Matteo Giacomelli (b. 1997, Vicenza; based in Munich) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working across installation, performative writing, and digital media. Informed by Science and Technology Studies and post-human philosophy, his practice investigates the conditions under which ideas take material and institutional form — attending to limits, thresholds, and the constitutive cuts that occur when something processual is forced into something determinate. Recent work has been presented at Haus der Kunst, Munich; from October 2026 he will join the class Emergent Digital Media, taught by Prof. Hito Steyerl, at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.

Recent and ongoing projects include situated ladders (excerpt), a performative installation that uses a heterogeneous field of ladders as spatial marker of epistemic positions within astroparticle physics; Referencing (Giacomelli, 2025), an academic-artistic essay composed entirely of parenthetical citations and scholarly formatting, interrogating epistemic delegation in scientific writing; and Manifesto, a performative text structured as a meta-linguistic ritual that exists only in the act of being read aloud — a work that does not proclaim but manifests itself. Across these projects, questions of incompleteness, the instability of knowledge regimes, and the relationship between language and embodied presence recur as structural concerns rather than thematic choices.

Giacomelli studied Philosophy, International Relations, and Economics at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (B.A., 2023) and Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Technische Universität München (2023–2026). His work situated ladders (excerpt) was presented at Haus der Kunst, Munich, as part of the group exhibition Neutrinos and Dark Matter, in May 2026. He has published theoretical and research work on Zenodo and Research Catalogue (forthcoming).