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ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV | Between Heaven and Earth | Oakville Galleries | 2025

ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV | Between Heaven and Earth | Oakville Galleries | 2025

We are pleased to announce “Between Heaven and Earth”, a major exhibition by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, now open across both gallery spaces of Oakville Galleries. Presenting paintings, prints, and immersive installations, the exhibition expands into the gardens with monumental works — including the iconic Ship of Tolerance, on view for the first time in Canada. The 60-foot vessel, created with sails made from children’s paintings, celebrates its 20th anniversary and invites reflection on coexistence, difference, and global futures. Over 2,000 children from Oakville schools and community groups have taken part in the project, creating artworks that speak of tolerance and shared imagination. Their visions now sail together on the lake. The opening event on Saturday, May 31 will feature a concert by young performers in Gairloch Gardens. The exhibition is accompanied by Sunset Kino, Canada’s only outdoor avant-garde cinema festival, running from June to July.

  • Gairloch Gardens & Centennial Square
  • 1306 Lakeshore Road East Oakville, ON L6J 1L6 120 Navy Street Oakville, ON L6J 2Z4
  • 31 maggio – 20 settembre 2025
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | solo show | MITA – Brescia | 2025

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | solo show | MITA – Brescia | 2025

From May 30 to July 13, 2025, MITA – Cultural Center in Brescia presents the exhibition “Geographies of Solitude. The Tapestries of William Kentridge and the Carpets of the Mountains”, curated by Giovanni Valagussa. The exhibition is part of MITA’s ongoing programme dedicated to the dialogue between ancient textile traditions and contemporary artistic languages. Following "The Knots of Paradise Gardens (Brescia Castle, 2023)", the project continues to explore textile as a narrative, poetic and political space. On view the celebrated Porter Series by William Kentridge — one of the leading figures on the international contemporary art scene — features monumental tapestries in which fragmented black silhouettes emerge from geographic maps, creating a dramatic tension between figure and space, presence and displacement. Alongside Kentridge’s works, a selection of  Gabbeh and Sarab carpets from the Zaleski Collection enriches the exhibition. Woven in the mountains of Northern and Western Persia, these artefacts are known for their essential structure and minimalist imagery, offering a poetic counterpoint to the artist’s vision.

  • mita - centro culturale
  • via privata de vitalis 2/bis - Brescia
  • 30 maggio – 13 luglio 2025
LUCA MONTERASTELLI | group show | Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week 2025

LUCA MONTERASTELLI | group show | Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week 2025

Lia Rumma Gallery is pleased to announce Luca Monterastelli’s participation in Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week 2025, taking place from 24 May to 2 June 2025. Cremona Contemporanea is a ten-day program dedicated to visual arts that, through installations, exhibitions, talks, and events, turns the city of Cremona into a hub for experimentation and cultural dialogue. The initiative aims to foster a meaningful exchange between contemporary art and the city’s historical and artistic heritage. On this occasion, Luca Monterastelli presents a site-specific installation divided into two chapters: the first takes place in the quadriporticus of the Chiesa del Foppone, and the second in the basement rooms of Palazzo Fodri. The project explores sculpture's relationship with urban space and reflects on permanence and transformation.

  • Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week 2025
  • Chiesa del Foppone (Via Foppone, 1, 26100 Cremona CR), Palazzo Fodri ( Corso Giacomo Matteotti, 17, 26100 Cremona CR)
  • 24 maggio – 2 giugno 2025
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | Solo show | Bergen International Festival 2025

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | Solo show | Bergen International Festival 2025

As part of the Bergen International Festival 2025, William Kentridge will stage two remarkable performances at Grieghallen. On 21 and 22 May, he presents "The Great Yes, The Great No", a theatrical and musical performance set in 1941 aboard a ship sailing from Marseille to Martinique. The production features actors, dancers, a choir, masks, and live music in a powerful, multilayered narrative. On 24 May, the programme continues with "Oh To Believe in Another World "— a visual accompaniment to Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, featuring a stop-motion film shot in Kentridge’s studio. The film includes hand-crafted sets and representations of historical figures, merging music and moving image.

  • Bergen International Festival 2025
  • 21 – 24 maggio 2025
HAIM STAINBACH | Solo show | MAC's Boussu, Belgium

HAIM STAINBACH | Solo show | MAC's Boussu, Belgium

From May 18 to November 2, 2025, MAC’s – Musée des Arts Contemporains in Grand-Hornu hosts Objects for People, the first solo museum exhibition in Belgium by American artist Haim Steinbach. For over four decades, Steinbach has explored the cultural and aesthetic value of everyday objects through a distinctive approach based on selection, display, and context. His practice has played a key role in redefining the object in contemporary art. The exhibition features a wide range of works spanning the artist’s career, including two historic projects developed in collaboration with renowned Belgian collectors: An Offering: Collectibles of Jan Hoet (1992) An Offering: Collectibles of Herman Daled (2000)

  • MAC's
  • Grand-Hornu, Rue Sainte-Louise 82, 7301 Boussu, Belgium
  • 18 maggio – 2 novembre 2025
SHIRIN NESHAT | TALK | "DO U DARE!" | Galleria Lia Rumma Milan

SHIRIN NESHAT | TALK | "DO U DARE!" | Galleria Lia Rumma Milan

Galleria Lia Rumma is pleased to host a talk between artist Shirin Neshat and curator Bartolomeo Pietromarchi on Saturday 17 May 2025 at 6.00pm at the gallery's Milan space. The conversation will focus on "Do U Dare!", Neshat’s latest film, presented for the first time at the gallery. The discussion will explore the development of the work and its connection to the artist’s ongoing research across different media, including film, photography and installation. The talk offers a chance to engage directly with the artist’s reflections on process, language and the relationship between image and narrative.

  • Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
  • Via Stilicone, 19, 20154 Milano MI
  • 17 maggio 2025
DOMENICO ANTONIO MANCINI | GROUP SHOW | LE DIVISAMENT DOU MONDE: ITALIAN DRAWINGS ON THE FAR EAST | FONDAZIONE GARUZZO AT THE CHINA ACADEMY OF ART IN HANGZHOU

DOMENICO ANTONIO MANCINI | GROUP SHOW | LE DIVISAMENT DOU MONDE: ITALIAN DRAWINGS ON THE FAR EAST | FONDAZIONE GARUZZO AT THE CHINA ACADEMY OF ART IN HANGZHOU

We are pleased to announce that Domenico Antonio Mancini is among the artists featured in "Le Divisament dou Monde: Italian Drawings on the Far East", the new exhibition by Fondazione Garuzzo at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.The show opens on 8 May 2025 and marks the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death through a series of works on paper that explore the influence of East Asia on contemporary Italian art. Through his contribution, Domenico Antonio Mancini reflects on the act of drawing as a site of observation, mediation and transformation—a visual language where forms of distance, identity and representation intersect.

  • China Academy of Art – Hangzhou, China
  • 218 Nanshan Rd, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Cina, 310002
  • 8 maggio – 31 luglio 2025
WAEL SHAWKY | SOLO SHOW," DRAMA 1882" |  KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, BRUXELLES

WAEL SHAWKY | SOLO SHOW," DRAMA 1882" | KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, BRUXELLES

We are pleased to announce “Drama 1882”, Wael Shawky’s new operatic film, presented at Albert Hall, Brussels as part of Kunstenfestivaldesarts. First shown at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Drama 1882 brings together video, sculpture and staged re-enactment to question the reliability of historical records. The eight-part Arabic-language opera reconstructs the Urabi revolt in Egypt (1879–1882), following Colonel Ahmed Urabi’s campaign against colonial rule. Filmed in a theatre in Alexandria, the work proposes a reflection on narrative, conflict and the construction of history.

  • Albert Hall Brussels
  • Chau. de Wavre 651, 1040 Etterbeek, Belgium
  • 14 – 15 maggio 2025
NAPOLI GALLERY WEEKEND | 23 - 25 MAY 2025, Naples

NAPOLI GALLERY WEEKEND | 23 - 25 MAY 2025, Naples

We are pleased to announce the second edition of Napoli Gallery Weekend, taking place from 23 to 25 May 2025. Participating galleries: Acappella, Alfonso Artiaco, Andrea Ingenito Contemporary Art, Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery, Annarumma, Galleria Fonti, Gallerie Riunite, Galleria Solito, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Lia Rumma, Shazar Gallery, Spot Home Gallery, Studio Trisorio, Thomas Dane Gallery, Umberto Di Marino, will offer both local and visiting audiences three days of shared, coordinated openings. 23 – 25 May 2025 Opening hours: Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May (11:00 AM – 7:00 PM) Sunday 25 May (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM)  

  • Naples
  • 23 – 25 maggio 2025

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