Effe Minelli

b. 1988 Pompei, Italy. Lives and works in Torre del Greco, Napoli, Italy.

His notable exhibitions include solo, duo and group presentations at: L’occhio della Pernice - zaza’, Milan (2022); Camminiamo sul ciglio di un istante – Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba (2022); There is no time to enjoy the sun – Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2021); Parabasi – Galleria Tiziana di Caro, Naples (2020); Temporaneamente Succulenta Parallelamente Asciutta - Tarsia, Naples (2019).

Effe Minelli moves his research in the areas of sculpture and performance. His training takes place internationally and in particular at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Professor Thomas Demand and the Academy of Fine Arts in Viennaunder Professor Monica Bonvicini. While his formative years kept Effe Minelli out of the Italian context, it was in 2018 that the artist chose to return to Italy, first spending a period of residency in Naples (in a striking location behind the botanical garden), and later in Torre del Greco, where he currently has his studio. Effe Minelli’s work focuses on key themes such as gender identity and fluidity, the deconstruction of myth and History, and the analysis of the meaning of monument in the contemporary. These areas, in turn, open up further pieces and layers of meaning in the artist’s research, which come to make Effe Minelli’s interests markedly heterogeneous. His poetics is specifically formalized in sculpture, and especially in the use of porcelain, and in performance, in which the artist develops himself or entrusts the performer with its execution. This approach allows the artist to maintain a consistent formal figure even when the two languages, sculpture and performance, are mixed. Especially in his approach to the language of sculpture, Effe Minelli focuses on making small objects, sometimes body parts, such as arms or feet, conceived as prosthetics worn during performances. Such porcelain objects - to which are added masks, headgear or jewelry with archaic forms- are part of a research that has involved, in recent years, several artists in Italy and abroad and that sees, precisely in the production of small or medium-sized ceramic works, a particularly used and common form of expression.

Selected Exhibitions

2025 “Chi Esce Entra”, Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome, IT
2025 “Eyes Open, I Breathe Again”, curated by Samuele Visentin, Alice Amati, London, UK
2025 “Di Dissidenti, Esautorati e Bohémien”, ZAZÀ, Napoli, IT
2024 “(Un)known Territories”, Officine Saffi Award 5, Milano, IT
2022 “10 architetture italiane” with BB, cuarted by M. Ghidoni, E. Molteni e V. Pizzigoni, La Triennale, Milano, IT 
2022 “L’occhio della Pernice” curated by Rebecca Sharp, Zazà Milano, IT
2022 “Camminiamo sul ciglio di un istante” curated by Eunice Tsang, Sukanya Baskar and Shaelyn Hanes, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Torino, IT
2022 “Mimi and the Beauty salon”, curated by Katja Schroeder, Kunsthaus Hamburg, GE
2021 “Essenziale” curated by Gabi Scardi, NCTM per l’arte, Milano, IT
2021 “There is no time to enjoy the sun” curated by Federico del Vecchio Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, IT