Untitled Maria Savoldi 2016 360 cm x 360 cm x 23 cm Wire, cement, wood, polystyrene For the exhibition “Simmetria di Riflessione” (Symmetry of Reflection) in June 2016 at Meccaniche Ceruti in Brescia, Maria Savoldi created a site-specific work. It is a wall, made out of cement, polystyrene, wood and wire. The title of… (read more)
OPENTOUR – The Academy of Fine Arts appears 13 – 19 June 2016 For the second edition of OPENTOUR the Bolognese Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna had once again found numerous partners to be visible all over the city for the week of the event and partly even longer. Besides the exhibition of Academy… (read more)
9 – 12 June 2016 Porto dell’Arte via del Porto 34, Bologna http://portodellarte.wix.com/home The exhibition title “Metamorphoses” is in a double sense coherent: it is the name of the presented artwork by Paolo Bufalini, but is as well valuable for the exhibition space. “Metamorphoses”, as installation, consists of two white spheres facing each other. The… (read more)
What is missing? 6 – 28 May 2016 CACCA via Solferino 33a, Bologna www.ilcacca.org A shopping list is a very personal text, written for a single use and afterwards disposed. People use shopping lists for not forgetting anything to purchase or to tell someone else what needs to be bought. They might be as well… (read more)
Reliefs and Lines 29 April – 2 July 2016 Spazio Testoni via D’Azeglio 50, Bologna www.spaziotestoni.it The Italian artist Alberto Zilocchi (1931 – 1991) frequented in the 1950s the artistic avant-garde of Milan, where he met, inter alia Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni and exhibited with them. In the 1960s he attended as well… (read more)
28 April – 17 May 2016 Adiacenze Vicolo Spirito Santo 1/B 40123 – Bologna www.adiacenze.it Last week the association Adiacenze opened its new exhibition space with the site specific installation “Se il cielo fugge” (If the sky flees) by Irene Fenara. On view are two videos and a wall painting by the artist. Francesco Privato… (read more)
22 April – 28 May 2016 ABC-Arte Bologna Cultura Via Alessandrini 11, Bologna www.abcbo.it/abc curator: Beatrice Buscaroli exhibition design: Fausto Savoretti “Il male degli Ardenti” is one of the Italian synonyms for the disease Ergotism. In the Middle Ages it was a feared illness, caused by a fungus that lives as parasite on cereals plants, especially… (read more)
Iulia Gabriela Toma & Claudiu Cobilanschi: Buongiorno, Varvara Stepanova 2 April 2016 – 10 June 2016 Gallleriapiù via del Porto 48 a/b, Bologna www.gallleriapiu.com For the exhibition “Buongiorno, Varvara Stepanova” the Romanian artist-duo Iulia Gabriela Toma and Claudiu Cobilanschi focused on the Lithuanian-Russian artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). Stepanova was part of the Russian… (read more)
Landschaft (Landscape) Betty Zanelli 2014 50 x 90 cm Pigment print on Epson Canvas Satin – Ed. 1/5 A lonely footpath leads into bushes. A half-height nature stonewall frames the woods on the left side. Low shrubs on the right provide the view to a Ferris wheel. Despite the grey and cloudy sky, some… (read more)
(Piero Manai – Luigi Presicce, Self-portrait with masks 1899) Galleria De’Foscherari Via Castiglione 2b, Bologna www.defoscherari.com 31 March 2016 – 31 May 2016 Two artists, Piero Manai (1951 – 1988) and Luigi Presicci (born 1976) were inspired by the same painting: “Self-portrait with masks” by James Ensor from 1899. Between the executions of the works… (read more)
Entering the exhibition “Fiume” (River) there are black and white photos at first sight. They are showing a river bank. Sometimes there is a young woman at the shore, wrapped in a white woollen lace shawl. She is alone with the nature. Besides there are, in a row of three, smaller coloured diapositives, projected… (read more)
Since the end of February 2016 Bologna, Italy, has a new exhibition space; the “Tripla”. It is an initiative of three students of the Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts), Bologna: Paolo Bufalini, Luca Bernardello and Filippo Cecconi. The municipality of Bologna entrusted three windows under the arcades of the prestigious “Via Indipendenza”… (read more)
“Atelier Pozzati” 11 March – 17 April 2016 Artists: Alessandra Andrini, Sergia Avveduti, Bertozzi & Casoni, Pierpaolo Campanini, Paolo Chiasera, Cristian Chironi, Cuoghi Corsello, Marco Di Giovanni, Maurizio Finotto, Lino Frongia, Omar Galliani, Eva Marisaldi, Andrea Nacciarriti, Alessandro Pessoli, Concetto Pozzati, Leonardo Pivi, Sissi Curated by: Antonio Grulli Opening hours: Friday to Sunday, 15h30 –… (read more)
Untitled Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein 2011 303 cm x 185 cm Oil and mixed media on canvas The untitled painting by Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein is a large size painting in portrait format. Principally it is oil on canvas, whereas the grey colour of the ground is enriched with glass dust. This has the result that its… (read more)
Gianni Mantovani – Urban Traces 27 February – 24 March 2016 Galleria B4 Via Vinazzetti 4/b Bologna www.galleriab4.it Photos which don’t look like photos at first glance, abstract elements which are concrete signs: those are the constitutive characteristics of the actual exhibition at the Galleria B4 in Bologna. The Italian artist Gianni Montavani makes art… (read more)
The ART CITY in Bologna is traditionally during the weekend of the Arte Fiera. This year, the multi-event took place from Friday the 29th to Sunday 31st January 2016. These days, dedicated to art and culture in the city are promoted by the Comune di Bologna (Municipality of Bologna) and the BolognaFiere (Fair of Bologna),… (read more)
Since there is such a big offer of exhibitions and events during the White Night in Bologna, Italy, at the Saturday evening of the Arte Fiera, SetUp Contemporary Art Fair and Art City, several galleries and institutions decided to open their exhibitions a few days earlier. So we want to give you an impression of… (read more)
29-31 January 2016 Autostazione di Bologna, Italy Piazza XX Settembre, 6 The SetUp Contemporary Artfair started with its first edition in 2012. So in 2016 it was the fourth release. It was born out of the enthusiasm of the two founders Simona Gavioli (President) and Alice Zannoni (Director) to… (read more)
On February 1st closed the 40th edition of the ARTE FIERA – the Bolognese art fair – its doors. Founded in 1974, it is the oldest enduring Italian tradeshow, which focuses on modern and contemporary art. The 222 exhibitors showed their artists in three halls. The two halls of the main section included a pavilion… (read more)
January 14 – February 28, 2016 ONO Arte Contemporanea Via Santa Margherita 10, Bologna www.onoarte.com During his stay in Mexico the Columbian photographer Leo Matiz became friends of one of the most famous artist couple of the 20th century: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In between 1941 and 1943 he had the occasion to portrait… (read more)
Due to our moving to Italy, we only restarted our activities in January 2015. With this the focus is not only on art in public space, but changed more to report on exhibitions and presentation of international artists via the artwork of the month. First we published only on our Facebook website. However, since… (read more)
21st November 2015 – 9th January 2016 Spazio Testoni Via Azeglio 50, Bologna www.spaziotestoni.it Alan Maglio and Fabio Giampietro are two artists from Milan who have chosen different ways of their artistic expression. Alan Maglio uses photography and video for portraits and more or less documentary representations. Normally his works are colourful. Whereas Fabio Giampietro… (read more)
14th November 2015 – 9th January 2016 L’Ariete Artecontemporanea via D’Azeglio 42, Bologna www.galleriaariete.it Rituals are activities which follow predefined rules. Often they pursue formal and festive ceremonies with a great symbolic import. They can be of religious or secular origin. The current exhibition of the Bolognese Gallery “L’Ariete Artecontemporanea” shows the photographic view on… (read more)
“5 minutes free zone” Rebecca Ballestra & Lucia Palmero 2015 Dimensions variable Solar parasol, 2 iPhones, 1 external hard disk, 2 headphones Films: Statements: 52 sec, 1 min 18 sec Documentary: Alessandro Camillo for international.it, 30th June 2015, “Notti di frontiera Ventimiglia – Internazionale” (Night at the frontier in Ventimiglia – Intenational), 3 min 15 sec… (read more)
Gallleriapiù (also known as OltreDimore) Via del Porto 48, Bologna 17 June – 27 June 2015 The exhibition is the final part of a long-term project which started with the artists’ visit of the Ustica Memorial Museum (Museo per la Memoria di Ustica) in Bologna. The museum with the permanent installation of Christian Boltanski is… (read more)
Giulia Carpentieri, Irene Fenara, Giulio Maulini and Andrea Parenti Curated by Teresa Serra and Pietro Cortona 10 – 25 June 2015 ADIACENZE Piazza San Martino 4D Bologna Andrea Parenti: [Show slideshow]
Rodrigo Hernández, Clare Grill & Kate Newby Curated by Chris Sharp 4th June – 19th September 2015 P420 Piazza dei Martiri 1943-1945, 5/2 Bologna [Show slideshow]
Exhibition conceived and curated by Giovanna Sarti in collaboration with Martina Roberts and Marta Zanoni
15 Mai – 15 June 2015
FEMINA. Life of the clothes of Sveva Zamboni (Bologna, 1925 – 2014) Fratelli Broche Exhibition at Adiacenze, Bologna, curated by Silvia Mei 20 March – 3 April 2015 The first impression entering the space of Adiacenze is to come into a vintage shop. It’s not a bad guess, because the artists of Fratelli Broche maintain… (read more)
Pavilion Esprit Nouveau Piazza della Costituzione, Bologna Cristian Chironi spent three weeks as artiste in residence in the reconstruction of Le Corbusier’s pavilion Esprit Nouveau.
“PUBLIC COLLECTION – Bologna” Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmus Performance project Artist in Residence – ON 2014 Do elephants ever forget? Oratorio San Filippo Neri, l’ex Oratorio dei Filippini, Bologna 23 – 25 January 2015 Adiacenze, Bologna Elsa Salonen, Solo-Exhibition: “La natura (mai) morta” Adiacenze Werkstattgalerie, Berlin at Adiacenze, Bologna Rainer Splitt, Paperpools „Exhibition: CHECK POINT“ Spazio… (read more)
