Roberta Gigante

Roberta Gigante (b. 1986, Arpino, Italy) is a multimedia artist based in Ghent, Belgium. Her practice explores how materials themselves generate form, through work in sound, sculpture, neon, public space, and collaborations with living organisms.

Gigante studied Visual and Performing Arts at IUAV University in Venice (2005–2009) and obtained a Master’s degree in Urban Space at La Cambre in Brussels (2009–2011). 

In 2010 she received the Meesterproef Prize of the Vlaams Bouwmeester for three projects in public space in Ghent. This early engagement with public space became foundational to her approach of setting conditions rather than prescribing outcomes.

Over the past fifteen years, these seemingly distinct strands (sound installations, neon works, process-based sculptures, works on paper) have been guided by a single question: how form emerges when materials, bodies, and environments are invited to act.

In recent years, this investigation into material agency has extended to living organisms and microbial processes. Working with the Microbiology Research Group (MICR) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she explores interactions between fungal cultures, paper substrates, and chromatic systems, engaging with microorganisms as creative collaborators in the generation of color and form.

Her work has been shown at M HKA Antwerp (2021), Middelheim Museum Antwerp (2024), Espace 251 Nord Liège (2015, 2022), CC Strombeek (2014, 2017), and through international residencies including the DeCYPher transdisciplinary residency (2025) and Mósso in Benin (2016, 2017). She has permanent works in public spaces in Ghent and Antwerp, and her work is held in public and private collections. Roberta Gigante is represented by Kristof De Clercq Gallery in Ghent.