Antonio Biasiucci

Antonio Biasiucci is renowned for his photographic exploration of personal memory, documenting the rituals, places, and people of his native land.

Discover the life, most significant photographs, and must-see exhibitions of artist Antonio Biasiucci.

Antonio Biasiucci was born in Dragoni (Caserta) in 1961. After moving to Naples in 1980, he started working on a project dedicated to the urban fringe spaces and began exploring his personal memories at the same time, photographing the rituals, places and people of his hometown.

In 1984, he began a collaboration with the Vesuvius Observatory, carrying out extensive work on active volcanoes in Italy. In 1987, he met actor and theatrical director Antonio Neiwiller, establishing a working relationship with him that would last until Neiwiller's death in 1993. Right from the start, his research developed as a journey into the primary elements of existence. His solo exhibitions and participation in group exhibitions, festivals and national and international exhibitions have been numerous.

He has also collaborated on various editorial projects and taken part in important cultural initiatives of a social nature. In 2012, he founded “LAB/per un laboratorio irregolare”, a path for young photographers, to whom he transmits a method of constant analysis and criticism of their work.

He currently teaches “Photography as an artistic language” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Foggia, the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and Iulm University in Milan.

He has received important awards, including:

• the European Kodak Panorama prize in Arles in 1992 
• the Kraszna/Krausz Photography Book Awards in London in 2005, for the publication of the volume Res. Lo stato delle cose (2004)

Biasiucci was among the artists of the Italian Pavilion invited to the 2015 Venice Biennale.
 

Many of his works are part of the permanent collection of museums and institutions in Italy and abroad, including: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Centre de la Photographie, Geneva; Centre Méditerranéen de la Photographie, Bastia; Château d'Eau, Toulouse; Unicredit Bank Collection, Bologna; Departamento de información y documentación de la Cultura Audiovisual, Puebla (Mexico); Farnesina, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome; Fondazione Banca del Gottardo, Lugano; Fondazione Banco di Napoli; Fondazione Modena Arti Visive; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte Contemporanea, Guarene (Cuneo); Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach (Austria); Galleria Civica di Modena; Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD), Rome; Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome; Madre - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; MART - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto; MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome; Metropolitana di Napoli; MuCiv - Museo delle Civiltà, Rome; MUFOCO - Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo (Milan); Palazzo Reale, Caserta; PAN - Palazzo delle Arti, Naples; Photo Elysée, Lausanne; Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples.

Gallerie d’Italia – Turin presented the exhibition Antonio Biasiucci. Arca from 27 June 2024 to 6 January 2025, featuring more than 250 photographs. For the first time, the different chapters of Biasiucci’s “utopian poem” were brought together in a single exhibition.

The exhibition represented a new chapter in La Grande Fotografia Italiana, a project curated by Roberto Koch and launched in 2022 with Lisetta Carmi (Playing Loud). The programme continued with Mimmo Jodice (Senza Tempo) in 2023, Antonio Biasiucci (Arca) in 2024, and Olivo Barbieri (Spazi Altri) in 2025.