caprino Veronese (VR), 2021 – Installation
Galleria E50035, La Cia Coop, Palazzuolo sul Senio (Florence), 2020 – Installation
Comunità Patrimonio Cultura + Fondazione Cariverona + Municipality of Bassano/Colceresa (VI), 2020 – 4 Land Art works
&Art Gallery, Vicenza (since 2019)
Estipouy Domaine d’Escapa, Auch (France), 2017
St. Henri Artists Association, Castelnaudary, Toulouse (France), 2014–2017
Sagrada Maria Club Association, Barcelona (Spain), 2014–2021

Solo Exhibitions

PRESI-DIO, Bacchiglione Springs, Vicenza – Installation (08/2025)
Monumento agli Alberi, Fontaniva (PD) – Installation (06/2025)
Convergenze Festival, Sesto Reghena (PN), 24/08/2024
504, C.U.B.O. / Art & Gallery, Dueville (VI), 13/11/2022 – 03/12/2022
Zona Porta Oro, Bacchiglione Springs, Vicenza – Installation (03/2021)
Spazio Q-19, Bacchiglione Springs, Vicenza – Installation (05/2020 – 09/2020)
ESSERE UMANO, Art & Gallery, Vicenza (03/05/2019 – 09/06/2019)
ILCANTIERE, Private Space Fam. Barbiero, Novoledo di Villaverla (12/09/2018)
B-TURBO, Galleria Studio Canale, Cavazzale (01/12/2017 – 15/02/2018)
5 ELEMENTI, Pomopero, Breganze (15/12/2017 – 17/02/2018)
Loggia del Capitaniato, Vicenza (24/05/2017 – 28/05/2017)
Espai Jova, San Gervasi, Barcelona (January 2017)
Sagrada Maria Club Association, Barcelona (01/03/2014 – 30/09/2014)

Group Exhibitions

Numa Gallery, Bucolica_022, Centro Arnaldi, Dueville (VI), 2022
Numa Gallery, Affordable (online), 2022
Numa Gallery, Verbario-nc, Giardino Jacquard, Schio (VI), 2021
Sentieri nell’arte, Baldo Festival, Caprino Veronese (VR), 2021
&Art Gallery, Vicenza (2019–2022)
Arte & Co, Life Panel s.n.c., Conselve (PD), 2019
VERITAS, Villa Monza, Dueville (01/09/2017 – 01/10/2017)
Expo, St. Henri Artists Association, Castelnaudary, Toulouse (2016)
Expo and Auctions St. Henri, Castelnaudary, Toulouse (2014–2017)
Galeria Espai G, Terrassa, Barcelona (2014)
Sagrada Maria Club Association, Barcelona (since 2013)
Carrer d’Artistes, Paris (2013)
Galleria Kunst-Projekt Forma:t, Berlin-Schöneberg (2013)
Espai Civic Barceloneta, Barceloneta Sonora, Barcelona (2012)
Galeria El-Drac, Cervera de Castellón, Valencia (2012)
Espai 201, Barcelona (2010)
Galeria Maxó, Barcelona (2010)
Galeria El Gigant de la Ciutat, Barcelona (2010)