Interviews

Kengo Kuma in Assisi: A Nest for Dialogue with St. Francis. “It’s a source of help in the times we live in”

On the night of October 4, 1226, Francis of Assisi, surrounded by his brothers, breathed his last; having been ill for some time and extremely debilitated, he was in the infirmary adjacent to the Porziuncola, one of the places that witnessed him as t...
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Bruno Fantelli and the plan for a Kunsthaus in a castle in Monferrato: the artist speaks

For the artist Bruno Fantelli (Cles, 1996), painting does not seem to have come about as a sudden choice, but rather as the continuation of an inclination cultivated since childhood: drawing, building, and modifying whatever was in front of him. Trai...
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“The curator and the critic work in the service of something else.” An interview with Gabriele Salvaterra

Living on the threshold, without having to choose which side to take. This is perhaps the image that best captures the way Gabriele Salvaterra views curating, art, and even his own role within the art system. As a curator, critic, and museum professi...
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“The Venice Biennale Has Always Been a Political Space”: An Interview with Adina Drinceanu

Can the Venice Biennale also be interpreted as a relationship between artistic experimentation, the market, and systems of cultural support? That is what curator Adina Drinceanu attempts to do in this interview with Noemi Capoccia, in which she offer...
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“Drawing is a practice of expanding time.” An interview with Marta Roberti

For Marta Roberti, drawing is not merely a tool for representing the world, but a way to navigate it and transform herself. Her works arise from a deep connection with images from art history, archaic forms, the animal world, and memory, in a continu...
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Who Invented Art Exhibitions? A Look at the 17th Century in an Exhibition in Macerata. The Curator Speaks

What does it mean to organize an exhibition today? And above all, what happens when the exhibition itself becomes the subject of the exhibition? These are the questions that serve as the starting point for *Expositio Mundi*. The Exhibition as Medium,...
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A Day with Maurizio Cattelan (and a great interview by Luca Rossi): “Provocation? It’s no longer a risk”

Fifteen years later, Luca Rossi returns to interview Maurizio Cattelan. Back then, there was a retrospective at the Guggenheim; today, there is NIGHT at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In the meantime, the art world has changed, the market has ch...
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MIRA, a New Voice for Latin American Art. An Interview with Director Manuela Rayo

MIRA Latino Art Fair, a project launched in 2024 with the aim of giving greater visibility to Latin American contemporary art, is today one of the most interesting art fairs dedicated to artists from emerging countries. It was founded and is directed...
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Why "Guernica" Continues to Speak to Us (But Will Eventually Be Forgotten). An Interview with Luca Nannipieri

Pablo Picasso’s*Guernica* is one of the most recognizable symbols of 20th-century art. But what truly makes a work of art a classic? And how long can its fame endure throughout history? In his new book, *Pablo Picasso’s Guernica: The Rise...
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Germany, the New Travel Destination for Italians: Here's How It Won Us Over

Agata Marchetti is the director of the German National Tourist Board Italia, the German National Tourism Board, where she has been responsible for promoting Germany in the Italian market since 2024. With over nineteen years of experience within the o...
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Luxury and Cultural Heritage: The Future of Placemaking According to Balich Wonder Studio

Valentina Saluzzi is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and Director of Events and Brand Experiences at Balich Wonder Studio, an international group specializing in the design and production of major events, ceremonies, and brand experiences. After...
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Interview with Giovanni Ozzola: “My horizons are my works: a way to explore the unknown and ourselves”

On the occasion of the tenth Lerici Music Festival—an initiative that, for the third year, presents an unprecedented dialogue between contemporary art and music, curated by Carlo Orsini and organized in collaboration with Galleria Continua— Villa Mar...
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Why Painting Can Still Change the Way We See Things. An Interview with Lena Keller

Lena Keller (Heidelberg, 1980) belongs to a generation of artists who came of age during the transition from analog to digital, but her painting defies any technological simplification. In her work, landscape is not presented as an objective reality ...
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“With Opera Navarra, We’re Completing the Heritage Value Chain”: An Interview with Beppe Costa and Attilio Navarra

The recent acquisition of Fratelli Navarra by Opera Laboratori and the resulting creation of Opera Navarra represent a significant development in the Italian cultural heritage sector, particularly in the field of restoration. The merger, presented ye...
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“Knowledge comes before conservation and promotion.” Filippo Perissinotto speaks

With a career spanning subsidized finance, conservation restoration, and the cultural economy, Filippo Perissinotto, president of Art Events—a company specializing in the organization of cultural events—has, over the years, developed an entrepreneuri...
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Donald de Decker: When Art Is Used to Listen to the Sound of Images

Donald de Decker (ddd) is a visual artist and graphic designer originally from Brussels. At the heart of his work lies the Acousma project, which emerged from his encounter with acousmatic music and has gradually evolved into an exploration of the co...
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