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Andrea Amadei develops a practice that moves between artistic production and theoretical research, centred on the image as both a formal problem and a cognitive structure. 



Education
Università degli Studi di Milano — MA, Filosofia Teoretica  
Università degli Studi di Milano — BA, Filosofia
Scuola Holden — Master, Storytelling & Performing Arts  
Northwestern University — Certificate, Content Strategy  
University of California Irvine — Certificate, Project Management  



Exhibitions  2025
Il tavolo delle trattative, by Alessandro Bergonzoni
Casa degli Artisti
Milan  

2025
Where’s Daddy: the human body in the age of digital representation — a political research
Casa degli Artisti
Milan  

2024
Simultan Festival
Timișoara  

2024
(UN)fair – Contemporary Art
Milan  

2023
L’elefante invisibile
Bianchizardin Contemporary Art
Milan  

2023
Nature 2023
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art
South Korea  

2022
Portrait 2023
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art
South Korea

2021
Glasgow Gallery of Photography
Glasgow  

2021
Guerrilla Semiologica
Perugia  
Italy

2021
REA Art Fair
Milan  



Awards2024
Premio Fabbri Fotografia Contemporanea
Finalist
Treviso, Italy

2022
T&T Film Festival
Trinidad & Tobago  

2022
Lisbon Film Rendezvous
Lisbon  

2022
Lecce Film Festival
Official Poster Selection
Lecce  



Publications
2024  
Radical Creativities
KEA
Bruxelles  

2024  
Volume Atematico I
a cura di Giulio Lacchini,
Milano



Film / Moving Images
2021–2022
Masterclass
Blue Joint Film / Lavazza
Director & Author  

2015–2017
Food Markets (international documentary series)
Stefilm (IT) / Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion (DE)
RAI, ARTE, ZDF, RSI
Head Producer  

2017 
The Strange Sound of Happiness (feature documentary)
Stefilm (IT) / Kick Film (DE) 
Assistant Director & Writer  

2017
Wonderful Losers (feature documentary)
Stefilm (IT) / Studio Nominum (LT) / VFS Films (LV)
Assistant Director & Writer



AwardsTempus Egestas Nibh Vestibulum
Facilisis: Ultricies Ornare Ligula
2021

Rhoncus Auctor Ornare; Tincidunt Tristique, Porta Libero
2020



Research / Commissions
2019–ongoing
YAY.STUDIO — independent research-based practice founded by Andrea Amadei — collaborations include Fondazione Ravasi-Garzanti, Fondazione Snam, De Agostini Scuola, Treccani Giunti TVP, and international partners  

2021–2024
Energy Poverty Zero
European Commission, LIFE Programme
in collaboration with Comune di Milano, GreenFlex, R2M Solution, Bordeaux Métropole Énergies, Slimrenoveren, DMM&I, Fondazione Snam  

2021–2023
Longevity and Aging
Fondazione Ravasi-Garzanti / Bocconi University  

2020–2023
STEM Education in Fragile Neighborhoods in Italy
Fondazione Snam

2020–2022
Environmental Education in Fragile Neighborhoods
Fondazione Snam / University of Milano-Bicocca           



Teaching2022–ongoing  
Asperger Foundation
Milano

2014–2017  
Scuola Holden
Torino



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