Ambra Viviani is an artist and researcher based between Naples and Basel. Working across sculpture, text, and voice, she develops installations, performances, sound works, and audio dramas.

Her practice stages situations in which fiction, research, evidence, and invention enter unstable relations. Through the reconstruction, transformation, and transmission of voices and narratives, she explores how experiences acquire affective force, and how something may persist as feeling or belief even after its source becomes uncertain—while sincerity and deception remain deliberately unresolved. Her works employ counterfeiting, forgery, dubbing, and fictionalisation as modes of alteration, making betrayal a generative act.

Central to her recent research is the de/reconstruction of the loving discourse, examining how intimacy is articulated, negotiated, and sustained.

Viviani also works through the pop-star persona Minne de Curtis, whose songs give form to the excessive, theatrical, and self-conscious dimensions of an out-of-tune practice.
In 2020, she founded Giulietta, an artist-run space and curatorial project, and since 2022 has curated the radio series OTTERS HOLDING HANDS on Lumpen Station.

She received an MFA from Institut Kunst in Basel in 2017 and a Pre-Doctorate in Transdisciplinary Artistic Practice from Zurich University of the Arts in 2022. She has been an artist-in-residence at Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2024–25), Villa Clavel in Augst (2024), CASTRO Projects in Rome (2022), JET LEG in Munich (2022), Atelier Mondial in Hangzhou (2019), the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2018), and Tropical Lab in Singapore (2017).

Viviani has received research grants from Abteilung Kultur Basel, the Patronage Fund for Young Swiss Artists, IfCAR Zurich, SRKS/FSRC Bern, the Albert Friedrich His-Stiftung Basel, and the Fiorucci Art Trust London. Giulietta has been supported by Pro Helvetia as well as cantonal and private funding. Her work has been presented in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, China, and Singapore.