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The exhibition brings together some of the most significant contemporary artists who have worked on the relationship between art, creativity, aesthetics and the natural territory inhabited by humankind. The selection, restricted to Italian artists alone, spans a time frame stretching from the 1960s to the present day, a period characterised

From April 2 to November 26, Punta della Dogana presents the thematic exhibition Icônes revolving around works from the Pinault Collection, inviting reflection on the theme of the icon and the status of the image.

Highly acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge visits UC Berkeley this spring with the US premiere of his latest opera, SIBYL, at Cal Performances and a slate of related events as part of a campus residency. BAMPFA’s film retrospective and gallery installation of Other Faces showcase Kentridge’s distinctive work in

Through video animation, the power of Monteverdi’s music performed live and Handspring’s extraordinary, life-size puppets, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse blurs the boundaries between human reality and artifice, memory and actuality, to create a powerful, universal and unforgettable operatic experience—like Homer’s original, a timeless epic of absence and adventure, of yearning, love

The visual artist Alfredo Jaar will address an urgent topic of our times, responding to the current debate about naturalisation in Germany and a world facing growing global inequalities. In the central rotunda, he presents an installation that focuses on German and European immigration policy, citizenship and identity, in the

Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter delves into the significance of digitality and computer-generated environments in the context of the material understanding of art production and the showcasing of it. Through deep engagement with two past landmark exhibitions and their philosophical foundations, the exhibition lends insight into the implications for contemporary curatorial and

Abramović presents this show, which combines opera, live art, performance art and video creation, to mark the centenary of the birth of Callas, also known as La Divina Assoluta. Entitled The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, it contains some of the iconic arias which studded the Greek soprano’s career and

Alfredo Jaar’s neon installation between the hot springs and the Limmat River addresses the profound processes of change in the spa town.