Marco Tirelli is a prominent contemporary artist who lives and works in Rome. Since the late 1970s, he has developed a distinctive visual language that explores the relationship between geometry, memory, and the metaphysical dimensions of space. Drawing inspiration from a vast repertoire of images from diverse cultures and the collective unconscious, Tirelli constructs enigmatic forms that exist between abstraction and figuration.

He first participated in the Venice Biennale in 1982 (Aperto 82) and later returned with a personal room in the 1990 edition. His work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including the Sydney Biennale (1990), the São Paulo Biennial (1991), Prospect ’93 at the Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and the XII Rome Quadrennial (1996). Significant solo exhibitions have been held at institutions such as the Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt; Palazzo Fortuny, Venice; MACRO, Rome; and the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole. In 2013, he was included in the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (Vice Versa).

Tirelli’s works are part of major international museum collections, including MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, La Galleria Nazionale and MACRO in Rome; the Farnesina Art Collection; the European Parliament Art Collection in Brussels; MART, Rovereto; the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; Palazzo Fortuny, Venice; the Albertina and mumok in Vienna; and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan. In 2019, his site-specific work Proteo, commissioned by MAXXI, entered the museum’s permanent collection. Marco Tirelli has also exhibited his work at Janela.