Ginevra Petrozzi (b. 1997) is an artist and interdisciplinary designer currently living and working in The Netherlands. Her work wishes to expand the notion of magical thinking in the context of modern predictive systems, such as AI, machine learning and algorithmic processes. Through academic research, writing and creative production she aims to make space for other ideas and forms of intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, both human and non-human. Currently, she is exploring the possibilities of mysticism and the occult within the landscape of contemporary techno-politics. In this framework, she took the role of a “digital witch”, reclaiming the archetypal role of the sorceress as a healer, and as a political rebel.

Petrozzi’s work has been exhibited widely, including recent and upcoming exhibitions with National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (IT), De Nederlandse Bank (NL), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), TENT Rotterdam (NL), Mattatoio (IT), INDEX Braga Biennial (P), Science Gallery London (UK), Het Hem (NL), World Design Embassies (NL), MFRU (SLO), Panke Gallery (DE), amongst others. 

Recent awards include the Special GNAM prize for the Inside Art Talent Prize 2025, for which her work Congregation of Mysteries has been permanently acquired by the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. She was one of the finalists for the Conai Prize 2025,  and for the Re:Humanism Art Prize in 2023. In 2021 she won the Gijs Bakker Award for her project Digital Esoterism. 

She was a resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academie for the 2023-2024 fellowship and participated in the project Silicon Plateau in Bengaluru, invited by the Consulate General of Italy in Bengaluru. Since 2025 she is a PhD Candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Industrial Design Department, in which she is researching new aesthetics for Intelligent Adaptive Systems.

She has been teaching in a number of institutions as a guest tutor such as Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Design Academy Eindhoven, Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Hochschule Mainz, amongst others. 






Education:

PhD Candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), Design Aesthetics for Intelligent Adaptive Systems, Industrial Design Department, 2025-ongoing;
Post-graduate program Jan van Eyck Academie (NL), 2023-2024;
Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design (MA), Specialisation Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), Cum Laude, Gijs Bakker Award, Best Thesis Award, 2019-2021;
Bachelor in Industrial Design (BA), Politecnico di Milano (IT), 2016-2019;


Awards:

Special GNAMc Prize, Inside Art Talent Prize (IT), 2025
Premio CONAI Arte Circolare, Finalist (IT), 2025
Re-Humanism Art Prize Finalist, Rome (IT), 2023
Gijs Bakker Award, 2021
Best Thesis Award, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), 2021



Selected Exhibitions:

2025
Greige Fantastic, VBCN Open, De Nederlandsche Bank (NL), upcoming
Talent Prize, La Galleria Nazionale Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAMc) (IT), upcoming
Sun, Don’t Rush To Be Red, TENT Rotterdam (NL)
Premio Conai Arte Circolare, Triennale di Milano (IT)
Esoteric Ecotechnics, MFRU31, Maribor (SLO)
Haunting Spells: Fare Mondi Altrimenti, C+N Canepaneri Gellery Milano (IT)
Esoteric Algorithms and Re-Enchanted Technologies, Panke Gallery (DE)
Rotterdam Design Biennale, Weena 70, Rotterdam (NL)
aDigital Perspective, Spazio Taverna, Tirana/Bucharest/Belgrade/Pristina, Italian Institutes

2024
Dutch Design Awards, Eindhoven (NL)
From Bonfires to Online Magic, BTM - Budapest Galéria (HU)
Open Studios Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)
AI: Who’s Looking After Me?, Science Gallery London (UK)
Museum Night Maastricht, Jan van Eyck Academie (NL)
The New Italian Landscape, Hong Kong Design Institute (CHN)
Digital Esoterism, GALLLERIAPIU, Bologna (IT)

2023
Extended World, Kontejner, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (HR)
The Persistence of Hope, Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden (NL)
Codici Magici, MO.CA, Brescia (IT)
A Funeral for Digital Data, Holistic Technology Salon, V_2, Rotterdam (NL)
Roma Europa Festival , Digitalive, Rome (IT)
The Messyverse, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam (NL)
Re-Humanism Art Prize, WeGil, Rome (IT)
The New Italian Landscape, ADI Design Museum, Milano (IT)
Frantoio Sociale, Alcova, Milano Design Week (IT)
Artificial Incantations, POST, Arnhem (NL)
When Things Are Beings, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Despise Design, Milano Design Week, BASE, Milano (IT)

2022
1MSM, "Knows Too Much" workshop, Rome (IT)
Heal Royale, Overkill Festival, Enschede (NL)
Despise Design, All Bless the Fair!, DDW, Onomatopee, Eindhoven (NL)
ArtVerona - Pages, Verona (IT)
CODE 2022, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT)
EMERGENZ, Galerie Grolman, Berlin (DE)
Beyond Binaries, Albumarte, Rome (IT)
Heal Royale, Overkill Festival, Enschede (NL)
Infiltrations, Drop City, Salone del Mobile, Milano (IT)
Despise Design, All Bless the Fair!, DDW, Onomatopee, EIndhoven (NL)
Index Biennial of Art and Technology, Braga (PT)
Private_Eye_Butler_Spy, Arcam, Amsterdam (NL)

2021
Fremdkörper Special, MU Space, Eindhoven (NL)
Winter sense, RAUM, Utrecht (NL)
Waag, Museumnacht, Amsterdam (NL)
Embassy of Safety, DDW, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven (NL)
Graduation Show, DDW, Beursgebouw, Eindhoven (NL)
Real Feelings: Emotions and Technology, MU Space, Eindhoven (NL)



Selected publications:

2025
The Talent Prize 2025, Inside Art n.135 (IT), 2025
Haunting Spells, Artribune, 2025
DEATH-DESIGN-DATA, Onomatopee projects, Eindhoven (NL)
COMMON GROUNDS: Audrey Large x Ginevra Petrozzi, Dutch Design Awards


2024
Ghost chasers and neo-witches, Arte.tv (FR,DE)
Ginevra Petrozzi - Coeval Magazine
To be a witch in the age of Surveillance Capitalism - Review, Exindex
Esoterismo cibernetico, Inactual Magazine
Lanciare incantesimi nelle oscuritá digitali by Arianna Forte, NERO Editions

Ginevra Petrozzi, Interview by Eleonora Bruni, Inside Art
Repairing the world, N.13 The Letter, McGuffin Magazine

2023
POV:, Het Hem, The Couch Digital platform
Digitalive w/ Ginevra Petrozzi “Digital Esoterism”
Re:Humanism. Love, divination and cryptozoology in the age of AI
Spazio in Situ, Ginevra Petrozzi “EXTERNAL FORCES”


2022
Alle remmen gaan los in spookachtig Stedelijk Museum, Het Parool
Le esplorazioni creative dell’artista Ginevra Petrozzi,Eventi Culturali Magazine
ArtVerona 2022: young art, ArtFrame
The new is coming. First impressions of ArtVerona 2022, Juliet-Art
The Smartphone -The Protagonist of the Erotic, Extra Extra Magazine
Femminismo, arti e quartieri entrano in collisione con Erinni, Il Manifesto
Beyond Binaries: a Roma, una residenza partecipativa e transfemminista, Exibart

2021
Ginevra Petrozzi: speculative design of a digital witch, Ethical Fashion Brazil
Digital Esoterism, Institute of Network Cultures longform
Death to algorithms, long live the witches!, Jeroen Junte, DDW.nl
Surprising safety at the Embassy of Safety, World Design Embassies
11th Issue, Design in daily life, Design Unlimited Turkey


Grants / Residencies / Nominations:

2025
Silicon Plateau, Bangalore (IND)

2023/2024
Jan Van Eyck, Maastricht (NL)

2023
Re-Humanism Art Prize (IT)

2022
Stimuleringfonds Presentations Abroad Scheme (Creative industries fund NL)
Beyond Binaries,Erinni Ass. Cult, Rome (IT)

2020
Truthtellers residency at MAAT Museum with InResidence, Lisbon (P)

2019
Ideas.Bit Factory contest winner for 72 Art Rooms, Shanghai (CN)


Lectures/Talks:

2025
Alchemy Today, ECTlab Conference, Baltan Laboratories (NL), 2025
Digital art dialogues, Museum of Art & Photography, Bangalore (IND)

2024
DAE Lecture Series, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
Guest lecture at Dirty Art Department, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (NL)
Congregation of Mysteries w/ Sarah Shin, Jan van Eyck Academy (NL)
Participant presentations, Jan van Eyck Academy (NL)
Privacy Salon, Peeking Beyond the End, Zebrastraat, Ghent (BE)

2023
The Future of Living, Bozar. Brussels (BE)
Design and Magic, MAD Design Festival, Berne. (DE)
Media Art & Technology x Feminism, V_2, Rotterdam (NL)

2022
Penny for your Thoughts, Requiem for my Mother’s Data, Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL)
Cyberwitchcraft, Roma Europa Festival- Digitalive Talk (IT)
ECHO Platform Post, Artificial Incantations, Arnhem (NL)
Doubts and Dialogues, Hochschule Mainz (DE)
5th Floor Talk, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)2022

2021
Season of the witch, IMPAKT, Online event (NL)
Infiltrating systems, Elevator Radio, DDW, Eindhoven (NL)
Reports and Readings, ENTER_Milan, Milano Design Week (NL)
The Hmm @ Real Feelings, Mu Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven (NL)
Symposium for MA students, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)


Work:


2025-now
PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology, (NL)

2023- now
Co-founder of The Holistic Technology Salon, (NL) hosted by V2_ Rotterdam

2021-2023
Tutor, Social design Master, Design Academy Eindhoven, (NL)
Project coordinator, Masters Department, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
Introweek Tutor, Design Academy Eindhoven, (NL)