GIUSEPPE ARNONE

Giuseppe Arnone (born in 2000 in La Louvière, Belgium) is a Belgian-Italian visual artist whose practice spans textile art, drawing, sculpture, painting, and mural work. A graduate of the Image dans le Milieu (IDM) program at ARTS² in Mons, he develops an artistic practice focused on gender diversity, sexuality, identity construction, and queer representation.

Raised in a traditional Sicilian family, Arnone discovered drawing at an early age and gradually turned art into a space for self-expression and emancipation. His personal experience, particularly his coming-out, became a catalyst for an artistic practice that questions social norms and explores the fluidity of identities. Through hybrid, organic, and often textile-based forms, he creates works that challenge binary categories and celebrate multiplicity.

Combining abstraction and figuration, his work is characterized by soft materials, tactile surfaces, and welcoming forms. His projects take the shape of textile sculptures, monumental tapestries, banners, paintings inspired by the visual language of carpets, and public art interventions. Situated at the intersection of aesthetics and activism, his work creates spaces of visibility for queer experiences and proposes alternative visions of collective futures.

His work has been exhibited in several Belgian institutions and exhibitions, including the Maison des Arts in Schaerbeek, the Ianchelevici Museum in La Louvière, and various projects connected to ARTS². He was selected for the Hainaut Visual Arts Prize and participated in the Pink Screens Festival exhibition in Brussels.

Through his artistic practice, Giuseppe Arnone advocates for a world in which the boundaries between genders, bodies, and identities become spaces of encounter, resistance, and freedom.