Matteo Piacenti (Viterbo 2001) is a multidisciplinary artist, working on sculpture, painting, photography, performance, and video. His passion for art began at an early age, sparked by a decisive encounter with Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo, which opened the path to a broad and interdisciplinary artistic practice.
Piacenti’s work explores the relationships between the individual and society through a deep reflection on corporeality, memory, and identity. His first solo exhibition, Primi Impatti (2015) in Nepi, marked the beginning of a series of shows that have since taken his work to venues such as The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol, WeGil in Rome, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Rome, the Museo delle Culture in Lugano, Teatro India in Rome, and The Crypt Gallery in London.
In 2021, he was selected as a leading figure of the new generation of photographers within the Istituto Luce Historical Archive. That same year, he published RiMEMBRA, his first photographic book.
In 2022, he created an eight-hour performance in Bologna involving one hundred nude participants; from this experience emerged the exhibition Nel Giardino dei Corpi Svelati (2023) and the book of the same name (2024). The project was featured in the episode Le monde est à nu! – Italie, broadcast in Canada by TV5.
In November 2025, he founded MA.P, an exhibition center and artist residency located in the main square of Nepi (VT). For its opening, he presented the exhibition Matteo Piacenti e i fratelli Preti (Matteo Piacenti and the Preti brothers), organized in collaboration with the Jubilee 2025 and the Dicastery for Evangelization, a dialogue between his photographic research and the 17th-century painting of Mattia and Gregorio Preti.