What Art Week 2024 has left behind

Once again this year, the Bolognese art week spearheaded by Art Fair has come to an end. Yet all enthusiasts need not fear, for there are still plenty of exhibitions to enjoy in this past edition of Art City 2024.

But where else to see the events of Art City 2024?

Special Projects dedicated to Giorgio Morandi:

• COLLEZIONI COMUNALI D’ARTE - PALAZZO D’ACCURSIO, until 25 February, Piazza Maggiore 6: the exhibition "Morandi's Objects. The photographs of Joel Meyerowitz", curated by Giusi Vecchi, provides an introduction to Giorgio Morandi's conceptual universe by presenting a selection of 17 shots from the overall nucleus of 23 works that the famous American photographer generously donated to the Museo Morandi in 2015 and 2024. 

• CASA MORANDI, until 5 may, Via Fondazza 36: “Morandi metafisico. Tre disegni, Una storia”: three metaphysical drawings by the artist curated by Lorenza Selleri.

• MUSEO MORANDI, until 7 july, Via Don Minzoni 14: “Mary Ellen Bartley: MORANDI’S BOOKS”. Mary Ellen Bartley's photographs are the result of a stay in Bologna in 2020 that led to the creation of "Morandi's books", a photographic series of her personal compositions based on the books that belonged to Giorgio Morandi, which are now preserved in the house-museum in via Fondazza.

Straight from Art City's institutional programme:

• DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL SCIENCES OF THE ALMA MATER STUDIORUM, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA – PALAZZO MALVEZZI, until 9 February, Via Zamboni 22: Emilio Isgrò's exhibition "Cancellazione dei Codici - Civile e penale", curated by Cristina Mazzantini, Lorenzo Balbi and Marco Bazzini proposes legal texts, in particular the Civil Code and the Penal Code as amended by Isgrò, on which he has interfered with his own expressive style, i.e. by erasing parts of the text, in order to propose a different reflection on the meaning of community life.
  
• LABORATORIO DEGLI ANGELI, until 10 February, Via Degli Angeli 32: "Atelier dell'Errore - IDOLO" curated by Leonardo Regano, a site-specific intervention by Atelier dell'Errore (AdE) founded by artist Luca Santiago Mora. "IDOLO" features a dedicated installation that brings together the complexity of their different expressive languages: drawing, video, photography, sculpture.
• OPIFICIO DELLE ACQUE, until 10 February, Via Monaldo Calari 15: "Torna, canale" is a site-specific installation project by Luca Campestri curated by Olivia Teglia. The title suggests a homecoming, an unveiling: the work generates a retrospective, hypnagogic and mental narration somewhere between the imaginative and the real.
• ORATORIO DI SAN FILIPPO NERI, until 11 February, via Manzoni 5: Luca Monterastelli's installation "Storia di un onest uomo", curated by Alessandro Rabottini, reshapes the scene's objects by creating a new landscape dominated by elements piled up in barricades, and by achieving a protective scenario, a true shelter from the world's imminent collapse.
• CITY MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL ART AND DAVIA BARGELLINI GALLERY, until 11 February, Via Strada Maggiore 44: The new sculptures Pegah Pasyar proposes in the exhibition "Mnemosyne" curated by Marco Baldassari bring the inner gaze back to memory and remembrance, to a moment where torment and happiness coexist.
• MAMBO'S EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, until 11 February, Via Don Giovanni Minzoni 14: A solo exhibition by Adele Dipasquale curated by Artierranti. The artist's work focuses on the realms of sound and non-communication as a way to demolish old mechanisms of power and imposed normativity. "I swallowed a butterfly" investigates the butterfly alphabet as a system of unconventional communication.
• PALAZZO DE’ TOSCHI, until 18 February, Piazza Minghetti 4/D: "Abbandona gli occhi", a special project by Patrick Tuttofuoco, one of the best known and most appreciated Italian artists of his generation. The exhibition, curated by Davide Ferri, introduces forms and modes representative of the artist's practice from the very beginning. 

• GARAGE BENTIVOGLIO, until 24 February, Via del Borgo di San Pietro 3/A: Agostino Iacurci, "Ruinenlust, 2024". The artist's imagery and the worlds he occupies and designs have many similarities with the work of Felice Giani: both are often based on the modes and forms of architectura picta, which are mixed and enriched by their different obsessions.
• CIVIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, until 25 February, Via dell'Archiginnasio 2: The exhibition "Indispensable" by Giovanni Morbin, curated by Daniele Capra, consists of about fifty sculptural and documentary works created from the mid-1980s to the present day, as well as new performances created for this occasion.
  
• CIVIC MEDIEVAL MUSEUM, until 3 March, Via Manzoni 4: "Contatti Indicibili", two-person exhibition by Giovanna Caimmi and Giulia Dall'Olio curated by Maria Chiara Wang. The exhibition project was conceived as a manifesto for a revival of perception, the rediscovery of of sensoriality, sensitivity and instinctiveness as fundamental elements for engaging in a dialogue with the artwork. 
• ESPRIT NOUVEAU, until 3 March, Piazza della Costituzione 11: Opus Novum#6 - Luisa Lambri, 'L'Esprit Nouveau' curated by Simone Menegoi: photography exhibition by Luisa Lambri.

• ALCHEMILLA, Palazzo Vizzani, until 16 March, Via Santo Stefano 43: 'The Painting Race', exhibition and performance project by the trio of anonymous Italian artists CANEMORTO, curated by Antonio Grulli.
• FONDAZIONE DEL MONTE DI BOLOGNA E RAVENNA, until 17 March, Via delle Donzelle 2: "Greta Schödl. Il tempo non esiste' (Time does not exist), the title of the exhibition curated by Silvia Evangelisti and Valentina Rossi refers to the non-existence of the concept of time.
• JEWISH MUSEUM, until 17 March, Via Valdonica 1/5: "Uova e tramezzi" is the trigger of the project that Giuseppe De Mattia has been developing in the spaces of the permanent collection, curated by Gabriele Tosi. In a place dedicated to historical memory, the artist deploys an apparently minor tale that is both surprising and concrete, highlighting the role of images and words in the construction of memories.
  
• VILLA DELLE ROSE, until 24 March, Via Saragozza 228/230: The solo exhibition "Sergio Lombardo 1960-1970" intends to shed new light on the initial decade of the career of Roman artist and psychologist Sergio Lombardo, one of the main protagonists behind the renewal of the European and international artistic language.
• PALAZZO BONCOMPAGNI until 2 June, Via Del Monte 8: The exhibition "Mimmo Paladino in the Pope's Palace" curated by Silvia Evangelisti in collaboration with the artist, includes important works, paintings and large-scale sculptures, documenting his research over the last twenty years.

• MAMBO – SALA DELLE CIMINIERE, until 5 May, Via Don Giovanni Minzoni 14: The exhibition "Ludovica Carbotta. "Very Well, on My Own", curated by Lorenzo Balbi with the curatorial assistance of Sabrina Samorì, includes more than 100 works tracing the multifaceted production of the Turinese artist focused on the exploration of the concept of imagination.
  
• CUBO and the UNIPOL GROUP'S BUSINESS MUSEUM, until 11 May, Piazza Sergio Vieira de Mello, 3/5: The complex and articulated exhibition project of das.07 Tempi Nuovi features two exhibitions by Stefano Non, and a series of meetings concerning the relationship between artistic creation and technological aesthetics, curated by Claudio Musso.
  
• MAMBO – PROJECT ROOOM, until 26 May, Via Don Giovanni Minzoni 14: "Lynda Benglis and Properzia de' Rossi: Sculpitrici di capriccioso e destrissimo ingegno", an exhibition project curated by Lorenzo Balbi that creates an unprecedented dialogue between Properzia de' Rossi, a Bolognese artist born in 1490 and died in 1530, considered the first woman sculptor in art history as well as the only woman to appear in Giorgio Vasari's Lives, and Lynda Benglis, a highly respected American artist born in 1941 and considered one of the most important living sculptors.
• GOLINELLI ARTS AND SCIENCES CENTRE, until 2 June, Via Paolo Nanni Costa 14: The group show " I preferiti di Marino" curated by the Golinelli Foundation includes 40 works by important modern and contemporary artists from the private collection of Marino Golinelli and his wife Paola.
  
• PIAZZA LIBER PARADISUS, from 31 January (for 5 years) At the crossroads between Via Tiarini and Via Fioravanti near the new seat of the Bologna City Council offices, an imposing 3-metre-high bronze sculpture of an orangutan has been installed by Davide Rivalta, an artist of international renown who has long been dealing with subjects from the animal world recreated in large dimensions.
• PIAZZA COSTITUZIONE ("ARTE FIERA ENTRANCE"), PERMANENT WORK: The work entrusted to Alberto Garutti consists of a stone slab placed at the main entrance of the fairgrounds bearing the inscription, in Italian and English, "Tutti i passi che ho fatto nella mia vita hanno portato qui, ora" / "Every step I have taken in my life has led me here, now".