NEXT UP

JUNE 2025

Event Selection I

by Beatrice Rainone

NEXT UP is the column curated by Beatrice Rainone, dedicated to a critical selection of the most significant initiatives that address the new themes and languages with which contemporary art confronts digital culture.

IT TAKES TWO
13.06 – 13.11.2025

Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano

To make art, it takes two: the creator and the viewer. That’s the sharp and witty premise behind It Takes Two, the new video art programme at the Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare.
It opens with Marzia Migliora, a Turin-based artist who turns memory into a trigger for bodies, labour, vulnerability and utopias, through two works from the early 2000s.
All that’s left is to surrender to the darkness of the screening room.

I SAW A DARK CLOUD RISE
13.06 – 12.10.2025

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, TUrin

Alessandra Ferrini dismantles the myth of Italian technological progress, exposing its colonial and fascist roots. Among aeroplanes, wireless signals and propaganda, the work reveals how war and imperialist imagination have shaped history, art and politics – inviting us to re-examine a past that continues to affect us.
A powerful and clear-sighted visual investigation, transforming the archive into a critical tool that speaks to the present.

Matter Waves Unseen – Giuliana Cunéaz
15.05 – 15.12.2025

Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Lomellina, Vigevano

The most precious and curious objects, once jealously stored in cabinets of wonder, are now kept within digital screens. Giuliana Cunéaz doesn’t collect in vitrines of marvel; instead, she generates wonder (and gets lost) within algorithms and pixels, where images are fluid, identities multiple, and logic non-linear.
A fascinating chaos, like a quantum experiment.
Might you find something of your own in it a few years from now?

Beatrice Rainone

Born in 1999, she is a museum educator and mediator. She graduated in Art History at the University of Florence with a thesis on the concept of reproducibility in crypto-art. She currently works in various cultural institutions in Tuscany, including Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Fondazione Pistoia Musei, Museo del Tessuto.