21Art gallery opens new location in central Rome

21Art is opening a new gallery in the center of Rome, at Largo della Fontanella di Borghese No. 89, after a significant renovation project curated by Fosbury Architecture, a collective known for having signed the curatorship of the Italian Pavilion at the 2023 Architecture Biennale. The Roman gallery will officially open to the public on January 29, 2026, presenting an initial selection of works by emerging artists and exponents of the international scene. Throughout the year, the space will host solo exhibitions and in-depth events involving 21Art’s different venues, including the one in Rome.

21Art was founded as a benefit company on the initiative of Alessandro Benetton, starting from a project conceived by entrepreneur Davide Vanin. Currently 21Art also includes galleries in Padua and Treviso. The expansion program will soon include the opening of a new location in Monte Carlo, followed in 2027 by those in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.

In the spaces of the new Roman gallery will be on view, until April 24, 2026, a group exhibition of the artists represented by 21Art: Valerio Adami, Gonzalo Borondo, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Mario Ceroli, Jan Fabre, Ahmet Gunestekin, Ania Hobson, Cristiano Pintaldi, Piero Pizzi Cannella and Emma Talbot. Ten authors united by the quality of their research but profoundly different in terms of generations, languages and approaches, ranging from Arte Povera to aniconic painting to public art practices.

Within this path, heterogeneous poetics emerge: Pierpaolo Calzolari and Mario Ceroli treat the surface as a living, three-dimensional element; Jan Fabre, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Valerio Adami and Ahmet Gunestekin construct narratives dense with symbolic, historical and mythological references, as does Emma Talbot, whose work focuses on female identity and experience. Gonzalo Borondo explores unconventional materials and media, while Cristiano Pintaldi translates digital aesthetics into painting through the use of pixels. Finally, Ania Hobson observes and renders the everyday with a lyrical and intimate gaze.

“I am deeply grateful to Alessandro Benetton who was the first to believe in the potential of a young entrepreneur and in an ambitious project, preferring it to the proposals of much larger and more structured realities. Together, we started 21Art and made it grow, quickly involving important collectors and entrepreneurs, institutions, foundations and sector operators,” says Ceo Davide Vanin. “With the opening of a strategic space in the Capital, 21Art expands further: we hope that this new gallery will help support emerging artists and introduce to the general public international authors, witnesses of an innovative approach to art and culture.”

The gallery is open to the public Monday through Saturday, with continuous hours from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; it will be closed on April 5 and 6, 2026. Free admission

From Feb. 6 to 8, 2026, 21Art will also take part in the 49th edition of Arte Fiera in Bologna, presenting in the Main Section an exhibition project focused on an unprecedented dialogue between Jan Fabre and Gonzalo Borondo.

21Art gallery opens new location in central Rome

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