Albergo Pietrasanta Presents ARTE IN VACANZA

An exhibition project developed in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, which presents around 20 photographic works in the hotel’s 18th-century spaces, dedicated to nature as a field of exploration, transformation and connection.

From 23 May 2026, with works by Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto.

Opening: Friday, 22 May, 6.30 pm

Pietrasanta, 14 May 2026 — In 2026, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Albergo Pietrasanta promotes a series of celebratory initiatives, including ARTE IN VACANZA, a summer exhibition programme that, within the spaces of the 18th-century Palazzo Barsanti Bonetti, brings contemporary photographic works into dialogue with the hotel’s permanent collection.

Organised this year in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, the exhibition brings together around 20 works by eight artists — Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto — united by a reflection on Nature, understood not as a static element, but as a mutable organism, a space of relation and a field of visual research.

The exhibition stems from the desire to investigate nature not as a fixed subject of representation, but as a dynamic field of exploration, transformation and relation. The selection brings together artists who, through different languages and practices, share the use of photography as a research tool capable not only of recording reality, but also of reinterpreting, deconstructing and reconstructing it, offering a multiplicity of perspectives on landscape and its transformations.

In this journey, nature emerges as a mutable and complex experience: in the works of Takashi Homma and Carolina Sandretto, nature reveals its transformation over time; in the works of Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Teresa Giannico and Leonardo Magrelli, the natural image is deconstructed and reinvented; while the photographs of Guido Guidi and Giovanni Chiaramonte explore a more abstract and contemplative dimension, entrusted to light, shadow and the depth of the gaze.

With ARTE IN VACANZA, Albergo Pietrasanta becomes a space of layers and crossings: rooms, corridors and common areas host the works as presences capable of changing the perception of the spaces and the daily relationship with them. The photographs coexist with visitors, accompanying moments of stillness and passage, entering the private dimension of the hospitality experience.

The works of Guido Guidi and Giovanni Chiaramonte invite a slow and contemplative gaze on the landscape. Guidi focuses on the more marginal aspects of everyday reality, giving poetic depth to what often escapes the eye. For Chiaramonte, the landscape is instead a complex structure of relationships, in which natural and architectural elements become signs to be observed and interpreted.

Takashi Homma and Carolina Sandretto explore nature through time and transformation. While Homma observes the sea as an image of continuous change and impermanence, Sandretto, with her double-exposure Polaroids created during the Covid period, offers a poetic vision of the landscape, suspended between closeness and distance, waiting and change.

In the research of Stefano Caimi and Leonardo Magrelli, photography becomes a tool for transforming the visible. Caimi digitally reworks natural images and forms to reveal hidden rhythms and connections, while Magrelli challenges perception through lenticular works in constant metamorphosis, changing with the movement of the viewer.

Teresa Giannico and Alessandro Calabrese reflect on the construction of the contemporary photographic image. Giannico creates new compositions from visual fragments found online, evoking painting and collage, while Calabrese investigates the relationship between photography and painting, altering and rephotographing the image to redefine the boundaries of the photographic medium.

The entire project stems from an idea of coexistence between art and life, a defining feature of the hotel’s identity since its foundation. The works inhabiting the spaces of the hotel are not conceived as elements to be displayed according to a museum-like route, but as presences to be shared, naturally integrated into spaces of living and everyday life. In this sense, Albergo Pietrasanta emerges as a hybrid place, suspended between home, collection and exhibition space.

It was in 1996 that Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto transformed the historic palazzo into a place open to encounter and relationship, where the collection — built from the 1980s onwards between Italy and international contexts — found space according to a spontaneous logic of coexistence, far from any traditional arrangement. In recent years, the involvement of Carolina Sandretto, photographer and development manager, has further expanded this vision, strengthening the dialogue between hospitality, photographic research and contemporary projects.

InformationAlbergo Pietrasanta presents ARTE IN VACANZAAn exhibition project developed in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, featuring photographic works by Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto.

From 23 May 2026 at Albergo Pietrasanta.

Som Supaparinya Mo num en ts. Museion presents MO NUM EN TS

15.05.–14.06.2026Opening & talk with Som Supaparinya and Han

Nefkens: 14.05.2026, 6.00 pm

In collaboration with Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024

Bolzano: Museion presents MO NUM EN TS (2025), a film by Thai artist Som Supaparinya, a work that interweaves historical research and fieldwork.

The film was produced as part of the Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024, dedicated to the memory of artist Dinh Q. Lê, and developed in collaboration with Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand), The Outpost Art Organisation (Vietnam), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark) and Rockbund Art Museum (China).

Following its presentations at the partner institutions, the work will enter the Museion collection.

For over twenty years, Supaparinya has investigated the landscapes of Southeast Asia as places where political ideology, ecological transformations and historical memory intersect. In MO NUM EN TS (2025), the artist focuses on the still-perceptible impact of infrastructures built in the Mekong region during the Cold War. Dams, roads and electricity networks emerge not only as symbols of modernization, but also as persistent “monuments”, capable of continuing to shape territories, communities and environments.

The film takes the form of a single-channel video projection, combining footage shot during fieldwork with archival materials from publications and propaganda produced during the Cold War era. Through a fragmented visual structure, often making use of split screen, Supaparinya brings together different times and perspectives, resisting a single narrative and presenting history as a layered, partial and constantly negotiated process.

The Han Nefkens Foundation supports artists through international production programmes and long-term institutional collaborations, with a particular focus on video art and transcultural exchange. The Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant was established in ongoing dialogue with artists and partners across the region.

“I am particularly attached to the Southeast Asia Grant, created thanks to the encouragement and support of a Vietnamese artist who was also a dear friend, Dinh Q. Lê. Dinh was a pioneering artist, helped found Sàn Art, and was a central figure in the Vietnamese art community. His ability to connect people and ideas, his generosity and our shared commitment to supporting video art were fundamental in shaping this programme.”— Han Nefkens

For Museion, this project represents a significant example of the importance of international collaboration in contemporary artistic production:

“Our collaboration with the Han Nefkens Foundation allows us to engage directly in the production of new works and to connect local audiences with artistic perspectives of global relevance. It is one of the many initiatives through which Museion has become part of an international network of institutions fostering the exchange of ideas, artists and research across different cultural contexts. These collaborations extend the life and visibility of artistic projects beyond a single exhibition and help build lasting relationships between institutions. Partnerships of this kind are essential to understanding what we believe the role of a contemporary museum is today: to be an active participant in a transnational dialogue that connects local excellence with global discourse.”— Bart van der Heide

With MO NUM EN TS, Supaparinya proposes a reading of the landscape as a living archive, in which political decisions, ecological transformations and human experiences settle and remain inscribed over time.15.05.–14.06.2026 Inaugurazione & talk con Som Supaparinya e Han Nefkens: 14.05.2026, 18.00 In collaborazione con Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024Bolzano: Museion presenta il film MO NUM EN TS (2025) dell'artista thailandese Som Supaparinya, un’opera che intreccia ricerca storica e lavoro sul campo. Il film è stato realizzato nell’ambito del Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024, dedicato alla memoria dell'artista Dinh Q. Lê, e sviluppato in collaborazione con Jim Thompson Art Center, (Tailandia), The Outpost Art Organisation (Vietnam), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Giappone), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Danimarca) e Rockbund Art Museum (Cina). Dopo le presentazioni presso le istituzioni partner, l’opera entrerà nella collezione di Museion.

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Giacomo Balla. The New Exhibition at Mart Featuring Works from the Biagiotti Cigna Collections

Mart presents for the first time in Italy one of the world’s most important private monographic collections: the complete body of works by Giacomo Balla belonging to the Biagiotti Cigna Collections. Through paintings, drawings, furnishings, objects and garments, 240 works are displayed alongside selected canvases and archival materials from the Rovereto museum. The exhibition also features the vibrant Genio Futurista, the largest artwork ever created by Balla.

Exactly 40 years ago, in 1986, fashion designer and entrepreneur Laura Biagiotti visited an exhibition at Rome’s Galleria Chimera featuring works by Giacomo Balla and his daughters Elica and Luce. From that moment until her passing in 2017, Laura Biagiotti passionately and continuously collected and promoted Giacomo Balla’s works, becoming, together with her husband Gianni Cigna, his foremost private collector. The works acquired during the first decade of collecting, up until 1996, the year of her husband’s death, now belong to the Biagiotti Cigna Foundation, which preserves the integrity and memory of an enlightened collecting vision and generous patronage.

These memories and personal connections have continued to be nurtured and promoted through further exhibitions and acquisitions of Giacomo Balla’s works as part of the Laura Biagiotti Collection.

This philanthropic and patronage activity continues today thanks to the commitment of their daughter, Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna, now leading the family company.

With this project, Mart and Biagiotti celebrate a utopia transformed into form — a journey rediscovering the visionary and contagious force that marked the dawn of Italian modernity.

The Biagiotti family’s Giacomo Balla collection is overseen by the Foundation’s artistic director, Professor Fabio Benzi, who, together with Beatrice Avanzi, Head of Exhibitions at Mart Rovereto, curates the major exhibition Giacomo Balla. The Style of the Avant-Garde, on view from 16 May to 18 October.

Presented in its entirety for the first time in Italy, the exhibition of the “Balla/Biagiotti” collection in Rovereto is far from accidental. The project perfectly reflects Mart’s vocation, reinforcing a narrative continuity that identifies the Trentino museum as a key institution for the promotion and study of the Futurist avant-garde.

The works from the Laura Biagiotti Collection and the Biagiotti Cigna Foundation engage in dialogue with a museum heritage long dedicated to exploring the events of 20th-century Italian art, with particular attention to Futurism and the work of Fortunato Depero, whose legacy gave birth to the museum itself.

Furthermore, this collaboration highlights Mart’s ongoing commitment to fostering dialogue between private and public collecting, with the aim of enhancing significant cultural heritages.