Marco Abrate (Rebor) - ELSEWHERE

REBOR (Marco Abrate, born in 1996) is an Italian contemporary artist with an international career spanning Italy and China. In 2022, he won First Prize in the Street Art section of the 59th Venice Biennale, with a work exhibited at the Venice Pavilion and subsequently acquired by the collection of Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice.

He has held solo exhibitions in Milan, Turin and Shanghai, including Peek Behind the Curtain (2024), supported by the Swatch Art Peace Hotel; The End of Pink (2025); and We Are Dust and Shadows (2026), presented at Nancy Gallery in Shanghai in collaboration with Linlu Zhang.
In 2023, he was selected for the artist residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai. In 2025, he participated in the ICCI Art Valley Residency at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, exhibiting in The Uncharted. In 2026, he took part in the Swatch Art Peace Hotel’s 15th Anniversary Exhibition as part of Art Journey, in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. His work has also been presented at the Xiamen Art Museum in China.
His artistic practice has received coverage from Italian and international media, including Vanity Fair, Corriere Torino, Xinhua News Agency, RAI and Sky Arte. His works are held in public, institutional and private collections across Europe and Asia.

Through pareidolia, REBOR transforms material surfaces and architectural fragments into hidden images, exploring the relationship between perception, memory and human presence.