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Marina Abramović is one of the artists taking part of “Il Ritratto dell’Artista” a group exhibition opening on the 23rd of Fenruary at Museo Civico San Domenico in Forlì. Narcissus’ reflection was the first self-portrait. Over the centuries, artists have used self-portraits to explore identity, emotion, and artistic mastery. The mirror reflects not just a face but a mask more character than person. Artists often place themselves within larger narratives from mythology to history. Their image becomes a symbol a signature a timeless trace like Narcissus’ reflection echoing through art literature and psychoanalysis.

• Museo Civico San Domenico
• P.le Guido da Montefeltro 12, 47121 Forlì
• 23 febbraio – 29 giugno 2025

On Saturday, February 22, and Sunday, February 23, after the great success of the exhibition Between Breath and Fire, Seven Deaths, Marina Abramović’s cinematic installation, returns for one final opportunity. Screenings will take place at 10:00, 11:30, 13:00, 14:30, 16:00, 17:30, and 19:00, with free admission by reservation until seats are full. Tickets are valid only for the booked time slot, and we recommend arriving at least 15 minutes before the screening starts.

• gres art 671
• Via S. Bernardino 141, 24126 Bergamo BG
• 22 – 23 febbraio 2025

On February 20th MOCA presents the U.S. première of Wael Shawky’s film installation “Drama 1882”. Debuted at the Egyptian Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale, this work makes the form of an eight-part opera, performed for the camera and filmed in a theater in Alexandria. “Drama 1882” takes the Urabi revolution in Egypt against British imperialism (1879-1882) as its foundation, specifically a cafe brawl between a donkey owner and a Maltese man that unleashed events that precipitated over seventy years of British colonial rule in Egypt.

• Los Angeles, California
• WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
• 20 febbraio – 16 marzo 2025

South African artist William Kentridge returns to campus with his latest creation for the stage, a chamber opera set on a 1941 sea voyage from Marseille to Martinique. Conceived in collaboration with theater maker Phala Ookeditse Phala and choral conductor and dancer Nhlanhla Mahlangu, The Great Yes, The Great Nofictionalizes the historic wartime escape from Vichy France by, among others, the surrealist André Breton, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam—and adds a distinguished and colorful cast of characters to the passenger list, like Aimé Césaire, Josephine Baker, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.

• Berkeley, California, USA
• University of California, Berkeley
• 14 – 16 marzo 2025

Directed by William Kentridge, with design and puppet-mastery by Handspring Puppet Company, this irreverent encounter with the "Faustian Pact" remains a powerful metaphor for our times. With music by Warrick Sony and the late and much revered James Phillips underscoring William Kentridge’s glorious animations.

• Cape Town, South Africa
• The Baxter Theatre, Main Rd, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, Sudafrica
• 26 febbraio – 22 marzo 2025

Wael Shawky’s work “I Am Hymns of the New Temples” is part of the 16th Sharjah Art Biennale, from 6 February to 15 June 2025. The Biennial theme, to carry, entails understanding our precarity within spaces that are not our own while staying responsive to these sites through the cultures that we hold. It also signifies a bridge between multiple temporalities of embodied pasts and imagined futures, encompassing intergenerational stories and various modes of inheritance. What do we carry when it is time to travel, flee or move on? What are the passages that we form as we migrate between territories and across time? What do we carry when we remain? What do we carry when we survive?

• Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• 6 febbraio – 15 giugno 2025

On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, William Kentridge will be installed as a Foreign associate member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts by Erik Desmazières, member of Engraving and Drawing section.

• Académie des Beaux-Arts
• 23 Quai de Conti, 75006 Paris, France
• 12 febbraio 2025

On January 30th at 6:00 PM, the Lia Rumma Gallery in Milan will host the presentation of "Marzia Migliora. Sette mostre immaginifiche 1993-2024", the first monograph dedicated to the artist. Both the artist and curators Matteo Lucchetti and Anna Cestelli Guidi will be present at the event. Conceived as a concept book, it reinterprets Marzia Migliora's body of work through seven recurring themes in her practice. The book features seven exhibitions on paper, each curated by a different curator who imagined them set in significant locations from the artist's life, creating a personal emotional geography that spans Italy, from her hometown of Alessandria to the salt mines of Sicily. Edited by Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti, the book compiles over thirty years of the artist’s work.

• Galleria Lia Rumma
• Via Stilicone 19, Milan
• 30 gennaio 2025

Wael Shawky’s practice spans film, performance, drawing, and sculpture. In his latest theatrical film, Drama 1882 (2024), which debuted at the Egyptian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), Shawky examines the 1882 Urabi Revolution and Egypt’s resistance to British colonialism. This eight-part musical, reimagines the chain of events leading up to the revolution, examining primary sources to dispute the traditional Western settler narrative, suggesting that seemingly insignificant events, such as a café altercation involving a donkey keeper, could have been orchestrated by Britain as a pretext for their attack. Drama 1882 merges real and imagined histories into a musical critique that underscores the necessity to reevaluate history. Outdoor amphitheatre: Monday–Thursday, 4:00–10:00 PM; Friday–Sunday, 4:00 PM–12:00 AM; not available Wednesday 4–Saturday 8 December 2024 Indoor theatre: daily until Monday 13 January 2025, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM, unless there is other programming; not available Saturday 8–Sunday 9 December 2024 Language: Arabic, English | 45 minutes

• Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial
• 14 novembre 2024 – 30 aprile 2025