Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

Franco Vaccari, the great anthology of environments on display in Bolzano

The Museion in Bolzano has opened an extensive institutional exhibition dedicated to Franco Vaccari (Modena, 1936 - 2025), entitled Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari, curated by Frida Carazzato and Luca Panaro, which will remain open to th...
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Venice, Ahmet Güneştekin on display with "Sessizlik / Silence" at Palazzo Gradenigo

Kurdish-Turkish artist Ahmet Güneştekin returns to Italy with a new solo exhibition, following his recent show at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. Entitled Sessizlik / Silence and curated by Sergio Risaliti, the exhi...
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Four new exhibitions for the Pinault Collection in Venice: Armitage, Kanwar, Simpson and Nazareth

Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice open to the public a cycle of exhibitions that extends from March 2026 through early 2027, presenting a selection of international artists whose production addresses political, social and identity issue...
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Manifesta 16, 106 participating artists announced: again, no Italians

More than a hundred artists, from 30 different countries, but no Italians: Manifesta 16 Ruhr, the next edition of the traveling European biennial that, for this occasion, takes place in the heart of the Ruhr region, announced today the artists who wi...
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There is a curious exhibition in France on shoulder figures in art from antiquity to the present day

There is a part of the body that runs through art history remaining almost always on the margins, rarely a protagonist and often relegated to a secondary role. Yet, precisely in this apparent absence lies one of the most interesting keys to reading t...
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A reading of the night. What the exhibition at GAM in Turin looks like.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as dothe black dots representing towns and villages on a map.(Vincent Van Gogh, Letters to Theo) "We can only see what we know." Ernst Gombrich already argued this in Art and Illusion. And we see little, b...
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In Milan, a double solo exhibition dedicated to Mirella Bentivoglio and Betty Danon

In Milan, Osart Gallery and Galleria Tiziana Di Caro present Cancellare per vedere, a double solo exhibition dedicated to Mirella Bentivoglio (Klagenfurt, 1922 - Rome, 2017) and Betty Danon (Istanbul, 1927 - Milan 2002), which opens on Wednesday, Mar...
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Milan, Rirkrit Tiravanija on display at HangarBicocca

In Milan, in the spaces of Pirelli HangarBicocca, the retrospective dedicated to Rirkrit Tiravanija (Buenos Aires, 1961), entitled The House That Jack Built, opens on March 26, 2026. The exhibition, which can be visited until July 26, is curated by L...
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