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Thomas Bentivoglio is a visual artist who works and lives in Milan.

This performance involves cleaning with water and soap the floor of a warehouse scheduled for demolition.

The Cleaning or Cleaning the floor of a building scheduled for demolition. Performance on digital video. 2024

In this text and audio work Thomas Bentivoglio present the original screenplay used to direct 'Last Friday Night' music video by Katy Perry, along with a cover of the same song sang by the artist. 

WTF Happened Last Night. Text on Paper and audio. 2024.

In this work Thomas Bentivoglio goes back to his three hometowns in Italy to reconstruct a personal journal through large scale text projection. 

Lettere, Photographic series. Color filmstrips ordered in a slideshow; featuring original texts projected on buildings and places, 2019.

In this text and audio work Thomas Bentivoglio present the original screenplay used to direct 'Last Friday Night' music video by Katy Perry, along with a cover of the same song sang by the artist. 

WTF Happened Last Night. Text on Paper and audio. 2024.

In this work Thomas Bentivoglio steals flowers from neighborhood backyards to reproduce the smell of an extinct childhood garden. 

The House With the Garden. Essential oil of wisteria, brugmansia and rhynchosperm collected by enfleurage of flowers stolen from private property, diffusion method. Variable Sizes, (2023 - ).

This work is made of forty kilograms of broken car windows laid on the floor.

Make a Wish (I wanna be as beautiful as the sea). Broken car windows, variable dimensions, 2022.

In this work Thomas Bentivoglio goes back to his three hometowns in Italy to reconstruct a personal journal through large scale text projection. 

Lettere, Photographic series. Color filmstrips ordered in a slideshow; featuring original texts projected on buildings and places, 2019.

This work presents words and short sentences without their context on a uniform shade of pink. 

Untitled (The View I Remember),Giclée print on paper. 2022

In this work Thomas Bentivoglio steals flowers from neighborhood backyards to reproduce the smell of an extinct childhood garden. 

The House With the Garden. Essential oil of wisteria, brugmansia and rhynchosperm collected by enfleurage of flowers stolen from private property, diffusion method. Variable Sizes, (2023 - ).

In this work many photographs of house parties shot by the artist are displayed in a open drawer. The visitor is invited to browse them freely.

Il Guardone [The Peeping Tom]. Photographs c-print, wooden drawer. 2024.

In this series of images, Thomas Bentivoglio takes an imaginary journey through Google Earth, journaling and collecting pictures of the sky.

Clouds Have No Country, photographic and textual collection documenting a virtual journey through Google Earth. Screenshots via Street View in different locations around the world paired with sentences, 2020.

This series of original poems are written on a 5 euros banknote and then spent on goods and services.
Images documents the poems and the banknotes as well as what they were spent for.
 
Pensiero da 5 euro, ink on banknote/then only an image. 2019

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