Michele Bressan

Michele Bressan is a visual artist based in Bucharest, Romania, known to the public for his photographic projects.
His artistic practice encompasses photography, film, and installation art, focusing on documenting aspects of post-communist Romanian reality. Bressan uses the photographic medium as a tool for artistic research, capturing his surroundings through series that resemble a subjective journal or adopting a more detached perspective to comment on societal transitions. His work often explores themes of memory and the traces left by history.
Bressan earned a PhD in Photography from the National University of Arts in Bucharest in 2023, with a thesis on Romanian war photography. His notable projects include Waiting for the Drama, Familiar Views, and Geometries of Failure. He has received distinctions such as the Essl Art Award and a nomination for the Henkel Art Award in 2009. In addition to his artistic practice, Bressan is a co-founder of Atelierele Scânteia and the Romanian Military Archaeology NGO.
In recent years, he has curated several photography exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, and has been actively involved in promoting artists working with photography in the post-2000 context.