Alessio Cannizzo (Rome,1993) is a visual artist and performer based in Berlin. He is currently studying Fine Arts, Sculpture at Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin, after an intensive program at Tanzfabrik Berlin. His practice unfolds between sculpture, installation, and performance, with a focus on the body as both instrument and threshold. Working with aluminium, glass, vegetation, and light, Cannizzo explores materiality as a temporal archive, where gestures leave scars, cycles are interrupted, and fragility becomes resistance. His works stage suspended ecosystems in which the border between darkness and light, presence and absence, is constantly renegotiated. He has been active across institutional and independent contexts, performing and exhibiting in venues such as Uferstudios Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Monopol Berlin, Notagallery, and Heilig Residency Vienna. In 2024, he performed at Haus der Kunst Munich in a project by Nico Vascellari and Kinkaleri, while earlier collaborations include working with Robin Rhode. Alessio Cannizzo’s practice unfolds at the threshold between body and matter, where gesture becomes inscription and surfaces transform into temporal archives. Aluminium panels, bent and scarred, register the force of movement, while dried grasses and thistles emerge as fossilised witnesses of cycles interrupted. His installations inhabit the fragile space between the organic and the industrial, between growth and arrest, where light appears not as origin but as residue—fractured, displaced, preserved. At the core of this practice lies the exploration of a border: the shifting line between darkness and light, absence and presence. In these suspended ecosystems, the body enacts rituals of interruption, tracing fragile acts of persistence. Darkness does not negate light, but sharpens its intensity; light becomes event, a fleeting rupture in deprivation. Cannizzo’s work thus gives form to a choreography of fragments, proposing art as a site where fragility resists disappearance, and every glimmer becomes a survival.
