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Art is not decoration. It is how I acknowledge pain, and get past it.

Marco Scola paints the human face and the human figure — saints, strangers, and the people he goes dancing with. Primitive and tribal on one side, avant-garde and abstract on the other, and Berlin somewhere in the middle.

GIUDITTA by Marco Scola.
GIUDITTA

Works

Statement

Watercolour to spray can. Canvas, linen, fabric, compressed cardboard, a wood cabinet door, faux leather, and whatever the street left out that week.

Series

Every series, with a picture

Matribal — the winter pop-up shop.

Upcycling art & fashion

Recycled material turned into one-off garments, and jewellery made to be worn as work. Scola has an eye for the style people are not using yet: the shop is a place to experiment and leave with a new wardrobe, not with a few tips.

Where
Niederbarnimstraße 21, Berlin-Friedrichshain
When
Open every year from mid-October to mid-March.

Upcycling art & fashion

Two people from behind wearing green jackets hand-painted with MATRIBAL BERLIN and an eye motif.

Atelier Attico, Kreuzberg

Marco Scola

Marco Scola sitting by the window of his Kreuzberg studio, Atelier Attico, in black and white.
Atelier Attico — the last occupied flat in the building.

Marco Scola is the artist behind Matribal. He comes from Catania in Sicily. He studied architecture first, then moved to Rome and took a BA in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts.

He has been part of Berlin’s underground art scene since 2007. He lives and works at Atelier Attico, the last occupied flat in an emptied-out old building in Kreuzberg — and that building is part of what the paintings are about.

Born
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Studied
BA Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome
Lives and works
Atelier Attico, Kreuzberg, Berlin
In Berlin since
2007

About Marco Scola

Studio

Get in touch

Works are available directly from the studio. Prices on request.

For availability, dimensions, condition or shipping, write to the studio. Please include the title of the work — or just send the picture, that works too.