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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | Imitate the Sleep of Stones | National Archeological Museum, Athens

The Imitate the Sleep of Stones exhibition by William Kentridge, hosted at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), is a major retrospective that weaves together memory, political history, and the passage of time. Drawing inspiration from the poetic line in its title, the South African artist contrasts the fragility of human experience with the apparent, monumental stillness of stone, creating a visual bridge between classical Greek culture and the scars of the colonial and post-colonial eras. Through a highly theatrical and immersive journey encompassing everything from his famous charcoal animated films—where the act of erasing and redrawing becomes a metaphor for oblivion and the processing of trauma—to bronze sculptures, tapestries, and multichannel video installations, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on how historical myths are continuously constructed, deconstructed, and passed down.

• Athens
• National Archeological Museum
• 29 ottobre 2026

ETTORE SPALLETTI | Solo show | Lia ruma Gallery , Milan

Lia Rumma Gallery in Milan presents a solo exhibition curated by the Ettore Spalletti Foundation, exploring the artist’s unique fusion of painting, sculpture, and dialogue with classical art masters. Spanning three floors,the show relies on essential geometries and "atmospheric" color to transform the gallery's space: from the ground floor featuring weightless forms and the ephemeral pigment breath of Contatto (1976), to the first floor's twilight mood marked by Davanzale, oro (2000) and Leggio (1990), through to the second floor’s perceptual harmony led by Quartetto indivisibile (1992) and light-filled alabaster works beneath the skylight.

• Lia Rumma Gallery
• Via Stilicone 19, Milano
• 5 novembre 2026

LUCA MONTERSATELLI | Fine Comune | Confine | Lake Como Design Festival | Como, Italy

Fine Comune is an exhibition by Nomade, with creative direction by Ultrapresent Studio, presented at the Lake Como Design Festival inside the former Church of Santa Caterina. Reinterpreting the concept of boundary (con-finis) not as a barrier but as a point of contact and shared space,the installation transforms the 17th-century building into a welcoming, communal environment. The display features concrete and metal artworks by Luca Monterastelli (Galleria Lia Rumma), collective seating from the Free System line by Acerbis, collectible design pieces by Movimento Gallery, and artisan rugs by cc-tapis.

• Como (Italy)
• Ex Chiesa di Santa Caterina

ENRICO CASTELLANI | FOCUS900. Enrico Castellani and relief surfaces | Museo del Novecento, Milan

Set within the permanent collection display of the Museo del Novecento in Milan and designed as a cross-disciplinary in-depth program conducted in close collaboration with artist archives and foundations, the project connects masterpieces, historical materials, and period documentation. The exhibition unfolds across three distinct sections: a monographic room explores writing and poetic verse in Vincenzo Agnetti’s late practice as a generative force capable of transforming reality, featuring Feltri, Photo-graffie, and the unreleased Lucernario; a dedicated section on Enrico Castellani reconstructs over forty years of research into shaped, relief canvases that move beyond traditional painting to engage directly with light and space; a third focus examines Milan’s role as a creative laboratory during the 1960s and 1970s through the work of Valerio Adami, Alik Cavaliere, Lucio Del Pezzo, Bobo Piccoli, and Emilio Tadini, starting from the historic legacy of Studio Marconi and their response to mass media. Strengthening the deep bond between civic institutions, archival research, and the network of private galleries that shaped postwar Milanese art history, the project also incorporates a valuable collaboration with Galleria Lia Rumma, presenting the public with a cohesive and multifaceted portrait of contemporary artistic culture.

• Museo del 900, Milano
• Piazza del Duomo, 8, 20123 Milano (MI)
• 6 ottobre 2026

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ | WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | MARZIA MIGLIORA | GIAN MARIA TOSATTI | Group show | Bienal Del Agua "The Traces of Water" 2026 | Centro de Congresos de Estoril, Cascais, Portugal

Bienal Del Agua: An alliance between art, society, and commitment. Under the evocative theme “The Traces of Water” the biennial unfolds as an open and welcoming encounter within the worlds of art and culture, built around an interdisciplinary project that brings together Arts, Science, and Technology. This interdisciplinary approach expresses excellence in creativity across multiple fields—painting, public sculpture, installations, performances, photography, video, and technology—moving beyond rigid museographic conventions to engage with the city and its diverse audiences and social sectors. Activities take place in public and private spaces, as well as in symbolic and institutional sites. Water is approached not only as a natural resource or environmental element, but as an anthropological symbol, cultural memory, technological structure, spiritual resonance, and a contemporary ethical challenge—within the framework of a new humanism that calls for rethinking the relationship between humanity, nature, and innovation.

• Centro de Congresos de Estoril, Cascais, Portugal
• 17 luglio – 6 settembre 2026

ETTORE SPALLETTI | Permanent installation | Fontana Pescara, Italy

Following a major restoration, Ettore Spalletti’s Fountain in the square in front of the Pescara Courthouse has been returned to the public. Inaugurated in 2004, the work is one of the city’s most significant examples of contemporary public art: a 15 x 9 metre ellipse made of Zimbabwean black granite, where a thin layer of water reflects the sky, light, and surrounding architecture. The fountain embodies Spalletti’s exploration of the relationship between colour, form, and space through the interplay of black, blue, and light. Its shape recalls the “Disegno” motif that runs throughout the artist’s practice, while a pink onyx element introduces a further poetic and contemplative dimension.

• Fontana Pescara, Italy

ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV | Group show | Gli Anni. Capitolo 3 | Museo Madre, Naples, Italy

Gli Anni. Capitolo 3 is an ongoing exhibition project exploring the history of art in Naples from the late twentieth century to the present. The Madre Museum's collection is presented alongside major public and private collections, bringing together key works that reflect significant artistic moments and developments in the region. Inspired by Annie Ernaux's novel The Years, the project views artworks as repositories of collective memory, preserving not only artistic research but also the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created. Like memory itself, the exhibition unfolds through interconnected episodes rather than a linear chronology, with its third chapter expanding across several spaces of the museum, from the entrance to the second floor.

• Museo Madre, Naples, Italy
• 9 luglio – 5 ottobre 2026

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | 74° Edizione Ravello Festival 2026 | Villa Rufolo, Ravello

The Ravello Foundation, in collaboration with the Lia Rumma Gallery, presents William Kentridge, an exhibition of works by an artist for whom music, theatre and image are part of a single creative process – opening on 3 July 2026 at Villa Rufolo and continuing until 5 September as part of the 74th edition of the Ravello Festival. One of the most profound and constitutive aspects of William Kentridge's research is the relationship between drawing, sound, word, music, opera and theatre. Throughout his work, the mark is never merely a fixed image, but action, rhythm, a trace in motion, appearance and erasure. It emerges, disappears, returns, transforms into sequence, into voice, into visual score. Drawings, videos, installations, sculptures and works tied to the artist's scenic and musical dimension make up an itinerary that unfolds across the villa's rooms and the garden designed by Francis Nevile Reid in the 19th century, in a continuous dialogue between architectural space and open landscape. Ravello, a city long tied to great European culture and to the memory of Richard Wagner, welcomes an artist for whom music, theatre and image are part of a single creative process. In this context, the exhibition takes its place within the history of the Festival as a reflection on the relationship between vision and listening, gesture and voice, mark and time.

• Villa Rufolo
• 4 luglio – 5 settembre 2026

MICHELE GUIDO | Giardino Project | Seme • Pianta • Fiore • Frutto | Trepuzzi - Otranto, Italy

The sixth edition of giardino project, titled "Seme • Pianta • Fiore • Frutto", is dedicated to the artistic research of Michele Guido, whose practice brings together botany, archaeobotany, ecology, rural architecture, and contemporary art. Curated by Giuseppe Amedeo Arnesano, this edition offers a critical reading of the agricultural landscape as a dispersed garden—a living organism shaped by human labor, spontaneous ecologies, vernacular architecture, and layered memories. Structured around the natural cycle "Seme • Pianta • Fiore • Frutto" as a process of knowledge, the project reflects on the relationship between land, cultivation, and imagination, transforming the Salento countryside into a space for observation and research. The project unfolds across two events: 22 July at the garden of Bibliò – Community Library in Trepuzzi and 25 July at the historic Torre Pinta Medieval Masseria, near Otranto. Both events conclude with site-specific sound performances by Roberto Laterza (iii) in Trepuzzi and Alessandro Chieppa at Torre Pinta.

• Trepuzzi - Otranto
• 22 – 25 luglio 2026