Mattia Moreni. The Bologna Retrospective, 1965

From 30 January to 31 May 2026, MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, part of the Civic Museums Sector of the Municipality of Bologna, presents The Bologna Retrospective, 1965, an exhibition project curated by Claudio Spadoni and Pasquale Fameli, forming part of the broader retrospective MATTIA MORENI. From His Training to “The Last Spasm Before the Great Mutation”.

Mattia Moreni, A tutti i maldestri del mondo. Parigi (Amitié), 1960, 162 x 130 cm

Promoted by Associazione Mattia and curated by Claudio Spadoni, and developed across five museum venues between Romagna and Bologna—Bagnacavallo, Forlì, Santa Sofia, Bologna, and Ravenna—the major project, the most extensive ever dedicated to the artist, spans forty years of research pursued through a constantly evolving language, always resistant to labels and affiliations, and reveals to the public the power and contemporary relevance of one of the most original and restless voices of Italian postwar art.

The exhibition at MAMbo is part of the institutional program of ART CITY Bologna 2026 (5–8 February), the schedule of exhibitions, events, and initiatives promoted by the Municipality of Bologna with the support of BolognaFiere on the occasion of Arte Fiera.

The Bologna Retrospective, 1965 revisits and reinterprets the major exhibition curated by Francesco Arcangeli in the 1960s at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna of the city of Bologna (now MAMbo), the artist’s first solo show in a public institution, placing Arcangeli’s vision in dialogue with new perspectives on Moreni’s work.

The press preview presentation will take place on Wednesday, 28 January 2026, at 11:00 a.m. at MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, Via Don Giovanni Minzoni 14, Bologna.

The opening is scheduled for Thursday, 29 January 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna

Via Don Giovanni Minzoni 14, Bologna

Andreas Zampella "Il cielo sopra Milano". Exhibited at Poggiali Gallery in Milan

Poggiali Gallery presents Il cielo sopra Milano, an exhibition by Andreas Zampella curated by Nicolas Ballario. The installation recreates within the gallery spaces a strange and unsettling starry sky, which the city of Milan will be able to admire every night from outside the gallery. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, 11 February, at the gallery’s Milan venue, Foro Buonaparte 52.

Andreas Zampella, Vite silenziose, 55x40cm, olio su canovaccio, 2025

In a Milan where the stars are no longer visible, where the sky has been erased by public lighting, advertising, and the constant reflection of consumption turned in on itself, night still exists, but it is no longer dark. Thus Andreas Zampella, as Nicolas Ballario states, “performs a gesture that is at once archaic and profoundly contemporary: he restores the stars to our gaze by bringing them into a room. From the ceiling of the Poggiali Gallery an unnatural constellation takes shape. Objects of everyday use, fragments of daily life, and remnants of a hyper-functioning civilization are glued together, suspended, and removed from the gravity of their fate. Where they should have fallen, remained, or decayed, they now shine. Darkness ignites them. Fluorescence transforms them into signals, presences, improvised celestial bodies. They are objects destined to be thrown away, and perhaps for this very reason they become a still life. Yet it is a still life that betrays its very name: because here nothing is truly immobile, nothing is pacified. These forms seem alive, unstable, ready to change state. The light they emit does not console: it unsettles.”

In his work, Zampella develops the idea that everyday life is a continuous performance and that the still life today is a pure form of spectacle and a powerfully evocative image. In Giorgio de Chirico’s understanding, the still life is a representation of the “silent life of objects.” In his reinterpretation, the artist sees life as a source of light, and the constellation presented in the spaces of the Poggiali Gallery alludes to the ambivalence between the vitality of light and the death of the forgotten object. In this way, his work evokes in the viewer a fluctuating sense between weariness and tension, irony and melancholy, guiding them toward a reflection on mortality and on the meaning of time in human life.

Ritratto di Andreas Zampella

Indeed, the installation urges us to look upward—a daily gesture, often performed in solitude, yet today almost forgotten. In the exhibition, the viewer’s gaze is compelled to do so. These found and reassembled objects become artificial galaxies: worlds that are both distant and very near at the same time. A universe built from what remains. A cosmos without heroism, without conquest, without promise. Only drift. Only cold light in the darkness. In this universe, humankind is not at the center, but beneath it—tiny, a spectator of what it has created and already forgotten.

GALLERIA POGGIALI | MILANO

Andreas Zampella. Il cielo sopra Milano

Foro Buonaparte 52, 20121 Milan

The Pino Pascali Foundation – Museum of Contemporary Art joins AMACI.

Starting in January 2026, the Pino Pascali Foundation – Museum of Contemporary Art will officially become part of the network of museums affiliated with AMACI – the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums.

Fondazione Pino Pascali – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, courtesy Fondazione Pino Pascali

The decision taken by the Assembly of Members is based on the recognition of the Museum’s path of growth and the high quality of its cultural, exhibition, and research activities. The Foundation’s admission was considered a significant added value for AMACI, capable of making an authoritative contribution to strengthening the Italian contemporary art system, with particular attention to the territory in which it operates.

With this membership, the Pino Pascali Foundation becomes the first museum in Apulia to join the Association, further expanding AMACI’s territorial presence. The network now spans 12 of Italy’s 20 regions—equal to 60% of the national territory—and includes a total of 27 member museums.

“On behalf of the entire Association,” states Lorenzo Balbi, President of AMACI, “I would like to extend our warm welcome to the Pino Pascali Foundation. We are pleased to welcome the Museum into our network, confident that its presence will make a valuable contribution to the life of the Association by offering the perspective of a territory that has so far been unrepresented, broadening our outlook and fostering new relationships. We look with interest to the opportunities this membership opens up and hope to develop together new projects, opportunities for exchange, and shared paths for the benefit of the Italian contemporary art system.”

Fondazione Pino Pascali – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea

The admission of the Pino Pascali Foundation into AMACI represents a significant step in strengthening collaboration among public museum institutions dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art, with the aim of fostering new synergies and supporting the dissemination of artistic culture throughout Italy.