The British artist Nika Neelova’s (Moscow, RU, 1987; lives and works in London, UK) sprawling installations and other works transport us to what feels like a world unto itself and out of time. She revisits history and the stories of people both real and fictional who have long ceased to exist, lending them material reality in three dimensions.

The artist herself describes this process as a kind of metabolism, a recurring cycle of decline, collapse, and renewal. Her works are like artifacts that exert a powerful pull, carrying the beholders along on a tide of time; meanwhile, they are very much committed to the present in their formal-aesthetic modesty and the clinical perspective they frame on human civilization.

Neelova wants her art to inspire viewers to experience the idea of time, which she conceives of as nonlinear, stimulating their sense for the poetic and playfulness, their inquisitiveness and curiosity. Working exclusively with found objects and materials, she has a remarkable gift for scrutinizing perfectly ordinary things from a wide variety of perspectives and presenting them in novel ways, bringing out their tactile qualities, materiality, and provenance, their place in time and the interdependence that connects them to humans.

Works by other important artists, including Isa Genzken, Maria Bartuszová, Marisa Merz, Hans Haacke, Heinz Frank and many others, are integrated into the presentation of the exhibition as if in a loose network of relationships. In this way, the collection objects of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the Salzburg Museum and the Mining and Gothic Museum Leogang become part of a utopian world idea.

Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, 1994
stampa ai sali d’argento e inchiostro
© Shirin Neshat

Sexuality, delusion, illness, and death are the major themes to which Carol Rama (1918-2015) dedicated her art. She is one of the outstanding female artists of modernity, who only gained recognition later in life.

We warmly invite you to the opening! Come and celebrate with us the inauguration of “Carol Rama. Rebel of Modernity”:

Thursday, March 6, 2025, Doors open: 18:00 /

Start: 18:30

(Free admission)

With depictions of female desire, Rama paved the way for contemporary feminist art as early as the 1930s. Independent of schools and artistic movements, she created an experimental, radical, and personal body of work over approximately seventy years. The Kunstmuseum Bern presents the first extensive survey exhibition of the Turin artist in Switzerland, showcasing works from all phases of her extraordinary oeuvre.

“Carol Rama. Rebel of Modernity” (March 7 – July 13, 2025)

Learn more:

kunstmuseumbern.ch/carolrama [Link in Bio] Curator: Livia

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An exhibition of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (@schirnkunsthalle) in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Bern.

“Detrás de la Obra”: Giulio Paolini at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid from March 8, 2025.

On the occasion of ARCOmadrid 2025, the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid presents “Detrás de la Obra”, an exhibition that relates the work of Giulio Paolini (Genoa, 1940), a key figure in the new avant-garde movements of the second half of the 20th century, and Luca Bertolo (Milan, 1968), one of the most important contemporary Italian painters.

Curated by Elena Volpato, curator of the GAM in Turin, the exhibition showcases seventeen works – including installations, paintings and conceptual works – spanning a period of over sixty years, from 1963 to 2024. The result is a selection that explores the relationship between image and representation, revealing the poetic and conceptual dimension behind the work of art.

Soane is nearly always referred to in regards to his work or his dedication to his profession. Underneath that of course, he had his own personality and emotions.

This piece, ‘The hermit Saint Arsenius, stained glass panel’, was installed in the Oratory in the Private Apartments, and many say was used by Soane as a place to reflect and grieve after the death of his wife in 1815. Soane felt this grief deeply, and the collection even contained two lachrymatories, ancient glass vessels for collecting tears.

Nika Neelova, who has just served as our Artist-In-Residence, was inspired by Soane’s use of reflective surfaces and described her time here as, “like inhabiting Soane’s autobiography”. Working across time, in her exhibition ‘Through a glass darkly, she has resurrected historic glass recipes and the practice of making lachrymatories; due to the imperfections in early glass making, some of which will dissolve over the course of the exhibition. Her installation evokes an alchemist’s laboratory, set within an enchanted garden, while sculptures formed from reclaimed banisters reference Soane’s strikingly sculptural staircases.

‘Nika Neelova: In Conversation, being held on March 12th 2025, is a unique opportunity to hear the artist discuss her exquisite work.

The exhibition, specifically designed for the spaces of Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, presents for the first time many previously unseen photographs, offering an organic synthesis of the research that Olivo Barbieri has dedicated to China over a period of more than thirty years.

Irony in Italian Art between the 20th and 21st Centuries, curated by Lorenzo Balbi and Caterina Molteni.

The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is organising a monographic exhibition of the work of a contemporary classic: painter Peter Halley. This retrospective, Halley’s first since his previous one at the Museo Reina Sofía in 1992, covers the artist’s entire career, from 1985 to 2024. The selection of twenty paintings, all belonging to Spanish collections – both private and public – has been made by Halley himself, who has also designed the installation plan.

À partir du 9 octobre 2024, Pinault Collection présente à la Bourse de Commerce, une exposition d’envergure dédiée à l’Arte Povera. Entre héritage et influence, l’exposition traverse plus de 250 œuvres historiques, contemporaines, et issues de ce courant artistique italien majeur des années 1960.

Frieze Sculpture returns to London’s Regent’s Park, 18 September – 27 October 2024. The much-celebrated public art initiative coincides with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which take place concurrently in The Regent’s Park, 9 – 13 October. Curated by Fatoş Üstek, Frieze Sculpture has expanded for its 12th edition to include 22 leading international artists hailing from five continents, whose work will be sited throughout the park’s historic English Gardens.

Born from the desire to promote contemporary art, the festival takes shape in Ortigia, the historic center of the city of Syracuse, among the most beautiful in the Mediterranean, rich in history, monuments, archaeological sites and baroque architecture, from 17 to 30 June 2024.

The most comprehensive retrospective of Joan Jonas at the MoMA : Good Night Good Morning traces the full breadth of her career, from works that explore the encounter between performance and technology to recent installations about ecology and the landscape.

Anthological exhibition to Carla Accardi on the centenary of her birth at Palazzo Esposizioni Rome.
The exhibition project include works from some of the most important public and private collections, both in Italy and abroad, as well as a nucleus of historic works that remained in her ownership and which are currently part of the Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo collection.

This exhibition is a comprehensive analysis of the practice of an artist who is considered a key referent in Arte Povera yet managed to develop his career avoiding any label or classification. Envisioned as a journey, a continuous flow, this show connects the most emblematic works in Anselmo’s career with others created specifically for this occasion. Anselmo was deeply involved in the organization of this exhibition until just a few days before he passed away last December. Therefore, now more than ever, the goal of Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the Horizon is to faithfully convey the depth of his vitality, the greatness of his legacy, and the meaning of his contribution.

While awaiting her first Italian retrospective at the PAC, Shirin Neshat will be the main speaker of a talk to discuss her work, her research, her poetic vision, and her role as a female artist in relation to her connection with Iran, her country of origin.

In the newly commissioned work Very Like A Whale by Santozeum Museum , artist Nika Neelova responds to the institution’s space and reimagines the land and sea stories of the volcanic region. The artist’s sculptural practice lies in the interstices of architecture, geology, and the human body, and employs tactics of what she terms ‘reverse archaeology.’ Encompassing acts of reclaiming, remaking, and recoding commonplace objects beyond their conventional functions, Neelova probes inherent qualities of legibility and translation of inanimate things through material transformation, and composes alternate readings of history in a play with the human sense of time and place.

excerpt from the text of Clara Tang

In the enchanting open-air theater of Relais Le Cattedrali in Valleandona, David Tremlett crafts a work that interprets the surrounding space. With his large wall drawing on the facade of the outdoor theater, the artist establishes a harmonious dialogue with the lively tones of the staircases, bestowing upon the place his unmistakable signature.

(Everything Is) Not What It Seems is an international project curated by Mara Ambrožič Verderber and premiered in Summer 2022 in Norway, at the NITJA – Centre for Contemporary Art in Lillestrøm-Oslo. The concept of the exhibition is designed around questions and themes that explore what is going on beyond the visible reality of things and may help us to understand the mechanisms that govern our society.  The project has been conceived as a travelling exhibition and will be expanded in each museum or location that will host the project, inviting local and international artists to investigate the topics addressed in the show.

The latest 16mm film by Jonathan Monk “Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole” (2023), was just recently screened at MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Rome as part of the museum’s ongoing experimental film program in collaboration with Villa Lontana.

Presenting paintings, drawings, posters, a complete cinematic work as well as the artist book War of Roses published by Noire Edition, the exhibition gives an extensive overview of the internationally recognized painter and filmmaker’s work.⁠
Sarah Morris is known for her complex abstractions, which play with architecture and the psychology of urban environments. Morris views her paintings as parallel to her films – both trace urban, social and bureaucratic topologies. ⁠

From 4 March until 18 June 2023 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo are coming together to celebrate some of the luminaries of contemporary art in the exhibition Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom Boakye. Over 70 works by leading Italian and international contemporary artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Lara Favaretto, William Kentridge, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Sarah Lucas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Shirin Neshat celebrating the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection’s 30th anniversary, one of the world’s most celebrated and prestigious collections of contemporary art.

The artist presents six new works specially created for Palazzo Carpegna, where the public is guided through a conceptual itinerary composed of different media, such as painting, photography, and sculpture, creating an analytical and poetic space. The exhibition, conceived by Marco Tirelli and exhibition curator Antonella Soldaini, investigates art in its essential components—the artist, the work, the institution, the public, and the relationship with history. The exhibition intends to show the process of transparent sedimentation of the making of the work, in which the past represents both the future of artistic creation and the very basis on which it stands.

On 23 March 2023, in the Manica Nuova of the Palazzo Reale, the Musei Reali of Torino has welcomed the installation Nuvola Rossa (1975) by Leonardo Mosso (1926-2020), a precious donation from the heirs of the architect, artist, photographer, researcher, semiologist, professor from Turin. A tribute to the high value of the author’s complex identity and an opportunity to approach and learn about the poetics of one of the protagonists of twentieth-century Turin.

In Collection2 Special Feature: Mel Bochner, the National Museum of Art, Osaka presents their latest new acquisition A Theory of Sculpture (Counting) & Primer (1969-73), an important work by the American conceptual artist Mel Bochner alongside a selection of works from the same period by Japanese artists.

In an open letter published earlier this week, Shirin Neshat, Ali Abassi and Bahman Ghodabi invited people around the world to further echo the rallying cries of Iranians for freedom. WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM serves as a strong and symbolic accompaniment to the slogan being voiced across Iran. A time limited edition print by Neshat is available to purchase on Circa.art with 50% of the proceeds being donated to Human Rights Watch

Giulio Paolini is awarded the 2022 Praemium Imperiale in the category of Painting, honouring his unique artistic orientation that is not easily categorised or contained in any movement.

The exhibition on display at Nitja during this period has been curated by the Slovenian curator and museum director Mara Ambrožič Verderber (Piran Coastal Galleries) and presents works by 17 artists of various nationalities.

Throughout the twelve Sale delle Arti exhibition rooms, digital canvases by great video game masters interact with renowned masterpieces from the past and the present, encouraging us to reflect on the new aesthetics, cultures, languages, policies and economies of the 21st century. Amongst the many masters exhibited, featuring the show are also AES+F with Warriors 1 and 3.

Through a unique selection of wall drawings, works on paper, gouaches, structures and archival material from the 1960s to the 2000s, this exhibition highlights the diversity and unity in Sol LeWitt’s prolific output. On view until July 31st 2022.

.ЯƎ is an exhibition by the Federico II Foundation which aims to open the doors, in the virtual age, to reflections on “real reality” for a collective rebirth. SIXTEEN artists, SIXTEEN different cultural personalities of contemporary art who, from the 1960s to today, have become interpreters of our era. The exhibition through October 31 features Alberto Burri, Saint Clair Cemin, Tony Cragg, Zhang Hong Mei, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, Emil Lukas, Mimmo Paladino, Claudio Parmiggiani, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tania Pistone, Andres Serrano, Ai Wewei e Gilberto Zorio.

After several “standard” basketball courts, Truly has brought their experimentation forward conceiving a deconstructed and metaphysical court.
Layup is a 360° contamination between basketball and anamorphosis which goes beyond the sole floor, involving walls and furnishings. A project in collaboration with Adidas Originals and Footlocker.

The title refers to the disappearance of the ‘real body’ in favor of the ‘body of the spectacle’: from the Glorified Body – the body of awareness, of rebellion, of otherness – to the Contemporary Body – intended on the one hand as the body of our spectacle-based society, and on the other in its most poetic forms of exodus, of work, of the silent multitude.

The New Art Centre has just recently announced  One of Many Fragments – an exhibition of work by Edward Allington and his former student at Slade School of Fine Art in London, Nika Neelova.

Discover an in depth feature of artist Nika Neelova and her artworks through the latest studio visit with OpenLab Art.

On friday January 29 2021,  Mel Bochner was in conversation with art historian and former Magazzino Scholar-in-Residence Tenley Bick (Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art, Florida State University) as they discussed the “odd resonances” Bochner found between his work, American art, and Italian art of the 1960s and 1970s that are captured in Bochner, Boetti, Fontana as well as Bochner’s new artist book Language Is Not Transparent (Babble), Noireditore, 2020.

We are happy to announce that our latest edition with Mel Bochner – Language is Not Transparent (Babble) will now also be available for purchase on Printed Matter Inc.

8 Ball Community on the occasion of the historical election that will define the U.S. has collaborated with Cali Thornhill Dewitt and IUTER to produce a special election shirt to fight against voter suppression. 

Artists Marina Abramovic, Sigalit Landau, Shirin Neshat & Katharina Sieverding have been politicized by experiences with war, violence and suppression and integrated them into their work, using the most personal feature available: their own bodies. The film accompanies them on an emotional journey, reexperiencing the conflicts that have shaped their consciousness.