Luigi Stoisa

Selvaggio di Giaveno (Torino), 1958
lives and works in Selvaggio di Giaveno (Torino)

Luigi Stoisa lives and works in Selvaggio di Giaveno, Turin, where he began his artistic career in the late 1970s during his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin, graduating in Fine Arts. His artistic practice developed during the 1980s, and since then his entire poetics has been rooted through materials transformation—an unstoppable process that alters forms, surfaces, and meanings. At the core of his practice is tar, a material in perpetual transformation, symbolizing an unceasing metamorphosis. Fascinated by the evolving nature of materials, Stoisa moves easily
between painting—explored in numerous forms—sculpture in terracotta and bronze, mixed-media installations, and drawing, which he considers the primal manifestation of an idea. He made his debut in 1984 with a solo show at Galleria Tucci Russo in Turin, presenting Narciso, an installation using tar and paint, establishing himself as one of the most original voices of the Italian postmodern scene.

SOLO SHOWS (selection)

2025
SENTIMI, Galleria Raffaella De Chirico, Milan

2024
La Grande Sete, Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo

2023
Cotti al sole, La Nuova Pesa, Rome

2017
In Cristo dalla morte alla vita, Reggia di Venaria, Turin

2011
Surf’s up, The Frost Art Museum, Miami

2010
Palazzo Litta, Milan

2005
Dalla Terra, Reggia di Caserta

1993
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Nizza

1986
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam

1985
Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona

GROUP SHOWS (selection)

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (selezione)

2026
SACRUM, Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo

2025-2026
Wunderkammer - L'arte si svela, Biasutti e Biasutti, Turin
2025
L'Arte dei Papi, Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
Awakening, Fondazione107, Turin
Materia di Mutazione, Studio Legale Manfredi,Turin

2023
Im Lauf der Zeit, MEB ARTE STUDIO, Borgomanero
"Una Pittura a Torino", Biasutti e Biasutti
Arte alle corti, Politecnico di Torino

2021
Vertigine – Visioni contemporanee della montagna, curated by G. Caione, Casa De Rodi, Domodossola

2019
L’Essere, curated by Marco Emilio Bertona, MEB Arte Studio, Bogomanero

2016
Le stanze del visibile, Spazio Aperto, XXXVIII Premio Matteo Olivero, curated by Giuseppe Biasutti, Fondazione Amleto Bertoni – Città di Saluzzo, Salone degli Specchi, Saluzzo

2014
BAM Piemonte Project 6, curated by E. Di Mauro, Imbiancheria del Vajro, Chieri, Turin

2012
L’Arte di Amare l’Arte, Works on auction for charity, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery

2008
Nient’altro che scultura, XVIII Biennale di Scultura di Carrara

2010
A comparison between italian and chinese artists – Shanghai Expo 2010, Padiglione Italia

2008
Nient’altro che scultura, XVIII Biennale di Scultura di Carrara

1996
Aetas Mutationis, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

1988
Spazi '88, Centro dell’arte contemporanea Pecci, Prato