Cosimo Filippini’s work stems from his use of photography as a tool to engage with other fields of the visual arts, such as drawing, painting and sculpture.

His research initially set out to investigate the meaning of time and space, exploring the glitches and paradoxes of representation. His work, introduced into an environment, modifies its perception, and feeds the tensions that emerge between real and figurative space. Later on the focus of his production shifted towards experience, mainly using photography as a means to represent a relationship with matter and people, in an ongoing dialogue between different disciplines.

The rational and conceptual premises of this work, based on an awareness of the authenticity and uniqueness of these experiences, leave his discourse open to outcomes in which, as if through a counter- discourse, a feeling of marvel and a strain of poetry may ultimately transpire.

Cosimo Filippini is a Swiss visual artist. Ha was born in Lugano and he studied in Milan where, in 2004, he graduated in Economics for Arts, Culture and Communication from Università L. Bocconi and, in 2006, earned his piano diploma from the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music. In 2006, he began working as a photographer, at first collaborating with the art and architecture photographer Václav Šedý with whom he had the opportunity to further study the use of the view camera. From 2010 he specialized in photographing exhibitions and artworks. An activity that leads him to collaborate with numerous galleries and institutions internationally.
The relations he established with these personalities and institutions prompted Filippini to engage a reflection on his work by undertaking his current artistic practice, which has led to exhibitions in Switzerland and Italy.

In 2018, he was granted an artist residency by Pro Helvetia, the Viavai+ project, and participated in VIR – Via Farini in Residence in Milan. In 2020 he was invited by the Kirchner Museum in Davos to do photographic performances on portraiture and held his first solo show in a public museum, Museo d’arte di Mendrisio - Casa Pessina.
Recently, his attention has turned to participatory art practices, as in the residency project Adamà Adamà, figli della terra rossa at Casa degli Artisti di Milano, during House of Switzerland, a program by Pro Helvetia and Presence Switzerland, the office of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. In 2023, he was invited by the Lugano Pension Fund to create Intermezzo a project on photographic portraiture experience.

His works are part of the following public collections: Collezione del Cantone Ticino (part of MASI, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana), Mendrisio Museum of Art, various institutions in the City of Lugano.

Since 2019, he has been involved in volunteer work in Visarte, the association of Swiss artists, of which he was co-chair of the Ticino group. In the context of the cultural commissions of Canton Ticino / DECS, he is a member of the Visual Arts subcommittee.