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BPER Banca continua a puntare sull’arte e sulla cultura: aprono nuovi poli a Ferrara e L’Aquila

BPER Banca is opening two new cultural centers in Italy: Palazzo Farinosi-Branconio in L'Aquila (September 2026) and Palazzo Barbantini-Koch in Ferrara (October 2026). These join the existing Palazzo San Carlo in Modena, home of La Galleria BPER. The L'Aquila palace, restored after the 2009 earthquake, will showcase works by Luca Giordano, Salvator Rosa, and Cola dell'Amatrice, while the Ferrara venue will feature Tiziano, Guercino, and De Pisis, with an inaugural exhibition on mortality in 19th- and early-20th-century Italian painting. The bank's 160-year-old art and archival collection, including 7,000 archival units, is being digitized in partnership with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

In Milan there is an exhibition where drawing seeks to give form to the ideal

A Milano c’è una mostra dove il disegno vuole dare forma all’ideale

A new exhibition titled "Ritratti ideali" (Ideal Portraits) by artist Stefano De Paolis has opened at Castiglioni in Milan, featuring four new graphite drawings. The works depict the artist himself in minimal, everyday actions such as reading, smoking, observing a gramophone, and drawing. The show explores the concept of the self-portrait as a vehicle for an ideal form, drawing a parallel to Antonio Canova's idealized faces. The drawings are characterized by their subtle modulation of gray graphite, creating a quiet, contemplative atmosphere that invites close viewing.

At the Triennale di Milano, a serial exhibition investigates home between intimacy and the housing crisis

Alla Triennale di Milano c’è una mostra a puntate che indaga la casa tra intimità e crisi immobiliare

At the Triennale di Milano, artist Davide Stucchi presents "Temporary Rooms," a serial exhibition in the Impluvium space that transforms a single room—starting with a bathroom—into a micro-apartment. Over successive months, the same structure will be reconfigured as a kitchen, bedroom, and living room, using construction-site materials and surreal, dysfunctional furnishings (e.g., a toilet on wheels, a shower attached to an elevator button panel). The installation plays with inside/outside boundaries, echoing the nearby Casa Lana by Ettore Sottsass, while black-wrapped packages surrounding the room suggest future artworks and an urban skyline.

In Milan, an exhibition challenges our idea of comfort and helps us reconfigure ourselves

A Milano una mostra mette in crisi la nostra idea di comfort e ci aiuta a riconfigurarci

Villiam Miklos Andersen's exhibition "Smooth Operator" at Fondazione Elpis in Milan presents a series of intricate wooden marquetry works depicting the repetitive hand gestures of logistics and wholesale labor—lifting crates, tapping calculators, moving produce. The show is organized across three floors, each offering a different mode of proximity: sensory immersion in the basement, geographic and political engagement on the ground floor, and spatial-documental reflection upstairs. Curated by Gabriele Tosi, the exhibition contrasts the speed of depicted gestures with the slowness of their handcrafted production, creating a bodily tension that reveals the hidden labor behind consumer comfort.

Telling femininity through Baroque painting. An exhibition in Modena does it.

Raccontare la femminilità attraverso la pittura barocca. Lo fa una mostra a Modena

The Galleria BPER in Modena is hosting the exhibition "La virtù e la grazia. Tra sante, eroine e allegorie," curated by Lucia Peruzzi, which centers on female subjects in Baroque painting. The show draws from the BPER Group's collection and includes institutional and private loans, featuring works such as Guido Cagnacci's "Sant'Agata" (c. 1640) and Rutilio Manetti's "Presentazione al tempio" (c. 1625). The exhibition is organized into thematic islands that juxtapose saints, virgins, martyrs, classical heroines, and seductresses, culminating in Valerio Castello's "Allegoria dell'Abbondanza" (c. 1659).

“A Milano Fondazione Elpis sarà luogo di sorpresa e di comunità”. Intervista alla nuova direttrice Marcella Ferrari

Fondazione Elpis in Milan has appointed Marcella Ferrari as its new director, effective April 2026, marking a new phase for the foundation founded by Marina Nissim in 2020. Ferrari plans to expand the foundation's spaces in Porta Romana with the addition of Villa and Atelier Elpis alongside the existing Lavanderia, creating a constellation of venues for residencies, production, education, and public programs. She emphasizes listening to staff, artists, curators, and the local community, while strengthening international relations and developing projects that connect artistic production with public space and contemporary research.

20 artisti lavoreranno in 20 paesini remoti di 20 regioni italiane. La rassegna che porta l’arte contemporanea nei borghi torna per il settimo anno

The seventh edition of "Una Boccata d'Arte," an initiative by Fondazione Elpis, will bring contemporary art to 20 remote villages across all 20 Italian regions. Twenty artists, each paired with a curator, will create site-specific projects that will be inaugurated simultaneously on June 20-21, 2026, and remain on view until October 4. A key innovation this year is that artists and curators spent extra time engaging with local communities before designing their works, fostering deeper connections. Examples include Greek artist Vasilis Papageorgiu transforming a traditional tablecloth from a resident of Tredozio, and Francesco Alberico collaborating with a socio-health facility in Bressanone to create a bird-themed installation.

Art and technology meet in the augmented reality of artist Lois He

Arte e tecnologia si incontrano nella realtà aumentata dell’artista Lois He

Lois He, a Chinese-born artist now based in New York, creates immersive XR installations that blend art and technology, transforming viewers into active participants. Her works, such as "Rising River," an AI-driven virtual reality experience, and "The Silent Carnival," a digital reinterpretation of Goethe's Faust, explore identity, emotion, and the impact of external agents like technology and culture. He also collaborates with institutions like the Museo Dalí and the NYU Neuroscience Institute, merging art with literature and science.

Marinella Senatore's exhibition in Milan is a party in name and in fact

La mostra dell’artista Marinella Senatore a Milano è una festa di nome e di fatto

Marinella Senatore's solo exhibition "FESTA!" opens at Mazzoleni's Milan space, marking both the artist's first show at the gallery and the gallery's 40th anniversary. The exhibition presents new works including sketches, drawings, and embroidered tapestries that reinterpret Baroque public celebrations as participatory, community-driven art. The tapestries, produced in collaboration with the Chanakya school in Mumbai, feature motifs from 17th- and 18th-century festivities—ephemeral architecture, light displays, and fireworks—transformed into contemporary banners that activate the gallery space.

An artist told the incredible story of a Calabrian village that no longer exists. The interview

Un artista ha raccontato l’incredibile storia di un borgo della Calabria che non c’è più. L’intervista

Italian artist Martin Errichiello has created [campanamuta], a six-part audio work broadcast on RAI Radio 3's Zazà program in late 2025 and now available on RaiPlay Sound. The piece tells the story of Eranova, a farming community founded in 1896 near Reggio Calabria that was destroyed by 1980 after the Christian Democratic party planned—but never built—a steel center on its land, now the site of the Port of Gioia Tauro. Errichiello weaves together interviews with former residents and his own original texts, using non-linear narration to explore the village's utopian origins and forced disappearance.

In Milan, the Italian Renaissance Meets Artificial Intelligence: An Interview with Refik Anadol

A Milano il Rinascimento italiano incontra l’intelligenza artificiale: intervista a Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol's immersive AI artwork, 'Renaissance Dreams,' is on extended daily view at Milan's MEET Digital Culture Center during Design Week. The piece uses artificial intelligence to process a dataset of Italian Renaissance visual and written works from 1300-1600, generating ever-changing audiovisual environments for visitors.

What are these 'art clubs' that Alessandro Benetton is opening around Italy? The story.

Cosa sono questi “art club” che Alessandro Benetton sta aprendo in giro per l’Italia? Il racconto

21Art, a company founded by Alessandro Benetton based on a project by entrepreneur Davide Vanin, is expanding its network of gallery spaces and affiliated 'Art Clubs' across Italy and into Monaco. This spring, a new location in Montecarlo will join existing galleries in Rome, Padua, and Treviso, with plans for further openings in Milan, Cortina, and Jesolo by 2027. The expansion is accompanied by a spring 2026 exhibition program featuring shows by Mario Ceroli in Treviso, Ahmet Güneştekin in Rome, and Jan Fabre in Montecarlo.

In this Milan exhibition, the viewer can modify the spaces. The great artist-architect Gianni Pettena explains why

In questa mostra a Milano lo spettatore può modificare gli spazi. Il grande artista-architetto Gianni Pettena ci spiega perché

Gianni Pettena, a pioneer of the Italian Radical Architecture movement, has unveiled his immersive installation "Paper/Northern Lights" at the BiM urban regeneration project in Milan's Bicocca district. Originally conceived in 1971 as a pedagogical exercise at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the work consists of 49 kilometers of white paper strips hanging from the ceiling. Visitors are invited to physically interact with the installation by cutting through the paper, effectively reshaping the architectural environment and challenging traditional notions of fixed space and authorship.

The Must-See Exhibitions in Milan During Art Week 2026

Le mostre da non perdere a Milano durante i giorni dell’Art Week 2026

Milan Art Week 2026 features a series of major solo exhibitions across the city's premier contemporary art institutions. Fondazione Prada is hosting site-specific installations by Mona Hatoum exploring global instability alongside Cao Fei’s multimedia investigation into the technological revolution of agriculture. Meanwhile, Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Benni Bosetto’s architectural exploration of the female body and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s interactive examination of authorship and communal space.

Near Parma, the Timeless Elegance of Erté is on Display at Labirinto della Masone

Vicino a Parma c’è l’intramontabile eleganza di Erté in mostra al Labirinto della Masone

The Labirinto della Masone near Parma is hosting a comprehensive exhibition titled "Erté. Lo stile è tutto," showcasing the work of the Russian-born Art Déco master Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté. The display features a diverse array of drawings, gouaches, models, and sketches, many of which were originally acquired by the late publisher Franco Maria Ricci. The exhibition traces Erté's journey from his aristocratic Russian roots to his rise in Paris as a collaborator of Paul Poiret and a visionary of theatrical and couture design.