ANGAMC presents lifetime achievement award to gallery owner Lia Rumma

In Bologna, the Board of Directors of theAssociazione Nazionale Gallerie d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (ANGAMC) this morning awarded the ANGAMC 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award to Lia Rumma, founder of the renowned art gallery of the same name with offices in Naples and Milan. The award ceremony is scheduled for Feb. 2, 2024 in theArea Talk at Arte Fiera Bologna, in a ceremony open to gallery owners and visitors to the event. The award will be presented directly by association President Andrea Sirio Ortolani. The award ceremony will be attended by Arte Fiera artistic director Simone Menegoi, BolognaFiere Group executives and art critic and curator Danilo Eccher. ANGAMC dedicates its initiatives to elevating the professionalism of gallery owners, pursuing ambitious goals to make the Italian art system more globally competitive. Lia Rumma receives the award for this “for her passionate and constant work in the research, experimentation and promotion of artists and contemporary art and for the quality of the exhibition proposal that, in more than fifty years of activity and extraordinary commitment, have confirmed the importance of the role of the gallerist in spreading the culture of art in the world.”

In the 1960s, Marcello and Lia Rumma were the promoters of exhibitions that presented a new generation of artists, including the Arte Povera+Azioni Povere exhibition in 1968, curated by Germano Celant. After Marcello’s death in 1970, Lia Rumma moved to Naples and opened an art gallery the following year, inaugurating it with a solo exhibition A Grammatical Observation, Modus Operandi, 1986-1996 by Joseph Kosuth. Her research focuses on international art movements of the 1970s, such as Arte Povera, Minimal Art, and Conceptual Art. Since the 1980s, Lia Rumma has collaborated with Italian and international institutions and museums, includingHangar Bicocca with the exhibition I sette palazzi celesti, in 2004 and the Capodimonte Museum with Strade della città (and other tapestries) in 2009. The gallery represents prominent artists such as Marina Abramovic, Giovanni Anselmo, Enrico Castellani, Gino De Dominicis, Joseph Kosuth, and many others. Lia Rumma is also involved in the design of public works, such as Triumphs and Laments: a project for Rome by William Kentridge along the banks of the Tiber River.

In previous years, several prominent figures have been honored with the ANGAMC Award, including Carla Pellegrini (Galleria Milano, Milan) in 2017, who was recognized for her outstanding artistic and cultural promotion activities with Galleria Milano. In 2018, the award was given to Giorgio Marconi (Studio Marconi / Galleria Gió Marconi, Milan), whose extraordinary commitment dedicated to art and the promotion of artists has ennobled the valuable profession of the gallery owner. In 2019, the award was presented posthumously to Pasquale Ribuffo (Galleria De’ Foscherari, Bologna), a prominent figure around whom the city of Bologna and the entire art community rallied. In 2020, Roberto Casamonti (Tornabuoni Arte, Florence, Milan, Paris, Crans Montana, Forte dei Marmi) was honored for standing out in the difficult international art scene. Finally, the 2021 prize was awarded posthumously to Antonio Tucci Russo (Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice and Turin), recognizing his relentless research work, artistic proposal of high cultural value and commitment to the promotion of contemporary art.

“In the year in which we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Arte Fiera and the sixtieth anniversary of our Association,” concludes Andrea Sirio Ortolani, “We are happy to award Lia Rumma, one of the most authoritative figures in the Italian art scene, who has worked and works with international protagonists of contemporary art. Her career offers us concrete evidence of the importance of the role of the gallerist, whose professionalism is fundamental within the art system, supporting the market and in the dissemination of culture.”

Pictured: Lia Rumma in the 1970s

ANGAMC presents lifetime achievement award to gallery owner Lia Rumma

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