Né à Milan (Italie) en 1969, Loris Cecchini est un artiste italien, qui vit et travaille à Berlin (Allemagne). Il grandit auprès de ses oncles, comédiens de profession, et est très tôt fasciné par le monde des coulisses. Il étudie à l’Institut d’Art de Sienne (Italie), puis à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Florence (Italie) et de Brera à Milan.

Son travail mêle collages et maquettes architecturales détaillées, objets en caoutchouc, caravanes et cabanes réinventées, espaces structurellement distordus, recouvrements et surfaces prismatiques, transparentes, installations modulaires, «extruding bodies», une manifestation physique d’une pulsation évoquant des fluides. Il explore ludiquement une reconfiguration de notre sens de l’espace et de notre contact avec l’environnement. Il associe des éléments de champs interdisciplinaires variés, de la chimie aux technologies innovantes comme le numérique.

Loris Cecchini a exposé dans de prestigieux musées comme le Palais de Tokyo à Paris (France), le Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole (France), le MoMA PS1 à New York (États-Unis) le Shanghai Duolun MoMA (Chine), le Casal Solleric Museum de Palma de Majorque (Espagne), le Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea à St-Jacques-de-Compostelle (Espagne), le Kunstverein à Heidelberg (Allemagne), la Teseco Foundation de Pise (Italie), le Quarter of Florence (Italie),  le Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci de Prato (Italie) et bien d’autres. Parmi ses expositions de groupe, on compte les 56ème, 51ème et 49ème International Art Exhibition de la Biennale de Venise, 6ème et 9ème Biennales de Shanghai, 15ème et 13ème Quadriennales de Rome, la Biennale de Taiwan à Tapei, la Biennale de Valence, la 12ème Biennale Internationale de Sculpture de Carrare, etc.

Son travail est conservé dans d’importantes collections. Il a créé des installations permanentes dans des lieux spécifiques, en particulier à la Villa Celle à Pistoia et dans la cour du Palazzo Strozzi à Florence, en 2013 à la Boghossian Foundation de Bruxelles et au Cleveland Clinic’s Arts & Medicine Institute (USA), en 2014 à la Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation à Milan (Italie) et aux Terrasses Du Port à Marseille (France).

Depuis 2005, il a gagné plusieurs récompenses artistiques dont le Premio Giovane Arte 2004/2005 (DARC, MAXXI, Biennale de Venise), le Premio Agenore Fabbri e Fondazione VAF. En 2011, il a remporté le Premio Moroso 2006 et le Premio Francesca Alinovi, ainsi qu’en 2014, le Premio Arnaldo Pomodoro per la scultura (Italie) et le ArtPrize, sélection pour le prix du jury, GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (USA).

Il a fondé deux associations à but non-lucratif avec d’autres artistes, Made in Filandia en Italie, et Peninsula e.V à Berlin.

Loris Cecchini (Milan, 1969) is an Italian artist living and working in Berlin. He grow up very close to his uncles, theatre actors, and the backstage fascinated him from an early age. Since young, he realized that being an artist was the work he would like to do and a circle of friend artists surrounded him. Loris Cecchini went to the Institute of Art in Siena, then to the Fine Arts Academy in Florence and gained his Master degree at Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan.
The subjects that appear in his work include multiple collages and detailed architectural models, objects in rubber, reinvented caravans and tree houses, structurally distorted spaces, and prismatic, transparent covers and surfaces, module-based installations, extruding bodies, a physical manifestation of a pulsation resembling fluids. His work playfully investigates a refashioning of our sense of space and contact with the environment. He’d like to rethink new forms of materiality with different materials, activating materials relations, fostering new forms of relatedness. Cecchini’s work incorporates elements from various interdisciplinary fields from chemistry to groundbreaking technologies including the digital. He arouses a sense of curiosity and wonder, involving his audience in psychic processes exhibited in the form of space.
The work of Loris Cecchini has been shown all over the world with solo exhibitions in prestigious museums such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, MoMA PS1 in New York, the Shanghai Duolun MoMA, the Casal Solleric Museum of Palma de Mallorca, the Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela, the Kunstverein in Heidelberg, the Teseco Foundation of Pisa, Quarter of Florence, the Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci of Prato and more.
Cecchini has taken part in international exhibitions and numerous collective shows including the 56th , the 51st  and the 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennial, the 6th and 9th Biennial of Shanghai, the 15th and 13th Quadrennial of Rome, the Taiwan Biennial in Taipei, the Valencia Biennial, the 12th International Sculpture Biennial of Carrara, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, Macro Future in Rome, MART in Rovereto, Hayward Gallery in London, The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture Moscow, the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lion, the MOCA  Shanghai and Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin.
His work is stored in important art collections such as the Musee d’Art Moderne De Saint-Etienne Metropole (France), the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato (Italy), the MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome (Italy), the Galleria del Premio Suzzara in Mantova (Italy), the Collezione VAF-Stiftung at the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
di Trento e Rovereto (Italy), the Galleria Arte Moderna in Turin (Italy), the Centro gallego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He made permanent site-specific installations, in particular in 2012 at Villa Celle in Pistoia and in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, in 2013 at Boghossian Foundation in Brussel and at the Cleveland Clinic’s Arts & Medicine Institute (USA), in 2014 at Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan (Italy) and at Les Terrasses Du Port in Marseille (France).
Since 2005, he won several art awards, including the Premio Giovane Arte 2004/2005 (DARC, MAXXI, Biennale di Venezia), the Premio Agenore Fabbri e Fondazione VAF. In 2011 he earned the Premio Moroso 2006 and the Premio Francesca Alinovi, while in 2014, the Premio Arnaldo Pomodoro per la scultura (Italy) and the ArtPrize, shortlist for a juror award, Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA).
He founded two non profit associations with other artists, Made in Filandia in Italy, and Peninsula e.V in Berlin.