About us
MAalex (*2019) is an artistic and curatorial duo formed by Martina Pizzigoni and Alex Fallica. ​​
Our practice centres on interrogating contemporaneity, analysing the context in its social and anthropological nuances.Through a constant focus on relationality, interactivity, and digital technologies, we employ a multidisciplinary approach, selecting the most effective medium to communicate our ideas and provoke critical dialogue.
MAalex uses art as a means to shake up consciences and make people question our contemporary world. Its works embrace a wide range of artistic expressions, from immersive installations to participatory experiences and site-specific artworks. MAalex current research concerns the paradigms of digital cultures, with a focus on the shifting of our identities from the physical world to the virtual space, and the impermanence of our human activities and interactions, now transformed into data, in the context of the web.
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MAalex latest exhibitions include Ars Electronica Festival 2023, Linz (AT), Speculum Artium Festival 2023, Trbovlje (SLO), Pixxelpoint Festival 2023, Nova Gorica (SLO), Recto VRso 2024, Laval (FR), WIP Festival 2024, Nicosia (CY).​
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Selected exhibitons
2024
WIP Festival, Campus, Nicosia, Cyprus
7BELLO, Don't feed the monster x MAalex, Florence, Italy
Laval Virtual, Recto VRso Real Time / Virtual Time, curated by Judith Guez and Julien Lomet, Le Quarante, Laval, France
2023
Pixxelpoint Festival, TIR Gallery, curated by Nina Jeza and Barbara Jazbec, Nuova Gorizia, Slovenia
Speculum Artium Festival, Zavod za kulturo Delavski, Trbovlje, Slovenia
Ars Electronica Festival, Resonating Selves, Interface Cultures, Linz, Austria
Aphopenia, Kunsthalle Linz, Interface Cultures, Linz, Austria
2022
Ho sognato di angoli oscuri, Solo exhibition of the artistic duo MAalex, Lavena Ponte Tresa, Italy
2021
Arte in Mostra, Badia a Passignano, Florence, Italy
Residencies and special projects
January 2025
Domus Artistic Residency
Galatina, Lecce, Italy
Throughout January, MAalex was hosted at Domus In_Residence in Galatina.
The residency represents an important opportunity to explore the link between local traditions and ancestral rituals of the Grecia Salentina, while also having the chance to host a workshop about generative AI, rituality and grief in the digital age.
November 2024
Editorial publication
Death Design Data | Onomatopee 254
Publication including the artwork I died on Facebook, edited by Cecilia Casabona & Ginevra Petrozzi.
15 - 19 September 2024
Casa Netural
Gorizia, Italy
CO.So! Artisti per il sociale
Involvement in the project Co.So! Artisti per il Sociale 2024. Conceived by the association ETRARTE, brings artists-in-residence to fragile communities.
While being hosted for a Residency period at Casa Netural, MAalex has been invited to observe Thomas Braida ‘s workshop at Villetta 2.0.
Afterwards, a presentation of MAalex's work was given at Casa Netural.
1 November - 1 March 2024
The Wrong Biennale
Hyper*Espresso
Project management, production and curatorship of a Digital Art Pavilion for the Wrong Biennale 2023/2024.
Grants and prices
2024
Traumstipendium, Energie AG & OÖ Landes Kultur GmbH, Linz, Austria
The scholarship consists of both a grant of a travel and artistic residency and the realization of an art project to be presented at the Energy AG Power Tower in Linz
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Förderungsstipendium 2024, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
2023
Förderungsstipendium, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria​​​
For the realization of Hyper*Espresso, digital art pavilion of The Wrong Biennale 2023/2024