Stef Fusani is an Italian artist and experimental designer based in Madrid since 2008. He works investigating the individual in constant negotiation with reality, trying to metabolize its stimuli through its physicality. His work addresses the origin of the production processes in relation to the human habits of the 21st century. Using non-standardized strategies and different materials and media, the aim of his projects is to develop new ways of seeing and relating to contemporary material culture.
His work has been exhibited in museums such as MAMbo in Bologna, the Maat in Lisbon, or acquired as part of the permanent collection of the MAXXI in Rome, as well as in galleries and exhibition spaces in Madrid, Milan, London, New York, Miami and Berlin, as well as in different international fairs. Throughout his career he has developed different projects located in the fluctuating space between art and design, analyzing the relationships between visual culture, material culture and plastic arts.
He is founder of the experimental design studio STANDARD404 (formerly known as La Cube), he has also worked as an independent curator, is co-founder of the Madrid-based collective Molto Molto Fuori, a curatorial platform active until 2019, is co-founder of Malerbe, an interdisciplinary research laboratory on contemporary material culture, and is co-founder of Cinema Parentesi, a collective that works on the curating, dissemination and scenography of installations related to video essays produced by artists, designers and architects. He has taught at several universities between Madrid and Turin and currently directs the annual course on Collaborative Design at IE (Instituto de Empresa). He has also taught numerous workshops at various schools and academies, including the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM).