WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | L'Orfeo | Performance | Glyndebourne Festival, UK

With captivating videos, sculptures, and meticulous historical reconstructions, Wael Shawky participates in the Saison Méditerranée 2026 at the Grand Palais in Paris, after the success at the Venice Biennale 2024, questioning the authority of written history and its ambiguities. Colonel Ahmed Urabi, peasant turned founder of the Egyptian Nationalist Party, led the uprising and worked to return Egypt to its people. What event in 1882 could have imploded his popular movement, precipitated the bombardment of Alexandria by British forces and caused his exile? With meticulous attention to detail, Wael Shawky stages a musical, theatrical and magical tale filmed in a historic Alexandria theater, against a striking pictorial backdrop. The performers and soundtrack seem to be part of the same moving painting. The sets move in slow motion, while the characters seem hypnotized, evolving in a slow, spellbinding choreography. Drama takes on many faces: it can be entertainment, catastrophe, or the doubt inherent in the story.

• Grand Palais, Paris, France
• 3, avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris
• 10 giugno – 26 luglio 2026

On Saturday, June 21 2025, Arte Sella inaugurated the solo exhibition of Marzia Migliora, Lotta per l’esistenza (Struggle for Existence), a project unfolding between the ground floor of Villa Strobele and the interior of Malga Costa. Curated by Lorenzo Fusi, the exhibition brings together three groups of works created by the artist in response to the unique landscape of Val di Sella. The exhibition marks the beginning of a new collaboration that will culminate in a project dedicated to the reopening of a mountain path connecting the two exhibition spaces. The trail, damaged by the Vaia storm, is currently being restored and will soon become accessible again. During her numerous site visits, Migliora collected reflections on the landscape and the history of the area in two notebooks, which became the foundation for her artistic project. Lotta per l’esistenza explores, through poetic and visual language, the relationship between nature, human intervention, and ecological transformation, questioning the forces reshaping the natural world in a time marked by climate instability and environmental crisis. The solo exhibition evokes an increasingly hybrid and fluid world, which in her practice becomes an ironic, dreamlike, and at times unsettling dimension where different forms of life, matter, and imagination coexist.

• Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
• 38051 Borgo Valsugana TN, Italy
• 21 giugno 2025

The group exhibition On Paradise explores the idea of paradise as a cultural construction: a place of desire, projection, control, and transformation. Hosted at Villa Schöningen in Potsdam, the exhibition investigates how visions of paradise have shaped landscapes, bodies, social structures, and political imaginaries, bringing together historical references and contemporary artistic perspectives. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Anne Daffertshofer and Pola van den Hövel. For the exhibition, Marzia Migliora presents Paradossi dell’abbondanza #43 (C’est à ce prix que nous mangeons du sucre), a work created in 2021 from her ongoing series Paradoxes of Plenty. Through archival imagery and visual fragments connected to the history of sugar production, Migliora reveals the hidden economic, colonial, and ecological consequences behind the idea of abundance and prosperity. Her work questions the relationship between consumption, exploitation, and the systems that transform natural resources into symbols of wealth and pleasure. Within On Paradise, the piece challenges the idealized image of paradise by exposing the historical inequalities and power structures that often sustain it.

• Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
• Berliner Straße 86, 14467 Potsdam, Germany
• 31 maggio – 23 agosto 2026

The exhibition Tracciando il sentiero. Arte, ambiente e visioni del futuro organized by Fondazione Garuzzo in collaboration with the Trigenia Award and curated by CRAG Gallery, is part of the programs Dialoghi e altri sguardi, StArt/arte Saluzzo, and Saluzzo Contemporanea. Hosted in the historic spaces of the Castiglia di Saluzzo, the project brings together works by artists associated with the Trigenia Award, exploring the relationship between energy, matter, and space through a variety of media, including painting, installation, photography, sculpture, and video. Within this framework, Domenico Antonio Mancini presents a work that reflects on cultural memory, social narratives, and the power of images in shaping collective understanding. Through his research-based practice, Mancini investigates how knowledge and representation influence our perception of the world, contributing a critical perspective to the exhibition’s broader reflection on responsibility, human experience, and contemporary society.

• Castiglia di Saluzzo, Italy
• Piazza Castello 2, 12037 Saluzzo (CN), Italy
• 10 maggio – 13 settembre 2026

Le Divisament dou Monde is an exhibition inspired by the legacy of Marco Polo and the enduring cultural dialogue between Italy and the Far East. Through drawings on paper by 44 Italian artists, the project explores how Eastern cultures, landscapes, symbols, and histories continue to shape the imagination of contemporary Italian art. The work of Domenico Antonio Mancini reflects on cultural identity, collective memory, and the construction of social narratives. His critical and research-based approach, investigates the relationship between images, power, and historical representation.

• Jiangxi Provincial Art Museum, Nanchang, China
• No. 266 Bayi Avenue, Xihu District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China
• 19 giugno – 26 luglio 2026

At the 2026 edition of the Glyndebourne Festival, South African artist and director William Kentridge presents a new staging of L'Orfeo, marking Glyndebourne’s first-ever production of Monteverdi’s 1607 masterpiece. Kentridge transforms the myth of Orpheus into a meditation on artistic creation, memory, loss, and the power of images, creating a constantly shifting visual landscape. In L’Orfeo, themes of memory, history and displacement are translated into a visually immersive environment where art itself becomes a protagonist alongside the opera’s characters.

• Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, UK
• Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 5UU, UK
• 14 – 25 giugno 2026