The open call for the SUPERBLAST residency is free of charge and open to participants from all over the globe who are under 40 years of age.
Participants may be individuals or groups with varying artistic practices: sculpture, painting, sound and new media art, performance, choreography and relational practice and workshop-based projects.

The selection was made by an international panel made up of contemporary art curators: Andrea Lissoni (Artistic Director at Haus der Kunst in Munich), Elena Magini (Curator at Contemporary Art Centre Luigi Pecci in Prato), Caterina Molteni, (Assistant Curator at MAMbo in Bologna) and Chiara Parisi (Director at Centre Pompidou in Metz).

Roberto Fassone (Savigliano, 1986) lives and works in Florence. To date, his research concerns the limits of imagination, lucid dreams, titles of things, trip reports, little adventures, Prince, the metaphors we live in, the definition of the game, pre-game speeches and lists. His works are the result of a spontaneous, ritual and occult practice.
In recent years Fassone has exhibited and performed his work at Italian and international institutions, including: Vision du Rèel, Nyon (upcoming); Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Florence (2021); Italian Cultural Institute, Paris (2021); Fanta-MLN, Milan (2019); MAMbo, Bologna (2018); OGR, Turin (2018); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2017); MOCAK, Krakow (2017); Mart, Rovereto (2016); Quadriennale of Rome (2016); AOYS (online), Zkm, Karlsruhe (2015); Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo (2014). In 2019 he co-curated with the artist and performer Kasia Fudakowski Lo schermo dell’arte, a performative film festival within the best known Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival.
In 2019 he won the IMAGONIRMIA tender, founding the Museum of Lost Time in Modena Ovest. Since 2012 he has developed an intense activity of workshops dedicated to the implementation of lateral and creative thinking in collaboration with museums (Zkm, Karlsruhe; MA * GA, Gallarate), artistic spaces (Hangar Bicocca, Milan; OGR, Turin) and schools ( MADE Program Accademia di Belle Arti Siracusa; ISD, Dusseldorf) His practice is open to collaboration: over the years he has created projects with Federico Tosi, Carolina Cappelli, Riccardo Banfi, Mattia Pajè, Kasia Fudakowski, Jacopo Jenna, Friends Make Books.

Lorenzo Lunghi (Crema, 1993), lives and works between Crema Milan and Geneva. After graduating in 2018 in Painting and Visual Arts at the Giacomo Carrara Accademia delle Belle Arti, Bergamo, in 2021 he completed the Master in Visual Arts, Work, Master Contemporary Artistic Practices, at HEAD, Geneva. From 2016 to 2019 he was part of the DITTO collective of which we mention the exhibitions: Eclissi, MACAO, Milan, 2018; Spectri (MAXXI prize), curated by Giulia Gelmini, Villa Farinacci, Rome, 2018; Blind Date, Current, Milan, 2018. Since 2019 he has curated a series of traveling exhibitions in natural and extra-urban contexts, including: Erbacce, Monza, 2020; Miraggio, Fontanile Fontanone, Farinate, 2019; FORTEZZA, Giacomq, Bergamo, 2019. His works have been exhibited in various contexts, including: Mal di Pancia, curated by AN / CONTEMPORANEA and Lorenzo Lunghi AN / CONTEMPORANEA, Ancona, Italy; Warum ist das Schöne so schwach, edited by Giulietta, Giulietta, Zürcherstrasse 144, Basel, Switzerland, Macina edited by Tretre, Via Marco D’Agrate 33, Milan, Italy; Monza Biennale, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Reggia di Monza, Monza, Italy; Leftovers edited by Luca Poncetta and Localedue, Via Azzo Gardino, Bologna, Italy; Tomorrow Here Today, curated by Ilaria Gianni, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Exception of (not) being, curated by Essenza Club and Rhizome Parking Garage, Online show, 2020; DEDICATIONS, curated by Sonnenstube and Lumpen Station, Sonnenstube, Lugano, Switzerland, 2020; Weaving Home, Limbo off-space, Geneva, Switzerland, 2020; BAITBALL (01) “I’ll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you”, curated by Like A Little Disaster and Harlesden High Street, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, 2020; INSOMNNE, Sonnenstube, Lugano, Switzerland, 2019; Cristallino, Location_e, Bergamo, 2019; Chapter 2 (Autumn), Residenza La Fornace, 2018; Singular, curated by Accademia Carrara and Kilometrorosso, Kilometro Rosso Scientific and Technological Park, Bergamo; Warranty notice, by Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Simone Ciglia, Fuoriuso, Pescara, 2016.

Davide Sgambaro (Cittadella, 1989), lives and works in Turin. His career began in 2015 after studying at the IUAV University of Venice and, in the following years, he participated in various training and production residencies thanks to which he realized some of his most complex projects.
In 2016 he had a brief training period at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris in the chair of Ann Veronika Jansenn. The experience ends before its time and, looking for an economic solution to survive, he finds himself in Turin. In 2020, together with the other founding members, he founded AWI Art Workers Italia. His research explores existential issues relating to the condition of the individual in contemporary precariousness.
Using different media, ranging from installation to photography, from sculpture to video, he tries to give life to caustic narratives as a response to contemporary disparities.
Drawing on the generational imagination and adopting an irreverent attitude, it activates survival mechanisms to imagine a new utopia. The research is in fact linked to generational problems with an eye to possible dystopian futures and to hysterias and obsessions caused by the race for fame. His works are presented through the use of narrative paradoxes triggered by traces of an ephemeral corporeality. The body is the intermediary of the provocative, ironic gesture, which, together with the posthumous trace, resists the catatonic state and modifies space and matter. The importance of physical interaction is therefore a key to understanding for the installations that often play with site specific and participatory practices.