Here are all the names of the final ranking.

Once again, this edition has left us favorably impressed by the quality of the artistic material represented. The jury also found it difficult to express purely numerical judgments on a series of names that probably deserved a group tie. But the hard law of the game applies to art prizes as well, and in the end, despite nearly two months of gestation, a ranking was formed and thus a winner.

The exibart prize jury composed of Stefano Raimondi (ArtVerona), Silvia Simoncelli (Naba), Giovanni Iannaccone (Collector), Michela Rizzo (Gallerist), Federico Pazzagli (exibart), Gabriel V. Luciani (Curator), and Emilio Vavarella (Artist), expressed the following ranking:

1. Luca Staccioli
2. Mattia Sugamiele
3. Nicola Guastamacchia
4. Stefan Milosavljevic
5. Edson Luli
6. Lucrezia Costa
7. Luisa Turuani
8. Iacopo Pinelli
9. Tatiana Villani 9. Cristiano Carotti
10. Elisa Leonini 10. Lisha Liang

Below are the profiles of all 12 artists:

Luca Staccioli

Luca Staccioli understands his artistic practice as an experimental, process-oriented research that encompasses various media, including video, sound, sculpture, embroidery, drawing, and collage.
Conceived as narratives, his works question pre-established values, forms of colonialism, the exploitation of emotionality, and imagery that has turned into homogenizing trends.

Mattia Sugamiele

I am interested in the transformation of the image, which mutates until it disappears, often stripped of the system of signs it was able to evoke, creating a void in which technology finds its space.
My research explores the interaction between humans—along with their memories, actions, desires, and hopes—and the evolution of the technological sphere shaping our contemporary world.

Nicola Guastamacchia

Nicola Guastamacchia (Bari, 1990) is an artist and independent researcher based between Bari and London. His work engages with political and social themes with a focus on the contemporary mapping of borders and the importance of various forms of hybridization and linguistic blending. Within this framework, his projects unfold at the intersection of artistic production, law, and political reflection.

Stefan Milosavljevic

My work is mainly based on the relationship between human needs and nature. I am interested in the forced mutation of natural elements in relation to human desires, and how these permanent changes are connected to politics, wealth, gender, social roles, and identity, where layers of history are determined by aesthetic trends. I am fascinated by abandoned everyday objects of design, decoration, and various utilities that were once constructed out of great desire and then left to their fate.

Edson Luli

An individual’s perception of reality in relation to the environment, time, external stimuli, and thought patterns conveyed by mass media are some of the themes that Edson Luli addresses in his multidisciplinary research.
By offering the public a participatory perspective, Luli aims through his practice to explore and observe what happens when we are engaged in the activity of thinking.

Lucrezia Costa

Lucrezia Costa is an emerging artist, but above all, she is an uncomfortable crack. She began being a crack when she decided to enter the “dark wood” that Dante confronts at the beginning of his journey in the Divine Comedy. Her Bachelor’s degree in Photography, her Master’s in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, and the pandemic emergency accelerated the process, much like an earthquake generates fractures inside a solid wall.

Luisa Turuani

Luisa Turuani (Milan, 1992) investigates human nature through the desires that people project onto objects. After completing her studies in sculpture at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Luisa Turuani began experimenting with her first performative actions in urban spaces, interacting with the public—who were often unaware of being a fundamental part of the artist’s works.

Iacopo Pinelli

Iacopo Pinelli (Gavardo, 1993) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata in Visual Arts – Decoration (2018). His stylistic signature combines installation and sculpture through different media, investigating everyday social, political, and relational issues while focusing on the human condition. Drawing inspiration from a phenomenological analysis of daily life, he creates new possible worlds in which the collective critical consciousness can awaken from its torpor.

Tatiana Villani

Tatiana Villani conducts research on humanity’s relationship with itself and the environment, working on borderlands between visual languages and various fields of intervention, whether artistic, social, or pedagogical. Her projects unfold rhizomatically, both individually and collectively. Her work ranges from visual arts to theater, up to art therapy applied to various social areas.

Cristiano Carotti

Born in Terni in 1981, he currently lives and works in Rome. His research unfolds across painting, sculpture, and installation, and is always grounded in analyzing the centrality of the symbol in social dynamics. The archetypal power that certain symbols hold within communities is the engine behind Carotti’s work, which is often articulated around highly topical issues. The duality of Homo—as much Naturalis as Mechanicus—and the conflict created by this dualism form the core of the latest phase in Carotti’s research.

Elisa Leonini

Within the illusion of a contemporary society where everything is accessible, elusive and “immaterial” presences exist, reduced to an imperceptible dimension. My research consists of identifying entry points into this dimension, seeking to bring to light new possible perceptions of reality. My interest in space and dialogue with the environment has mostly directed my work toward site-specific installations, utilizing various expressive means ranging from sculpture to video.

Lisha Liang

My research direction aims to enter community issues and use my work to reflect on the inequalities of developed society. Furthermore, contemporary art is a mirror reflecting society’s questions: what can we do to make tomorrow better than today? I hope my works will highlight public life’s challenges. Due to the frequency of various social topics regarding women in recent years, I have gradually shifted my research focus to the topics of sex education and domestic violence. Through my perspective and female sensitivity, I bring a deeper awareness and analysis of the existence of these issues and their negative impacts.