Ensemble _2026 — Biennial Observatory of Emerging Painting in Italy
24 May – 30 September 2026
Fondazione The Bank ETS — Institute for Studies on Contemporary Painting, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi
Ensemble _2026 is the first edition of a biennial exhibition dedicated to emerging painting in Italy. The project brings together one hundred artists under the age of forty whose practices reflect the diversity and vitality of contemporary painting across the country.
The exhibition explores painting both as a medium in itself and in dialogue with installation, video, and performance, presenting a broad overview of current artistic research in Italy.
A Room That Remembers You Back
21–26 April 2026
Warbling Collective, London, United Kingdom
A group exhibition bringing together fourteen artists whose works explore memory, attachment, and the traces left by human presence. Through painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, the exhibition considers how objects become repositories of personal and collective histories, carrying emotional weight across time and changing meaning through new encounters.
Participating artists: Polam Chan, Maria Vittoria Faldini, Cindy Liu, Holly Marsden, Seraphina Mutscheller, Cordelia Ostler, Evgeniya Pankratova, Jonathan Michael Ray, Anna Reutinger, Anouska Samms, Sofia Serpa Arango, Jacob Sirkin, Matthias Jun Wilhelm, and Matthew Wilson.
Documentation by Jacob Sirkin.
ArteFiera Bologna 2026
6–8 February 2026
Bologna, Italy
Represented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery
Presented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery as part of the gallery's programme at ArteFiera Bologna 2026.
The Theater of the Ordinary: Between Ritual and Play
8 June – 13 July 2025
Spazio Furbä, in collaboration with Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery
Guardiagrele, Italy
Curated by Simone Marsibilio
This solo exhibition brought together a selection of paintings and installations exploring the transformation of everyday objects and gestures into symbolic and contemplative narratives. Through carefully staged arrangements of fabrics, flowers, miniature figures, and other familiar elements, the works investigated the relationship between ritual and play, construction and spontaneity.
Conceived as a series of silent theatrical spaces, the exhibition invited viewers to encounter the extraordinary within the ordinary. Each work functioned as a threshold between reality and imagination, where simple actions and humble objects acquired mythological, spiritual, and poetic resonance.
Presented in collaboration with Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, the exhibition offered an overview of a practice centered on perception, symbolism, and the quiet potential of everyday experience.
ArteFiera Bologna 2025
7–9 February 2025
Bologna, Italy
Represented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery
Presented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery as part of the gallery's programme at ArteFiera Bologna 2025.
Stanza in una Stanza
9–16 April 2025
Heart Lab
Milan, Italy
Curated by Sijia Chen and Mu Qing
Presented during Milan Design Week, Stanza in una Stanza explored the relationship between memory, perception, and domestic space through a dialogue between contemporary art and design. Drawing on ideas from neuroaesthetics, the exhibition considered how material presence, texture, and spatial arrangements can evoke emotional and embodied responses beyond rational interpretation.
Bringing together six international artists, the exhibition approached the interior as a living archive where memories are continuously reshaped through encounters with objects, gestures, and everyday experiences.
Participating artists: Dylan Doe, Guo Bingxin, Wang Xiwen, Dilan Perişan, Hermine Bourdin, and Evgeniya Pankratova.
ArtVerona 2024
11–13 October 2024
Verona, Italy
Represented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery
The work was presented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery at ArtVerona 2024 as part of Punteggiato di luce, giaceva lì, scintillante, a project bringing together the practices of Anna Bochkova, Evgeniya Pankratova, and Chiara Ressetta.
Drawing on the metaphor of the mirror and the reflective surface, the presentation explored the symbolic and narrative potential of everyday objects. Through different artistic approaches, the three artists investigated how objects accumulate meanings and memories, becoming points of connection between personal experience and collective imagination.
Punteggiato di Luce Giaceva Lì Scintillante
22 May – 20 September 2024
Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery
Milan, Italy
Curated by Milena Zanetti
Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio is pleased to present Punteggiato di luce, giaceva lì, scintillante, a group exhibition that sees the three young artists Anna Bochkova, Evgeniya Pankratova and Chiara Ressetta interacting for the first time in the same exhibition space with their most recent works.
The title of the exhibition is intended to evoke the image of a mirror or a reflecting surface of water, which in the history of images have always had supernatural powers. Popular beliefs attribute to the mirror the power to materialise the past and the future, distant events, hidden objects or beings; it would, in short, be a magic eye capable of seeing what is invisible to the human eye. The mirror is here the pretext to discuss the different stratifications of objects and how they add further narrative layers by revealing the hidden truths of the contexts in which they are inserted. Just like the mirror, there are various objects that contain a multitude of symbolic meanings and, voluntarily or involuntarily, the artists in the exhibition use the iconography of the object to open a dialogue between personal experience and collective symbols.
Within the works of the three young artists, it is therefore always the object that holds the substantial knowledge of what is hidden and the otherwise unseen effects.
Affective mirrors that communicate our states of mind in such a way that the image leads one towards the other.
XX Biennale di Penne — Between the Aesthetic and the Political
20 May – 20 June 2023
Penne, Italy
Curated by Antonio Zimarino and Chiara Di Carlo
Presented across several cultural venues in the historic town of Penne, the twentieth edition of the Biennale examined the relationship between the aesthetic and political dimensions of contemporary art. Inspired by the writings of philosopher Bernard Stiegler, the exhibition proposed the artwork not only as an object of visual experience, but also as a space for reflection, dialogue, and collective imagination.
Bringing together artists working across different media and approaches, the project addressed themes including war, migration, and the search for personal and spiritual freedom, while exploring the capacity of art to generate new ways of perceiving and understanding contemporary reality.
Arte Laguna Prize 17 
2023
Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
Finalist of the seventeenth edition of Arte Laguna Prize, an international competition dedicated to contemporary visual arts that brings together emerging artists from around the world.
Selected by an international jury of experts, the work was presented as part of the finalists’ exhibition at Arsenale Nord in Venice. The exhibition brought together artists working across a wide range of disciplines, offering a platform for dialogue between diverse contemporary artistic practices and perspectives.
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