Antonella Mellini is a conceptual artist and performer whose work explores the relationship between matter and energy through sculpture, performance, and symbolic forms. Her practice is rooted in the idea that the artwork can act as a channel—an energetic bridge between art and the human experience—capable of activating new perceptual and inner frequencies.
Her Menhir sculptures appear as contemporary antennas: vertical presences that amplify positive vibrations and transform space into a field of resonance. The Universe series, by contrast, opens portals toward parallel dimensions where form becomes free, suspended, or inverted. In Mellini’s vision, inversion is a tool for accessing alternative perspectives—a speculum mundi that reveals what usually remains unseen.
Participation plays a central role in her work. During performances, the artist invites visitors to write secret words infused with positive intention directly onto her sculptures. This collective ritual, blending ancient gestures with contemporary practice, turns each surface into a knot of a global energetic network. Layers of color, engraved texts, and sculpted matter become shared spaces where art and life merge into a single vital frequency.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Musée des Beaux-Arts – BOZAR Brussels (2017), and presented at major art fairs such as Context Art Basel Miami (2022), FIG Bilbao (2023) and AAF Stockholm (2024). In 2019, GQ Magazine named her among the “7 young talents of contemporary art.”
In 2020, she exhibited alongside Oliviero Toscani and Marco Lodola in Lajatico, curated by Carlo Alberto Arzelà, and participated in the Ex-Voto project curated by Angelo Crespi.
Her strong connection to design has led to multiple invitations to the Milan Design Week – Fuorisalone, including the Superdesign Show with Food Design Stories and D-Segni (2025), as well as Interiora – Porta Venezia Design District and Food Design Stories (2024).
Mellini is represented in Milan by Galleria Manuel Zoia, located in Via Maroncelli, at the heart of one of the city’s most vibrant contemporary art districts.