Ornela Novello (b. 1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an artist and writer who works across installation, performance, text and photography to create work that questions the world and our place within it. She holds an MA in Interior Architecture and Design from UC Berkeley and a postgraduate degree in Communal Arts and Art Therapy. She recently completed a two year sculpture  programme at Mass/TURPS, expanding her exploration of form and materiality in contemporary practice.

Rooted in the interplay of ideas, systems and narratives, her work examines how we perceive, navigate, and interpret the world. 

She currently lives and works in London. Recent group shows include Hypha Studios, London (2025), APT Studios, Deptford (2024), Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Penzance (2024), Thames Side Studio Gallery, Woolwich (2024).

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Art

1. Untiteld, 2025
2. Fly, 2024
3. This is the War coming in eight years, 2023
4. Dinosaurs, 2025
5. I make Narratives, 2024
6. The fours seasons of the ____ tree, 2025
7. Untitled, 2023
8. Peace, 2024
9. Cabinet, 2024
10. Tree, 2024
11. 5 cm, 2025
12. Came for the Dinosaurs, stayed for the extintion, 2025
13. Alligator, 2023
14. Pony, 2025
15. Winner, 2025

Performance

I partially document my performances by taking a photo and make a very short film. I believe performance belongs in the live realm. I collaborate with artists an performers to make them happen.

1. So, this is the war coming in 8 years, 2025
2. Lisa, 2024
3. Soldier on an Assignment, 2024
4. There is a lake in Finland that looks like Finland, 2024
5. Nap, 2024

Writing

0. I am writing something long, well, i feel it will be something long many pages so i am tempeted to call it a novel but i don’t know what a novel is because google said it is somekind of fictional thing that explores a character and a plot and i believe everything is a fiction, i am the character and there is not a plot. so i’m not sure what to call it. however, you can follow along my writing here. 
1. A book of haikus, 2025. I still have a few copies left. Email me to purchase one.
2. Is it a Sculpture or an Intervention?
3. I am worried, 2024
4. My previous Artist Statement, 2024
5. I can talk about all of this, 2024
6. Day 2/2 2 at the Gallery, 2023
7. Day 1/2  at the Gallery, 2023
8. A picnic day, 2023
9. Máximas de una artista cualquiera, 2023.