Fabrizio Bellomo

Fabrizio Bellomo (Bari, 1982) is an artist and filmmaker.

He participated in the 16th and 19th editions of the Italian Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: first with the project Villaggio Cavatrulli, and later with the installation Abito Mari, commissioned by the Fondazione Filiberto e Bianca Menna in Salerno.

He took part in the 38th, 39th and 41st editions of the Torino Film Festival and, with the film Commedia all’Italiana, won the Special Jury Prize in the italiana.doc section at the 39th edition.

His solo exhibitions in institutional venues include:

Meccanicismo (2018) at the Kulturni Centar Beograda, Belgrade;

‘Nziembru (2024) at Fondazione Elpis, Milan;

Abito Mari (2025) at the Gallery of Contemporary Art Tirana by Mane Foundation.

He has also exhibited at MACRO, Rome; Triennale di Milano; Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome; Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro; Filmmaker Festival in Milan; Festival dei Popoli in Florence; Bellaria Film Festival (where he won First Prize with the film Vernissage); Cinemed in Montpellier; Ekrani i Artit in Shkodër; Fotomuseum Winterthur during Plat(t)form; Tirana International Film Festival; PhEST, Monopoli; Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Tokyo; FAB in Tirana; Fondazione Pino Pascali in Polignano a Mare; Kreuzberg Pavillon in Berlin and at Fundació Enric Miralles in Barcelona.

He has developed projects in collaboration with or commissioned by institutions including MiC; Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli; Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia; Apulia Film Commission; Fondazione Dioguardi; Tirana Art Lab; Art House; Careof; Fondazione Elpis and Galleria Continua.

His works are included also in the collections of the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea (MuFoCo); the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD); the collection of Museo del Palazzo Malatestiano in Fano; Simmons & Simmons collection and the nctm e l’arte project collection in Milan.

Fabrizio Bellomo has published several books, including the last photo-books Villaggio Cavatrulli, published by Centro Di in Florence and Concrete Albania by Onufri in Tirana.