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NEXT UP

JULY 2025

Event Selection II

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.

Lo-Def Film Factory Concept Drift, 2025. Installation view Re:humanism 4. Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma. Ph Carlo Romano. Courtesy Re:humanism 4

Timeline Shift
19.06– 30.07 2025

Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome

What happens when artificial intelligence meets our time: disordered, subjective, ritualistic?

Timeline Shift challenges the linear vision of time, typical of Western technological progress, which imagines past, present and future as ordered and predictable stages.

Fourth edition of the Re\:humanism Art Prize, the exhibition explores AI not as a neutral technology, but as a field of tension between future and memory, efficiency and failure, data and desires.

11 international artists break the linear narratives of progress and open breaches in the code – that is, in technological and narrative systems – creating spaces of possibility, ambiguity and resistance.

For those who are tired of hearing about AI only in terms of performance, control and hype.

All that remains is to abandon ourselves to the darkness of the room.

No Man Is an Island
11.06 – 21.09 2025

Complesso Monumentale di San Michele a Ripa Grande, Rome

Adrian Paci returns to Rome with an exhibition about humanity on the run – without rhetoric, only with art. Videos, sculptures, sounds: everything speaks of waiting, departures, wounds. Home to go is a body that becomes an icon, The bell tolls upon the waves a bell that tolls for those who no longer have a voice.

Paci does not try to console, but forces one to look. And in the heart of the Vatican, paradoxically, it is he – lay, Albanian, wandering – who rings the bell.

Adrian Paci, Conciliazione 5, Roma, 2025. Ph. Francesco Gili. Courtesy Adrian Paci e Dicastero per la Cultura e l'Educazione della Santa Sede
La marcia dell'uomo, Gianikia Ricci Lucchi, Centro Pecci. Ph. Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy Centro Pecci

La marcia dell’uomo. Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi
31.05 – 14.09 2025 

Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato

The most precious and curious objects, once jealously guarded in the Wunderkammern, are now stored on digital screens. Giuliana Cunéaz does not collect in showcases of wonder, but generates it (and loses herself) in algorithms and pixels, where images are fluid, identities multiple, logics non-linear. A fascinating chaos, as in a quantum experiment.

May you find something of your own in a few years’ time?

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.

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