In 2009, to celebrate and honor Luigi Nocivelli’s passion for culture and contemporary art in Italy, his family founded the Associazione Culturale Techne. Since its inception, the association has established the Premio Nocivelli, a contemporary art competition with the patronage and support of the Lombardy Region, the Province of Brescia, the Municipality of Brescia, and the Ugo Da Como Foundation. This year, for the first time, the awards ceremony and the finalists’ exhibition will also be hosted at the Rocca di Lonato del Garda. The Prize has successfully built and renewed collaborations with major artistic institutions, including the Santa Giulia Academy of Fine Arts, the Fondazione Provincia di Brescia Eventi,…

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…