William Kentridge presents his new sound installation with projection You Whom I Could Not Save in Palermo: the work, which gives the title to the South African artist's solo exhibition and will be on view from Oct. 8, 2023 to Jan. 12, 2024 at Palazzo Branciforte, is offered along with 16 previously unseen drawings; the video work Sibyl (2020); bronze and painted bronze sculptures; and a sequence of tapestries.
The project, specially created for Palermo and to be inaugurated on the occasion of the Days of the Contemporary, organized by ruber.contemporanea and supported by Fondazione Sicilia, with the coordination of Sicily Art and Culture, is conceived by Antonio Leone artistic director of ruber.contemporanea and curated by art historians Giulia Ingarao and Alessandra Buccheri.
From 2022 and onwards, Louisiana has once again been able to add a broad and important variety of works to the museum collection. Great surprises therefore await with works in the entire South Wing as well as several rooms in the North Wing. The exhibition presents more than 130 works by some 80 artists – half of whom are new to the collection.
Data Dreams considers artificial intelligence and its impact on contemporary life through the work of 10 visionary artists. Presented as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2025–26, Data Dreams is a groundbreaking Australian premiere that brings together boundary-pushing artists from across the globe. Together, their work examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the way we live, think and create. This exhibition brings into focus a range of contemporary concerns, including the relationships between technology and power; how algorithms and datasets are influencing our worldviews and calling our perception of reality into question; and the immense environmental costs of the data economy.
The Centre d’art de la photographie de Bergerac presents Tobias Zielony’s first solo exhibition in France, Les nuits électriques. The show examines contemporary youth and urban environments through photographs and a video depicting life in Naples’ large housing projects (Overshoot, Vele), LGBTQIA+ and techno communities in Kiev (Maskirovka), and the effects of the Ukraine war on Moldovan youth (Electricity/Afterimages). Zielony captures marginalized youth in often overlooked urban architectures that reveal social and political change. His night-time, color-rich images, created with long exposures, transform these anonymous figures into floating silhouettes amid concrete and industrial ruins, highlighting the history, social purpose, and aesthetic of these environments.
This theatrical performance, directed by Shirin Neshat, presents Orpheus and Eurydice as a story of human dualities and conflict: love and death, joy and grief, reality and illusion. Orpheus is not a mythological figure, but a man devastated by the loss of his wife Eurydice, falling into an existential crisis that forces him to confront his conscience, guilt, and human limits. His journey through the underworld becomes an inner exploration, encountering shadows of himself and memories of love, guided by the energy of Love as a force of reconciliation. Set in a contemporary context, the performance uses black-and-white imagery and silent film sequences to highlight contrasts between reality and imagination, offering an intimate view of the protagonists’ relationship. Eurydice emerges as Orpheus’s alter ego, an independent being embodying the potential for love and mutual understanding.
Saturnalia, curated by Olga Gambari and Susanna Ravelli, is a group exhibition reflecting on the deeper meaning of the Saturnalia festival, evoking themes of equality, fraternity, and community. The selected artworks reinterpret this ancient celebration as a symbolic landscape where individuals recognize themselves as part of an interdependent collective, prompting reflection on personal and shared responsibility in the world. The works act as suggestions and stimuli, offering memory, connection, and ethical practices. In this way, the exhibition explores the role of art as a tool for cohesion and renewal, beyond temporal and geographic boundaries, and as a vehicle for shared values and moral sustainability.
Fragility of the Eternal. From Pompeii to the Grand Tour and Beyond, at the National Museum of Art of Timișoara, explores the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 as a defining trauma in the Western imagination. Through the imagined voice of the Roman soldier Lucio Valerio Sacer—a survivor of the eruption who later reached Dacia—the exhibition leads visitors from the apparent stability of Roman urban life to its sudden collapse. Over one hundred works from major Italian institutions—from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples to the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome—bring together Pompeian frescoes, Grand Tour paintings and drawings, and iconic works by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Anselm Kiefer. Curated by Massimo Osanna and Filip Petcu, this international exhibition inaugurates the Romania–Italy Cultural Year 2026, reflecting on how civilizations confront impermanence and preserve the memory of catastrophe.
