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Primo Marella Gallery

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Primo Marella Gallery

Contemporary Art Gallery Founded in 1993, Primo Marella Gallery has witnessed a big expansion over the years.

In December 2004 the gallery opened a new space in Beijing inside the prosperous 798 Art Factory Area, followed in 2007 by the opening of a new venue in Milan designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Claudio Silvestrin, who is responsible for the realization of many contemporary art locations worldwide, among which Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and White Cube Gallery in Lo

ndon. From the very beginning Primo Marella Galleries have been committed to the promotion and documentation of emerging artists and movements coming from different areas outside Europe, both through the organization of shows and the publication of books and catalogues, with the help and collaboration of local curators and critics. Starting with China in the late Nineties, the focus of the gallery’s programs has touched different emerging areas, from Russia to India and from South East Asia to, more recently, Africa, always with the precise goal to pioneer in the presentation of such complex and constantly evolving artistic scenes both in Europe and Beijing and to gain the attention of museums, institutions and collectors for these emerging artists.

01/06/2026

One Art, please!

The duo exhibition by Marco Mazzucconi and Stefano Arienti, curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli, is current on view📍at Primo Marella Gallery Lugano

About the exhibition:

The project emerges from a dialogue between two artists who came of age during the same moment in Italian art, between the late 1980s and early 1990s, and who have since developed distinct yet intersecting practices shaped by a number of shared concerns.

The exhibition does not seek a definitive synthesis between the two artists, but instead allows a dialogue of proximities, frictions, and resonances to emerge. Through these works, One Art, Please! constructs a field of relationships between artwork and reproduction, frame and image, gesture and surface, memory and transformation.

High and low, art history and everyday materials, irony and gravity coexist without cancelling one another out.

See you at the gallery!

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29/05/2026

At the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Tegene Kunbi represents Ethiopia with “Shapes of Silence”, an exhibition curated by Abebaw Ayalew with assistant curator Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen.

Above are detailed views of “Golden Dawn”, one of the most monumental and visually striking works featured in the exhibition!

The curatorial framework of Shapes of Silence approaches silence as a social and political condition. Within this context, painting becomes a space where established hierarchies between language, image, and material are both enacted and unsettled, opening up a sensorial and embodied mode of experience.

Through works that range from monumental to intimate in scale, and through their powerful material presence, Kunbi’s practice unfolds as a physical archive of gestures, temporalities, and relationships — inviting a sustained encounter that reaches beyond the limits of language.

Shapes of Silence | Ethiopian Pavilion

🗓️ May 9 – November 22, 2026
📍 Palazzo Bollani - Castello 3647 / Corte Bollani

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26/05/2026

Alternative Practices And Unbound Forms: African Artists Across Recent Biennales

Group exhibition:
📍at Primo Marella Gallery Milano

With works by: Joël Andrianomearisa, Hako Hankson, Abdoulaye Konate, Tegene Kunbi, Esther Mahalangu, Troy Makaza, Moffat Takadiwa and Samuel Nnorom

The exhibition explores contemporary African practices, where materials move beyond traditional support to become both language and structure. Through unconventional media – residual, organic, and industrial – artists shape meaning via layering, accumulation, and tension.

Recent international biennales mark a key shift: once peripheral, African artists now play a central role in redefining global contemporary discourse, as highlighted by their participation in major exhibitions, including the latest Venice Biennale

Don’t miss the chance to visit the exhibition and to explore how these artists transform materials, space and perception, revealing the new directions that define contemporary African art today!

See you at the gallery 😉

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22/05/2026

OPENING TOMORROW

12:00 P.M.

MAZZUCCONI X ARIENTI

DUO EXHIBITION: One Art, please!

Curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli

📍at Primo Marella Gallery Lugano

The Artists and curator will attend the event!  See you at the opening 😉

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19/05/2026

A closer look into the practice of Marco Mazzucconi through three series of work presented in One Art, Please! — the upcoming duo exhibition with Stefano Arienti, curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli at Primo Marella Gallery Lugano

From reflective surfaces and perceptual instability, to ironic investigations of painting, representation, and abstraction, Mazzucconi’s works move between gesture and concept, playfulness and critical distance. Across these series, painting becomes at once image, object, and perceptual device, continuously questioning the relationship between viewer, artwork, and meaning.

MAZZUCCONI X ARIENTI

DUO EXHIBITION: One Art, please!

Curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli

🗓️ Opening Saturday 23 May, 12:00 pm, 📍at Primo Marella Gallery Lugano

The Artists and curator will attend the event!  See you at the opening 😉

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17/05/2026

MAZZUCCONI X ARIENTI

DUO EXHIBITION: One Art, please!

Curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli

🗓️ Opening Saturday 23 May, 12:00 pm, 📍at Primo Marella Gallery Lugano

The Artists and curator will attend the event!

About the exhibition:

The project emerges from a dialogue between two artists who came of age during the same moment in Italian art, between the late 1980s and early 1990s, and who have since developed distinct yet intersecting practices shaped by a number of shared concerns.

The exhibition does not seek a definitive synthesis between the two artists, but instead allows a dialogue of proximities, frictions, and resonances to emerge. Through these works, One Art, Please! constructs a field of relationships between artwork and reproduction, frame and image, gesture and surface, memory and transformation.

High and low, art history and everyday materials, irony and gravity coexist without cancelling one another out.

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to be able to meet the artists Stefano Arienti and Marco Mazzucconi and explore, in an intimate and convivial setting, the visionary and fascinating themes of the exhibition!

See you at the opening 😉

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15/05/2026

13/05/2026

Primo Marella Gallery Lugano is pleased to announce its upcoming duo exhibition, One Art, Please!, curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli, featuring Stefano Arienti and Marco Mazzucconi’s new series of works.

On the occasion of the exhibition opening, the gallery is delighted to invite guests to an exclusive Brunch & Cocktail reception with the artists, taking place on Saturday, May 23, 2026, starting at 12:00 PM in our Lugano venue.

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to be able to meet the artists Stefano Arienti & Marco Mazzucconi and explore, in an intimate and convivial setting, the visionary and fascinating themes of the exhibition!

More to come, see you at the opening!😉

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10/05/2026

At the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Tegene Kunbi represents Ethiopia with “Shapes of Silence”, an exhibition curated by Abebaw Ayalew with assistant curator Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen.

The curatorial framework of Shapes of Silence approaches silence as a social and political condition. Within this context, painting becomes a space where established hierarchies between language, image, and material are both enacted and unsettled, opening up a sensorial and embodied mode of experience.

Through works that range from monumental to intimate in scale, and through their powerful material presence, Kunbi’s practice unfolds as a physical archive of gestures, temporalities, and relationships — inviting a sustained encounter that reaches beyond the limits of language.

Shapes of Silence | Ethiopian Pavilion

🗓️May 9 – November 22, 2026
📍Palazzo Bollani - Castello 3647 / Corte Bollani

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08/05/2026

CONGRATULATIONS TEGENE

Yesterday marked the opening ceremony of Shapes of Silence, presented at the Ethiopia Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, with the presence and opening remarks of H.E. Ambassador Demitu Hambisa Bonsa, artist Tegene Kunbi, and co-curator Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen.

Major congratulations to Tegene Kunbi, the curatorial team — Abebaw Ayalew and Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen — and to everyone involved in making this important project possible.

It is a great honour and source of pride for Primo Marella Gallery to be a sponsor of this exhibition, reaffirming the gallery’s longstanding commitment to the promotion and development of African contemporary art through collaborations with artists, curators, and leading international institutions.

Shapes of Silence
Ethiopian Pavilion
61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

May 9 – November 22, 2026
📍Palazzo Bollani - Castello 3647 / Corte Bollani

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Orario di apertura

Lunedì	09:30 - 13:00
	14:00 - 18:30
Martedì	09:30 - 13:00
	14:00 - 18:30
Mercoledì	09:30 - 13:00
	14:00 - 18:30
Giovedì	09:30 - 13:00
	14:00 - 18:30
Venerdì	09:30 - 13:00
	14:00 - 18:30

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