Who I am

About Me

Photography is a way of World-making

Filippo Tommasoli is a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in 1990 in Verona. He began working as a professional photographer in his family’s photography studio, Studio Tommasoli (active since 1906), where he built his experience in digital and analogical photography, combining the study of new technologies with that of traditional processes.
 Parallel to his professional activity, he immediately began to explore the artistic expressive potential of the photographic language, focussing on its semiotic and philosophical peculiarities (in 2015 he graduated in philosophy of language with a thesis entitled “Photographing and building the world. A philosophical analysis of photographic language’).

His artistic research develops through photographic and videographic experiments and multimedia installations, expanding mainly in two conceptual areas: one related to photographic language, its grammar and liminal elements, and the relationship between photography, reality, truth and representation; the other focused on political and social issues related to migration, inequalities and the contradictions of the capitalist system.

He is among the winners of the ‘New Post Photography Award’ 2022, as part of the MIA Photo Fair, and has been selected by the Malerba Foundation for the photographic exhibition ‘Miradas Compartidas’, Havana, Cuba, in 2022 and 2023. In March 2023 he exhibited a dozen of his works at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. In June 2023 he is among the finalists of the 14th edition of the Combat Prize. In 2024 he exhibits at the Palazzo Grandi Stazioni in Venice and at the 81st Venice Film Festival.

For me and my artistic research, contamination is a fundamental element. Contamination of tools, languages, thoughts, cultures, points of view. The themes on which my research is based, whether existential or social and political, are themes that I always try to give the widest possible scope, so that they can best dialogue with an international audience. As an artist and as a man, I feel the need to receive and give all that I can both from those who are close to me and those who are far away from me, geographically and humanly. I think art really has this power: to cancel distances to bring us all together in one present in which to imagine a new future. This is why in recent years I have tried as much as possible to exhibit outside Italy, to interface with artists, colleagues, and audiences far away from me. If art is really able to move change, this is where it can act: in the space of separation between us and others, filling it with a hybrid and multifaceted reality of sharing, able to think, imagine, represent and then create a new tomorrow.

Portfolio

Creativity thrives with collaboration
The joining of mind to forge something real.

Amongst the latest exhibitions

  • 2009, Human Rights, Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta – artwork adquired by Museo d’Arte
    Contemporanea of Caserta.
  • 2010, Human Rights, Peace Bell (Campana della Pace), Rovereto.
  • 2019, Possible Landscapes, Fonderia XX.9, Verona.
  • 2019, Grenze – Arsenali Fotografici, Verona.
  • 2019, “L’arte della Memoria”, Gran Guardia, Verona.
  • 2019, multimedia installation “Self-Portrait of the Artist as a young man”, at Ashtart, off section of Art Verona.
  • 2020, “E del sapore di rugiada della pietra”, Gran Guardia, Verona;
  • 2022, Mia Photo Fair – New Post Photography Award.
  • April 2022, Fotogenesi. Il linguaggio fotografico oltre realtà e rappresentazione, Habitat 83, Verona. Artists in the exhibition: Sirio Tommasoli, Pietro Privitera, Silvio Wolf, Chiara Arturo, Alessandro Valeri, J&Peg, Marco Rossetti, Filippo Tommasoli. Curator: Annalisa Ferraro.
  • November 2022, Miradas Compartidas, Cuba, L’Havana, Palacio del Lombillo. Exhibition organized by Fondazione Malerba inside the insertion “Noviembre Fotografico” from Fototeca dell’Havana. Curators: Mino Di Vita (Italia) e Alain Cabrera (Cuba).
  • December 22, 2022 – January 12, 2023, Progress. On contemporary and future society, Millepiani Gallery, Roma.
  • Feburary 7-17, 2023, Migration and the shifting borders, Millepiani Gallery, Rome (LoosenArt Magazine).
  • March 6  – May 15, 2023: A Century of women, Italian Culture Institute, New York.
  • April 2023, Corpi che appartengono al vento, Galleria Isolo17, Verona, curated by Silvia
    Concari. Exhibition with Andreas Senoner and Michele Parisi.
  • June 2023, Combat Prize, Finalista con l’opera “Don’t Make Up”, Museo Giovanni
    Fattori, Livorno.
  • November 2023, Miradas Compartidas, Cuba, L’Havana, Palacio del Lombillo. Exhibition organized by Fondazione Malerba inside the insertion “Noviembre Fotografico” from Fototeca dell’Havana. Curators: Mino Di Vita (Italia) e Alain Cabrera (Cuba).
  • June 2024, Slightly Out Of Focus, personal exhibition at Palazzo Grandi Stazioni, HQ of Regione Veneto, Venezia.
  • September 2024, Slightly Out Of Focus, personal exhibition at 81° International Cinematography Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Spazio Regione del Veneto e Veneto Film Commission, Venezia.
  • March 2025, Slightly Out Of Focus, personal exhibition at Villa Borromeo, Sarmeola (PD), collaboration with Commissione Pari Opportunità of Regione del Veneto.
  • March 2025, Freedom, Studio la Città, Verona. Collective exhibition with  Marcela Cernadas,
    Sonia Terk Dalaunay, Anna Galtarossa, Julia Mangold, Lorenza Sannai, Tracey Snelling,
    Hema Upadhyay.
  • June 13, – September 13, 2025, Liminale. Sui confini del linguaggio, Moon Gallery, Pistoia, personal exhibition.

 
 

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