breve biografia
plurale è un concetto.
Nasce nel 2020 e si presenta come collettivo artistico osmotico, i cui attivatori di base sono Leo Sophia (Verona, 1997) e Chiara Ventura (Verona, 1997).
Nel 2022 pubblica il Manifesto Gesto empatico, una dichiarazione poetica che afferma il suo esserci-nel-mondo, dove si sostiene l’azione empatica come l’unico mezzo oggi praticabile per restituire agli esseri e alle cose pari diritti e dignità. Partendo dall’osservazione di sessualità e piacere come spazi politici, crea immaginari e rituali volti a sgretolare una visione eteronormativa del corpo e a decolonizzare il desiderio. Riflette circa i codici estetici e linguistici legati alle ultime generazioni e studia, in particolare, il fenomeno trap italiano. plurale manifesta intuizioni e istanti di chiarezza attraverso gesti performativi, installazioni, video, musica e progetti editoriali, in una pratica quotidiana di confronto col mondo.
plurale è co-autore del libro SNITCH. Dentro la trap (Psicografici Editore, Roma) e ha pubblicato diversi EP di musica elettronica. Ha esposto, realizzato performance e interventi presso Museo Nazionale della Montagna “Duca degli Abruzzi” (Torino, IT), Galerie Utopia / 4lthangrund Cultural Center (Vienna, AT), Mart (Rovereto, IT), T.I.V.A Festival (Tirana, AL), Viafarini (Milano, IT), Galleria ME Vannucci (Pistoia, IT), Adiacenze (Bologna, IT), TAI (Prato, IT), Roma Smistamento (Roma, IT), Teatro 1 – La Pelanda, Mattatoio (Roma, IT), Le garage (Trento, IT), tra gli altri.
Inoltre, ha collaborato con diverse realtà extra-artistiche come il Centro Veneto di Psicoanalisi, la Comunità educativa Eldoardo&Esmeraldo di Verona e il Centro di Prima Accoglienza (CPA) dell’IPM di Bologna, tra gli altri.
short biography
plurale is a concept.
It was born in 2020 and presents itself as an osmotic artistic collective, whose basic activators are Leo Sophia (Verona, 1997) and Chiara Ventura (Verona, 1997).
In 2022 it published the Manifesto Gesto empatico (Empathic gesture), a poetic statement affirming its being-in-the-world, where empathic action is proposed as the only viable means today to restore equal rights and dignity to beings and things. Starting from the observation of sexuality and pleasure as political spaces, it creates imaginaries and rituals aimed at dismantling a heteronormative view of the body and decolonizing desire. It reflects about the aesthetic and linguistic codes related to the latest generations and studies, in particular, the Italian trap phenomenon. plurale manifests insights and instants of clarity through performative gestures, installations, videos, music and publishing projects, in a daily practice of engagement with the world.
plurale is the co-author of the book SNITCH. Dentro la trap (Psicografici Editore, Rome) and has released several electronic music EPs. It has exhibited, performed, and presented interventions at museums, foundations, galleries, and independent spaces, including Museo Nazionale della Montagna “Duca degli Abruzzi” (Turin, IT), Galerie Utopia / 4lthangrund Cultural Center (Vienna, AT), Mart (Rovereto, IT), T.I.V.A Festival (Tirana, AL), Teatro 1 – La Pelanda, Mattatoio (Rome, IT), Viafarini (Milan, IT), Galleria ME Vannucci (Pistoia, IT), Adiacenze (Bologna, IT), TAI (Prato, IT), Roma Smistamento (Rome, IT), and Le garage (Trento, IT).
It has also collaborated with various extra-artistic organizations such as the Veneto Centre for Psychoanalysis, the Eldoardo&Esmeraldo Educational Community of Verona, and the First Reception Centre of the Bologna Juvenile Justice System.
contacts
mail – collettivoplurale@gmail.com
instagram – @_plurale
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
SNITCH Vol.2, curated by Alessio Vigni, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
2023
SNITCH, curated by Alessio Vigni, Adiacenze, Bologna, Italy.
NO CAP, with critical text by Tiziano Tancredi, Galleria ONOFF, Milan, Italy.
Trying to be pleasure activists, curated by Mirco Marino, le garage lab, Trento, Italy.
OPEN BODIES, curated by Alessio Vigni, Hybrid Art Fair, Hotel Petit Palace Santa Bárbara, Madrid, Spain.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
The New Orchestra. Dalle comunità montane alla comunità del futuro, curated by Andrea Lerda, with the participation of Sofia Baldi Pighi, Gabriele Lorenzoni e Alexandra Mihali, Museo Nazionale della Montagna “Duca degli Abruzzi”, Turin, Italy.
2024
Living Rooms, curated by Unobis, Unobis, Padua, Italy.
Address Unknown – Città, limiti, confini, curated by Giulio Verago, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy.
TAI Club, curated by Gabriele Tosi, SC17, Prato, Italy.
2023
Latte Versato / Spilled Milk, curated by Mirco Marino, Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy.
2022
Abitare lo spazio, widespread group exhibition in public space, curated by Ileana Rutigliano and Giulia Del Gobbo, Venice, Italy.
2021 – 2022
Tracce visibili e invisibili / Visible and Invisible Traces, curated by In Habitat, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
2021
gesto, movimento, militanza / gesture movement militancy, curated by In Habitat, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
CASAMATTA discontinuità, curated by Re-Public, Bastione Sangallo, Fano, Italy.
PERFORMANCES, INTERVENTIONS
2025
Trap in cucina / Trap in the kitchen, intervention, with the participation of Leonardo Venturi, Teatro 1 – La Pelanda, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy.
2024
Reconnect your body, live performance, TR4NSFORMA, 4lthangrund Cultural Center Vienna / Galerie Utopia, Vienna, Austria.
POV, live performance, Unobis, Padua, Italy.
Reconnect your body, live performance, METEORE FEST, Roma Smistamento | TWM Factory, Rome, Italy.
Luogo comune / Cliché, performative intervention, curated by Alessio Vigni, (un)fair, Superstudio Maxi, Milan, Italy.
2023
Live, live performance, curated by Alessio Vigni, Adiacenze, Bologna, Italy.
Pensieri concessi in luogo pubblico, estetica di un linguaggio / Thoughts granted in a public place, the aesthetics of a language, installative intervention, curated by Performing The Club, Azimut club, Turin, Italy.
Colazione sull’erba sintetica / The Luncheon on the synthetic Grass, live performance, curated by Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Trebisonda, Terrazza Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy.
Una boccata d’aria fresca / A breath of fresh air, performative intervention, Galleria ONOFF, Milan, Italy.
ANOTHERCONCEPTION, performative intervention, curated by Mirco Marino, le garage lab, Trento, Italy.
POV, live performance, curated by Mirco Marino, le garage lab, Trento, Italy.
Our bodies can be any colour they wish, live performance, curated by Alessio Vigni, Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
2022
Dichiarazione / Statement, performative intervention, with the complicity and care of Silvia Concari during senso comune – public Talk, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
POV, live performance, curated by Silvia Concari e Alessio Vigni, Liberi (tutti), Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
Gesto empatico / Empatic gesture, intervention, BAW – Bolzano Art Weeks, Bolzano, Italy.
Gesto 4 / Gesture 4, matte PVC adhesive on Dibond, Fondamenta Ponte Lungo, Venice, Italy (permanent work).
Gesto empatico / Empatic gesture, presentation of the Manifesto, Aula Magna, Academy of Fine Arts of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Luogo comune / Cliché, performative intervention, LAMB – Opening, LAMB by Marina Bastianello, Mestre, Italy.
2021
Senza titolo 1, Senza titolo 2, Senza titolo 3 / Untitle 1, Utitle 2, Untitle 3, live performance, Via Procaccini, Milan, Italy.
praticamente / practically, live performance, curated by In Habitat, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
Uno / One, live performance, Intervalli Festival and Historic center (public space), Padua, Italy.
GAME OVER, Installative intervention, in collaboration with Filippo Tommasoli, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
2020
Luogo comune / Cliché, performative intervention, Volcana Festival 2020, Forte San Briccio, Verona, Italy.
FESTIVAL
2025
SPINE – Independent publishing festival, Unobis, Padua, Italy.
2024
TR4NSFORMA – Festival for Transformance Art, curated by Marko Makovic, 4lthangrund Cultural Center Vienna / Galerie Utopia, Vienna, Austria.
METEORE FEST – performare spazi queer, III Edizione Ultraqueer / METEORE FEST – performing queer spaces, III Edition Ultraqueer, Roma Smistamento | TWM Factory, Rome, Italy.
Festival del Giornalismo di Verona / Verona Journalism Festival, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
2023
BAW – Bolzano Art Weeks, Bolzano, Italy.
Costanza – La città amplificata / Costanza – The amplified city, festival-forum of amplified sounds, presented by Toast association, curated by Mariangela Dalfovo, Stefano Giuri, Gabriele Tosi, Terminal T1 of Villa Costanza, Scandicci, Italy.
2022
Liberi (tutti), Performing Arts Festival, curated by Silvia Concari and Alessio Vigni, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
BAW – Bolzano Art Week, Bolzano, Italy.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025
The New Orchestra. Dalle comunità montane alla comunità del futuro, curated by Andrea Lerda and Gabriele Lorenzoni, Museo Nazionale della Montagna “Duca degli Abruzzi” in dialogue with MusLA, Val Badia, San Martino In Badia.
2023
You Too residence, TAI – Tuscan Art Industry, Prato, Italy.
PRIZES
2025
Exibart Prize N5 (finalist / 6th position).
2024
Exibart Prize N4 (finalist / 4th position).
2022 – 2023
Exibart Prize 2022/23 (finalist / 8th position).
TALK / GUEST LECTURE
2025
Sulla Trap e i nostri limiti / About Trap and our limits, Unobis, Padua, Italy.
2024
La Tenuta dell’istante: musica trap e gioventù dissonanti, Massimo De Mari and Monica Bomba (Italian Psychoanalytic Society) in dialogue with plurale (art collective) and Alessio Vigni (curator), curated by Silvia Mondini, Sala Paladin – Palazzo Moroni, Padua, Italy.
Guest Lecture (online), within the Queer.Performance.Art course by Julia Sprenger, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria.
2023
FAQzine e FAQ. Artisə rispondono a cose – panel discussion, Adiacenze, Bologna, Italy.
LUMEN slowjournal – Che storia! Tutta un’altra musica. Conversazione musicale tra trap e rock rock with Denis Isaia, Michele Bertamini and plurale, MART – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy.
La pluralità del piacere / The plurality of pleasure, public talk with plurale and Mirco Marino, moderated by Marco Burchini, le garage lab, Trento, Italy.
FUR(Y) – public talk, curated by Alessio Vigni, (un)fair, Superstudio Maxi, Milan, Italy.
2022
senso comune / common sense – public Talk, curated by In Habitat and Adiacenze, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
PUBLISHING PROJECTS
echo VOL. 1 – techno, clubbing, bodies, fanzine produced by plurale with the collaboration of Performing The Club, Projekt Gestalten, Chiara Ventura, Ludovico Colombo, Tempio del Futuro *Perduto, TIDES, Your Club Is Not My Club (Verona, August 2025).
horizontal movement. suturing actions, fanzine produced by plurale & HORIZONT with the collaboration of Marko Markovic (Vienna, June 2025).
Body of evidence: power, desire, desolation, fanzine produced by plurale, supported by Ghëddo (Verona, November 2024).
SNITCH. Dentro la trap, by Alessio Vigni and plurale, edited by Psicografici Editore, ISBN 979-12-5546-090-9 (Rome, October 2023).
NO CAP, fanzine edited by Galleria ONOFF (Milan, May 2023).
DISCOGRAPHY
EP
SINTETICO. Musica di plastica per il futuro che è già / SYNTHETIC. Plastic music for the future that already is – release date 07/07/2023
KRÓNOS – release date 18/03/2024
Gesto 7 – release date 30/10/2025
SINGLES
EXPLICIT CONTENT (Original Videoperformance Soundtrack) – release date 08/05/2023
X – release date 25/06/2023
LUPO CLUB (Original Videoperformance Soundtrack of ‘Body that desires’) [Remastered] – release date 25/08/2023
Live (Original Performance Soundtrack) – release date 19/10/2023
Reconnect your body (Original Performance Soundtrack) – release date 15/06/2024
LIVE/PERFORMANCE – CONCERTS
06/07/2023 – SINTETICO. Musica di plastica per il futuro che è già, Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy.
25/07/2023 – SINTETICO. Musica di plastica per il futuro che è già, MART – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
14/09/2023 – SINTETICO. Musica di plastica per il futuro che è già, curated by Verona Art Week, Piazza Santa Toscana, Verona, Italy
04/11/2023 – SINTETICO. Musica di plastica per il futuro che è già, curated by ghëddo, with critical text by Barbara Ruperti, Viale Virgilio, Turin, Italy.
03/03/2024 – KRÓNOS, preview concert, curated by Gabriele Tosi, Capanno Black Out, Prato, Italy.
OTHER PROJECTS
2025
WFB7 – Public Exhibition, Via Largo Zorzi 1, 6600 Locarno, Swiss (public space).
PLASMA – s-t-a-t-o-d-i-e-m-e-r-g-e-n-z-a, Teatro 1 – La Pelanda, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy.
Videoart Yearbook 2025, curated by Renato Barilli, Piero Deggiovanni, Pasquale Fameli, Silvia Grandi.
2024
SORGENTI, curated by QLOOM, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
FATAVideo (exhibition), Parsec, Bologna, Italy.
FATAVideo – eco-transfeminism section, online project (link).
Aprto – Aperture del contemporaneo a Prato / Openings of the contemporary in Prato, SC17, Prato, Italy.
2023
FAQ#5, FAQ – artistə rispondono a cose, editorial project curated by Nicoletta De Santoli & Rodolfo Baldanzi, Bologna, Italy.
Radio interview for Te la do io l’arte by Nicolas Ballario.
ReA! Art Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy.
Participation in the 19th edition of the Giornata del Contemporaneo promoted by AMACI.
EXPLICIT CONTENT, videoloop for Che storia! Tutta un’altra musica, curated by LUMEN slowjournal, Mart – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
what You is, triptych curated by Edoardo Durante for Artoday (online exhibition).
TIDES, Caracol Olol Jackson, Vicenza, Italy.
2022
Gesto 4: Un’azione a sangue freddo, with critical text by Alessio Vigni, Fondamenta Ponte Lungo, Venice (event as part of the 18° Giornata del Contemporaneo promoted by AMACI).
PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES, PRESS REVIEW
2025
222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire / 2026, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, edited by Exibart, ISBN 9788885553095.
Un’intervista al Plurale, by Alessio Vigni, art-frame magazine, online article (link).
WFB7 – Space x Time: archetypal forms in contemporary artistic practice, edited by Studio 5115, Switzerland.
Chi è plurale e cosa porterà a PLASMA 2025?, by Antonio Mazzuca, Gufetto Magazine, online article (link).
2024
TR4NSFORMA – Festival for transformance art, Esel.at, online article (link).
Exibart Prize N4 – Prize Catalogue.
SUPER FRESH: METEORE FEST, by Alessio Vigni, art-frame magazine, online article (link).
Dal 21 Giugno arriva Meteore Fest: la cultura queer al centro della scena milanese, by Giuseppe Mendolia Calella, Balloon Project, online article (link).
Meteore Fest, lo Spazio della cultura queer tra Roma e Milano, by Martina Ippolito, Exibart, online article (link).
plurale | SNITCH vol. II, dentro la trap, Segnonline, online article (link).
Tra trap e sbarre: il progetto del collettivo plurale arriva a Verona, Exibart, online article (link).
2023
SUPER FRESH: TAI – TUSCAN ART INDUSTRY, by Alessio Vigni, art-frame magazine, online article (link).
222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire / 2024, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, edited by Exibart, ISBN 9788885553057.
FAQzine, official fanzine of the editorial project FAQ – artistə rispondono a cose, curated by Nicoletta De Santoli and Rodolfo Baldanzi, in collaboration with Adiacenze, Almanacco Press.
SOTH (first issue: MANIFESTO).
I collettivi artistici di Milano da conoscere, by Agnese Torres, Harper’s BAZAAR, online article (link).
SINTETICO. Musica di plastica per il futuro che è già, Segnonline, online article (link).
SNITCH by plurale at Adiacenze Bologna, by Matilde Moro, art-frame magazine, online article (link).
Snitch, il viaggio nella trap di collettivo plurale fa tappa a Bologna, Exibart, online article (link).
plurale | SNITCH, Segnonline, online article (link).
NO CAP, analisi di un fenomeno generazionale, by Edoardo Durante, Exibart, online article (link).
La trap come non l’avete mai ascoltata. E vista. Intervista a plurale, by Tiziano Tancredi, Exibart, online publication (link).
No Cap: l’influenza della cultura trap sulla Gen Z in mostra a Milano, Exibart, online article (link).
Arte e Club Culture, l’installazione del collettivo plurale all’Azimut Club di Torino, Exibart, online article (link).
Open Bodies nella camera 101: il collettivo plurale a Madrid, per Hybrid Art Fair, Exibart, online article (link).
OPEN BODIES – mostra personale di plurale, Juliet Art Magazine, online article (link).
Gesto empatico, interview curated by Nina Stricker inside Salto Artstore, online publication (link).
2022
LAMB (Magazine 00), curated by Acido lattico, Lamb by Marina Bastianello.
CORPO INDIVIDUALE/CORPO SOCIALE, curated by MUSPA – Museo Senza Pareti, online publication.