Biography

The artist 2501, born Jacopo Ceccarelli (Milan, 1981), studied at the Civica scuola di Cinema of Milan and completed a master’s degree in Audiovisual Communication at the Nuovo Bauhaus in Weimar in Germany. His multidisciplinary approach ranges between painting, installations, sculpture, photography and film. He is fascinated by maps, urban/architectural space and its contradictions in post-capitalist society; for years he has been investigating the flow of time, the cycle, and their multifaceted declinations.

His research is in constant dialogue with urban topography: his murals are visible all over the world, from Milan to London, NYC, Miami, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Ulaanbaatar, Kiev. Over the last twenty years he has exhibited in Europe, the United States and South America in galleries and museums. His work could be found on his collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/10 in 2016.