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Italy and Lithuania in Kaunas: An Encounter between Nature and Creativity
Echoes Between Forests and Mountains is the collateral exhibition of the 15th Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania), a collaboration between the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius, the Kaunas Biennial and the Gherdëina Biennial.The exhibition will be on display at the Kaunas City Museum and the Meno parkas Gallery from 12 September to 9 November 2025. It offers a stimulating dialogue between Italian artists — such as the Atelier dell'Errore collective, Arnold Holzknecht (Val Gardena, 1960) and Ruth Beraha (Milan, 1986) — and Lithuanian artists, including Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė, Andrius Arutiunian and Maximilian Oprishka.
The exhibition explores the complex relationship between nature, myth, technology and human intervention, inviting viewers to reflect on ecological processes, human stories and possible futures. The selected works offer new perspectives on the world, questioning the anthropocentric view and revealing the tension between beauty, instability and mystery.
The project is part of a broader two-year programme (2025-2026) dedicated to cultural exchange between Italy and Lithuania, aimed at promoting the artistic talents of both countries. The collaboration will conclude in 2026, when three Lithuanian artists will be guests at the 10th Gherdëina Biennale in Val Gardena (BZ), from 29 May to 13 September.
Atelier dell'Errore (AdE) is an artistic collective based in Reggio Emilia, dedicated to the visual and performing arts. Founded in 2015 by artist Luca Santiago Mora, the group now consists of 11 young neurodivergent artists. Exhibition18 September 2025
Taipei Biennial 2025: Monia Ben Hamouda e Jacopo Benassi in Mostra
The 14th edition of the Taipei Biennial 2025, entitled ‘Whispers on the Horizon’, will be held from 1 November 2025 to 29 March 2026 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM). Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the biennial will explore the concept of yearning and introduce 54 artists from 35 cities, including 33 new works and site-specific installations. Among the artists are two Italians, Monia Ben Hamouda (Milan, 1991) and Jacopo Benassi (La Spezia, 1970) . The exhibition aims to amplify the voices of younger and mid-career artists, with about half of the participants born after 1984.
While choosing sculpture as her predominant medium, Ben Hamouda's work (represented by Chert Lüdde, Berlin; Selma Feriani, Tunis, London) is oriented towards a synthesis of different expressive languages, using different materials, primarily spices, initially used as pigments and then integrated into the work for their olfactory qualities. Many elements of her work are linked to her personal and family history, becoming a vehicle for reflection on the relationship between different cultures, which often generates misunderstandings and stereotypes. Jacopo Benassi (represented by Francesca Minini, Milan) is an Italian artist and photographer. He has been performing since the 1980s and began his research in underground music circles, developing over time a personal and direct visual language based on the use of flash and a raw, instinctive aesthetic. His work ranges from photography to performance, painting and installation, always maintaining an intimate and material approach. Exhibition03 September 2025
Andrea Mastrovito and Loris Cecchini in Berlin
From September 4th to October 11th, the project entitled Sub Limine - The Power of Creation will be on display at Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition explores the boundaries between reality, perception, and symbolism through the works of two Italian artists, Loris Cecchini and Andrea Mastrovito, who, despite coming from different backgrounds, share a poetic focus on the incessant transformation of reality through a visionary language.On the occasion of the exhibition, NYsferatu – Symphony of a Century by Andrea Mastrovito will be screened following the opening on September 4th at 9:30 PM at Kino am der Königstadt, Straßburger Str. 55, Berlin, with live soundscapes by Thee Balancer feat. Matjö. Exhibition29 July 2025
Sofia Silva’s first exhibition in the United States at Andrew Kreps in New York
Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to announce "Spoiled by Freud", Sofia Silva’s first exhibition in the United States, from September 5 to November 1, 2025Autobiographical in nature, Silva’s new paintings are deeply intertwined with her relationship to psychoanalysis. The daughter of two psychoanalysts, Silva has been immersed in the practice since childhood. For Silva, psychoanalysis has become a consistent interpretative lens that informs how she looks at the world. It is an unceasing gaze that alternates between an extreme tolerance of humanity, and an understanding of the intolerance that same humanity is able to enact. This analytic framework translates to an analytic approach to painting, in which images are deconstructed, and reconfigured in constellatory compositions.
Figurative details are dislocated within abstract landscapes, and collaged elements, often physically extracted and repurposed from her previous paintings, dot the surface of her works. Shaped by fields of negative space, Silva’s paintings initially present as fragmentary, though when brought together, they begin to form a deeply intimate narrative that spans two distinct phases of her psychoanalytic journey. Conceived as episodes representing specific moments in her life, Silva’s paintings move from the tensions of her youth, to the anxieties of adulthood, illness, nostalgia, and anger, forming distinct stations of a personal Via Crucis. Encouraging the viewer to immerse themselves freely with the origin and content of each work, detailed information sheets are available during the duration of the exhibition.
Writing on Silva’s work, Bice Curiger said: “Sofia Silva is a master of shifting perspectives, where forms hover on the brink of transformation, poised between opposing states. At first, we are reassured by the delicate, the intimate, the ethereal: a quiet counterpoint to ostentatious gesture. Yet as we venture further into her universe, even these certainties dissolve, and we find ourselves holding our breath at the audacity of her grand-scale compositions, with their infinitely subtle tonalities and vast, uncharted voids. As Meret Oppenheim once wrote in a poem: ’with an enormous little, much.’”
Sofia Silva (b. 1990, Padua) lives and works in Padua. Past solo exhibitions of her work include Notizie da lei, Barbati Gallery, Venice, 2025, Melania Pieve Mostarda, Una Boccata d’Arte - Fondazione Elpis, Milan, 2024, and Consolations, Case Chiuse by Paola Clerico, Turin, 2023. Silva received a BFA in Visual Arts and Theater in 2012, and MA in the History of Art and Preservation of Artistic Heritage in 2016, and in 2025, a BPsych in Techniques and Methods of Psychological Science. In addition to her artistic practice, Silva has written extensively on art for the past decade. Her texts have been commissioned by institutions including La Quadriennale di Roma, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, and Kunsthalle Wien.
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Luca Bombassei
Being a Patron Today: Connecting, Listening, Acting
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11 June 2025
Valentino Catricalà
Invisible Talents: The Paradox of Italian Art Abroad
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11 June 2025
Vittoria Matarrese
Italian Art, a Global Vocation in a Local System
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11 June 2025
Francesca Guerisoli
Greater Public Support for the Production and Promotion of Artistic Work
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The Italian Council is a program promoted by Ministero della Cultura, through Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea, with the aim of supporting and enhancing contemporary Italian creativity at the international level. Active since 2017, the program has progressively expanded its areas of intervention, including the production of new works, international promotion, artistic residencies, and editorial projects. Since 2020, it has also supported Italian curators involved in exhibitions abroad, strengthening the dialogue with global cultural institutions. The initiative is structured around three main areas: expansion of public collections, international promotion, and talent development. With funding of up to 80% of project costs, the Italian Council today represents a point of reference for Italian artists, curators, and critics engaged in the contemporary cultural landscape.
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Taxation in the
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The art market is configured not only as a cultural and professional sphere for artists and curators, but also as a significant economic sector, capable of attracting the interest of investors, collectors, institutions, and professionals. However, the tax and regulatory framework governing its dynamics is heterogeneous at the international level, with significant differences from one legal system to another. In this context, a comparative analysis proves essential to identify opportunities and address the challenges that characterize cross-border operations in the art world.
In an effort to provide a comprehensive overview, several of the most relevant countries — both European and non-European — have been examined in order to understand how different legal and tax systems relate to the circulation, ownership, and transfer of works of art.
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The international circulation of works of art is a constant throughout history. What has changed over time is the value that communities have attributed to these objects, which were long considered solely for their aesthetic merit and as instruments for the display of power—power being a frequent (and interested) patron. Starting in the 19th century, artworks progressively acquired an identity-related value, becoming symbols around which communities recognize and unite themselves. Today, a "cultural asset" is broadly defined as a "testimony having value as a civilization" (Franceschini Commission, 1964). The material object that serves as its physical support must therefore be considered not only in its tangible form, but also as a vehicle for an intangible value—artistic, historical, archaeological, archival, and so on—that determines its cultural and social significance (as well as the need for specific legal protection). By virtue of this, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, while establishing the principle of the free movement of goods within the internal market (Articles 34 and 35), allows Member States to impose restrictions and prohibitions on trade for the purpose of protecting national artistic, historical, or archaeological heritage (Article 36).
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