Luigi Pensa was born in Turin in 2001, currently lives and works in Milan. He studied Product Design at the Central Saint Martins-University of The Arts in London.
Influenced by conceptual art, his work ranges from product and furniture design to ceramic sculpture, fashion and industrial design. Luigi Pensa is interested in collaborating with artisans and workshops, experimenting with traditional media and techniques such as glass blowing, furniture design and ceramic manufacturing.
His oeuvre therefore combines specific production techniques in order to give life to new creative results. His most recent projects include developing a fashion line in which he uses vintage clothing as basis for silk-screen printing of cultural and religious symbols, giving the individual garments a new purpose and meaning.
The screen-printing technique also allows to merge the “handmade” and the digital, the ancient and the contemporary, art and design, not only in the field of fashion but also in that of design, conceiving furniture and unique objects. In 2024 he was artist in residence at Wasl Art Space – Jeddah Park in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.