Exhibitions and events not to be missed in November

NOA, Lake House Völs - ph. Alex Filz

Meran: “Recent Architecture in Alto Adige 2018-2024”
The fourth edition of the exhibition and editorial project Recent Architecture in Alto Adige offers an inventory of projects that document the architectural horizon that has developed in the Alto Adige region, selected by an international jury. Curated by Filippo Bricolo, architect, the jury has chosen 28 representative projects, of which a detailed restitution is proposed, alongside a second group of another 28, which find space in the exhibition and in the catalogue. The exhibition project revolves around two fundamental questions: does architecture exist in Alto Adige? And, if so, what does it consist of? Far from wanting to provide an answer, the selected projects represent one of the many possible keys to reading the developments of the architectural language of the territory. The deliberately questioning approach, the doubt intended in a critical sense, that distinguish this edition intend to present themselves as an invitation to debate and reflection.

When: until 16th February 2025
Where: Kunst Meran




Venice Mestre: “BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction”
After the worldwide success of the Anthropocene exhibition, a multimedia exploration that documented the indelible human footprint on the earth, photographer Edward Burtynsky continues his investigation. The exhibition, curated by Marc Mayer, is a broad anthology of the more than forty-year career of the author who has dedicated his life to testifying to the environmental impact of the industrial system on our planet. Burtynsky invites visitors to look at places that exist beyond our common experience, places that satisfy our desires and needs of the present but, at the same time, determine the future of our habitat. The 80 large photographs appear as fascinating and indecipherable fields of colors and abstract shapes, which leave observers suspended in front of natural or anthropic objects that are often not immediately intelligible, but capable of drawing them into the work. Furthermore, in the corridor on the second floor of M9, a series of photographs from the photographic campaign commissioned to Burtynsky by the Sylva Foundation in 2022 to document the effects of Xylella on Apulian olive trees is on display.

When: until 12th January 2025
Where: M9


Installation view, Salvo. Arrivare in tempo, Pinacoteca Agnelli Torino, 2024 - ph. Sebastiano Pellion di Persano, courtesy Pinacoteca Agnelli

Turin: “SALVO. Arriving on Time”
The exhibition, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, occupies three floors of the Pinacoteca Agnelli in a retrospective journey through the work of Salvo (Leonforte 1947 – Turin 2015), a countercurrent artist and precursor, protagonist of an independent trajectory. Having approached the visual vocabulary of Conceptual Art and Arte Povera in the first phase of his career, addressing themes such as self-representation and language in photographic and sculptural works, from the early Seventies Salvo chose to dedicate himself exclusively to painting. Arriving on Time offers a journey through his practice, divided into eight chapters that highlight how his canvases are not in contrast with the conceptual approach that precedes them, but have coherently absorbed its intentions: experimentation in the repetition of the same subjects; reflection on the medium used; the affirmation of the importance of the role of the artist and his essential relationship with the history of art, with writing and literature.

When: until 25th May 2025
Where: Pinacoteca Agnelli



A Diosa, 2019, arazzo in lana di pecora sarda, Studio Pratha

Forlì: “EXPLORATIVE WEAVES: a journey through tapestry”
The exhibition dedicated to the art of tapestry in Italy, from the 1950s to today, curated by Nadia Stefanel, highlights how the textile medium, traditionally seen as a decorative art, has become a form of expression over time. “Tapestry, as a contemporary visual language, tells of textile experimentation and innovation, of collaborations between artists and artisans, between tradition and modern experiments, in dialogue with contemporary artistic trends and industrial design,” writes Stefanel, director of the Dino Zoli Foundation. The journey through tapestries represents a unique opportunity to understand how art and craftsmanship come together in a collaborative creative process, capable of involving some of the most important masters of the second half of the twentieth century and attracting artists of the present.

When: until 16th March 2025
Where: Dino Zoli Foundation



Precious Okoyomon, the sun eats her children (il sole mangiai suoi figli), 2023 - ph. Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, courtesy l’artista e Gladstone Gallery © Precious Okoyomon

Turin: “Mutual Aid - Art in collaboration with nature”
An exhibition project dedicated to multispecies vision curated by Francesco Manacorda and Marianna Vecellio, this exhibition explores the concept of mutual support by delving into the creative collaboration between humans and nature, in an unprecedented reflection returned to the public through the experiences of over twenty great artists and their non-human collaborators who have addressed the theme from the 1960s to today. The title of the exhibition originates from the theses of the Russian philosopher Pëtr Kropotkin who hypothesizes that, in an unstable scenario with limited resources, the best option for survival is collaboration between species. Each work presented is completed or co-realized thanks to the contribution of non-human elements or agents and the exhibition invites us to question the division between culture and nature, between the environment and human beings. Drawing on different exhibition languages ​​such as video, painting, sound, installation and sculpture, Mutual Aid – Art in collaboration with nature explores visions that seek new ways of collaborating with other species, transforming the Manica Lunga of the Castello di Rivoli into a “living” organism where natural works and processes cooperate to create a true living exhibition.

When: until 23rd March 2025
Where: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea



courtesy Mutina

Fiorano: “Michael Anastassiades. Good Days”
The exhibition offers a complete vision of the Cypriot designer’s poetic approach to design and matter, providing an image of the world in which man and nature are in perfect harmony, and in which light becomes the vital force that animates everything.

When: until 24th January 2025
Where: Spazio Mutina



ph. Ela Bialkowska, OKNO studio

Florence: “DRIFT. Shy Society”
Shy Society transforms the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi into an immersive stage for a performance that combines artistic expression, nature and science, thanks to a spectacular site-specific installation in the Renaissance courtyard created by the Dutch duo renowned for their performance projects that combine art and technology. The work is composed of seven large flowers that move slowly and sinuously, opening and closing in a choreography that follows a symphonic piece by contemporary American composer RZA. Shy Society draws inspiration from the fascinating natural phenomenon known as “nyctonasty” by which some species of plants and flowers close during the night and reopen at dawn for self-defense and to conserve their resources. This phenomenon leads us not only to reflect on the concept of beauty, between nature and artifice, but also on the idea of ​​adaptation to the environment by all forms of life. Just as flowers open and close in response to natural cycles, we humans are also called upon to transform and adapt to the challenges presented by our environment.

When: until 26th January 2025
Where: Palazzo Strozzi



courtesy Triennale Milano

Milan: “Elio Fiorucci”
The exhibition, curated by Judith Clark, explores the creative dimensions of Elio Fiorucci (Milan, 1935-2015), stylist, designer, cool hunter and entrepreneur. His brand, starting in the 1960s, revolutionized customs, fashion and the contemporary art scene in Italy. His concept stores, in addition to offering the public a mix of clothing, records, publications and unreleased objects for the first time, were the point of reference for happenings and performances as well as stages for music and contemporary art capable of attracting intellectuals, performers and artists. The retrospective has a biographical intent and includes the human, entrepreneurial and cultural events of Elio Fiorucci.

When: until 16th March 2025
Where: Triennale Milano




Florence: “170,000 years ago in Poggetti Vecchi. Neanderthals and the climate challenge”
The exhibition is dedicated to the prehistoric site of Poggetti Vecchi (Grosseto), of fundamental scientific importance thanks to the exceptional finds it has returned. The exhibition is divided into two distinct sections presented in two different locations. The first section, “Environment and resources”, presents the discoveries made on the site through environmental reconstructions to immerse oneself in that distant world, also thanks to the use of digital technologies and 3D copies of finds never before exhibited to the public. In the second section, “A sustainable technology”, some of the wooden artefacts miraculously preserved thanks to stable environmental conditions and the absence of oxygen are exhibited for the first time in a world preview, work tools made with the use of fire as a means of processing wood. Until now, these extremely rare and delicate finds have never been exhibited to the public due to their extreme fragility. The exhibition in the Florentine museum is therefore a unique opportunity to rediscover the lifestyle of the first Tuscans (Neanderthals) at the time of climate change, before the finds are once again placed in safekeeping awaiting their future definitive museum display.

When: until 12th Januaty 2025
Where: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology and National Archaeological Museum of Florence