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.
FRAGILE: Sixteen Atlases of Breakage
05.28 – 06.15.2025
Rifugio Digitale, Florence
In the secure, armoured heart of a former nuclear bunker, Quiet Ensemble stages an ode to fragility. Sixteen monitors begin to crack, creating iridescent and unique visual landscapes. Vibrations, glows, digital fissures: disaster becomes art.
Cosmic data collected by the EGO observatory guide this orchestrated collapse. In a place built to withstand every impact, true power is born from the ability to be broken — to turn every fracture into beauty.
Dissolvenze | Corrispondere al tempo
15.05 – 02.08.2025
MAD Murate Art District, Florence
What if transformation were a form of stability?
Simoncini.Tangi invite us to tune in to the slow time of water, leaves, and oxidation. In an immersive journey through upside-down gardens, plants drawing with light, and metals that record time, nature is not a backdrop but a creator.
The works, born of rain, light, and oxides, do not illustrate nature — they recreate it. The Arno, a liquid and sensitive archive, guides this exploration: a river that does not flow, but writes.
Biennale di Liverpool 2025
07.06 – 14.09.2025
Liverpool, Regno Unito
Pronti a scavare sotto la superficie?
We do it in an exceptional out-of-Italy presence, at the Liverpool Biennial 2025. BEDROCK — a name that sounds a bit like a video game — explores the city’s social and cultural foundations through digital and immersive installations.
An experience that redefines the concept of a “solid base”.
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.
