Luigi Coppola is an artist and agroecologist. Senior research fellow of the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, US. He is part of the collective Casa delle Agriculture a project in Castiglione d’Otranto, south Italy, which seeks to revive abandoned land, repopulate the countryside, generate a sustainable economy and strengthen community cohesion.

He has developed public art projects, performances, installations and exhibitions in international contexts, including at: 7th Lubumbashi Biennale (DR Congo), 5th Istanbul Design Biennale, 2020; Gardentopia, Matera European Capital of Culture, 2019; Fondazione Merz Turin, 2018; BAK Utrecht, 2018; Kunsthaus Graz, 2017; Quadriennale Roma, 2017. Luigi was joint Artistic Director with Michelangelo Pistoletto of the Urban Art Biennale in Bordeaux –Art for an urban re-evolution. In 2023 he published the book Ex-Situ: compatible avec la vie (kunstverein Milano ed.).