Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

Equatorial Guinea debuts at the Venice Biennale with Paraguayan artist Ingrid Seall and the theme of undergrowth

From May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026, Palazzo Donà dalle Rose in Venice will host, within the Pavilion of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, present for the first time in history in the official programming of the Venice Biennale, Paraguayan artist Ing...
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In my unassuming opinion. On the visibility of Italian art outside Italy.

Visibility-invisibility of Italian art outside Italy is the theme that most recurs in the discourses that have been made, at least since the last two decades, within the Italian art world. However, in my unassuming opinion, the real problem is not so...
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At MAXXI L'Aquila, exhibition dedicated to Ai Weiwei recounts catastrophes and memory

From April 29 to Sept. 6, 2026, MAXXI L'Aquila will host AI WEIWEI: Aftershock, an exhibition entirely dedicated to Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957), a Chinese artist, architect and activist who is among the best-known figures on the international contempor...
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Venice, in the Sale Canoviane of the Museo Correr, Julian Charrière in dialogue with Canova

At the Museo Correr in Venice the exhibition Dialoghi Canoviani continues, a project that relates contemporary artistic research to the legacy of Antonio Canova. The second edition offers a confrontation between the Franco-Swiss artist Julian Charri&...
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Farewell to Georg Baselitz, among the great innovators of European painting

The celebrated German painter Georg Baselitz, among the most influential figures incontemporary European art, died today at the age of 88.Born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, then East Germany, as Hans-Georg Kern, he moved in 1956 to East Berlin, where h...
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How do you exhibit architecture that no longer exists? The Nakagin Capsule Tower at MoMA

Entering MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and standing in front of a Nakagin Capsule Tower capsule produces an ambiguous feeling. It is not awe in the traditional sense, it is something more unstable: the perception of standing before...
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Baselitz in Florence, painting turned upside down as seen by two artists

Through Sept. 13, 2026, the Museo Novecento in Florence is hosting the exhibition Baselitz. Avanti!, curated by Sergio Risaliti and deicated to Georg Baselitz, German painter among the leading contemporary artists. The exhibition brings together abou...
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At the Rivoli Castle the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum dedicated to Cecilia Vicuña

The Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea hosts, from April 29 to September 20, 2026, El glaciar ido(The vanished glacier / The vanished glacier), the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum dedicated to Cecilia Vicuña. Born in Sant...
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