Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

Luca Bertolo reflects on the origins of art with “L’inizio ci assale” in Venice

From November 5, 2026, to February 14, 2027, the Palazzetto Marcello in Venice will host*L’inizio ci assale*, the first exhibition held in the building on Calle del Dose, in the Castello district. The featured artist is Luca Bertolo (Milan, 196...
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RADICI: Over 100 Artists at Frinco Castle (Asti) for Bruno Fantelli’s Genealogy Exhibition

From September 19 to October 19, 2026, Frinco Castle, in the Monferrato region of Asti (Asti), will host *RADICI. Genealogy of a Monster*, an exhibition conceived and curated by Trentino-based artist Bruno Fantelli. The project brings together over o...
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A permanent pavilion designed by Gerhard Richter will be built in Qatar

, a new permanent space dedicated to Gerhard Richter (Dresden, 1932), will be built in Doha, Qatar—a pavilion conceived by the artist himself as a site-specific work that unites architecture and art. The Doha Pavilion, as it will be called, will be ...
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Fragility as a Strength: The CONNEXXION Festival Returns to Savona

From September 18 to 26, 2026, CONNEXXION—the Widespread Festival of Contemporary Art—returns to Savona for its fourth edition, curated by Livia Savorelli. This year’s theme is “Elegy of Fragility,” a project that, through participatory art, pe...
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Maurizio Cattelan created a work of art using the ashes of a deceased friend

Maurizio Cattelan has created a work that holds the ashes of a deceased friend. The piece is titled *Dust*, one of the new works presented as part of *NIGHT*, the exhibition that the Padua-born artist opened today at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berli...
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Who Invented Art Exhibitions? A Look at the 17th Century in an Exhibition in Macerata. The Curator Speaks

What does it mean to organize an exhibition today? And above all, what happens when the exhibition itself becomes the subject of the exhibition? These are the questions that serve as the starting point for *Expositio Mundi*. The Exhibition as Medium,...
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Maurizio Cattelan Transforms a Museum in Berlin into a Contemporary Church

Maurizio Cattelan Sets Out to Conquer Germany: After winning the 2026 edition of the Preis der Nationalgalerie, the Padua-born artist is set to have an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which opens today: “NIGHT” is the first major s...
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Performance criticism has a problem: it continues to view the body as separate from the mind

Criticism of performance art has a fundamental problem: it continues to conceive of the body as if it were Cartesianly separated from the mind. For decades, bodily actions have been interpreted alternately as conceptual exercises—in which the mind us...
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