Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

Somalia participates in the Venice Biennale for the first time, with a Pavilion on poetry

The Federal Republic of Somalia will participate in the Venice Biennale for the first time with its first National Pavilion, which will be on view from May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026 at Palazzo Caboto. The exhibition will bring together works by Ayan Farah, ...
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Vietnam debuts at Venice Biennale with its own pavilion: here's what it brings

For the first time in its history, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is officially participating in the Venice Art Biennale: The debut takes place as part of the 61st. International Art Exhibition, scheduled to be held in Venice from May 9 to Nov. 22...
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Art Italy is like the national soccer team: off the world stage. Problems and solutions

In the catalog of Exit, an exhibition on "young Italian art" curated by Francesco Bonami in 2002 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Massimiliano Gioni, now curator at the New Museum in New York, defines young Italian artists this way: "Italy ...
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Cattelan's new provocation: a hotline to confess your sins to him

A telephone number to confess one's sins, but without any religious authority. This is the latest provocation by Maurizio Cattelan, who returns to question symbols and rituals of Catholicism with a participatory project that combines art, irony and d...
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MUVEC, the Civic Museums Foundation's new House of Contemporaries, opens in Mestre.

Mestre will inaugurate a new space dedicated to contemporary art on April 25, 2026: MUVEC - Casa delle Contemporaneità, a museum of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, born from the renovation and transformation of the Muve spaces within t...
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Milan, Corpo a Corpo: Ruggiero and Grassino compare notes on sculpture

From April 15 to May 28, 2026, the M45 exhibition space in Milan presents Corpo a Corpo, a project curated by Marco Senaldi that brings together for the first time the plastic research of Giovanni Ruggiero and Paolo Grassino. The exhibition, set up i...
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Giovanni Bonelli Gallery opens new space in Milan with "The Future Will Be Weird"

Galleria Giovanni Bonelli officially opens its new space at 20 Via Arcivescovo Romilli in Milan with an exhibition entitled The Future Will Be Weird, an exhibition proposal, curated by Denis Isaia, that is characterized by a caustic, post-prophetic a...
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Venice Biennale 2026, the ocean at the center of the As Above, So Below exhibition at Giudecca

From May 9 to June 8, 2026, theformer Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian on the island of Giudecca in Venice will host As Above , So Below, a collateral event of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Sponsored by One Ocean Fou...
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