Sandi Renko  graduated from the Enrico and Umberto Nordio Art Institute, among his teachers Miela Reina, Enzo Cogno, Ugo Carà, Marcello Siard. Through them he began to frequent the Centro Arte Viva which in those years brought to Trieste the works of Enzo Mari, Getulio Alviani, Bruno Munari and others. He was thus attracted by the experiential area of ​​kinetic and programmed art. His first work in canneté was in 1969, a support that would determine the development of his own artistic language focused on geometry and three-dimensionality and on the interaction between observer and work.

 

At the beginning of the Seventies he moved to Padua and opened a design, visual communication and art direction studio. He worked for leading companies designing furniture, furnishing systems and lighting. Stimulated by the artistic and intellectual context of Padua that still echoes the experiences of the Gruppo N, he begins to participate in group exhibitions, happenings and impromptu events, consolidating his affinity with concrete art. He applies the designer's design rigor also to visual art and undertakes an always linear and coherent path declined on a personal technique.

 

Since 2000, also at the instigation of Alberto Biasi, he intensifies his artistic activity by experimenting with new colors and materials. He tries his hand at synaesthetic projects creating multisensory works soundtracked by composers Filippo Perocco, Paola Samoggia and Nicola Sanguin. A first comprehensive review of his production starting from 1966 is set up in 2015 at the Padiglione delle Arti in Marcon, Venice. Renko subsequently exhibits alongside the historical representatives of programmed and kinetic art, Cruz-Diez, Le Parc, Tornquist, at the exhibition The Sharper Perception. Kinetic Art, Optical and beyond held in New York in 2016, and the following year he was present at the exhibition Biasi, Campesan, Munari and other friends of Verifica 8+1, in the context of the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2020, at the Palazzo del Monferrato in Alessandria, the solo exhibition Sandi Renko Fuori dalle righe. 50 anni di prospettive visiva (Sandi Renko Outside the lines. 50 years of visual perception) was held. In 2021, one of his works was selected and exhibited at the 2021 Origins in Geometry Biennale at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas, Texas, USA. In 2022, he was invited to the contemporary art exhibition Palinsesti in San Vito al Tagliamento, where he presented site-specific installations. In the same year, he held the large retrospective Quadrivium, at the Galerija Zuccato in Poreč, Croatia. In 2024 his works from the late 1960s were exhibited at the exhibition Victor Vasarely v odmevu / in the Echo organized by the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana.

 

He has exhibited continuously in solo and group exhibitions in Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Germany, France, Switzerland and New York. Since 2019 he has moved his studio from Padua to Trieste.