Elisa Capucci (b. 1998, Italy) is a sculptor and research-based artist currently living and working in Copenhagen. Her practice operates at the intersection of installation, theory, and material experimentations, and is rooted in Neo-Materialist and Post-Humanist frameworks.
She earned her BA and MA in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and later completed an MA in Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL) in London. Her professional path includes working as a studio assistant for Michael Dean (London) and Uffe Isolotto (Copenhagen), as well as co-founding HIDDEN GARAGE, an independent space for emerging artists and autonomous curation in Bologna.
Elisa’s work investigates sculptural practice not only as a formal or aesthetic pursuit but as an epistemic and pedagogical methodology. Drawing from Karen Barad’s agential realism and Jane Bennett’s vital materialism, she explores sculpture as a diffractive tool to reconfigure human relationships with matter, cognition, and socio-material entanglements. Her installations often activate hybrid environments composed of urban residues, industrial fragments, and organic materials, functioning as living systems that blur the boundaries between body, space, and infrastructure.
Her ongoing research positions sculpture as a site of multisensory engagement and ecological literacy. She is particularly interested in how material agency, especially that of neglected or discarded matter, can foster embodied awareness, cognitive flexibility, and ethical responsibility. These ideas also inform her workshop-based approaches, where sculptural making becomes a collaborative process of shared inquiry.
She earned her BA and MA in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and later completed an MA in Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL) in London. Her professional path includes working as a studio assistant for Michael Dean (London) and Uffe Isolotto (Copenhagen), as well as co-founding HIDDEN GARAGE, an independent space for emerging artists and autonomous curation in Bologna.
Elisa’s work investigates sculptural practice not only as a formal or aesthetic pursuit but as an epistemic and pedagogical methodology. Drawing from Karen Barad’s agential realism and Jane Bennett’s vital materialism, she explores sculpture as a diffractive tool to reconfigure human relationships with matter, cognition, and socio-material entanglements. Her installations often activate hybrid environments composed of urban residues, industrial fragments, and organic materials, functioning as living systems that blur the boundaries between body, space, and infrastructure.
Her ongoing research positions sculpture as a site of multisensory engagement and ecological literacy. She is particularly interested in how material agency, especially that of neglected or discarded matter, can foster embodied awareness, cognitive flexibility, and ethical responsibility. These ideas also inform her workshop-based approaches, where sculptural making becomes a collaborative process of shared inquiry.