The Catalogue Raisonné of Fabio Mauri, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and produced by the Studio Fabio Mauri – Associazione per l’Arte L’Esperimento del Mondo in collaboration with the artist’s heirs, is now available online. The project, the result of over nine years of research, brings together more than 3,600 works—including paintings, installations, performances, diaries, and writings—offering the most comprehensive study ever dedicated to Mauri. The printed edition, promoted by MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna and published by Hatje Cantz and Allemandi, will be released in 2026 with the support of the Italian Council of the Italian Ministry of Culture. A key figure of the Italian avant-garde after World War II, Mauri explored the relationships between image, ideology, and memory. The digital edition of the catalogue, available at www.fabiomauri.com, ideally continues this reflection, making a corpus of remarkable contemporary relevance accessible to a global audience.

Artist Cesare Pietroiusti takes part in 1+1. Relational Art, the first major retrospective dedicated to the Relational Artmovement, held at the MAXXI Museum in Rome and curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, the French critic and theorist who first defined its principles in his 1998 essay Esthétique relationnelle. The exhibition offers a dynamic journey that transforms the museum into a space of relationships and interactions, restoring art’s role as a social and collective instrument. Through works, actions, and archival materials by international artists—including Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Cesare Pietroiusti—the project traces the evolution of a practice that redefined the relationship between artist, audience, and context.

The Museo Universidad de Navarra dedicates a major exhibition to Antoni Muntadas, one of the most significant artists of his generation, whose work has deeply examined the role of the media, the mechanisms of power, and the structures of contemporary perception. Titled Otros miedos, the exhibition revolves around the new installation Entre miedos (2022–2025), produced during the artist’s residency within the museum’s Tender Puentes program. Presented to the public for the first time, the work explores the ways in which Western societies have placed fear at the core of political and media discourse, intertwining sound, image, and space in an immersive environment. The exhibition also includes a selection of earlier works that further investigate fear as a social and cultural construct: On Translation: Fear/Miedo (2005), On Translation: Miedo/Jauf (2007), Alphaville e Outros… (2011), La construcción del miedo (2008–2025), and Fear, Panic, Terror (2011).

Galleria Sharevolution, in collaboration with Galleria Michela Rizzo, presents Botanical Shyness, a solo exhibition by Argentine artist Marcela Cernadas, opening on 3 October 2025 as part of START 2025. Through a series of new works spanning video, installation, risograph, and watercolor, Cernadas investigates the natural phenomenon known as tree shyness (crown shyness), in which the crowns of certain tree species—though growing close together—avoid touching. The artist transforms this phenomenon into a poetic metaphor on the relationship between human beings and nature, inviting a careful and delicate form of listening to the living world. The works in Botanical Shyness draw upon silence and transparency, proposing a renewed idea of landscape as a space of empathy and contemplation. In the series Tree Shyness, Botanical Shyness, and Plant Kingdom, the natural dimension intertwines with the inner one, offering a sensitive reflection on fragility, connection, and the very breath of the Earth.

Artist Francesco Jodice takes part in the group exhibition Moby Dick – La Balena. Storia di un mito dall’antichità all’arte contemporanea, held at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa from 12 October 2025 to 15 February 2026. Inspired by Herman Melville’s celebrated novel, the project investigates the whale as a universal symbol, tracing centuries of artistic and cultural representations—from ancient myth to modern literature and contemporary art.

The exhibition presents a wide-ranging itinerary uniting installations, videos, sculptures, photographs, and historical materials to explore the complex relationships between humankind and nature, power and fragility, knowledge and mystery. In dialogue with works by international artists, Jodice’s contribution interprets the whale as a political and symbolic figure—an emblem of the tensions and anxieties of the contemporary world.

Maltese artist Matthew Attard presents The Ship (Unseen), a new version of the project that represented Malta at the Biennale Arte 2024. The work is now exhibited in Malta as part of RETOLD, an initiative by the Arts Council Maltathat reintroduces projects by Maltese artists previously presented in major international contexts. In The Ship (Unseen), Attard explores the relationship between historical imagery, digital technology, and contemporary perception, using eye-tracking as a drawing tool to reinterpret ancient ship graffiti. The work reflects on how vision and artistic gesture are transformed by technological instruments, questioning the distance between memory, body, and machine.

Artist Ryts Monet takes part in the group exhibition Pangea, on view from 22 October to 28 November 2025, which brings together eight international artists around themes of connection, distance, and the fragile surfaces linking materials, cultures, and geographies. Taking its title from Ryts Monet’s large-scale drawing, Pangea explores the tension between unity and fragmentation—between continents drifting apart and imaginaries that find new ways to converge. Alongside Monet’s work, the exhibition features pieces by Kosta Tonev, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Jasmina Cibic, Pablo Chiereghin, Coco Fusco, Javier Carro Temboury, and Farniyaz Zaker, offering a collective reflection on belonging, memory, and representation.

Within the exhibition FARE ACQUA DA TUTTE LE PARTI, curated by Alberto Villa together with the artists Enzo and Barbara and Francesco Coccolo, Galleria Michela Rizzo will host a round table on Wednesday, October 22, dedicated to water and the challenges it poses to the Venetian territory and beyond.

The discussion will focus on water as a fragile resource and common good, the critical issues of the lagoon environment, and the possibilities for innovation and resilience that arise from these conditions. The work Depuratore 2, presented in the exhibition, serves as a catalyst for dialogue and participation across disciplines and communities.

Among the guests: Paolo Criscione (DESAM), Microclima – Cinema Galleggiante, Barena Bianca, Emi Bio Lab, Ocean Space, Bogiaisso, Tocia, and Chiara Pavan. The round table will be moderated by Prof. Alessio Rovere and IFE Collective.

For the first time, Mimmo and Francesco Jodice meet in an open dialogue between artistic thought and everyday life, the family sphere and the creative dimension.

The documentary Oltre il confine. Le immagini di Mimmo e Francesco Jodice, written and directed by Matteo Parisini and produced by Ladoc and Jump Cut with the support of national and regional institutions, will have its world premiere on 16 October at MAXXI, within the Freestyle Arts section of the 20th Rome Film Fest.

Through words, works, and archival materials, the film explores the encounter between two visions of photography: on one side Mimmo, with his metaphysical and experimental approach; on the other Francesco, whose research focuses on urban enviroment, anthropological cultures, and global metropolises.

At the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco at INNOVIT (Italian Innovation and Culture Hub), the photographic exhibition WEST by Francesco Jodice will be on view from September 25 to November 30, 2025. The exhibition features 18 photographs presented for the first time in the United States.

The project invites reflection on the rise and fall of the last great Western empire, spanning from the Gold Rush in 1848 to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Through journeys across the U.S.A, and neighboring areas of Mexico, Jodice explores territories and archaeological ruins, reinterpreting history through myths, utopias, mirages, and failures.

The photographs blend past, present, and future, evoking the economy, territory, politics, and culture of the “American century” as a synecdoche of the West, proposing an alternative story of power and global culture. WEST is realized with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture and is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, promoted by the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco, the MUNAF – National Museum of Photography in Cinisello Balsamo, and INNOVIT.