Giacomo De Luca

Giacomo De Luca (Lecce, 1999) is an Italian contemporary artist working internationally across contemporary dance, theatre, performance and contemporary art, as a dancemaker, performer, director and visual artist. Selected by leading European institutions and festivals, including: La Biennale di Venezia, Triennale Milano, Teatro alla Scala, Goethe-Institut (DE), LAC (CH), ICK Amsterdam (NL), Troubleyn Jan Fabre (BE), the Universities of Padua and Turin, Network Anticorpi XL, Viafarini, TEDx. Graduated from the Performing Arts Academy of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, is an Associate Choreographer at AiEP – Ariella Vidach. Founder of Visionary Artists for Change, an independent department for artistic research, he is also a member of PIA, the first independent school for visual arts and curatorial studies in Southern Italy. In 2026, he was awarded the Culture Moves Europe – Individual Mobility grant by Creative Europe, supported by the European Union, Goethe-Institut, ICK (NL). He was selected by Matteo Scabeni | AREA TREVIGLIO for the group exhibition Cinque alla Quinta, as well as by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi for BCC Arte & Cultura – Gruppo BCC ICCREA international mapping of 100 “Futuri Emergenti Italiani” (Emerging Italian Futures) artists under 35. As part of this mapping, he presented IL CORPO RELIQUIA, his first solo exhibition in Italy at MUST Museum, Museo Sigismondo Castromediano in Lecce and ACQ Pugliese. The exhibition was promoted by BCC Leverano under the patronage of Regione Puglia, Province of Lecce, Municipality of Lecce. In 2025, his work MO!, produced by AiEP in co-production with La Sfera Danza Festival, DIDstudio, supported by the Universities of Padua and Foggia, won the National Prize. It was also selected for RESIDANZA – Home for New Choreography, promoted by Movimento Danza, plus Dance Ecosystem – Supporting Artists Under 35, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, Campania Region, Teatro Nazionale di Napoli. He was also selected for the DIDstudio NAO – Performing Festival programme, receiving the ERBACCE grant promoted by CIMD with support from the Italian Ministry of Culture, SIAE Per Chi Crea – Artist Professional Development, Municipality of Milan, Cariplo Foundation. In 2024, his work COME STARE AL MONDO? was selected by Network Anticorpi XL – Nuove Traiettorie, supported by Cantieri Danza, Fondazione Armunia, L’Arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino. It was also selected by Triennale Milano – FOG and TRAC – Theatre Residency Centre, supported by Theatron 2.0, Principio Attivo Teatro, Crest Teatro TaTà Taranto, Manifatture Knos, SLAP Milano. That same year, he curated SLAPinprogress Milano 2024–25, contributed to Stratagemmi Prospettive Teatrali and MILANoTRE Festival, receiving a commission from DURAZZI MILANO, founded by Ilenia Durazzi and Maurizio Cattelan. From 2023 to 2026, he was a Full Scholarship Recipient of the Jan Fabre Teaching Group – Troubleyn (BE), as well as at Teatro OutOff in Milan. His work EVENT-0, a tribute to John Cage and Merce Cunningham, was commissioned by Spirito del Tempo Festival at ADI Design Museum Milano. With PRIMA NECESSITÀ, he was also a finalist at FLIC – Lanciano in Contemporanea. In 2021–22, he was selected by Sir Wayne McGregor for La Biennale di Venezia – Festival and Dance College. His work DRAMATIS was commissioned by La Sfera Danza Festival at Teatro Verdi in Padua. As a dancer, he has worked with Kinkaleri, Maria Hassabi, Merce Cunningham Trust, Liliana Cavani, Emio Greco | PC, Saburo Teshigawara, Wayne McGregor, Crystal Pite, Raymond Pinto, Edit Domoszlai, Fabrizio Favale, Matteo Levaggi, Emanuela Tagliavia, Alla Sigalova, Carla Fracci, Roberto Bolle. His repertoire experience includes works by Maurice Béjart with Tokyo Ballet and Béjart Ballet Lausanne, as well as William Forsythe and Angelin Preljocaj. Since 2020, he has been selected for advanced training and artistic research programmes led by Jan Fabre, Carolyn Carlson, Cristina Caprioli, Olivier de Sagazan, Cristina Rizzo, Monica Francia, Daniele Ninarello, Francesca Foscarini, Stefania Tansini, Daniele Albanese, Gruppo Nanou, Nicola Galli, Marta Ciappina, Camilla Monga, Francesca Proia, Francesca Grilli, Muta Imago, Franca Ferrari, Nicoletta Cabassi, Charles Pas, Melisa Zuberti. PRESS “Giacomo’s research places the body at the centre, as a living archive and an intelligent device capable of inhabiting matter as an evolving form of art, conceived as an expanded, critical and conceptual temporal space.” — Ahmet Öğüt, Berlin University of the Arts “Experimental artist. His language explores the body through a process of self-investigation that examines human creativity.” — Sir Wayne McGregor, La Biennale di Venezia “The qualities of a young yet already recognised talent such as De Luca’s multidisciplinary practice — originating from the same land that gave birth to Carmelo Bene — emerge above all from his training, firmly grounded in discipline and in the excellence of an educational tradition that has shaped both body and spirit at the prestigious Accademia Teatro alla Scala. This rigorous formation, combined with a perfectionist and determined nature, allows De Luca to continuously develop through encounters with leading figures, international institutions active in theatre-dance and performance.” — Floriana Conte, University of Foggia