Roberto Vitalini is a Swiss video artist whose immersive, large scale installations dissolve the boundaries of physical space and open vast emotional landscapes. His works function as atmospheres rather than narratives — living, shifting environments where light, motion, and scale converge into a coherent, sensorial aesthetic. For years, his research has focused on integrating video into surfaces, materials, and structures of every scale and geometry — from theatrical scenographies to monumental urban façades.
Since 2009, he has collaborated with Daniele Finzi Pasca and Compagnia Finzi Pasca, bringing video into acrobatic, theatrical, operatic productions and major international ceremonies. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, he created the 3D video experience for the world’s largest kinetic tubular LED forest, descending from the stadium rafters. In 2017, for Avudo Montréal, his generative seascape was projected nightly onto 100 stacked shipping containers, forming a monumental 120 × 50 meter architectural screen on the waterfront.
His most recent work, Ocean 88, created for the 3788 ‘Light of Asia’ landmark screen in Chongqing, Guanyinqiao Business District, spans a 3788 square meter video façade, unfolding a vast ocean whose waves reveal a mechanical understructure — metallic filaments and engineered rhythms beneath natural immensity. This fusion of organic and mechanical elements creates an immersive, subtly disorienting experience.
Roberto Vitalini lives in Lugano with his wife Jeanne and their two sons, continuing to explore new frontiers at the intersection of art, technology, and human perception.