Andrea Mancini

Andrea Mancini’s current practice emerges from research into how materials govern or influence bodily behaviour within both public and corporate environments. Sound, in this context, is not only heard but felt—used as a physical medium that animates matter and alters spatial perception. His work creates conditions for direct, embodied encounters with space. Whether through vibration, spatial arrangement, or live activation, the installations encourage attention to the body’s relation to its environment.

During his residency, Andrea Mancini develops a sensorial sound installation that acts both as an autonomous spatial composition and as a performative environment activated by sound and movement. Collaborating with local realities, he works with architectural elements and surfaces that typically structure movement in urban and institutional contexts. Materials are chosen not only for their physical characteristics but also for their affective potential and the way they quietly regulate the body’s presence in space.

The project investigates how rhythms—material, spatial, and sonic—shape our experience of time and motion. Sound is transmitted through materials using transducers, transforming each element into a resonating body. This creates an experience of rhythm characterized by pressure, hesitation, echo, and tension.

Mancini also examines the politics of presence, exploring how materials communicate through texture, history, and resonance. Influenced by Jane Bennett’s concept of Vibrant Matter, the work regards materials as active agents, turning the space into a choreographed field of tension where silence and vibration guide the audience’s journey, inviting an embodied dialogue through movement and awareness.

Biography

Born in 1989, Brussels-based Andrea Mancini is an Italian-Luxembourgish artist and musician whose work explores the intersections of sound, space, and materiality, transforming overlooked materials into resonating, performative surfaces. Using sensorial mediums, sculptural and spatial interventions, he creates environments that invite active engagement and embodied listening. His installations blur the boundaries between architecture, sound, and presence – spaces that respond to movement, vibration, and proximity. Whether activated by himself or others, they become sites of sensory tension, dialogue, and shared experience, challenging how we inhabit and perceive the built world.

 

Recent exhibitions

2024	Venice Art Biennale, Venice, IT Minerals, group exhibition, Völlklinger Hütte, DE Minerals, group exhibition, MdA, Hamburg, DE
2023	Relics, open studios, KUFA, Esch-Alzette, LU Minerals, group exhibition, Rotondes, Luxembourg, LU
2022	Matter of Deep Dreaming, group exhibition, Casino Luxembourg, LU