STORIELLETTE. Gianni D’Urso and Giuseppe De Mattia at VOGA Art Project

From 28 December 2025 to 22 February 2026, VOGA Art Project presents STORIELLETTE, a two-person exhibition by Gianni D’Urso and Giuseppe De Mattia, the third and final chapter of the 2025 exhibition cycle devoted to dialogue between two artists.

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Curated by VOGA Art Project, the exhibition opens on Saturday, 27 December at 7:00 pm in the spaces at via Francesco Curzio dei Mille 58, Bari, and unfolds as a fragmented yet incisive reflection on the present.

The title explicitly refers to Sturiellet by Andrea Pazienza, the iconic collection of short everyday stories, autobiographical flashes and ironic observations of reality. In a similar vein, STORIELLETTE constructs a mosaic of minimal, discontinuous narratives, bringing together Giuseppe De Mattia’s Cronache vere and Gianni D’Urso’s I ragazzi stanno bene series. The result is a sequence of episodes that speak of social disillusionment, existential precarity, failed escapes and small defeats, observed with a lucid, never complacent gaze.

Giuseppe De Mattia presents a layered imaginary that intertwines personal memory, popular traditions and a sharp critique of the art system. Through photography, drawing and audiovisual media, the artist builds ironic and incisive narrative devices capable of exposing the economic, political and exhibition dynamics that shape the cultural world. His practice moves along the boundary between folk art and conceptual approaches, maintaining a strong connection to collective experience and everyday life.

Figlio di gazza, 2023, Matèria Roma Photo_Roberto Apa

Gianni D’Urso responds with works that emerge from collected materials, pre-existing images and manipulated objects, creating visual short circuits where play, dream and disillusion coexist. His research investigates the fragility of the human condition, staging an unstable and precarious reality marked by semantic and poetic shifts. Precarity, failure and irony thus become tools for observing the present without rhetoric, yet with a subtle critical tension.

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Paintings, drawings and sculptures are presented alongside a site-specific sound installation created collaboratively by the two artists, forming an archive of notes, voices and sensations. STORIELLETTE unfolds as an open-ended narrative that oscillates between melancholy and irony, offering an acute and resilient взгляд at the cracks of our time.

VOGA Art Project

Via Francesco Curzio dei Mille 58, 70123, Bari

28 dicembre - 22 febbraio 2026

MACBA Celebrates 30 Years of Its Collection with Like a Dance of Starlings

On the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary, MACBA presents Like a Dance of Starlings. MACBA Collection: Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being, an exhibition that offers a deep and unconventional rereading of the museum’s collection.

Views from the exhibition "Like a Dance of Starlings: MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being". Photo: Miquel Coll, 2025

On view until 28 September 2026, the exhibition constructs a collective narrative that challenges the concepts of the individual and the community, fostering an open dialogue between artists from different generations, languages and cultural contexts.

Far removed from any chronological structure or celebratory intent, the exhibition brings together two hundred works by around fifty artists. Many of these are being shown at MACBA for the first time, while a significant number have entered the collection only recently. Curated by Clàudia Segura and Núria Montclús, the exhibition takes on a fluid, rhizomatic form inspired by the flight of starlings: unstable images, continuous transformations and relationships that form and dissolve, generating new constellations of meaning.

The exhibition opens with the black-and-white portraits from Fotomatón by Onofre Bachiller, produced between 1986 and 2000 in Barcelona’s nightlife venues. This extensive photographic archive portrays a city shaped by desire, fluid identities and social transformation, documenting the rise of club culture, LGBTQ+ communities and a nocturnal Barcelona that defies norms and hierarchies. The images function as a collective performance, a choral portrait of subjectivities in motion.

Views from the exhibition "Like a Dance of Starlings: MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being". Photo: Miquel Coll, 2025

The exhibition unfolds across five thematic fields that explore contemporary processes of subject formation. In Inhabiting Borders, the works address identity as a porous and unstable construction shaped by gender, body, race and social class. Artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ocaña and Tony Oursler challenge the notion of a unified subject, foregrounding liminal existences that have long been marginalised.

In Existing Through the Flesh, the body emerges as the primary site of experience and knowledge. Works by Àngels Ribé and others reveal identity as an embodied, performative and situated process, constantly shaped by its environment.

Views from the exhibition "Like a Dance of Starlings: MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being". Photo: Miquel Coll, 2025

The journey then expands in Vibrating in Nature, where subjectivity is understood as a network of relationships connecting humans, the environment and spirituality. In works such as Sonhos Yanomami by Claudia Andujar, human existence appears inseparable from the breath of the forest, part of a shared and sacred ecosystem.

MACBA

Plaça dels Àngels, 1, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona

Fino al 28 Settembre 2026

Nnena Kalu Wins the Turner Prize 2025: Gesture, Material and Presence in Contemporary Art

The Turner Prize 2025 has been awarded to Nnena Kalu, one of the most intense and distinctive voices in contemporary British art.

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The announcement was made during a public ceremony at Bradford Grammar School, hosted by Steven Frayne, widely known as Dynamo, as part of Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 and broadcast live on BBC News. The winner receives £25,000, while the other shortlisted artists – Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa – each receive £10,000.

The jury highlighted the quality and boldness of all four presentations, which together offer a complex and multifaceted picture of contemporary art today. Painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, sound and photography coexist in diverse practices, united by a strong formal and conceptual awareness. The Turner Prize 2025 exhibition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford has already attracted over 34,000 visitors, confirming strong public engagement.

Nnena Kalu’s practice stood out for its powerful physical presence. She creates hanging sculptures using heterogeneous materials – repurposed fabrics, ropes, parcel tape, plastic film, paper and VHS tape reels – assembled into enveloping forms reminiscent of nests or cocoons. Alongside the sculptures, Kalu presents large abstract drawings built through repeated, vigorous and rhythmic gestures that generate dense vortices and spirals. The jury praised her ability to translate expressive gesture into works of striking visual and spatial impact, noting her refined control of scale, colour and composition.

Drawing 12, 2021, Nnena Kalu. Installation view at Turner Prize 2025, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. Courtesy of the artist, ActionSpace, London and Arcadia Missa, London. Photo © David Levene

Born in Glasgow in 1966 and active for over two decades in London, where she is a resident artist with ActionSpace at Studio Voltaire, Kalu has developed a coherent and unmistakable practice, often realised directly within the exhibition space. Her works do not merely occupy space but activate it, establishing a dynamic dialogue between body, material and environment.

Installation view of Nnena Kalu’s presentation at the Turner Prize 2025, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. Photo © David Levene

Founded in 1984 and named after J.M.W. Turner, the prize remains one of the most important platforms for observing developments in British contemporary art. In 2025, the Turner Prize once again confirms its role as a critical arena for practices that engage the present with both radicality and sensitivity. With Nnena Kalu’s victory, the prize recognises an artistic vision that combines emotional intensity and formal rigour, transforming humble materials into powerful structures that resonate in both memory and space.

Turner Prize 2025

27 September 2025 to 22 February 2026