NEXT UP
MAY 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.
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05.04 – 24.05.2025
Villa Davia, Sasso Marconi
What if Marconi had imagined a future in which not only radio signals, but also emotions and ideas, travelled through invisible waves?
At Villa Davia, in the heart of Sasso Marconi, this is not your usual exhibition but an experience that challenges how we communicate and relate to one another, starting from a special anniversary: the 150th birthday of Guglielmo Marconi, the father of telecommunications.
It’s not just about watching, but about thinking how we are all part of a network that extends beyond the screen.
Italian and international artists, creative residencies, and sound performances guide visitors on a journey between the tangible and the intangible.
Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
10.05 – 23.09.2025
19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice.
What if the city weren’t looked at, but listened to?
At the Venice Architecture Biennale, Oxyville by Jean-Michel Jarre offers a simple and radical gesture: close your eyes and let sound shape the space.
This is not an exhibition to visit, but an experience to pass through.
Ten minutes in a dark room, where architecture is not drawn with lines but composed of sound waves.
Each participant listens, imagines, and then describes in words the city they have heard.
Natural and artificial intelligence intertwine in a collective and generative process that does not offer answers. It silences the noise and opens up a space for new questions:
How do we experience sound? How do we inhabit the invisible?
Time for Women! Empowering visions in 20 years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women
17.04 – 21.08.2025
Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
Palazzo Strozzi celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women with an exhibition bringing together the works of the nine prize-winners, a path of reflection on identity, politics and memory.
Among the featured works are video pieces by Laure Prouvost and Margaret Salmon: Prouvost weaves a surreal universe where visual and sound language become the thread binding reality and imagination, while Salmon explores the body and thought, shaping experiences that evoke deep emotional and intellectual engagement.
A unique opportunity to encounter the power of female art, which raises questions without easy answers and invites reflection on how culture and history shape and challenge us.
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.
