VANESSA BEECROFT | ALFREDO JAAR | MARZIA MIGLIORA | GIAN MARIA TOSATTI | TOBIAS ZIELONY | GILBERTO ZORIO | The Golden Hour. L’oro nell'arte dal figurativo all’astratto | Group Show | Spazio Ersel, Italy

Bringing together more than 200 works spanning centuries of artistic and cultural history, Identity, Culture, and Community explores the richness and diversity of Jewish experience through objects, ritual works, contemporary art, and historical artifacts drawn from the Jewish Museum’s collection. The exhibition creates a dialogue between past and present, weaving together themes of memory, belonging, migration, spirituality, and collective identity. Archaeological artifacts and ceremonial objects are presented alongside modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, revealing how art can preserve traditions while continually redefining cultural narratives. Special focus galleries deepen this exploration through dedicated presentations examining film, community, colonial history, and contemporary artistic practices. The renewed learning spaces further extend the experience through educational displays and a monumental installation of more than 130 Hanukkah lamps from across different periods and geographies, highlighting the enduring significance of ritual, craftsmanship, and shared cultural heritage.

• The Jewish Museum
• 1109 5th Ave &, E 92nd St, New York, 10128
• 24 ottobre 2025

Inspired by an imagined episode from the life of Bernard de Mandeville, this installation reflects on the fragile relationship between power, accident, and consequence. A minor domestic incident — a spilled cup of tea, an interrupted gesture, an expression fixed in a portrait — becomes the starting point for a meditation on chance and the invisible chain of events set in motion by every human action. At the center of the work is a scaled plaster interior: a vaulted room, an entrance, a half-open door, and a functioning chandelier illuminating the scene. Within this suspended and silent space stands a wax figure, motionless at the foot of a staircase, one hand extended in an ambiguous gesture of request or supplication. Balancing between theatricality and stillness, the installation evokes a world where collapse never fully arrives, yet absence and misfortune quietly persist. The domestic setting becomes a metaphorical architecture of power, uncertainty, and unresolved expectation. Viewing by appointment only.

• Spazio C.O.S.M.O
• Via Giovanni de Agostini, 25, 00176 Roma RM
• 19 aprile – 30 giugno 2026

This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to rediscover the visionary world of Giovanni Segantini, one of the leading figures of European Symbolism and Divisionism. Bringing together paintings, pastels, and drawings from important international collections, the exhibition traces the artist’s profound relationship with nature and the mountain landscape that shaped his life and imagination. For Segantini, the mountains were far more than a subject: they became a spiritual and symbolic universe through which he explored light, solitude, motherhood, labor, and the cycle of life. Suspended between realism and symbolism, his works reveal a deeply emotional vision of nature, where luminous color and atmosphere transform the Alpine landscape into a timeless, almost mystical dimension. Through over sixty works, the exhibition follows the evolution of Segantini’s artistic language, from his early Italian years to the monumental Alpine compositions created in Switzerland. Rare drawings and pastels further highlight the artist’s sensitivity and his mastery of light, atmosphere, and form. Curated by Gabriella Belli and Diana Segantini.

• Musée Marmottan
• 2 Rue Louis Boilly, 75016 Paris, Francia
• 29 aprile – 16 agosto 2026

"The Golden Hour. L’oro nell'arte dal figurativo all’astratto" explores the enduring fascination of gold in art through a selection of works spanning from the Renaissance to the present day. Symbol of light, eternity, spirituality, and transformation, gold has crossed centuries while constantly renewing its meaning and visual power. From sacred gold backgrounds to contemporary conceptual interpretations, the exhibition traces the evolution of gold as both material and metaphor: sometimes ornamental, sometimes inseparable from the form itself, always capable of transforming the surface it touches. Warm and luminous like the “golden hour” of dawn and dusk, gold becomes a language that connects ancient, modern, and contemporary artistic expressions through reflection, radiance, and seduction. Bringing together figurative and abstract works, the exhibition offers a journey through the many identities of gold — precious, symbolic, spiritual, and deeply evocative. Ersel Exhibition Space, Turin: 22.04.2026–22.05.2026Ersel Exhibition Space, Milan: 04.06.2026–10.07.2026

• Spazio Ersel
• 22 aprile – 10 luglio 2026

"STRANGE RULES", curated by Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Adriana Rispoli at Palazzo Diedo, explores the emerging field of “Protocol Art” through works by international artists including Philippe Parreno, Trevor Paglen, Avery Singer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Agnieszka Kurant. Bringing together art, technology, artificial intelligence, and digital infrastructures, the exhibition examines the invisible systems and protocols that shape contemporary culture and perception. Conceived as both an exhibition and a research platform, "STRANGE RULES" transforms Palazzo Diedo into a laboratory for performances, installations, screenings, and collaborative projects that investigate human-machine co-creation, algorithmic governance, and the shifting relationship between artistic authorship and technological systems.

• Palazzo Diedo
• Fondamenta Trapolin, 2386, 30121
• 4 maggio – 22 novembre 2026

"WHO’S A GOOD BOY?" at Contemporary Forces in Venice presents works from the Kelterborn Collection through a reflection on power, authority, and control. Bringing together artists including Joseph Beuys, Gary Hill, Claire Fontaine, Sung Tieu, Ulay, Laure Prouvost, Nora Turato, and Renzo Martens, the exhibition explores how systems of dominance are embedded within language, repetition, and everyday structures. Taking its title from a work by Nora Turato, the exhibition approaches authority not as spectacle, but as an unstable emotional condition shaped by tension, seduction, and surveillance. Echoing the curatorial theme "In Minor Keys", the project proposes the “minor” as a strategy for rethinking contemporary power dynamics through resonance, vulnerability, and perceptual shifts.

• Contemporary Forces
• Giudecca 710/C
• 7 maggio – 27 settembre 2026