Contemporary art

Bertrand Flachot: cartographer of the invisible, explorer of the sign

Bertrand Flachot (Paris, 1955) is an artist who draws on the boundary between photography and drawing, word and form, the visible and the perceivable. For more than 30 years, his research has been moving along the textures of memory, perception and l...
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Milan, Deloitte opens a gallery in a deconsecrated church and a center for artificial intelligence

Deloitte expands in Milan by opening new spaces, one dedicated to research and one to art. But let's go in order. The first is Solaria Space, the new hub created by Deloitte and entirely dedicated toGenerative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). An init...
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The Venice Biennale of 2026 will be called "In Minor Keys": it will be a jazz biennale devoted to listening

It will be titled In Minor Keys ("In Minor Key"), the Venice Biennale's 2026 international exhibition, which will run from May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026. Curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, who passed away only a few days ago, it was unveiled this morning in V...
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Mazzoleni gallery opens branch in Milan: here's the new gallery on Senato Street

Historic Mazzoleni Gallery announces the opening of a new location in Milan, which will strengthen the international presence of one of Italy's leading commercial galleries. The new space joins the original location in Turin and the one in London loc...
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Pistoletto of Egypt: the Third Paradise away at the Pyramids

Not standing still even at 91: Michelangelo Pistoletto continues to reinvent himself. The artist from Biella has been announced among the "headliners" of the 2025 edition of Forever Is Now, the international contemporary art exhibition taking place a...
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From Florence to New York, Thomas J Price lands in Times Square with another statue

From Piazza della Signoria in Florence straight to Times Square in New York. As of May 6, Thomas J. Price (London, 1981) has also landed in the most famous square in the American city with his work Grounded in the Stars, another large bronze sculptur...
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Meridiana Prize kicks off: Naples' Madre supports young curators and artists who enhance the south

A new space of visibility and support for emerging voices of contemporary art in Southern Italy is taking shape at the Madre Museum in Naples. It is the Meridiana Prize, in its first edition, promoted by the Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Ar...
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At the OGR in Turin, an exhibition on the concepts of truth and authenticity in the age of artificial intelligence

From April 16, 2025, in the spaces of Binario 2 at OGR Turin, Almost Real opened to the public. From Trace to Simulation, a group exhibition included in the program of EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival (April 16-June 2). The exhibition is curated by Samue...
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Petrit Halilaj will create a new work in the Langhe, in Dogliani, in a former school

Radis, the art in public space project promoted by the Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, returns for its second edition. After the positive experience in Rittana, where Giulia Cenci created the work le masche, the initiative - again ...
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Bologna, Basilica of San Petronio opens for first time to secular contemporary art with Joan Crous

For the first time,secular contemporary art is making its entrance into the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna: starting Saturday, April 26, on the anniversary of the bombing of Guernica (1937) during the Spanish Civil War at the hands of German and...
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Andrea Mastrovito wins competition to create Sagrada Familia's Agnus Dei

The Museu Diocesà de Barcelona, also known as Casa de la Almoina, is hosting an exhibition until June 9, 2025, dedicated to the five artistic proposals conceived to create theAgnus Dei to be placed inside the cross at the top of the tower of J...
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Nutella at MAXXI: Giulietta Gheller stages performance against the commercial drift of museums

In December 2024, the MAXXI museum in Rome hosted two exhibitions that caused much discussion: one dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Nutella, titled JOYN!, and one to the 100th anniversary of Autostrade per l'Italia, called Italia in movimento - A...
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Venice, Luc Tuymans at San Giorgio Maggiore: two new works to replace Tintoretto canvases

Luc Tuymans returns to Venice and does so with a project intended for the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore. From May 9 to November 23, 2025, the Belgian painter will be featured in a new commission at the house of worship, one of the symbolic places ...
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Luc Tuymans creates two unpublished works for the altar of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice

From May 9 to November 23, 2025, the altar of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice will host two new works by Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (Mortsel, 1958), among the most influential voices in contemporary painting. Commissioned by the Bened...
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Milan, opens in Unipol Tower the third location of CUBO, Unipol Group's business museum

In the heart of Milan, overlooking Piazza Gae Aulenti and inside Unipol Tower, the skyscraper designed by Mario Cucinella, the third location of CUBO, Unipol Group's business museum, opens today, Wednesday, April 16. A new space dedicated tocontempor...
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Miart 2025, awarded the acquisition and commission prizes

Miart 2025, an international fair dedicated to modern and contemporary art, organized by Fiera Milano, has announced the winners of the acquisition and commission prizes: the Orbital Cultura - Nexi Group Prize, the Matteo Visconti di Modrone Prize, t...
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