Matteo Giacomelli (b. 1997, Vicenza, Italy) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Munich. His practice moves across installation, performative writing, sculpture, sound, digital media, and time-based formats, informed by a research-driven approach rooted in Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies (STS). His work investigates the conditions under which ideas take material and institutional form — the translations, losses, and constitutive cuts that occur when something processual is forced into something determinate.

Recent and ongoing projects include situated sadders (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 without a single word of prose, 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 at the Technische Universität München (2023–2026). He is an applicant to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München for the class of Hito Steyerl, WS 2026. His work situated ladders (Excerpt) has been presented at Haus der Kunst, Munich, during the group exhibition Neutrinos and Dark Matter in May 2026. He has published theoretical and research work on [Research Catalogue / Zenodo, year].