Alberto Ballocca

Italian contemporary artist specialized in diachronic approaches on ancient cultures, natural patterns accordingly to Jungian theories.

Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993, Turin, Italy) works across painting and sculpture through a process rooted in instinct, accumulation, and deliberate surrender to the unknown. His pigments are sourced rather than purchased — volcanic rock dust, ochre extracted from ancient woodland soils outside Turin, industrial dye reclaimed from textile production, high-resistance mineral pigments used in antiquity restoration — bound with water, Arabic gum, or dilute acrylic in proportions governed by perception rather than formula. Material is not a vehicle but a threshold: Ballocca treats its behavior under gravity, humidity, and absorption as structural to the work’s meaning, allowing images to surface organically rather than be imposed.

His sculptures extend this logic through discarded and obsolete technological objects — salvaged circuit boards, redundant hardware, spent consumer electronics — approached not as commentary on digital excess but as archaeological material, selected for symbolic weight rather than former function. The understanding that what a civilization discards often contains the only genuine intuitions from which new form can grow sits at the core of this work. Drawing on the ancient Greek concept of Kairos — qualitative, charged time as opposed to administered clock time — Ballocca locates meaning in the interval between gesture and construction, between natural pigment and industrial residue, between the ancient and the technological. His practice finds in that suspension a space where something genuinely new becomes possible.

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Works on paper by Alberto Ballocca
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Cycladic Amethysts

Booming Art Fair, on view at ‘Palazzo Isolani, Bologna’

February 5 – February 8, 2026

Paintings by Alberto Ballocca on view in Bologna

Memory Car, 2025

Acrylics, oil, ink and pigments on canvas, 75 x 60 x 4 cm

Memory Car painting entire with frame in the studio with white background

CICA Museum, on view at ‘Contemporay Landscape’

January 2 – January 18, 2026

Collection of Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Corea

Works on Alberto Ballocca in the exhibition at the Cica Museu
Hypokéimenon work on paper in the studio of Alberto Ballocca

Photosynthesis, Mixedmedia on canvas.

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Art Rewards Gallery

Art rewards gallery in Oslo

Living Art Collections and Symbolic Narratives.

A conversation with Alberto Ballocca on his vision of interconnected works, natural codes, and timeless philosophies.

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Mixedmedia artwork on paper. Natron by Alberto Ballocca
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Ftèri – Φτέρη 

Tecnica: Mixedmedia su canvas. Pigmenti, acrilici, disegni, collages, olio, pastelli, sprays e grafite su tela

2025

Dimensione: 150 x 120 cm

Exhibition Ultra, digital flyer of the exhibition

Mater Acqua –

Mixedmedia. Photograph, oil pastels, pigments, ink and sprays on forex panel

In collaboration with Sauar 

Mater Acqua frontal picture of the artwork
Mater Acqua frontal picture of the artwork

Fine Art Prints

‘Ultra’, new group exhibition in Turin city curated by Arteaporte within Diffusissima Official

From 23 of October until 6th of November

People in Ultra exhibition.

“Ball 6 6 6”

Mixedmedia on paper

Collection of Archivio Di Mauro

Intimacy, 2025

Acrylics, oil, ink and pigments on canvas, 15.35″ x 11.02″ x 1.8″

Private collection

Painting Intimacy on the house of the collector
Intimacy - Πυθία

Elements Qualia

Artist Alberto Ballocca in his studio

Nature & Love

Exhibition curated by Master Ruha Gallery.

From 03.08.2024 until 04.09.2024.

Rudong Road, district of Shinan, Qingdao city, Shandong – Beijing, Qingdao, China.

artworks exhibited in Master Ruha gallery
Artwork 'Xcape' mixedmedia on canvas
Orama – ὅραμα
Mixedmedia on paper
48 x 33 x 4 cm – 19 x 12 x 1.5 in
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Orama artwork on paper in private collection
Orama artwork on paper in private collection

Natural Elements and Philosophical Depth: The Story of OnYOn.

details of the water
New review out i march

“If nature is ethical, It provides transformation, which is the ability of fire.”

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‘l’Etica del Fuoco’, Clay-based mixedmedia sculpture.

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‘Fear is Ego’ Mixedmedia on wood panel, 2022. Private collection

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Painting Fear is Ego image of the painting in Alberto Ballocca studio
Painting Fear is Ego in Alberto Ballocca studio

Sculptures by Alberto Ballocca

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Clay sculpture. Hands and tools used by Alberto Ballocca