Paolo Patelli (1984) works across architecture, research, and artistic practice. His work develops through observation, excavation, and mediation of spatial, environmental, and media conditions. Through artistic methods and collaborative inquiry, he engages with the material, atmospheric, and political dimensions of the intersections between space and society, technologies, and environments.
Paolo was a Postdoctoral Researcher at
Aarhus University (2022-2025), where he investigated the architectural contexts of environmental data construction through multimodal methods, as part of the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project led by Jussi Parikka.
He was Research Associate at the Research Center for Material Culture (2020-22), a 2020/2021 Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and a Research Fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2019/2020). He was artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2017/18) and an IdeasCity Fellow at the New Museum (2016). He holds a PhD in Architecture and Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano (2015).
He collaborated with the Programme d’Expérimentation en Arts Politiques (SPEAP) directed by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po (2016–2018), and has taught at The New School’s Parsons Paris. He was a tutor and associate lector at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2017–2021) and a core tutor in the Studio for Immediate Spaces at Sandberg Instituut (2019–2022).
Paolo was a Postdoctoral Researcher at
Aarhus University (2022-2025), where he investigated the architectural contexts of environmental data construction through multimodal methods, as part of the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project led by Jussi Parikka.
He was Research Associate at the Research Center for Material Culture (2020-22), a 2020/2021 Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and a Research Fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2019/2020). He was artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2017/18) and an IdeasCity Fellow at the New Museum (2016). He holds a PhD in Architecture and Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano (2015).
He collaborated with the Programme d’Expérimentation en Arts Politiques (SPEAP) directed by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po (2016–2018), and has taught at The New School’s Parsons Paris. He was a tutor and associate lector at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2017–2021) and a core tutor in the Studio for Immediate Spaces at Sandberg Instituut (2019–2022).
His work has been presented internationally, including at the Helsinki Biennial (2023), as part of Gudskul‘s program for documenta fifteen (2022), and at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (2018). He led a collaborative project commissioned by MAO and MG+MSUM for BIO26, the 26th Biennial of Design in Ljubljana. He exhibited at arc en rêve, IMPAKT Festival, MCBA Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts Lausanne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Izolyatsia in Kiev, A School of Schools the 4th Instanbul Biennial of Design, BIO 50 the 24th Design Biennial in Ljubljana, Adhocracy Athens, RMIT Gallery in Melbourne, TodaysArt in The Hague, Haus der Architektur in Graz. While a visiting doctoral researcher at MIT, he exhibited at MoMA in New York, MAXXI in Rome and Gwangju Design Biennale with Senseable City Lab.
He participated in Future Architecture Platform (EU), Bioart Society – Field Notes (FI), Collaborative Arts Partnership Program (FI), THAV Treasure Hill (TW), New Europeans – the arts and design programme of the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2016.
He published in journals and magazines, including Design Issues and Visual Studies.
He is based in Copenhagen.
He participated in Future Architecture Platform (EU), Bioart Society – Field Notes (FI), Collaborative Arts Partnership Program (FI), THAV Treasure Hill (TW), New Europeans – the arts and design programme of the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2016.
He published in journals and magazines, including Design Issues and Visual Studies.
He is based in Copenhagen.