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 Romanian post-communist reality. Bressan employs 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. Michele Bressan's photography 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 recognition such as the Essl Prize and a nomination for the Henkel Prize for Art in 2009. In addition to his artistic pursuits, Bressan is a co-founder of Atelierele Scânteia and the Romanian Military Archeology NGO.
In more recent years, he curated several photography exhibition, both national and international, being actively involved in promoting artists working with photography in the post-2000 timeframe.