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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…
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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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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…
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LUIGI CANDIANI PRIZE
SAC, Contemporary Art Space, announces the third annual edition of Luigi Candiani Art Prize – Young Artists. Admitted art techniques: painting, sculpture, art installation, photography, video art, short film, performance, digital art, digital graphics and cartoon.The theme of the third edition of the Luigi Candiani Prize competition 2024/2025 is “Roots”:Every city has an endless trail of footprints tucked away in its alleyways, of which human beings are the sole creators. In contact with everything around him, he spends his life leaving the memory of his roots in every place he visits, in every person he meets, in every fleeting glance caught in passing. Only he knows who he really is, only he…
