Exhibitions
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FROM ULASSAI TO SANSEPOLCRO: THREAD AND TEXTILE-PLASTIC MATTER TAKE CENTER STAGE AT CASERMARCHEOLOGICA
An invisible yet profound weave stretches between Sardinia and Tuscany, spun from gestures, interweavings, and community narratives. 45 years after Legarsi alla montagna (To Bind Oneself to the Mountain) – the 1981 collective action with which Maria Lai rewrote the history of public and participatory art in Italy – the concept of art as a vehicle for relationship and listening returns to center stage with the project “From Ulassai to Sansepolcro: Art and Relationship,” organized by CasermArcheologica in close synergy with the Fondazione Stazione dell’Arte in Ulassai. Since September 26, the spaces of the former barracks on Via Aggiunti in Sansepolcro have been hosting Sardinian artists Daniela Frongia and Salvatore…
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EMMA TALBOT. ANCESTRAL ENERGIES. TRANSFORMATIONS OF MIND AND MATTER
21Art Padova presents Ancestral Energies. Transformations of Mind and Matter, a solo exhibition by Emma Talbot (Stourbridge, 1969), one of the most original voices in British art and winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2020. Curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, the exhibition is open to the public from 25 September 2026 to 30 January 2027 and presents, for the first time in Italy, a series of paintings on silk created by the artist between 2023 and 2025. The exhibition offers a profound reflection on the visceral and philosophical nature of transformation, understood as a perpetual flow that unites human experience and the matter of the natural…
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I DIARI DEL CIGNO NERO: THE FRAGILITIES OF THE PRESENT IN THE WORKS OF FLORENCIA MARTINEZ
From September 24 to November 24, 2026, Gilda Contemporary Art, at Via San Maurilio 14 in Milan, presents I Diari del Cigno Nero, Florencia Martinez’s new solo exhibition, curated by Cristina Gilda Artese. The project is the result of nearly a year and a half of research and addresses some of the deepest fractures of the present: war, migration, violence, destruction, control, and displacement. The title draws on the celebrated essay The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, reinterpreting its metaphor. If the black swan refers to an unpredictable event capable of radically altering the course of history, the diary becomes here a space…
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THE WAY WORDS TURN: WHEN LANGUAGE BECOMES MATTER
As part of New York Textile Month and the city’s September art and design calendar, Scavolini SoHo Gallery presents The Way Words Turn, an exhibition project by Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Perego, Italian artists based in New York whose practice brings together textile art, language, sculpture, installation, and research into verbal roots. The project, realized in collaboration with The CAMP Gallery in Miami, was conceived specifically for the Scavolini showroom in SoHo and draws on a selection of works from the Roots series, an ongoing body of research exploring the relationship between linguistic roots, matter, and the construction of reality. Here, the space is not treated as a neutral…
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UN TEMPO ALTRO (A DIFFERENT TIME). AESTHETICS OF SLOWNESS
AT THE “STELVIO SBARDELLA” PUBLIC LIBRARY IN VALTOPINA, PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY AND EMBROIDERY ART EXPLORE THE VALUE OF SLOW TIME VALTOPINA (Perugia, Italy) – In an age dominated by speed, the immediacy of images, and the constant stimulation of the gaze, the international project Un tempo altro. Estetica della lentezza (A Different Time. Aesthetics of Slowness), curated by Barbara Pavan, invites us to rediscover the value of time and waiting. The exhibition will be held at the “Stelvio Sbardella” Public Library in Valtopina from 4 to 6 September 2026, as part of the International Contemporary Fiber Art Biennial of Valtopina and within the programme of the 22nd Embroidery and Textile Exhibition.…
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SOPERCHI ORNAMENTI
SOPERCHI ORNAMENTI: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY FIBER ART BIENNIAL BRINGS TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBER OF VALTOPINA A REFLECTION ON WOMEN’S HEADWEAR THROUGH THE LENSES OF HISTORY, IDENTITY, AND EMANCIPATION. VALTOPINA (Perugia, Italy) – From 4 to 6 September 2026, the Council Chamber of the Municipality of Valtopina will host Soperchi Ornamenti, an exhibition curated by Barbara Pavan and Monna Lisa Salvati, presented as part of the International Contemporary Fiber Art Biennial, within the programme of the 22nd Embroidery and Textile Exhibition. The exhibition brings together the work of nine internationally recognised women artists – Elham M. Aghili, Jorgelina Alessandrelli, Gloria Campriani, Susanna Cati, Rosita D’Agrosa, Florencia Martinez, Laura Mega, Lucia Bubilda…
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3RD INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY FIBER ART. L’AMOR CHE MOVE IL SOLE E L’ALTRE STELLE
With the third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Fiber Art, Valtopina is consolidating an exhibition and research project that, in just a few years, has established itself as one of Italy’s most significant initiatives dedicated to the languages of contemporary fiber art. From 4 September to 8 December 2026, the Museo del Ricamo e del Tessile (Valtopina Museum of Embroidery and Textiles) presents L’Amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle (The Love That Moves the Sun and the Other Stars), curated by Barbara Pavan and coordinated by Maria Mancini. The exhibition is promoted by the Scuola Ricamo di Valtopina (Valtopina Embroidery School) and the Municipality of Valtopina…
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IN WIEN, MONICA GIOVINAZZI PRESENTS BEHIND, AN EXPLORATION OF IMAGINATION, MATTER, AND TRANSFORMATION
From 10 to 25 September 2026, KABLLO.AT presents BEHIND, an exhibition project by Monica Giovinazzi. Curated by Barbara Pavan, the exhibition opens on Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 6:00 pm at Postgasse 11 in Wien. THE EXHIBITION The exhibition brings together works created through different media and materials – from drawing to three-dimensional forms, from colour to reclaimed materials – revealing a practice characterised by a sustained attention to the transformation of matter and to upcycling. The point of departure for BEHIND is a condition typical of the present: we live surrounded by images that have already been constructed, interpreted, and made instantly available. In a visual universe dominated by…
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KUNST HALLE SANKT GALLEN PRESENTS OCTOGONE BY CHALISÉE NAAMANI
Through September 13, 2026, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen presents Octogone, the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by French-Iranian artist Chalisée Naamani (Paris, 1995). The exhibition brings together a selection of textile works, sculptures, and site-specific installations that encapsulate the artist’s most recent research into the political, cultural, and symbolic dimensions of textiles and clothing. Working through processes of layering and collage, Naamani combines fabrics, images, and texts to create works that evoke garments and their intimate relationship with the body. Entirely hand-sewn and embroidered, these assemblages are composed of appropriated, reused, and reproduced materials, giving rise to what the artist calls vêtements-images (“image-garments”). While they borrow the language of clothing,…
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RUFINA BAZLOVA AT BIENNALE MATTER OF ART 2026: EMBROIDERY AS AN ARCHIVE OF MEMORY AND AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
Until September 13, 2026, the Biennale Matter of Art unfolds across Prague and Pardubice, spanning three exhibition venues: the National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace and Tusculum Prague, both in Prague, and GAMPA – City Gallery Pardubice. Curated by Jaroslava Tomanová, Jakub Gawkowski, and František Fekete, the biennale brings together more than thirty international artists and collectives around the idea of art as a practice of necessity—not as an aesthetic choice or a profession, but as a vital response to the political, social, and existential conditions of contemporary life. According to the curators, necessity can take the form of protest, solidarity, care, or withdrawal, becoming a means through which…
