BPER Bank Gallery presents the 2024 exhibition program at its venues

The BPER Bank Gallery is preparing for an intense 2024 of cultural events, with programming that aims to share its rich artistic heritage with the public. Five exhibitions will be hosted in four historic venues (Modena, Milan, Genoa and Brescia) accompanied by a varied calendar of eleven events, including festivals, educational initiatives and reviews.

This year, the BPER Bank Gallery focuses on its historical roots and the high value of its artistic and cultural heritage, the result of a long process of selection, collection and cataloguing that began in the 1950s and is still ongoing. With more than 10,000 works inventoried, including 2,500 works of significant art-historical value, the gallery intends to offer the public a series of exhibitions exploring themes such as still life and the concept of the psyche.

These exhibitions will involve a wide network of collaborations between different cities, institutions and cultural activities, offering the public a rich and stimulating experience. In fact, the BPER Bank Gallery wants to confirm itself as a point of reference for the promotion and dissemination of art and culture, helping to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities in which it operates.

As Sabrina Bianchi, Head of Cultural Heritage at BPER Bank, explains, “2024 marks an important milestone for La Galleria BPER Banca, which significantly increases its collaborations with prestigious institutions and renews its mission to open and share its collection with the public. In this new artistic chapter, we are committed to offering visitors and visitors, an engaging experience with paths capable of offering stimuli for reflection, development of creativity and openness to dialogue, thus contributing to enhance the cultural and social fabric of the communities we come into contact with.”

Exhibitions

From April 5 to June 30, 2024,Modena ’ s historic exhibition venue welcomes masterpieces from the BPER Gallery collection in the exhibition The Enchantment of the Real. Fragments of the Everyday in Still Life between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, curated by Lucia Peruzzi. The exhibition explores the theme of still life, floral and botanical art and their evolution through two centuries, placing in dialogue the two souls of La Galleria’s collection, which develops between works of art and archival documents. Important loans, including a work by Pier Francesco Cittadini from the Pinacoteca Guercino in Cento, will enrich the exhibition.

Then,from April 11 to the end of June, the first photography exhibition promoted by the BPER Banca Gallery will be held in Milan at the headquarters of BPER Banca Private Cesare Ponti where, after the success of the exhibition All that glitters is not gold by Fabrizio Dusi, curated by Giorgia Ligasacchi, the works of visual artist Alessandro Sambini will be exhibited. Curated by Andrea Tinterri and Luca Zuccala, editor in chief of Artslife magazine and Galleria Indice, in collaboration with Giorgia Ligasacchi and Studio Pavesio e Associati with Negri-Clementi. Made on the occasion of Milan Art Week, the Human Image Recognition project is a profound reflection on the relationship between man and machine, between man and new technologies, and between man and Artificial Intelligence. The reflection is part of the digital evolution that the BPER Bank Group is planning, with the intention, however, to keep central that fundamental spark of union between the human relationship of relationships and technology, the exhibition will be the first opportunity for La Galleria to promote contemporary photography in a historic venue, to weave tradition into the future.

In January, May and October, La Galleria Banca BPER will participate in Rolli Days in Genoa with the opening of the exhibition spaces, formerly Carige’s, on the 14th floor of the headquarters at Via Cassa del Risparmio 15 and the exhibition Nelle stanze dell’arte. Itinerary among masterpieces in a Genoese collection with in-depth studies related to the themes proposed by the Rolli: villas and historic houses for the May edition and medieval venues for the October edition.

Returning to Modena, from Sept. 13, 2024 to Feb. 9, 2025, an exhibition curated by Daniela Ferrari is designed to interpret the theme of the 2024 edition of festivalfilosophy, “psyche,” understood as mirror and specularity. Paintings from the collection of La Galleria BPER Banca, accompanied by a selection of prestigious loans, return a careful glimpse into the theme of the link between psyche and identity, under the banner of the Greek term for soul, breath and vital breath. The exhibition offers a series of speculations on the nature of human feelings through the mirror of myth. The viewer will come into contact with the characters of ancient narrative featured in mythological-themed paintings from BPER Bank’s vast collection.

The exhibition cycle curated for 2024 by La Galleria BPER Banca will conclude with an exhibition in Brescia dedicated toElisabetta Sirani, to be held starting in October at Palazzo Martinengo in Villaga. Conceived as an enhancement of female talent, it will be inaugurated as part of ABI’s It’s Culture! event and is organized in collaboration with the Brescia Musei Foundation, renewing the dialogue with the Brescian museum institution started last year. The exhibition will present the works of this leading artist of seventeenth-century Bologna, celebrated by her contemporaries and sought after by collectors of the time, in an itinerary enriched by numerous loans.

Other initiatives

Also intense is the program of initiatives and collaborations put in place in 2024 by La Galleria BPER Banca to promote the collection and enhance its role as a private cultural actor, capable of making its contribution to the community to convey the value of beauty and art as a tool for the elevation of the individual and the growth of society.

The first action is aimed at the scholastic world and will involve, between January and April, two fourth-year classes of the “Antonio Muratori - San Carlo” classical and linguistic high school in Modena in Museimpresa’s project "A scuola d’impresa,“ with a ”crowdfund-art" initiative to purchase a work of art by Fabrizio Dusi to be placed in the institute.

Also important was the participation in the XXXIII edition at the “Antiqua” fair at the Magazzini del Cotone in Genoa’s Old Port from Jan. 27 to Feb. 4, with a booth of La Galleria BPER Banca where a selection of works in line with the collateral theme of this edition was presented: sacred art. On display for the occasion were the Madonna Reading, with Child, St. John and St. Elizabeth by Luca Cambiaso, Nocturne with the Holy Family, St. John and St. Joseph by a pupil of Cambiaso and Madonna and Child, St. Anne and St. John by Francesco Cairo.

The gallery was also present from Feb. 2 to 4 at “Arte Fiera” in Bologna in the 50th anniversary edition, of which BPER Banca is the main sponsor, with the establishment of an acquisition prize dedicated to the enhancement of women’s themes. The winning work is Island#49 by Stefania Galegati, which will be exhibited at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, at the Venice Meeting Point in collaboration with Lightbox.

From Feb. 10 to 18 The BPER Bank Gallery also participated, , with its own booth at the XXXVII Modenantiquaria exhibition of fine antiques, where the Portrait of a Young Monk by Francesco Giovanni Caroto, the Portrait of an Elderly Gentlewoman with Child by a 17th-century artist from Emilia will be on display, Cesare Gennari’s Portrait of a Gentlewoman with Child, Lorenzo Pasinelli’s Maiden with an Empty Cage, and Francesco Brini’s Portrait of Vice Delegate Lorenzo Lenzi, or del Brina, to retrace the portrait theme proposed in the exhibition “Guests at the Palace. Posed and Natural Figures” held in Brescia between November 2023 and January 2024.

On May 18, 2024, on the occasion of the European Night of Museums, there will be an evening opening of the exhibition spaces of La Galleria di Banca BPER, with dedicated workshops and events.

Also in May, there will be participation in “Quante storie nella Storia - Settimana della didattica in Archivio” supported by the Heritage Sector of the Emilia-Romagna Region in collaboration with ANAI - Italian National Archival Association and the Archival and Bibliographic Superintendence of Emilia Romagna of the Ministry of Culture. On this occasion, knowledge of the documentary wealth of BPER Banca’s historical archives will be promoted.

There are two festivals in which La Galleria is participating during 2024.

From June 6 to 9, 2024, its archives are an integral part of the cultural offerings of Archivissima 2024, an event entirely dedicated to the exploration of local archival heritage, and events capable of promoting the documentary wealth preserved in BPER Banca’s historical archives will be held. The historical locations of the BPER Banca Gallery are also the protagonists of the second edition of È cultura! promoted by ABI - Italian Banking Association: from October 5 to 12, The BPER Banca Gallery participates, in synergy with the External Relations sector of the banking group with the opening of exhibition spaces in Modena, Genoa, Brescia and Milan.

Finally, in November, appointment with the Enterprise Culture Week, promoted by Confindustria and Museimpresa with the theme to be announced in May.

BPER Bank Gallery presents the 2024 exhibition program at its venues

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