Johna Gussoni (Brescia, 1995),
graduated at the Politecnico di Milano, is a designer working in the furniture sector on both national and international projects.
In 2025, he launched the artistic project “from Terea to Art: from waste to beauty”, using IQOS tobacco sticks in a completely unprecedented way to create sustainable artworks, with the aim of raising awareness of the relationship between consumption and environment.
The idea came from a reflection: every year in Italy, 2.8 tonnes of cigarette butts end up in the environment. How can all this polluting material be reused?
His works are an invitation to look the common things from a different perspective: waste can become a resource and a vehicle for creating a new narrative, made of beauty and awareness. Every used filter is a fragment of a story and, in his compositions, becomes part of a collective work.
Pubblications:
• 05/2026 - Exibart: pubblication of OSMOSI - Johna Gussoni solo show press release
• 05/2026 - Radio Brescia7: radio interview
• 05/2026 - Radio Viva Fm: radio interview
• 01/2026 - Giornale di Brescia: newspaper article “Dal cestino alla cornice, Johna ha
trovato l’arte nelle sigarette elettroniche” written by Alessia Tagliabue
• 12/2025 - Teletutto: television interview
Exhibitions:
• 06/2026 - solo show Osmosi, curated by Riccardo Angossini, The Address Art Gallery, Brescia (BS)
• 05/2026 - finalist ArteIn prize, curated by Vanni Rinaldi, Monza (MB)
• 04/2026 - collective “Ambientarti”, curated by Eva Amos (Art Space),
Ikonica Art Gallery, Milano (MI)
• 01/2026 - Far Arreda showroom, Roncadelle (BS)
• 12/2025 - collective Salon des Refusés, curated by Paola Rivetta, Federica Picco,
Gare82 Gallery, Brescia (BS)
• 12/2025 - Dion Cooltemporary, Brescia (BS)
• 11/2025 - Cantiere Carmine, Brescia (BS)
• 11/2025 - Corso Zanardelli, Brescia (BS)
• 10/2025 - Areadocks concept store, Brescia (BS)
• 07/2025 - Aperifiesta charity party, Castelmella (BS)
• 05/2025 - Il Moro - Brescia (BS)
