Enzo and Barbara | GRAND FINALE | End-of-Residency Group Exhibition | June 10 – July 1 | Piazza De Gasperi 13, Padua

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Artists: Enzo and Barbara, extraCURRICULAR, LOVELY-RATZ, Lorenzo Cau, Alia Mascia, Isabel Paladin, Angelica Racco, and Henrique Zamith.

Building on the game-like framework already activated at the beginning of the residency through the first open studio, the exhibition title evokes a dimension of competition and entertainment that is, at MAC, continually challenged and deconstructed. Installations, moving-image works, and performances activate the relationship between the interior and exterior of the studios, articulating their spaces in unexpected ways.

Francesco Jodice | Luoghi comuni | June 5 – November 29 | Monastero di Astino, Bergamo

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In the spaces of the Astino Monastery in Bergamo, Fondazione MIA opens Luoghi comuni, an exhibition curated by Corrado Benigni and dedicated to Francesco Jodice.

One of the most innovative figures in the Italian art scene, Jodice uses images to offer a political interpretation of the landscape on a global scale. The exhibition retraces years of research focused on Italy, seen as a symbolic territory of contemporary transformations, memory, identity, and collective change. For this occasion, the artist has also created a site-specific installation derived from the project The Room, engaging with the architecture of Astino through the pages of L'Eco di Bergamo.

This visual journey invites visitors to view the landscape not simply as a physical space, but as a profound political, cultural, and human experience.

Brian Eno | The Ear Is the Eye of the Soul | Group Exhibition | May 9 – November 22 | Padiglione della Santa Sede

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The Dicastery for Culture and Education presents the Holy See Pavilion, The Ear Is the Eye of the Soul, at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The Pavilion is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers in collaboration with Soundwalk Collective.

Inspired by the life and legacy of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), the Pavilion takes the form of a sonic prayer and responds to curator Koyo Kouoh’s invitation to slow down and attune ourselves to quieter registers, reaffirming the contemplative act of listening.

The Pavilion unfolds across two venues in Venice: the Mystic Garden of the Discalced Carmelites, a monastic garden tended by the Carmelite community since the seventeenth century, where listening becomes the primary act; and the Santa Maria Ausiliatrice Complex, where the project expands into a contemporary scriptorium and living archive—a space for study and reflection, including Alexander Kluge’s The 12 Stations of Hildegard of Bingen.

Barry X Ball | The Shape of Time | May 6 – November 22 | Basilica di San Giorgio, Venice

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The Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore will present The Shape of Time, a major survey of the sculptural practice of the American artist Barry X Ball that celebrates the meeting between technological advances and Renaissance tradition set within the architectural masterpiece of Andrea Palladio. The artist’s works will be in dialogue with the sacred space of the Palladian Basilica, reinterpreting the past through a bold and experimental formal approach.

The Shape of Time will bring together 23 sculptures in the basilica, with most of these works being shown to the public for the first time. It is curated by the renowned critic Bob Nickas

with the coordination of Carmelo A. Grasso, Director and Institutional Curator of Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore – ETS branch. The exhibition highlights creations from five distinct series, each showcased in carefully selected locations within the basilica.

Fabio Mauri | Presentation Catalogue Raisonné | May 5, 2026 | Hotel Metropole, Venice

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We are pleased to announce that on Tuesday, May 5, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Fabio Mauri’s Reasoned Catalogue will be presented at Hotel Metropole.

In conversation: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, editor, and Bettina Steinbrügge, Director of MUDAM Luxembourg.

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BRIAN ENO | SEED and My Light Years | at Giardini di San Paolo and at Crociera dell’Ospedale Vecchio, Parma | 30 April – 2 August

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Brian Eno creates one of the most significant artistic interventions of his career in Parma, focusing on light, sound, space, and perception.

From April 30th to August 2nd, the aural and visual imagery of the prestigious British artist will inhabit and reinvent the spaces of two of Parma's most iconic and iconic monuments, returned to the community after years of abandonment.

Participation at Miart 2026 | April 17–19, 2026 | Preview April 16, 2026 | Milan

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We are pleased to announce our participation at miart 2026, taking place from April 17 to 19, with the preview on April 16, 2026.

On display will be works by the following artists: Matthew Attard, Enzo e Barbara, Francesco Coccolo, Francesco Jodice and Antonio Rovaldi.

MUNTADAS | Exercises on Past and Present Memories | April 29 – June 13 | Galleria Frittelli Rizzo

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Galleria Frittelli Rizzo presents Exercises on Past and Present Memories, a solo exhibition by Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942). Active for decades between Europe and the United States, his practice is configured as a critical device aimed at intercepting, investigating, and making visible the linguistic, cultural, and ideological codes within which transnational and post-colonial logics, as well as migratory and diasporic practices, intertwine in a continuous se- mantic referral.

Long interested in transnational dynamics and processes of cultural translation, Muntadas has de- veloped a methodology that exceeds the biographical dimension in order to reflect on forms of poli- tical and geographical displacement and their historical implications. At the core of his research are tensions generated by asymmetrical exchanges and power relations that are often invisible, yet deeply embedded in social and cultural structures. The consequences of mobility, hybridization of contexts, and migration do not appear as mere iconographic subjects, but rather as tools through which past and present can be critically interpreted.

The works on display, inspired by the complex colonial history of the Philippines, fully align with this trajectory. They are the result of long-term field research conducted across various Asian contexts and question the modes of construction and transmission of knowledge, while examining the impli- cations of the displacement and decontextualization of objects and individuals.

Cesare Pietroiusti | Lezione Etilica and Asta Ubriaca | April 15, 2026 | Galleria Frittelli Rizzo, Milan

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We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, April 15, at 6:00 PM, at Galleria Frittelli Rizzo, on the occasion of the upcoming edition of miart 2026, the artists Cesare Pietroiusti and Iacopo Seri will present the performance Lezione Etilica.

Antonio Rovaldi | In Aria Per Terra | Friday, April 10 | Kappa-Nöun, Bologna

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We are pleased to announce that on Friday, April 10, 2026, at 6:00 PM, at Kappa-Nöun, Bologna, the exhibition Per aria Per Terra by artists Antonio Rovaldi and Alessandra Spranzi will open.