Over the course of three days, the fair will engage the public with diverse voices within the contemporary art scene. This will be made possible through the activation of various participatory mechanisms: an online radio station, a performance program, a discussion arena, and a cinema. The conversations will feature curators, researchers, artists, residency promoters, private collectors, and representatives of public institutions, highlighting the connectedness and permeability of the roles that comprise the contemporary art system.
Friday, October 10 (2:00 PM – 7:00 PM)
Variable hours
ONLINE RADIO
Speciale di Verona
by Radijo Musikii
Live online radio and traveling interviews
Location: Volante Infopoint – Hall, Pavilions 11 and 12
Speciale di Verona is a live online radio and a traveling series of informal interviews and conversations with artists, gallery owners, curators, and ArtVerona visitors.
The project, halfway between relational practice and performance, is curated by artists Oscar Olias Castellanos and Matas Labašauskas and reflects their radio practice, dedicated to non-commercial music and sound as a narrative tool. Radijo Musikii offers a selected flow of experimental sounds, in which the voice is the thread that unites and accompanies thoughts.
4:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Durante
by CANEDICODA
sound performance for eight air blowers and harmonicas
with Fulvia Larena, Miriam Governatori, Valeriana Berchicci, Valentina Lucchetti, Michele and Simone Bornati, Martina Terraroli, Luysali Tyson
Duration: 25 minutes
Location: Hall, Pavilions 11 and 12
Durante is a sound choreography developed by multimedia artist Canedicoda with eight performers who traverse the spaces of ArtVerona with specially modified air blowers. A mobile orchestra where sound and action interact with the spaces and the audience, creating an immersive experience of exchange and sharing that reflects on themes such as the dissolution of languages, the centrality of gesture, process, and the transcendence of the authorial idea.
5:00 PM
TALK
Dialoghi tra collezioni pubbliche e private
Il percorso dell’opera d’arte: un dialogo tra collezioni
The talk reveals the complex journey of an artwork, from its creative genesis to its public enjoyment. Following the screening of the works Un Hombre que camina and Brises by Enrique Ramírez, the artist engages with key figures in the art system: collectors Isabelle and Jean Conrad Lemaître—Friends of the Centre Pompidou, whose collection includes works by Gillian Wearing, Mark Wallinger, Tacita Dean, Isaac Julian, and Steve McQueen—and Pascale Cassagnau, researcher and curator of the video section of the CNAP—Centre national des arts plastiques, a French ministerial collection based in Paris. The discussion explores how the synergy between galleries, collectors, and museum institutions is fundamental to the circulation and valorization of contemporary art, analyzing the dynamics that transform a work into a shared heritage.
Guests: Pascale Cassagnau, curator; Isabelle and Jean Conrad Lemaître, collectors; Enrique Ramírez, artist represented by the Michel Rein Gallery in Paris.
Location: Cinema Area – Pavilion 12
The talk will be preceded by a screening of the works Un Hombre que camina and Brises by Enrique Ramírez.
6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Durante
by CANEDICODA
sound performance for eight air blowers and harmonicas
with Fulvia Larena, Miriam Governatori, Valeriana Berchicci, Valentina Lucchetti, Michele and Simone Bornati, Martina Terraroli, Luysali Tyson
Duration: 25 minutes
Location: Hall, Pavilions 11 and 12
6:15 PM
TALK
Immagini in movimento, storie in gioco: un dialogo tra la curatrice Giulia Civardi e l’artista Joyce Joumaa
Steps curator Giulia Civardi talks with artist and filmmaker Joyce Joumaa about her artistic practice and works, including Merging, Dissecting, Collecting. The film presents a visual and temporal journey through Istanbul, Tripoli, and the history of the Ottoman Empire in Lebanon. Joumaa’s research investigates places shaped by conflict through minor or popular stories, such as the last football match between France and Algeria, which took place in 2001 and was observed by the artist in her film Bêtise humaine. Through vibrant reproductions of everyday life, historical revision, and cinematic tools adopted by the artist, the dialogue explores how moving images can offer new perspectives for reinterpreting colonial narratives in the present.
Guests: Giulia Civardi, Steps curator; Joyce Joumaa, artist represented by Eli Kerr Gallery in Montréal.
Location: Cinema Area – Pavilion 12
The talk will be preceded by a screening of the work Merging, Dissecting, Collecting by Joyce Joumaa.
Saturday, October 11 (11:00 AM – 7:00 PM)
Variable hours
ONLINE RADIO
Speciale di Verona
by Radijo Musikii
Live online radio and traveling interviews
Location: Volante Infopoint – Hall, Pavilions 11 and 12
12:00 PM
TALK
CONTEMPORALIS: esperienze tra Italia e Francia
Roberta Malavasi and Riccardo Valentini, founders of the CONTEMPORALIS Association (Amis Art Contemporain France – Italie), in conversation with artist Andrea Francolino, discuss some significant projects developed over the years through intense cultural exchange between Italy and France. The Association contributes to building new opportunities for artists, institutions, and international collectors to meet. For its 20th edition, CONTEMPORALIS supports the fair through the Contemporalis Italy-France Award, dedicated to emerging artists, and presents, in collaboration with the Amis des Beaux Arts de Paris, a selection of works by young talents from leading French art schools. The works are exhibited in Pavilion 12 of the fair for the special project PRIMA – artist’s atelier studio. The conversation will be moderated by curator Leonardo Regano.
Guests: Roberta Malavasi and Riccardo Valentini, founders of the CONTEMPORALIS Association (Amis Art Contemporain France – Italie); Andrea Francolino, artist; Leonardo Regano, curator.
Location: Conversation Area – Hall
2:00 PM
TALK
Rachele Maistrello, Black Diamond
Presentation of the winning project of the second edition of the Tomorrows UniCredit residency and production award
Artist Rachele Maistrello, winner of the award supported by UniCredit, will discuss her artistic production process in conversation with curator Jessica Bianchera. The award is a project conceived, organized, and promoted by Urbs Picta, curated by Jessica Bianchera, and in collaboration with Fondazione Cariverona, Contemporanea – University of Verona, and Veronafiere S.p.A. – ArtVerona.
Guests: Rachele Maistrello, artist; Jessica Bianchera, curator; Monica Molteni, Scientific Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Verona; Marco Semprebon, Head of Development of North-Eastern Territories, UniCredit
Location: Conversation Area – Hall
2:30 PM
TALK
Dialoghi tra collezioni pubbliche e private
Da Gruppo 70 a Mark Leckey, l’Evoluzione del Linguaggio Visivo
The talk compares the perspectives of a museum collection and that of a private collection, exploring the evolution of visual language through artists’ cinema. Denis Isaia, curator of the MART in Rovereto, presents a selection of works and artists spanning time and media. Among them: Lamberto Pignotti and Lucia Marcucci, the poetic and visual research collective Gruppo 70 (MART collection in Rovereto); Mark Leckey and Francesco Vezzoli (De Iorio Collection). These profoundly different works are united by a constant exploration of language. In conversation with Marta Cereda, independent curator.
Guests: Denis Isaia, curator of the MART in Rovereto; Marta Cereda, independent curator.
Location: Cinema Area – Pavilion 12
The talk will be preceded by a screening of the works Pearl Vision byMark Leckey, Je T Aime! (Advertisement For An Exhibition That Will Never Open) byFrancesco Vezzoli, Baci, pugni e sparatorie by Lucia Marcucci and Lamberto Pignotti and Volerà nei ‘70 del Gruppo 70 (Lucia Marcucci, Lamberto Pignotti, Antonio Bueno, Eugenio Miccini).
4:00 PM
TALK
Omaggio a Hélène de Franchis: Una Vita per l’Arte
ArtVerona pays tribute to Hélène de Franchis, the visionary figure who founded and directed the historic Studio La Città gallery in Verona. With over fifty years of activity, the gallery has been a crucial point of reference for contemporary art, presenting prominent artists such as Lucio Fontana, Mario Schifano, and Giulio Paolini, and bringing major international names such as Sol LeWitt and Richard Tuttle to Italy for the first time, as well as movements such as Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Giulia Zompa, researcher and art historian, together with Marco Meneguzzo, art critic and independent curator, will retrace Hélène de Franchis’s extraordinary career, highlighting her curatorial approach, always guided by instinct and passion.
Guests: Giulia Zompa, curator, Marco Meneguzzo, art critic and independent curator
Location: Cinema Area – Pavilion 12
5:00 PM
TALK
Conversazioni sul collezionismo contemporaneo
The talk explores the motivations and challenges of creating and promoting an art collection, through the experiences of Katia Da Ros, founder of a significant corporate collection; Marco Curina, creator of the Marval Collection; and Giorgio Fasol, a pioneer of collecting and founder of the Museo del Contemporaneo, founded with the donation of over one hundred works from the collection to the University of Verona. The panel will feature Alessia Zorloni, an author and professor specializing in art economics. The conversation, moderated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, curator and journalist, offers a reflection on collecting as a practice that goes beyond the acquisition of works, becoming a journey of research, responsibility, and vision.
Guests: Katia Da Ros, entrepreneur; Marco Curina and Giorgio Fasol, collectors; Alessia Zorloni, art advisor and professor; Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, independent curator.
Location: Conversation Area – Hall
6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Rattle Snake
by Vica Pacheco and Siet Raeymaekers
Experimental music and contemporary dance performance
Duration: 25 min.
Location: Volante Infopoint – Hall
Rattle Snake intertwines the sound research of Mexican experimental artist Vica Pacheco with the choreographic practice of Belgian dancer Siet Raeymaekers, creating an eclectic and hypnotic performance. At the heart of the work is a reflection on the interaction between the human and the nonhuman: an unstable dialogue in which the body hybridizes with the object and with sound, assuming the role of mediator between different possible worlds and languages. Raeymaekers’ movement, composed of somatic gestures and vibrations, activates Pacheco’s ceramic sound sculptures, creating a contemplative ritual, a serpentine choreography suspended between the earthly and the otherworldly.
Sunday, October 12 (11:00 AM – 7:00 PM)
Variable hours
ONLINE RADIO
Speciale di Verona
by Radijo Musikii
Live online radio and traveling interviews
Location: Volante Infopoint – Hall, Pavilions 11 and 12
12:00 PM
TALK
Dialoghi tra collezioni pubbliche e private
Dalla terra al volo: la performance nella produzione filmica
A conversation between Frida Carazzato, scientific curator of Museion Bolzano, and Diego Bergamaschi and Oliviero Falconi, members of Seven Gravity Collection, a collecting experience entirely dedicated to video.
The films selected from the two collections, Never Ground by Natália Trejbalová and No Wise Fish Would Escape Without Flying by Driant Zeneli, address the theme of performance in film production. The conversation explores two different approaches to the conservation and valorization of video works. Artists Natália Trejbalová and Driant Zeneli will participate in the conversation.
Guests: Frida Carazzato, scientific curator of Museion Bolzano; Diego Bergamaschi and Oliviero Falconi of Seven Gravity Collection, collectors; Natália Trejbalová and Driant Zeneli, artists.
Location: Cinema Area – Pavilion 12
The talk will be preceded by a screening of the works No Wise Fish Would Escape Without flying di Driant Zeneli e Never Ground di Natália Trejbalová.
1:30 PM
TALK
Cinema e narrazione visiva: un dialogo sull’opera di Abdessamad El Montassir
Video curator Élisa Ganivet and Chiara Ianeselli, curator of MAXXI med, discuss the video work Galb’Echaouf by Moroccan artist Abdessamad El Montassir, an exploration of the Sahara Desert as a space of stories without archives. The talk delves into the artist’s poetics, which blends history and fiction, giving voice to silences and oral memories. With a poetic and fragmented language, he also highlights the role of plants and non-human elements, demonstrating how they influence and transform our way of perceiving the world.
Guests: Élisa Ganivet, curator; Chiara Ianeselli, curator of MAXXI med.
Location: Cinema Area – Pavilion 12
The talk will be preceded by a screening of the work Galb’Echaouf di Abdessamad El Montassir.
3:00 PM
TALK
Villa Filanda Antonini: un nuovo modello per supportare la pratica artistica emergente
The talk explores the vision and commitment of Villa Filanda Antonini, an initiative of the Arper Feltrin Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to encourage dialogue between contemporary art, design, and architecture. Giulio Feltrin, founder of VFA, and Leonardo Regano, curator of the Pittura ORA section, discuss the importance of creating an ecosystem to support young artists through careful curation that enhances their career path. A virtuous circle connecting artists, curators, collectors, and professionals.
The conversation will feature Nebojša Despotović and Paola Angelini, artists featured in the Daydreaming exhibition organized by VFA.
Guests: Giulio Feltrin, director of Villa Filanda Antonini; Leonardo Regano, curator; Nebojša Despotović and Paola Angelini, artists.
Location: Conversation Area – Hall