Pinksummer Contemporary Art

20/06/2026

“I want to bring up a remark Einstein made about quantum mechanics, a beautiful phrase that probably relates strongly to the work I’m showing in Genoa. He said that ‘God does not play dice’— meaning He doesn’t make things arbitrarily or without reason. This is the common ground that drives scientists to believe in research, and is maybe also one of the reasons why I’m so interested in these kinds of constellations: what is randomness, actually? Does it ‘care’ or does it not follow any kind of rule or order?
Which brings us to the Atlas Borealis drawings. I have introduced six circles on them—six, like the numbers you choose when you play the lotto—each enclosing a random constellation. These star constellations are so gigantic that how they sit together in terms of size and order can only be random—because we look at them from our microscopic point of view on Earth; and from Earth we look at this gigantic mass of nothing but a few Suns, this immense amount of space that is hard to process for us in terms of understanding—but I think I’m drifting away from your question here.”

Carsten Nicolai

Full interview at https://www.pinksummer.com/en/portfolio_page/carsten-nicolai-atlas-borealis/

Come see the show at Pinksummer ⭕️
TU - SA | 3.00 - 7.30 pm or by appointment

Photos 1, 3, 5: Studio Carsten Nicolai
Photos 2, 4, 6, 7: Alice Moschin

17/06/2026

Luca Trevisani's current exhibition at Casa Museo Jorn on Savona's edition of Il Secolo XIX. Many thanks to Serena Pastorino for her article!

13/06/2026

Casa Museo Jorn presents Kotykeye, an exhibition by Luca Trevisani marking the culmination of a complex project curated and produced by Blu Genova. The project is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture part of the .
After traveling internationally through a series of performances, and prior to entering the collection of the Museo Madre in Naples, this series of stoneware sculptures is being exhibited to the public for the first time at Casa Museo Jorn.
The works, created in collaboration with Danilo Trogu of La Casa dell’Arte pottery, engage in a dialogue with the evocative site where artist Asger Jorn theorized and lived the fusion of architecture, nature, and art, now part of the Fondazione Museo della Ceramica di Savona.
This new series of sculptures stems from a deep investigation of the Toirano Caves (Savona), ancestral sites where geological stratification preserves traces of a millennia-old coexistence between nature and culture, human gesture and animal track, memory and matter. Trevisani explored these Ligurian karst cavities in search of these prints, reading them as thresholds of contact between species, shared histories, and points of mutual friction and transformation.

"Kotykeye transforms the prehistoric footprints kept in the Toirano Caves into porous sculptures, thresholds of contact between human and animal, memory and matter. The ceramic casts of the steps of a prehistoric family—and perhaps their dog—magical and restless, celebrate an interspecies alliance and a thought that traverses bodies, gestures, and touch. The food, served on the sculptures, invites guests to eat with their hands in a sensory choreography that restores touch to its role as an original language."

30.05 - 25.08.26
MuDA Casa Museo Jorn – Albissola Marina
TU: 9 am - 12pm
TH: 3 pm - 5 pm
SA-SU: 10 am - 1 pm • 4 pm - 7 pm

Photos 1, 2, 6: Andrea Rossetti
Photos 3, 4, 5, 7, 8: Benedetta Stefani
Special thanks to: Luca Gerry Conte

12/06/2026

Many thanks to Marta Galli for her article about Luca Trevisani's current exhibition at Casa Jorn, appearing on la Repubblica's "D" Magazine!

06/06/2026

About "formula"

These paintings are studies that belong to a larger ensemble of works on the translations of mathematical formulas into graphs. Manipulated by the artist, various mathematical formulas are transmitted onto gesso-primed canvases and serve as tools for the drawing process. Carsten Nicolai refers back to the classical concept of painting, as the process of making these works is very much reminiscent of it. And at the same time alienated from it, since the operation with random generators and formulas contradicts this.
The artist refers directly to the work of the composer Iannis Xenakis, whose music is explained by models of modern mathematics and physics, and creates a zone in which the exploration and application of mathematics, physics, statistics, game theory and randomized processes play an autonomous role in the arrangement and creation of these imagery. “Forms and structures are everywhere”, says Xenakis, “in biology, paleontology, astrophysics, and nuclear physics. They provide excellent models, not to be imitated, but to stimulate and cause an agitation”.
The series does not deny a certain musicality, since the patterns are equally transferable (thus transposable) to an auditory level - turning the gallery space into a kind of “acoustic hall” with “scores” (notations) of a frozen sound.

"By definition, white light contains the whole spectrum of frequencies in it—so more of less, all colors. The definition of white noise has been also created in relation to this—because with white noise, too, you basically have all the frequencies inside. White is like a huge piece of marble: you can create any kind of sculpture with it—and the same goes for the matter surrounding us. So, even though white always feels so pure and empty to us, it is actually the complete opposite. White is the absolute maximum."

Carsten Nicolai

Photo: Studio Carsten Nicolai

Come visit the exhibition at Pinksummer - Tuesday to Saturday, 3.00 - 7.30 pm.

03/06/2026

:-)

“Penso che il suono sia un linguaggio universale, l’effetto delle costellazioni di note, o frequenze, al modo in cui possono parlarci.” Carsten Nicolai

27/05/2026

Pinksummer is very glad to announce that Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has acquired Bureau of Censorship (1996), by Mark Dion. Our thanks go especially to Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo for including the artwork in the foundation’s incredible collection.

Presented for the first time at GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna Turin, on the occasion of “Campo 6. Il villaggio a spirale”, curated by Francesco Bonami in 1996, Mark Dion's cottage-like structure is signposted with a pair of scissors, the tool of the censor’s trade—yet the sign could also be mistaken as signifying an old tailors shop. Inside are a variety of boxes viewers are invited to browse and discover. The theatrical environment and playful register of signs and signifiers is typical of the artist’s work, which also often focuses on the pleasures and problems of collecting and display.

Pictures 1 & 2: La Bella Estate, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, 2025. Curated by Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Mark Rappolt. Photo by Giorgio Perottino.

Picture 3: Campo 6. Il villaggio a spirale, GAM, Turin, 1996.

19/05/2026

"I guess I’m a bit skeptical—or it might just be that the idea of there being a harmonious constellation of Nature, where everything goes in cycles, by perfect units... I think we all know by now that’s probably not the case. Things are much more complex than that. What instead may apply to all of our findings is the idea that Nature follows a sort of masterplan designed by God or, in this case, by some kind of force, if that makes sense."

Carsten Nicolai

Atlas Borealis
23.04.26 - 15.09.26
Tue - Sat | 3.00 - 7.30 pm or by appointment

Full press release at https://www.pinksummer.com/en/portfolio_page/carsten-nicolai-atlas-borealis-forthcoming/

Photos by Alice Moschin

14/05/2026

Pinksummer is at Art Dubai 2026 | Booth B13

For this year’s special edition, the gallery presents a digital video by Tomás Saraceno, Poetic Cosmos of the Breath - depicting the time-based, experimental, solar dome with the same name.

Studio Tomás Saraceno

Photos by Faiz Khan | Last Minute Productions

13/05/2026

Many thanks to Andrea Rossetti for his new ArtsLife article about Carsten Nicolai's current show at Pinksummer, "Atlas Borealis". Read the full article at https://artslife.com/2026/05/11/ho-giocato-tre-anzi-sei-numeri-al-lotto-carsten-nicolai-a-genova/ and come visit the exhibition Tuesday to Saturday, 3.00 to 7.30 pm!