The Italian Scene

Arte Fiera invites you to discover the Italian scene: artists of the past and of the present, established and young galleries, publishers, critics, institutions. A complete panorama, from post-war to contemporary, whose foremost interpreter is Arte Fiera.

After celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024 with the return of major galleries and many important collectors, the longest-running Italian fair consolidates its position under the guidance of Artistic Director Simone Menegoi and Managing Director Enea Righi.

Exhibitors, sections, curators
There will be some important new names among the 176 galleries at Arte Fiera 2025, including Gió Marconi, Magazzino, Raffaella Cortese, Tucci Russo, and Herald St (London). In addition, Apalazzo, Laveronica, Lia Rumma, Lorenzelli, Franco Noero, Ronchini, and Sprovieri, that joined the fair in the last two year, have confirmed their participation.

The fair’s historic halls, among the finest examples of Italian trade fair architecture from the ‘60s, host the Main Section, divided as always into post-war and contemporary art, and four invitation-only curated sections: Multipli, curated by Alberto Salvadori, Photography and moving images, curated by Giangavino Pazzola, Pittura XXI, curated by Davide Ferri and the new Prospettiva, curated by Michele D’Aurizio and devoted to emerging artists.

Percorso, the thematic itinerary among the stands, returns as well: this year its theme is “Community: not “I”, but “we.”You can see the complete list of exhibitors at this link.

Opus Novum VII: Maurizio Nannucci 
This year, the artist invited to create a new work for the fair is Maurizio Nannucci (b. 1939), an internationally renowned Italian artist since the 1960s.

His contribution to the “Opus Novum” series is a work in edition: a high GSM paper shopper with YOU CAN IMAGINE THE OPPOSITE printed on its two main sides. A provocation—now more urgent than ever—to consider a radical alternative. The work combines the use of words as artistic material (which made Nannucci famous) with his long-time interest in multiples. An interest shared by the fair, which devotes a specific section—Multipli—to works in edition.

Performance: Adelaide Cioni
Arte Fiera and Fondazione Furla have renewed their partnership for the performance program, to be curated by Bruna Roccasalva, the Foundation’s Artistic Director. The invited artist of this third edition is Adelaide Cioni (1976), whose research covers a wide range of expressive forms, including painting, installation, music, and dance, but whose principal language is drawing. At Arte Fiera 2025, in the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau (facing the fair), Cioni presents Five Geometric Songs, choreographed to music by Dom Bouffard, in which abstract geometric motifs are transformed into rhythm by means of five costumes designed by the artist and worn by five dancers.

Flash Art Italia Award
Arte Fiera will host the award ceremony for the first edition of the Flash Art Italia Award, devoted to Italy’s entire art system. The Selection Committee, chaired by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, is composed of Andrea Bellini, Mariuccia Casadio, Maria Luisa Frisa, Luca Lo Pinto, Alessandro Rabottini, Enea Righi, Bruna Roccasalva, and Pier Luigi Sacco.

BPER Banca will be Arte Fiera’s Main Partner for the next three years.

Contacts
Show office: artefiera [at] bolognafiere.it, T +39 051 282929 /2355;
Arte Fiera press office: Elena Pardini, elena [at] elenapardini.it, T +39 348 3399463;
Arte Fiera press office: Maddalena Bonicelli, maddalena.bonicelli [at] gmail.com, T +39 3356857707;
BolognaFiere press office: Elena Sabbatini, elena.sabbatini [at] bolognafiere.it, T +39 051 282876.