Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

From the Transavanguardia to today, what has changed in Italian contemporary art?

I constantly ask myself, dealing a lot with artists and works from the 1980s in Italy, what happened in that decade in the contemporary art world of our country and in the international context, when the Transavanguardia artists were transiting to Am...
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Erwin Wurm at the Fortuny Museum in Venice: an exhibition that transforms the body into living sculpture

From May 6 to Nov. 22, 2026, the Fortuny Museum in Venice presents Dreamers, an extensive monographic exhibition dedicated to Erwin Wurm (Bruck an der Mur, Austria, 1954), among the most relevant figures of the contemporary art scene. Curated by Elis...
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Laura Mircea in Reggio Emilia: cartographies of matter between painting, sculpture and signs of the world

From April 18 to May 31, 2026, Bonioni Arte Gallery in Reggio Emilia is hosting a solo exhibition by Laura Mircea entitled Laura Mircea. Between Drifts and Movements, accompanied by a critical text by Fabrizio Guerrini. The opening is scheduled for S...
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Cavalese Museum launches Performa: three weeks of performance art and research

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cavalese, in the province of Trento, is inaugurating a new exhibition project that aims to redefine the role of the museum space as a place of production, encounter and experimentation. In fact, from April 15 to May ...
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Diego Gualandris in Rome: the metamorphosis of dissolving plant matter

At the Ada Gallery in Rome, from April 10 to May 24, 2026, is presented the exhibition by Diego Gualandris (Bergamo, 1993) entitled Floralia, a project that develops as a fragmented narrative in the form of stream of consciousness, built around a pl...
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Venice Biennale, Somali artists protest their country's pavilion: 'does not represent us'

A group of artists, cultural workers and organizations active in Somalia has released, through the Somali Arts Foundation, a collective position statement ahead of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, protesting the way in wh...
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La Spezia, seven contemporary artists reinterpret Romanticism at CAMeC

From April 11 to September 13, 2026, the CAMeC - Modern and Contemporary Art Center of La Spezia presents the exhibition Rethinking Romanticism in Contemporary Art, curated by Elena Volpato. The exhibition offers an investigation into the visual and ...
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Contemporary cathedral gallery inaugurated in Angers

A new chapter is added to the centuries-old history of Angers Cathedral with the inauguration on Thursday, April 9, of the contemporary gallery designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. The intervention represents the outcome of a long process of st...
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