Exhibitions
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THE FEMININE IN ART. TEXTILE WITHOUT BORDERS
Hungarian and Italian contemporary textile artists on display in Rome It can be visited until February 28, 2025, at the Accademia d’Ungheria in Rome / Collegium Hungaricum Róma in Palazzo Falconieri, Il Femminile nell’Arte | Tessile senza confini (The Feminine in Art | Textile Without Borders), an exhibition curated by Eleonora Pasqualetti and Márton Keppel, inaugurated with a large audience with presentation by Krisztina Landos, Director of the Accademia d’Ungheria in Rome; Zoltán Rátóti, Vice President of the Hungarian Academy of Arts; Barbara Pavan, contemporary fiber and textile art curator; and, of course, Márton Keppel, art historian and co-curator of the exhibition. The exhibition creates a dialogue between the works…
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ACAYE KERUNEN: NEENA, AAN UTHII
Pace Gallery (5, Hanover Square) in London presents Acaye Kerunen: Neena, aan uthii, the artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in the UK. On view until February 15, 2025, the exhibition will feature a new body of sculptures, sound installations, and performance that interlace living forms of knowledge embedded within Ugandan communities. Translated from Alur as See me, I am here, this show marks Kerunen’s debut presentation with Pace since joining the gallery’s program in 2022. Based in Kampala, Uganda, Kerunen’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses visual and performance art, curation, and activism. The sculptures Kerunen has created for Neena, aan uthii are vivid tapestries of embodied knowledge, incorporating a diverse range of natural…
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TRAME ESPLORATIVE: A JOURNEY THROUGH TAPESTRY
The Dino Zoli Foundation in Forlì (FC) presents, until March 16, 2025, an extensive exploration dedicated to the art of tapestry in Italy, spanning from the 1950s to the present day. Curated by Nadia Stefanel and promoted by Dino Zoli Textile and the Dino Zoli Foundation, Trame esplorative: un viaggio attraverso l’arazzo – the title of the exhibition – aims to highlight how the textile medium, traditionally seen as a decorative art, has evolved into an innovative and multifaceted form of expression, intertwining stories, cultures, and techniques. This journey through tapestry workshops offers a unique opportunity to understand how art and craftsmanship merge in a collaborative creative process, involving some…
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CHIHARU SHIOTA: THE SOUL TREMBLES
Until 19 March 2025, the Grand Palais, as a preview of the reopening of all its galleries in June 2025, is presenting THE SOUL TREMBLES, an exhibition curated by Mami Kataoka – director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo – and dedicated to the poetic and sensitive work of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. Born in Osaka, Japan in 1972, Chiharu Shiota lives and works in Berlin. She combines performance, body art and installations in a process centred on the body. Shiota has been exhibited around the world, including at Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2024), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2023), the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York (2003), K21…
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FULVIO MORELLA. LE STELLE CHE NON TI HO DETTO (THE STARS I NEVER TOLD YOU)
From February 1 to June 29, 2025, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Cavalese presents the exhibition “Fulvio Morella. Le stelle che non ti ho detto (The stars I never told you)” curated by Elsa Barbieri and Sabino Maria Frassà, in collaboration with Cramum. Within the halls of Palazzo Rizzoli, a rich selection of textile works will guide the audience through the discovery of Morella’s “stellar braille” alphabet, an unprecedented language through which the artist transforms night skies into poetic and enigmatic tactile messages. With the aim of fostering connections within the territory and promoting synergies around the themes of art and inclusivity, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Cavalese…
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MICROMACRO IN LUGANO OPENS THE ANNUAL PROGRAM WITH GIULIA SANTAMBROGIO
MICROMACRO in Lugano, Switzerland, inaugurates its second exhibition season with Pensieri sparsi (2024), a modular installation by Giulia Santambrogio, curated by Francesco Maria Gamba. The work, composed of six elements made of elasticized cotton ribbon crocheted by hand, is part of the artist’s ongoing research, where the knot becomes a metaphor for thought— a thread that intertwines, tangles upon itself, giving rise to autonomous, fragmented, and self-contained forms. A dialogue between material and concept, it translates the complexity of inner reflection into tangible images. MICROMACRO is an independent cultural and artistic project promoted by Atelier Viandanti, founded with a dual purpose: to showcase its own works while fostering an open…
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GIULIA NELLI: WHEN MEN HAD ROOTS
From February 7 to March 2, the Casa di Rigoletto in Mantua IT will host the solo exhibition of Giulia Nelli, titled Quando gli uomini avevano le radici (When Men Had Roots). This exhibition features around thirty works from a broader project called Humus. In this project, the artist depicts the underground world as a three-dimensional space where plant and animal communities are interwoven into an extremely complex network of symbiotic relationships. As Barbara Pavan points out, it is “a fascinating microcosm that speaks of cooperation and offers a new perspective on how to face the challenge of survival—by caring not only for one another but also for the entire…
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OLGA DE AMARAL AT THE FONDATION CARTIER POUR L’ART CONTEMPORAIN IN PARIS
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris is presenting the first major retrospective in Europe of Olga de Amaral, a key figure of the Colombian art scene and of Fiber Art. The exhibition, curated by Marie Perennès and coordinated by Aby Gaye, brings together nearly eighty works made between the 1960s and now, many of which have never been shown before outside of Colombia. Beyond the vibrant goldleaf pieces for which the artist is renowned, the exhibition reveals her earliest explorations and experimentations with textile, as well as her monumental works. Since the 1960s, Olga de Amaral has been expanding the boundaries of the textile medium, continually experimenting with…
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FLOWERSTAN: ELHAM AGHILI’S PROJECT ROOM AT CASERMARCHEOLOGICA
It is on view until April 30, 2025, at CASERMARCHEOLOGICA, FLOWERSTAN, a project room by Elham M. Aghili curated by Barbara Pavan, in the spaces of Palazzo Muglioni (Via Niccolò Aggiunti 55) in Sansepolcro, AR. FLOWERSTAN is a neologism derived from the hybridization of the English term Flowerland and its Persian synonym Golestan. It captures the latest evolution of Elham M. Aghili’s artistic practice, which she has been pursuing for years and which culminates in this project room. The installation intertwines multiple aspects of her personal and professional research, synthesizing the complex layers of her work while planting the seeds for new perspectives and opening up fresh horizons of reflection.…
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LUCIANA AIRONI. AbbeceDiariu
Project Room Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 5:00 PM, SCD Studio (Via Bramante 22n, Perugia IT) will inaugurate “AbbeceDiariu” the first project room of the 2025 exhibition season. This artistic project, created by Sardinian artist Luciana Aironi and curated by Barbara Pavan, explores the transformative power of language. “AbbeceDiariu” is an artistic endeavor investigating the potency of language and its impact on the intimate structure of human existence. The exhibition consists of twenty-five works created using embroidery and mixed techniques on X-rays, some of which are backlit by LEDs. Here, the dialogue between words and materials delves into memory, identity, and the relationship between body and language. Aironi uses X-ray…
