“Tentativi di fioritura” by Michela Rondinone opens at Exchiesetta

On March 1, at Exchiesetta in Polignano, the installation by Michela Rondinone, Tentativi di fioritura, was inaugurated. The work is the fourth installation within the exhibition dedicated to the Pascali Prize and its winner, Roberto Cuoghi.

Michela Rondinone

The solo exhibition by Roberto Cuoghi, winner of the 27th edition of the Pino Pascali Prize, continues until May 5, 2026 at the Pino Pascali Foundation.

For the occasion, Roberto Cuoghi, together with the Foundation, invited five young artists from the local area to occupy the space of Exchiesetta in Polignano a Mare with their works: Arianna Ladogana, Michela Rondinone, Antonio Milano, Donato Trovato, and Angelo Iodice. After the presentations by Arianna Ladogana, Angelo Iodice, and Donato Trovato, it is now Michela Rondinone who takes over the space with her installation Tentativi di fioritura.

Michela Rondinone’s research revolves around play as a serious act: a primordial gesture expressed through essential signs and direct forms. Through sculpture and installation, she constructs environments that activate imagination and participation, leaving room for error and transformation. In Polignano she presents eight large-scale flowers that transform the space into a suspended landscape. Their stems rise from the floor like forms just born—never in perfect balance, but suggesting a fragile growth that still holds the possibility of becoming.

Michela Rondinone (1999, Matera) lives and works in Bari. She graduated in Sculpture and New Technologies from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari. Her practice explores play, primordial gesture, and essential signs, experimenting with different materials and media to create installations, sculptures, videos, and participatory workshops. She has taken part in artistic residencies in Romania and developed large-scale projects in dialogue with space and material. She collaborates with the Fondazione Dioguardi, leading creative workshops for children and young people, and has created video scenographies for theatre productions. Her practice integrates clay, plasticine, drawing, videomapping, and stop-motion animation, transforming places and materials into playful and poetic experiences that open new relationships between viewer, space, and artwork.