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A new contemporary art museum is being established in Mantua, built around one of the most important private collections of the twentieth century: the Sonnabend Collection. The collection will be permanently displayed in the historic city centre, within the newly renovated Palazzo della Ragione. Developed through the vision of collector

“Stillness in the Storm”, the new collection exhibition at Voorlinden, offers a moment of reflection in a fast-moving world, showing how silence can become a source of strength. Featuring artists such as Anish Kapoor, Marina Abramović, Massimo Bartolini, and Arturo Hernández Alcázar, the exhibition explores stillness as a response to

History becomes opera in this extraordinary film installation, presented in its Australian premiere at the MCA. “Drama 1882” recounts a pivotal moment in modern Egyptian history, known as the ‘Urabi Revolt (1879–1882). Unfolding in eight scenes, this captivating 45-minute opera stages key events of the uprising that marked the beginning

“David Lamelas: The Machine” is a survey exhibition dedicated to the Argentine artist and his first major solo presentation in New York. A key yet long-overlooked figure of 1960s and 1970s art, Lamelas has worked across painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and film, moving between Conceptual, Minimalist, and Pop art practices.

  From 28 April 2026, the Hortensia Herrero Art Centre (CAHH) in Valencia will present the first exhibition in the city dedicated to Anselm Kiefer, developed in close collaboration with the artist and spread across six galleries. The project stems from a long-standing relationship between Kiefer and collector Hortensia Herrero,

“The Battle Between YES and NO” is the first major exhibition in Czechia dedicated to William Kentridge. Raised in Johannesburg during apartheid, Kentridge developed an artistic practice shaped by South Africa’s social and political history, while addressing universal themes such as exile, memory, and desire. Working across drawing, film, sculpture,

The Teatro di San Carlo presents a major new production born from a collaboration between conductor Gustavo Dudamel, performance artist Marina Abramović, and filmmaker Nabil Elderkin, who also directs the video component. The visual design includes lighting by Pasquale Mari. At the center of the program are two works that

“Io sono un santo” is written in cursive on a canvas that has been torn and cut across its surface—one of the earliest examples of Lucio Fontana’s unmistakable artistic gesture. On the reverse, however, appears the phrase “I am a scoundrel,” forming an ironic self-portrait that subverts the idea of

Running parallel to The Women Alchemists, which Kiefer conceived for the Sala delle Cariatidi at Palazzo Reale (open through September 2026), the exhibition at Lia Rumma further expands his continued research of the “alchemists,” delving deeper into the role of other female heroines who, over the centuries, made fundamental contributions

With Wool. Silk. Resistance., the Museum Angewandte Kunst focuses exclusively on rugs, carpets, and tapestries for the first time in 45 years, at a moment of renewed global interest in handmade textiles. Rather than a traditional art-historical approach, the exhibition explores these works through the lens of resistance: how rugs,