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UN SEME PROFONDO (A DEEP SEED)
Starting Tuesday, March 4, 2025, Studio Masiero in Milan, IT, presents Un seme profondo (A Deep Seed), a solo exhibition by Grazia Inserillo, curated by Gianna Panicola. With this exhibition, the gallery reaffirms its commitment to Sicilian art by welcoming an artist deeply rooted in her homeland’s traditions. Born in Isola delle Femmine (PA), Inserillo draws inspiration from fishing and embroidery, two pillars of local culture. For the first time, Studio Masiero hosts a fiber art exhibition, a medium through which the artist explores the natural world. Thread and fabric become tools of investigation, evoking plant forms that range from past geological eras to marine mosses. Trained as a sculptor,…
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SILK TREASURES. TEXTILE MASTERPIECES FROM THE FALLETTI DONATION
In 2025 the Museo del Tessuto Foundation in Prato IT marks its 50th anniversary with “Silk Treasures. Textile Masterpieces from the Falletti Donation,” curated by Daniela Degl’Innocenti. Running through 21 December 2025 in Prato IT, the exhibition celebrates the museum’s origins—rooted in Loriano Bertini’s foundational donation—with a new, remarkable contribution from Giovanni Falletti. Over 50 years, the Florentine physician and collector has amassed nearly 2,000 objects, ranging from antique textiles and embroideries to prints, books, jewellery, historical weapons, and ritual masks from Europe, Asia, and Africa. The collection includes 250 Japanese prints from the late 18th and 19th centuries by artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige, European textiles spanning the…
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InDIVENIRE (InPROGRESS) OPENS THE CASSANDRE EVENTS CYCLE
SCD Studio celebrates International Women’s Rights Day with the opening of the CASSANDRE project, an exhibition series that explores, through contemporary art, the multifaceted aspects of the female condition. The first event, the exhibition InDivenire (InProgress) opens on 8th March 2025 in the gallery of Via Bramante 22N in Perugia (5:00 PM) and will be open until 5th April 2025. Curated by Barbara Pavan, it includes the works of Isobel Blank, Susanna Cati, Monica Giovinazzi, and Andi Kacziba, artists who, through different media and languages, investigate the concept of transformation. InDivenire is indeed inspired by the Sanskrit concept of samskara, a term that encompasses the meanings of “transformation,” “modification,” and…
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VAPORES
ARTISTIC AND RESEARCH PRODUCTION RESIDENCY ON THE MONNEGRE RIVER 2025 (SPAIN) VAPORES. Artistic Production incubator, and River Sociocultural Ecosystems ObservatoryArtistic and research production Residency – river Monnegre (Alicante and El Campello)IDENSITAT + Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras + Casa de la cultura de El Campello Deadline for applications: February 24th, 2025, 11:59 p.m. (Spanish time) IDENSITAT, the Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras in Alicante, and the Casa de Cultura – Ayuntamiento in El Campello, with the collaboration of the Centro d’Arte e Natura di Civitella di Licenza – L’Aquila Reale are pleased to announce the programme VAPORES, which combines artistic research residencies, located artistic interventions and mediation activities. VAPORES will be realised…
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PROTEXT!
Weaving is a practice usually assigned to women, to children, to the more neglected social classes. However, it is also the practice which more than any other was altered by the industrial and capitalistic society. From the enclosure of domestic manufactures to the alienation caused by the factory work, it was indeed through needles and threads that these workers were able to externate their discomfort towards an unfair world. Protext! Quando il tessuto si fa manifesto (When fabric becomes a manifesto) is the book published in 2021 on occasion of the homonymous exhibition at the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, which presents eight artists: Serapis Maritime Corporation; Pia Camil;…
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ILARIA MARGUTTI: FIGLIE DELL’INFINITO
The Legislative Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region IT celebrates International Women’s Rights Day with Figlie dell’Infinito (Daughters of the Infinite), a solo exhibition by Ilaria Margutti, opening on March 6, 2025, at 11:00 AM at the headquarters of the Legislative Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region, located at Viale Aldo Moro, 52, Bologna. Curated by Silvia Bonomini, this exhibition pays tribute to women who have made essential contributions to our understanding of the world and the cosmos. Among them, Henrietta Leavitt, whose work enabled the measurement of distances between celestial bodies, and Marija Gimbutas, whose archaeological research offered an alternative reading of ancient matriarchal cultures. Gimbutas emphasized how the connection between…
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OPEN CALL. DON’T BE ABSURD!
The Contemporary Art Modern Project is officially accepting submissions for our seventh annual fiber exhibition. The Contemporary Art Modern Project invites fiber artists to submit proposals for the 7th edition of our annual exhibition, Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse: Don’t be Absurd, opening October 10, 2025. The exhibition will explore absurdism, referencing Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Jose Saramago and/or Samuel Beckett. Artists will apply the ideas and concepts in these works to our modern world, through which industry and politics, is still and often dehumanized. Sub-topics include but are not limited to childhood in industrial societies, sexuality, gender, women’s rights, and education. We asked…
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MONICA GIOVINAZZI: JUST A PLAY
JUST A PLAY is a project room by Monica Giovinazzi, curated by Barbara Pavan, opening on Friday, February 7, at 7:00 PM, until March 2, 2025, at BLU Spazio delle Arti, Via Torpignattara 142, Rome. The installation is the result of years of research in which the artist has explored the underestimated mechanisms of manipulation that pervade our hyper-technological and globalized era, revealing the vastness and depth of these phenomena. Manipulation has become increasingly pervasive as it becomes less perceptible. In an age of hyperconnectivity and technological advancement, manipulation manifests in ever more sophisticated, insidious, and therefore dangerous ways, embedding itself into the lives of individuals, communities, and the global…
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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…
