ADA Project

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Lou Masduraud
What Cracks?

Solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Langenthal
29 - 08 | 17 - 11 - 2024

Photo by Cédric Mussano

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Lou Masduraud (Montpellier, FR, 1990, lives and works in Geneva, CH). She graduated at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and at the Haute école d’Art et de Design, Geneva.

Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: 2024 – Institut français d’Allemagne, Berlin, DE (upcoming);  Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH; ADA, Rome, IT; Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, CH. 2023 – MAMCO, Prix Manor, Geneva, CH. 2022 – CAN, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, CH; May Day, Basel, CH. 2021 – La Maison Pop, Montreuil, FR.

Recent group and upcoming exhibitions include: 2024 – Villa Medici, Acádemie de France à Rome, IT (upcoming); Bally Foundation, Lugano, CH; Kunsthal Mechelen, BEL; FRAC Champagne Ardenne, FR; MCBA, Lausanne, CH; Musée des Beaux arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH. 2023 – Muzeum Susch, CH. 2022 – Istituto Svizzero, Rome, IT. 2021 – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR. 2020 – Sculpture Garden Biennale, Geneva, CH. 2019 – 15ème Biennale de Lyon, FR. 2018 – Kunsthalle Basel, CH. 

Residencies include: Connect India - Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia, Geneva, CH, Bengaluru, IN (2024); Istituto Svizzero, Rome, IT (2021 – 2022).
In 2022 she was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards as well as for 2024. In 2023 she was awarded the Geneva Manor Art Prize. In 2024 she was awarded the Swiss Art Awards, Basel, in the category of Art.

📣🖤 Soon at ADA!!

Léa Katharina Meier
The Great Story of Cleanliness 

performative reading
September 11, 2024 | 7.00 pm

Text, costume design and performance by Léa Katharina Meier
Sounds composition by Serge Teuscher

Italian translation by Veronica Pecile

Léa Katharina Meier (1989, Switzerland) is a performance and visual artist. By employing clowning as performative practice, her research focuses on the notions of ridiculousness, abjection, and jubilation in order to create a visual and sensory universe that embraces the audience. Out of her intimate failures, she wishes to develop a filthy, d**e sense of humour. On stage, she strives to embody negative emotions and feelings as a source of pleasure. Storytelling, the body as archive, grotesque femininity, shame, and a childlike universe are recurrent motifs in her practice. 
Léa Katharina Meier has shown her work in numerous art spaces and theatres in Switzerland, Italy and Brazil (Arsenic, Tunnel Tunnel, MCBA, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine, Lateral Roma, Istituto Svizzero, Pivô arte e pesquisa). In 2021, she received the audience and jury prizes at the Swiss Performance Art Awards for « Tous les sexes tombent du ciel ». In 2023, she took part in the Swiss Art Awards exhibition in Basel. In 23-24, she was a resident of the Swiss Institute in Rome and received and award of the Irène Reymond Fondation in Lausanne.

📸 Léa Katharina Meier
Tous les sexes tombent du ciel, 2021
Performance view at TU-Théâtre de l’Usine Genève 
Photo by Lula Althaus

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ADA wishes a wonderful you and refreshing summer!! 🍹💋
Ci vediamo a settembre! 👋

Current and Upcoming at the gallery:

Sam Keogh 
The Hunters Enter the Woods Cartoon
solo exhibition & performance
with a text by Amelia Groom
 
September 20, 2024
Joint opening with

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Léa Katharina Meier
The Great Story of Cleanliness 
performative reading

September 11, 2024 | 7.00 pm

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Alina Perez
The Whole World is My Father
solo exhibition

until July 26, 2024

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Photo credits:

01. Zora ❤️
Guardia Perticara (PZ), 2009

02. Sam Keogh
The Hunters Enter the Woods Cartoon (detail), 2024
Photo by Ollie Harrop

03. Léa Katharina Meier
Tous les sexes tombent du ciel, 2023
Photo by Lula Althaus

04. Alina Perez
Hibiscus Moon, 2024
Photo by Roberto Apa

📣📣 Upcoming in September!!

Léa Katharina Meier
The Great Story of Cleanliness 

performative reading
September 11, 2024 | 7.00 pm

Text, costume design and performance by Léa Katharina Meier
Sounds composition by Serge Teuscher
 
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Léa Katharina Meier (1989, Switzerland) is a performance and visual artist.By employing clowning as performative practice, her research focuses on the notions of ridiculousness, abjection, and jubilation in order to create a visual and sensory universe that embraces the audience. Out of her intimate failures, she wishes to develop a filthy, d**e sense of humour. On stage, she strives to embody negative emotions and feelings as a source of pleasure. Storytelling, the body as archive, grotesque femininity, shame, and a childlike universe are recurrent motifs in her practice.
Léa Katharina Meier has shown her work in numerous art spaces and theatres in Switzerland, Italy and Brazil (Arsenic, Tunnel Tunnel, MCBA, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine, Lateral Roma, Istituto Svizzero, Pivô arte e pesquisa). In 2021, she received the audience and jury prizes at the Swiss Performance Art Awards for “Tous les sexes tombent du ciel”. In 2023, she took part in the Swiss Art Awards exhibition in Basel. In 23-24, she was a resident of the Swiss Institute in Rome and received and award of the Irène Reymond Fondation in Lausanne.

📸 Léa Katharina Meier
Tous les sexes tombent du ciel, 2021
Performance view at TU-Théâtre de l’Usine Genève 
Photo by Lula Althaus




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Alina Perez
There is no bedtime tonight, 2024
charcoal and pastel on paper
135 x 185 x 5 cm

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Alina Perez uses charcoal and pastel on paper to create drawings that highlight the importance of fluidity, pleasure, and desire as being central to the transformation of our own yearning, frustration, and pain. Building upon the fluid structures of memories, Perez selects elements from their past and present to create new images that are untethered to one specific narrative, leaving open the possibility for many iterations and meanings, while also pointing to drawings’ constant state of becoming. Where form dissolves into mark-making, the physical act of drawing itself becomes an investigation for a freedom born out of lightheartedness, the fulfillment of desires, and the dispelling of fear.

Alina Perez (1995, Miami, Florida) received their BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and their MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. Perez was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017, and has attended residencies at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, the OxBow School of Art in Michigan, and the Vermont Studio Center. Their recent exhibitions include: LA TRIENAL 2024, El Museo Del Barrio, New York (upcoming); Deli Gallery, New York (upcoming); Casa Santa Ana, Panama City (upcoming) ; Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia; Atlanta Contemporary, Georgia; Arcadia Missa, London; James Cohan Gallery, New York; Rachel Uffner, New York; Company Gallery, New York; M+B, Los Angeles; and Deli Gallery, New York.

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Alina Perez
Looking Back, 2024
charcoal on paper
85 x 64 x 5 cm

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📣📣 Upcoming in September!!

Sam Keogh
The Hunters Enter the Woods Cartoon
solo exhibition at ADA
with a text by Amelia Groom

September 20, 2024
Joint opening with

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Sam Keogh (1985, Wicklow, Ireland. Lives and works between Glasgow and Co. Wicklow, Ireland) works across sculpture, collage, video, installation and performance. His installations include intricately made sculpture and collage which often act as props, backdrops and visual scripts for performances. Taking the form of fractured monologues, the performances present characters who are pulled apart by their efforts to convey a theory, anecdote or historical event. Here, the work’s physical, gestural and linguistic materials combine to create grubby cognitive maps of interconnecting themes as varied as masculinity, colonialism, science fiction and the politics of popular culture. Sam Keogh received an MFA from Goldsmiths College in 2014 and completed the Rijksakadmie residency in Amsterdam in 2017. His work has been exhibited at Primary, Nottingham: Goldsmiths CCA, London; Museo Madre, Naples; Centre Pompidou, Paris; 15th Lyon Biennial; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin and Eva International, Limerick. 

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📸 Sam Keogh
The Hunters Enter the Woods Cartoon (detail), 2024
Photo by:

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The Whole World is My Father, the first solo presentation by Alina Perez at ADA, is on view through July 26th.
Don’t miss it!!

Photo by Roberto Apa

Alina Perez
Bromeliad, 2024
charcoal and pastel on paper, framed
75 x 61 x 5 cm

The Whole World is My Father
Until July 26, 2024

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Photo by Roberto Apa

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Huge congratulations to Lou Masduraud .masdvravd, laureate in the category of Art of the Swiss Art Awards 2024!!

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Self portrait as a fountain of youth (identity crisis), 2024
oxydized copper, bronze, aluminium, bucket, drain, jeans, pipe, chewing gum, pearls, pickle can lid, pump, water

is on view at , Basel, from Monday 10 to Sunday 16 June, 2024.

Photo by

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Alina Perez
The Whole World is My Father

On View / Flash Art


Until July 26, 2024
Photo by Roberto Apa

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Alina Perez (1995, Miami, Florida. Lives and works in New York) received their BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and their MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. Perez was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017, and has attended residencies at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, the OxBow School of Art in Michigan and the Vermont Studio Center. Their work has been exhibited at the Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia; Atlanta Contemporary, Georgia; Arcadia Missa, London; James Cohan Gallery, New York; Rachel Uffner, New York; Company Gallery, New York; M+B, Los Angeles and Deli Gallery, New York.

Posted • AFFABULA

Workshop & Talk | Curated by Jacopo Belloni

Istituto Svizzero
07.06.2024
Roma
Free entrance

The event is part of the series I Pomeriggi dedicated to the Fellows. Jacopo Belloni .belloni (Fellow in Visual arts, Performance) invites participants to engage in a workshop and a talk about worldbuilding. The game design workshop, curated by Chaos League (game design collective), focuses on creating narratives on the borderline between fiction and reality. This is followed by a talk featuring Fuoco Balduzzi (Chaos League collective), Mafalda Morganti (Trainer in the field of youth work), Luca Scarlini (Writer), and Mattia Salvia (Editor), who will discuss and analyze affabulation in our contemporary times, ranging from LARP, costumes, political cosplay and shared narratives.

H10:00-16:00 – Workshop, will be held in the garden, via Ludovisi 48
H17:30-19:30 – Talk, will be held in Sala Elvetica, via Liguria 20

Free entry upon registration. More info: https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/talk/affabula/

Image: Unknown artist, Fool’s Cap Map of the World, circa 1580

Diego Gualandris
La Risacca (The hangover) #3, 2024
oil on canvas
35 x 50 x 2,5 cm

Diego Gualandris
La Risacca (The hangover) #1, 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 40 x 2,5 cm

Posted • 🐜 Lou Masduraud is one of the finalists in the category of the Swiss Art Awards 2024!

In this year’s exhibition, 55 positions in the fields of art, architecture and critique, publishing, exhibition will be presented in June 2024 in Hall 1.1 in the context of the international fair Art Basel. At the same time, the 17 positions of the finalists of the Kiefer Hablitzel │ Göhner Kunstpreis will also be exhibited.

🗓 Save the date
Swiss Art Awards 2024
11–16 June 2024
Hall 1.1, Messe Basel

Award ceremony on Monday, June 10, 2024 in Hall 1.1.

Alina Perez
Snake Girl in Blue, 2024
charcoal and pastel on paper, framed
67,5 x 52,5 x 5 cm

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The Whole World is My Father
Until July 26, 2024

Photo by Roberto Apa

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Alina Perez (1995, Miami, Florida. Lives and works in New York) received their BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and their MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. Perez was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017, and has attended residencies at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, the OxBow School of Art in Michigan and the Vermont Studio Center. Their work has been exhibited at the Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia; Atlanta Contemporary, Georgia; Arcadia Missa, London; James Cohan Gallery, New York; Rachel Uffner, New York; Company Gallery, New York; M+B, Los Angeles and Deli Gallery, New York.

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Jacopo Belloni
Festa con piccola tragedia
live performance at FOROF

Curated by Ilaria Gianni
Sound design by Arianna Del Grosso

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Posted • .roma “𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚” 𝐚 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚 𝐞̀ 𝐮𝐧𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥’𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝐚𝐥𝐥’𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐯𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨. Immaginate una “festa” intesa come evento in cui una comunità si raccoglie ritualmente, scambiando informazioni, desideri, emozioni, tramite gestualità e sonorità.

Ispirato agli uomini-orchestra del passato, Belloni diventa parte di un’esperienza sociale condivisa, portando sulle spalle dispositivi che illuminano e animano la festa. Ogni performance è one of kind; ogni volta c’è la collaborazione di un DJ o musicista diverso, creando sempre un’atmosfera unica. 
L’ultima edizione vede la partecipazione della regista Arianna Del Grosso.

a cura di

 👀 see u there!

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Alina Perez
The Whole World is My Father
Until July 26, 2024

Photo by Roberto Apa

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Alina Perez (1995, Miami, Florida. Lives and works in New York) received their BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and their MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. Perez was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017, and has attended residencies at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, the OxBow School of Art in Michigan and the Vermont Studio Center. Their work has been exhibited at the Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia; Atlanta Contemporary, Georgia; Arcadia Missa, London; James Cohan Gallery, New York; Rachel Uffner, New York; Company Gallery, New York; M+B, Los Angeles and Deli Gallery, New York.

🔴 Today we are open!!

Special opening hours for .roma
Sunday May 12, 12 - 6 pm

On view:
Alina Perez
The Whole World id My Father
Unti July 26, 2024

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Photo:
Alina Perez
Ráscame, 2024
charcoal on paper, framed
134 x 104 x 5 cm

📣📣 On the occasion of Contemporanea - Rome Gallery Weekend - ADA presents:

Alina Perez
The Whole World is My Father
May 3 | July 26, 2024

Special opening hours:
 
Friday - Saturday | 11.00 - 20.00
Sunday | 12.00 - 18.00

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Photo:
Alina Perez
Hibiscus Moon, 2024
charcoal and pastel on paper, framed
127 x 173 x 5 cm
Photo by Roberto Apa

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Alina Perez
Redland Horses, 2024
charcoal and pastel on paper, framed
168 x 120,5 x 5 cm

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The Whole World is My Father
Until July 26, 2024

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Alina Perez (1995, Miami, Florida. Lives and works in New York) received their BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and their MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. Perez was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017, and has attended residencies at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, the OxBow School of Art in Michigan and the Vermont Studio Center. Their work has been exhibited at the Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia; Atlanta Contemporary, Georgia; Arcadia Missa, London; James Cohan Gallery, New York; Rachel Uffner, New York; Company Gallery, New York; M+B, Los Angeles and Deli Gallery, New York.

Posted • .roma Contemporanea
May 10-12, 2024

Introducing the participating galleries:

ADA
Via dei Genovesi, 35
Tue - Sat | 2 pm - 7 pm

On View:
Alina Perez
The Whole World is My Father
May 3 | July 26, 2024

Photo Roberto Apa

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Alina Perez
The Whole World is My Father
is now open!!

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👉 The first solo exhibition in Italy by Alina Perez will be on view until July, 26. Don’t miss it!!

Photo by Roberto Apa
Full documentation on ADA’s website

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I prefer the uncertainty of not knowing where you are
because to me you are everywhere

both of us existing in a singular moment
on a singular sphere
floating in a giant galaxy
exactly right now

both of us
all of us
within a galaxy’s womb where bromeliads grow in abundance
like secrets
like whispering, like pythons, and green iguanas

abundant like micro-ecosystems, and our pink flora, and our racing thoughts
abundant like a mothers (un)conditional love
abundant like utopic-freshwater-marshes
abundant like pollen and pattern

all of us in a galaxy’s womb where maybe there once was
peace

or molten lava crackling
to me you are nothing
maybe on a hot day when each of my crevices sweat and stick together
maybe when the hot pavement and the steel horseshoes melt together
maybe the steel and hot heated aluminum and horses and pink pantyhose and your rough shave
and this sweet guava have more in common than we think

maybe on a hot day
the sweat that burns my eyes will remind me of your dark black eyebrows and how maybe today
they’re not black anymore
but more grey, like steel

like aluminum
like thermal expansion

I prefer the uncertainty of not knowing where you are
because to me, you are everywhere

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ADA is happy to announce Jacopo Belloni’s participation in:

EXPODEMIC
Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti

Palazzo Esposizioni Roma
May 7 | August 25, 2024

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Posted • Il 7 maggio apre al pubblico EXPODEMIC, la seconda edizione del Festival delle Accademie e degli Istituti di Cultura stranieri a cura di Lorenzo Benedetti con Francesca Campana a Palazzo Esposizioni Roma.

Scopri la mostra con le opere di 18 artisti borsisti dell’American Academy in Rome, della British School at Rome, della Real Academia de España en Roma, dell’Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, dell’Istituto Svizzero e di Villa Medici - Académie de France à Rome e l’intero arcipelago culturale delle Accademie e degli Istituti di Cultura stranieri coinvolti con il progetto di collezione di poster d’artista 3500 cm2.

Il Festival prevede un programma pubblico di incontri, performance e proiezioni ospitato a Palazzo Esposizioni e dalle numerose mostre, eventi e open studio organizzati nelle Accademie e negli Istituti di Cultura.

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Foto @ Azienda Speciale Palaexpo / Margherita Masè

       

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Alina Perez
The Whole World is My Father

Opening May 3rd
6.00 - 9.00 pm

Joint opening with

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Posted • .perezz I am very excited to announce my upcoming exhibition “The Whole World is My Father” opens next Friday, May 3rd with in Rome, Italy!

This is my first time having a solo exhibition in Europe and I am so happy it’s happening in Rome - where contemplating on the father figure is most appropriate. If you’re in the area, please stop by 🖤 I’ll be there 🍝

Jacopo Belloni
Untitled (bulb I), 2024
brass patinated casting soldered in silver, silk, natural dye, medicinal herbs (passiflora, hawthorn)
65 x 20 x 180 cm

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👉 miart - day 3
Come visit us at Booth 34 | Established ✨

Works by Jacopo Belloni / Alina Perezbelloniperezz

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Established | Booth B34

Jacopo Belloni
Untitled (bulb II), 2024
brass patinated casting soldered in silver, silk, cord, hypericum
32 x 30 x 110 cm

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Jacopo Belloni’s research inquires into the construction of believes and perception of the reality by humans, seeking how systems of power and value are shaped by communities and individuals during periods of crisis.
Through sculpture, performance and installation, he plays with the limits between objects and bodies, reflecting about the concept of visibility and animism. His practice roams across studies of anthropology, history of religion, vernacular and pop culture, to recognize how narratives haunt our contemporaneity.

Jacopo Belloni (Ancona, IT, 1992) lives and works in Geneva, CH. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan (2014) and from the University of Milan (2018) and holds an MFA from the Work. Master at HEAD, Geneva (2021).
Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: 2023 – ADA, Rome, IT. 2022 – Galleria Daniele Agostini, Lugano, CH. 2021 – Head sponsorship Award, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH. Recent and upcoming group exhibitions include: 2024 - FOROF, Rome (upcoming); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti (upcoming). 2023 – Sans titre, curated by Elise Lammer, Paris, FR; Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH; Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Marne-la-Vallée, FR. 2022 – Kunsthalle, Bern, CH; Bourses Déliées Arts Visules, Halle Nord, Geneva, CH; Forde, Geneva, CH; La Rada, Locarno, CH. 2021 – Istituto Svizzero, Rome, IT; Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH. 2020 – Sonnenstube, Lugano, CH; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH. 2019 – Gessnerallee, Zurich, CH; Conz Archive, Berlin, DE. 2018 – LCMF London Contemporary Music Festival, Ambika P3, London, UK; Marsèlleria, Milan, IT. 2017 – Localedue, Bologna, IT; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR.

📣 MiArt is now open!!
Come visit us at Booth 34 | Established ✨

Works by Jacopo Belloni / Alina Perezbelloni perezz

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