Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

Marina Abramović, the failure of an intention and a method.

To think of engaging the viewer in a performance where the medium is silent motionless by slowly raising her gaze toward him and thereby transmitting an energy that makes that space a temenos, a sacred enclosure: this is a rather primitive idea, whic...
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Luisa Figini in Ascona: matter, memory and video art at the Museum of Modern Art

From June 14 to September 6, 2026, the Municipal Museum of Modern Art in Ascona, Switzerland, is hosting a retrospective dedicated to Luisa Figini (Mendrisio, 1954). The exhibition, curated by Carla Burani and Paola Tedeschi-Pellanda, offers a select...
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Two exhibitions in Venice for François Reboul: from abstraction to the pictorial freedom movement

In Venice, the SV exhibition space, located in Campo San Zaccaria a Castello 4693, is hosting a double event dedicated to the work of François Reboul, a French artist active between Venice and Provence, who is presenting a new series of works ...
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Malta at the Venice Biennale 2026: doubt as resistance in the National Pavilion

Malta returns to the Venice Art Biennale with a project that focuses on doubt as a tool for knowledge, resistance and interpretation of the present. Set up at the Arsenale, the Malta Pavilion, organized by the Arts Council Malta, hosts the group exhi...
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Indonesia's surprising Pavilion at the Biennale: a journey and a new idea of History

Don't take it personally or, if you do, take offense at the somewhat strong comparison you are about to read. I think people are sometimes like those insects attracted by light (or sweat, given the season): they head in true swarms to what they hear ...
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Michele Chiossi on display at Villa Nigra in Masino with Corollario

It is not a retrospective, nor a simple reconnaissance of works made at different moments in his career. Corollary, the solo exhibition of Michele Chiossi (Lucca, 1970) set up in the spaces of Villa Nigra in Miasino (Novara) from June 6 to 27, 2026, ...
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Shim Moonseup in Venice, at Ca' Faccanon the sculpture that puts nature at the center

In Venice, Korean artist Shim Moonseup presents his solo exhibition Harnessed From Nature, hosted in the historic spaces of Ca' Faccanon in the sestiere of San Marco. The exhibition will run until September 30, 2026. The exhibition project, curated a...
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Ding Yi in Venice, at the Querini Stampalia the exhibition Cosmotechnics

The Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice is hosting until November 22, 2026 the exhibition Ding Yi Cosmotechnics: Ding Yi as a Planetary Code, one of the most extensive presentations in Europe devoted to Chinese artist Ding Yi (Shanghai, 1962), a c...
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