"U|T", digital photo-documented collage on fine art photo paper.
Alyssa De Luccia is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her work is driven by simultaneous dualities—ideas, images, and experiences that exist in tension or contradiction. Drawing from unfamiliar environments and subtle details of everyday life, she explores the space between appearance and reality, where things are rarely what they first seem.
Her multidisciplinary practice spans photography, photo-documentation, installation, portraiture, photomontage, collage, and drawing. Rooted in formal investigation and shaped by feminist, surrealist, and Dadaist traditions, her work examines how images are constructed, fragmented, and reinterpreted. Through this process, she reflects on memory, identity, transformation, and the complexities of contemporary experience.
De Luccia’s photomontages are in dialogue with the legacy of Hannah Höch, whose radical approach to collage and social critique continues to inform the possibilities of the medium. Her recent works on paper, including her Before Dawn Drawings and ongoing Cloud Drawings, extend these concerns into a more atmospheric and intuitive visual language.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Berlinische Galerie (Berlin), The Corner at Whitman-Walker (Washington, DC), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (Ludwigshafen am Rhein), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris), and the Brandenburg State Museum (Cottbus). In 2022, works presented in Images in Fashion | Clothing in Art: Photography, Painting, and Fashion 1900 to the Present at Berlinische Galerie entered the museum’s permanent collection.
De Luccia has received fellowships and grants from The MacDowell Colony, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Cité des Arts Paris, Stiftung Kunstfonds, and the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe, including an Artist Research Grant and a Special Scholarship for Fine Arts.
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