GianMarco Porru (b. 1989) is a visual artist and director based in Milan. He is a visiting professor at NABA, Milan. Working through installation, film, and photography, he draws on Mediterranean cultures and syncretic mythologies, moving between past and present and linking oral narratives with contemporary visual cultures. In his recent research he has approached Sardinia as a speculative territory, using it to critically reframe ideas of the authentic and the archaic. Dissident figures recur in his imagery, emerging from a stratified pantheon where astrological mysteries intertwine with individual mythologies, community beliefs, and popular forms of knowledge. His work has been presented in festivals, museums, foundations, and independent spaces including Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro; Tropigalpão, Rio de Janeiro; Re-Mapped Festival, at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene; Fondazione Sozzani, Milan; Museo MA*GA, Gallarate; Museo Nivola, Orani; Museo MAN, Nuoro; Photovogue Festival at Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d’Europa, Milan; and MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin. In 2023 he was in residence at Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, supported by the Italian Council program. In 2025, one of his sculptural works became a permanent installation at the Sormani Library, Milan.
