What Art Week 2025 has left behind

Art City 2025 events in other institutional venues and historic palaces in Bologna

• "Luca Freschi. Se chiudo gli occhi il buio non mi vede - Atto II", curated by Niccolò Bonechi in collaboration with L'ARIETE gallery in Bologna, until March 2, 2025, at the Raccolta Lercaro, Via Riva di Reno 57. The artist presents research on the otherness of the human figure and personal and collective memory through techniques such as casting, assemblage, and ceramics.

• "Agostino Arrivabene. La linea verticale", curated by Giovanni Gardini, until March 9, 2025, at the Raccolta Lercaro, Via Riva di Reno 57. The exhibition features the latest research by the artist through 22 works, including paintings and drawings focused on transcendence, vision, and inner dialogue.

• "UNA, DOPPIA, COLLETTIVA. Identity in the Age of the Metaverse", curated by Federica Patti and Claudio Musso, until May 31, 2025, at CUBO Unipol, Via Larga 8. LaTurbo Avedon, Auriea Harvey, Kamilia Kard, and Mara Oscar Cassiani present a multifaceted series of events, formats, and works arranged in an engaging aesthetic, dynamic, and thematic dialogue, guiding visitors through art, psychology, and technology.

• "Luisa Gardini, La stessa voce ma non lo stesso canto", curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni, until March 8, 2025, at the Fondazione del Monte, Via delle Donzelle 2. This is the first institutional exhibition in Italy dedicated to Luisa Gardini (Ravenna, 1935), revisiting the poetic and practical approaches of women artists from Emilia-Romagna who gained recognition later in their careers despite an uninterrupted commitment to artistic research.

• "MAST PHOTOGRAPHY GRANT ON INDUSTRY AND WORK 2025", curated by Urs Stahel, until May 4, 2025, at MAST, Via Speranza 42. A photography competition on industry and work dedicated to emerging artists, who develop an original and unpublished project for the MAST Foundation on the themes of the award. The exhibition features the finalists of the eighth edition

• "Alfredo Pirri, Ritratto di Palazzo", curated by Lorenzo Balbi and Silvia Evangelisti, until April 30, 2025, at Palazzo Boncompagni in Via del Monte 8. Internationally renowned artist Alfredo Pirri has transformed the spaces of the Palazzo into a unique journey through immersive installations, light, and memory.

• "In a Naked Room, Peggy Franck", curated by Davide Ferri, until March 2, 2025, at Palazzo De’ Toschi, in Piazza Minghetti 4d. The exhibition explores the intersection between painting, sculpture, and photography, disciplines that the artist combines to create ever-evolving images and spaces.

• "I Who Was a Swallow" The Informal Art of Maria Petroni (1921-1977), curated by Angelo Mazza, until June 8, 2025, at Casa Saraceni, in Via Farini 15. The donation of twenty paintings by Maria Petroni from Giovanni Barducci offers the opportunity to restore the painter, now forgotten, to the prominent place she occupied—despite her solitude—within the heterogeneous group of artists gathered by Francesco Arcangeli in the early 1950s under the designation of "last naturalists."

• "Flavio Favelli. Nuova Mixage Up", curated by Roberto Pinto, until March 28, 2025, at the Zeri Library in the Santa Cristina Complex in Piazzetta Giorgio Morandi 2. A visually striking installation consisting of a series of wooden shelves, similar to those that hold books, containing 216 bottles of liquor of different shapes and sizes, collected by the artist over the years. This work aligns with Flavio Favelli's poetics, focusing on the use of objects laden with memory, assembled and given new meaning.

• "Antonello Ghezzi. La Palazzina dei Sogni", until June 12, 2025, at the Palazzina Liberty in the Giardini Margherita at Piazzale Jacchia. The two artists propose a true "galactic journey" within reach, where Piazzale Jacchia becomes the starting point for a unique experience: a cosmic journey inviting us to look beyond our differences and feel united under the same starry sky.