Narrative systems lie at the core of Francesco De Bernardi’s practice, serving as a framework through which he intertwines everyday experiences and fictional stories. These systems take shape in the form of sculptures, texts, audio works, and drawings, allowing him to explore themes of self-doubt and duality, particularly as they appear in modern literature.






1995, lives and works in Milan

EDUCATION
2018-2020   
MA  Visual Art at ECAL, Lausanne, CH
2014-2017    
BA   Painting and visual art at NABA, Milan,IT 

SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025  
Solo booth at Esther, Triangolo, New York, USA (upcoming)
2024 
Solo booth Miart, Triangolo, Emergent section curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, Milan, IT
Superb visibilty all round, duoshow with Alice Peach, La Placette, Lausanne, CH
2023  
Getting attached to (...) is difficult, curated by Iacopo Spini, Triangolo,Cremona IT
Your ease doesn't simplify things / your ease is not making it easier, curated by Camille Besson and Haydeé Marin-Lopez,  Café des Glaces,Tonnerre, FR
2022   
Il più bell’errore del mondo, duo show with Valentina Pini, curated by Gabriel Stoekli and Giacomo Galletti, Sonnestube, Lugano, CH
2021   
Adaptation I-Weary Friends, duoshow with Leonardo Pellicanò curated by Stefania Carlotti and Margaux Dewarrat13, Lausanne, CH
2020  
Domenica, duoshow show with Giovanna Belossi proposed by Paul Paillet, Lokal-int, Biel/Bienne, CH

GROUP  EXHIBITIONS
2025  
group show, Clima, Milan, IT (upcoming)
Contribution to the solo show of Jack Roberts, Star Drawings, Jir Sandel/In Den Bouw,Kalken, BE (upcoming)
Parloir, curated by Gauli Zitter, Milan, IT   
Are you in London?, Triangolo at 2 Hoxton street, London, UK
2024  
Hidden structures, Triangolo, Cremona, IT
Incurabile, Luogo_e, curated by Federica Mutti, Bergamo,IT
2022  
Prison Break, curated by Hruze Gegi, Winterthur, CH
The September Issues, curated by Mohamed Almusibli, Peres Project, Milan, IT
Break-In, curated by Arnold Braho, The Adress gallery, Brescia, IT
2021
Lemaniana, Reflets d’autres scenes, curated by Andrea Bellini Mohamed Almusibli, Jill Gasparina and Stéphanie Moisdon, Centre d’Art Contemporaine Geneve, CH
Casette per Uccelli, curated by Margaux Dewarrat, Basecamp, Locarno CH
2020  
Luna Crescente, curated by Edoardo Manzoni and Giada Olivotto  Residenza la Fornace, Spino d’Adda,IT
2019 
Usefulless, curated by Mélanie Matranga and Clément Délepine Galerie Crèvecoeur,Paris, FR
Agli Scultori Giovani curated by Stefano Boccalini, Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan, IT 

AWARDS AND GRANTS / RESIDENCIES

2024   
Acquisition by FondazioneFiera Miart, Milan, IT
2023   
UNPAE, Roccacaramanico, IT 
2023   
Piccole Baie, Portofino, IT
2021    
Bourse de Recherche de dèveloppement artistique, Canton Vaud, CH
2020   
Residenza la Fornace, Spino d’Adda, IT



PUBBLICATIONS

2025    
Provence (upcoming)
Viaindustriae (upcoming)
2023    
Your ease doesn’t simplify things / your ease is not making it easier by Robin Sara Stauder, C41
Primavera with Alice Peach, edited by UNPAE
Night Night Bedtime stories by Andrea Bocca, editet by Fermacampione
2021    
Lemaniana exibithion catalogue, edited by Motto Books
2020  
12-12, by Paola Bombelli 2020
I Have Like a Real Real Denim Problem, by Hanna Rochereau