Arte Fiera is happy to inform you that the application forms for the 2024 edition—the fair’s 50th anniversary (1974–2024)—are now online.
50 years: something that no other Italian art fair has achieved and that only two other fairs in Europe have exceeded. An important anniversary that Arte Fiera will celebrate with a Public Program that looks back at the personalities and events linked to its early editions and, in general, to Bologna’s cultural climate in the ’70s, when the city was at the cutting edge in visual art as well as in architecture and design. In addition, Arte Fiera, the proud heir to this unique tradition, will present the best in contemporary Italian art and, if possible, will point out new trends, once again presenting foreign galleries, the latest in performance art, and asking contemporary artists to create new works.
A new path, winning collaborations
Arte Fiera 2024 picks up the thread of the fortunate 2023 edition, hailed by the press as a rebirth, welcomed by collectors, attended by visitors in pre-pandemic numbers. The location, the same as in the previous edition (Halls 25 and 26, two of the Bologna Fair District’s most elegant spaces), and 2023’s winning collaborations (starting with the one between Simone Menegoi as Artistic Director and Enea Righi, renowned manager and collector, as Managing Director) have been confirmed. Together, Menegoi and Righi will merge an ambitious curatorial program with careful attention to all organizational aspects of the fair.
Sections and curators
The Main Section of Arte Fiera, divided into post-war and contemporary art, will again be accompanied by three curated, invitation-only sections: Photography and moving images, Pittura XXI, and Multiples.
Pittura XXI, curated by critic and independent curator Davide Ferri, is the only specialized section of any fair to offer a panorama of contemporary painting by emerging and mid-career artists. Photography and moving images, entrusted to Giangavino Pazzola (curator of Camera—Centro italiano per la fotografia, Turin), looks at the photographic medium from a contemporary perspective, open to video and to contaminations between media. Multiples, curated this year by critic and art historian Alberto Salvadori, proposes works in edition, ranging from artist books to design.
In addition to the curated sections, there will again be Percorso [Path]: not really a section, but, as the name implies, an itinerary that thematically links some of the stands in the Main Section. Percorso’s theme will be a transverse and universal language that unites artists of different generations and styles: drawing.
Arte Fiera 2024: the past, present, and future of a unique fair. Applications for Arte Fiera 2024 are open until September 18, 2023, available here.
Application deadline: September 18, 2023
Fair preview: February 1, 2024
Fair: February 2–4, 2024
Contacts
Show office artefiera [at] bolognafiere.it, T +39 051 282929 / 2355. Bologna Fiere Press Office Elena Sabbatini elena.sabbatini [at] bolognafiere.it, T +39 051 282876. Arte Fiera Press Office Elena Pardini elena [at] elenapardini.it, T +39 348 3399463.
