I’m Stefano Stoppa (2001, Venice), I’m a multimedia artist and graphic designer working between Brussels and Venice. In my practice I appropriate languages that range from art history to digital culture, and more specifically the techniques that promise to help us improve our lives: therapy speak, life hacks, even neo-cynicism. I try to adhere to these practices to the point of straining and overturning their meaning. I am interested in the paradoxes these discourses produce, and I often use myself as a guinea pig to understand them, hoping that the critique will land on the discourses and the techniques themselves, not on those who rely on them. What drives me is the desire to identify with them, with those who muddle through with whatever tools they find, even when they fail. I deliberately embrace different media and methods, to capture the moment when the overly serious turns comic and, conversely, when the clumsy turns out to be vulnerable: the place where inadequate solutions stop being ridiculous and begin to stir tenderness.

I studied Visual Arts at IUAV University, Venice. I'm currently pursuing a Master in Fine Arts at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. In 2025 I won the San Fedele Prize in Milan. In the same year I had a duo show, with Jacopo Zambello at the museum Palazzo Te, Mantova IT, In 2023–24, I was an atelier artist at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.
Presently, together with Nicolò Brunetta, Erica Toffanin and Matteo Rattini, I'm part of Ipercubo, a publishing collective contributing to the curation and production of both editorial and artistic projects.

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