Galleria Vistamare, Pescara (2026)

26/05/2026

FRANCESCA BANCHELLI, “Abyss. When Two Shadows Overlay, Do They Get Darker?” | Vistamare PESCARA | Opening Saturday June 6th, h 7-9pm |

Vistamare is pleased to present Abyss. When Two Shadows Overlay, Do They Get Darker?, Francesca Banchelli’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in Pescara, following the site-specific project developed in 2024 at the Milan venue as part of the Focus on programme.
Francesca Banchelli’s artistic practice spans painting, performance and sculpture. Her visual language explores the relationship between time, memory, and imagination, intertwining the dreamlike and reality and giving life to immersive environments.
The exhibition brings together a new series of paintings and sculptures conceived specifically for the exhibition space. These works arise from a reflection on the present and its psychological impact, addressing the tension between the individual and the collective — a central theme in the artist’s research.
The exhibition is designed as a narrative device to draw the viewer into a suspended dimension, built around an almost cinematic opening sequence. A single moment is unfolded to reveal multiple perspectives, variations in light and latent possibilities.
Breaking with the previous cycle, The Fugitive, characterised by desert landscapes and undefined territories, in Abyss the human figures seem to stand still, listening, as if catching a glimpse of a world in flux. Often situated on shores or cliffs, they inhabit a liminal space where states of solitude, closeness, detachment and desire emerge. Meanwhile the recurring suns in the paintings function as ambivalent symbolic elements — dawn, dusk, beginning, or decline — suggesting the uncertain transition between temporal horizons and inner states.

Picture: Francesca Banchelli, “Levitas”, 2026. Oil on canvas, cm 150 x 180

22/05/2026

LINDA FREGNI NAGLER and LORENZO SCOTTO DI LUZIO | “Cremona Contemporanea” | OPENING TODAY |

Opening TODAY
May 23-31, 2026 | h 10am-7pm

Vistamare is pleased to announce the participation of Linda Fregni Nagler and Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio in the 4th edition of“Cremona Contemporanea”.
Conceived to enhance Cremona’s historical and artistic heritage through a dialogue with contemporary art, the project strengthens the city’s identity as a place of culture, quality, and creative vision.
Under the artistic direction of Rossella Farinotti, this year’s curatorial focus will be dedicated to Italian art, featuring nationally and internationally acclaimed artists.

Picture 1: Linda Fregni Nagler, “Untitled (Pigeon) #2, 2023
Picture 2: Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, “Senza titolo”, 2017

20/05/2026

New episode of The 20x24 Project by The Polaroid Foundation, featuring ANNA FRANCESCHINI, now on Youtube!

The world’s largest instant camera, the Polaroid 20x24, travels to one of the biggest temple complexes of the Ancient Roman world to work with acclaimed Italian artist Anna Franceschini. Known for kinetic sculptures and mechanical scenes that function as a kind of cinema without film, Franceschini uses the 20x24 to interrogate the multi-layered history of Tivoli’s Sanctuary of Hercules Victor, built more than 2,000 years ago. Get ready for singing Tesla coils, galvanized mannequin hands, looted ruins and the stunning, surreal beauty of the images that result.
Working with objects, artifacts, and systems of display—Anna Franceschini explores reality through kinetic sculptures and mechanical scenes that become a kind of cinema made without film.
The Polaroid Foundation supports, develops and produces artistic projects to which Polaroid cameras and film can meaningfully contribute, and its mission is to enable great work, document the creative process behind it, and share what we learn with the world.
With the 20x24 Project, the foundation aims to make the world’s largest instant camera, the Polaroid 20x24, available to select artists working across media, disciplines and cultures, for projects of their own conception, in locations of their choice.

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16/05/2026

JOANA ESCOVAL and GOSHKA MACUGA | “ENDLESS SUMMER” | Opening TODAY, h 6 - 10pm | Magazzino del Sale, Cervia |

“ENDLESS SUMMER” - 2026 Edition

with
Escovalspace

Opening TODAY, h 6 - 10pm
May 16, 2026 - July 1, 2026

Magazzino del Sale, Cervia

Vistamare is pleased to announce the participation of Joana Escoval and Goshka Macuga in ENDLESS SUMMER, the second chapter of the three-year exhibition cycle conceived by MAGMA APS, at the Magazzino del Sale in Cervia. Conceived as a collective and evolving curatorial platform, ENDLESS SUMMER reflects on the utopian idea of an endless summer as an evocative and narrative device — a suspended dimension where time stretches, light reshapes perception, and desire, memory, and melancholy coexist. Bringing together artists and curators from different generations and backgrounds, the exhibition unfolds as a shared space of dialogue and resonance, where works spanning painting, sculpture, video, photography, and performance enter into organic relationships free from competitive hierarchies. Developed specifically for the city of Cervia, the project explores the poetic and cultural imaginary of summer as both an intensely lived condition and an inevitably fleeting one.

Picture 1: Goshka Macuga, “Atoms Rearranged”, 2024. Oil on canvas, cm 60 x 75

Picture 2: Joana Escoval, “Ambientale II”, 2025. Indian ink, horsehair, earth, lavender leaves, olive leaves, water on linen, cm 180 x 180 x 2,5

12/05/2026

ROSA BARBA | “Drawing Vocabularies” | Opening May 15th, 2026, h 6.30 - 9.30pm | Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon |

Rosa Barba
“Drawing Vocabularies”, curated by Benjamin Weil

, Lisbon

opening May 15th, 2026, h 6.30 - 9.30pm
16.05.2026 – 28.09.2026

Vistamare is pleased to announce Rosa Barba’s solo exhibition Drawing Vocabularies, curated by Benjamin Weil, at Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
For her first large-scale exhibition in Portugal, Rosa Barba presents a new site-specific, time-based narrative, drawing on and expanding a range of conceptual threads she has explored over the years.
Rosa Barba’s work often considers the juxtaposition of natural landscapes and human-made changes to the environment, archival histories and futures, intimacies between astronomy and cinema, and non-actors as documents. At its core lies an ongoing reflection on impermanence – of materials, of images, and of thought itself.
At CAM, these themes come together through the physical presence of celluloid film, and cinematic apparatuses, used not only to create moving images but also as sculptural elements in their own right. The exhibition functions like a three-dimensional film and, at the same time, like a musical score – in which cinema allows time and space to vibrate, collapse, overlap, and expand.
With Drawing Vocabularies, Rosa Barba is the third artist to be offered a ‘carte blanche’ to intervene in the Nave space and to select works from the CAM Collection. This speculative engagement with histories, storage spaces and memory underlines the artist’s longstanding interest in archival possibilities and places where fact and fiction meet to foster new stories and hidden conversations. Through site-specific installation, performance, film, and sound, Barba reshapes and reimagines these structures, effectively ‘redrawing’ their vocabularies.

Picture: View of the exhibition ‘Rosa Barba. Frame Time Open’ at MAXXI. Courtesy the artist, Esther Schipper, Vistamare. ©Andrea Rossetti

04/05/2026

FRANCESCA BANCHELLI, “Abyss. When Two Shadows Overlay, Do They Get Darker?” | Vistamare PESCARA | Opening Saturday June 6th, h 7-9pm |

Vistamare is pleased to present Abyss. When Two Shadows Overlay, Do They Get Darker?, Francesca Banchelli’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in Pescara, following the site-specific project developed in 2024 at the Milan venue as part of the Focus on programme.
Francesca Banchelli’s artistic practice spans painting, performance and sculpture, articulating a multi-layered visual language in which the dreamlike and reality intertwine.
Her work explores the relationship between time, memory, and imagination, giving life to suspended narratives and immersive environments.
The exhibition brings together a new series of paintings and sculptures conceived specifically for the exhibition spaces.These works arise from a reflection on the present and its psychological impact, addressing the tension between individual and collective dimensions—a central theme in the artist’s research.
Breaking with the previous cycle, The Fugitive – characterised by the crossing of desert landscapes and undefined territories – Abyss presents human figures at rest, in a state of listening, poised between transparency and materiality, presence and the loss of the body. Often situated on shores or cliffs, they inhabit a liminal space where states of solitude, closeness, detachment and desire manifest themselves, capturing a world in transformation.
The exhibition project is intended as a narrative device that draws the viewer into a form of quantum timelessness, conveyed through an almost cinematic opening sequence – another medium employed by the artist. A single moment expands into a multitude of perspectives, variations of light and latent possibilities, like a sun that can be glimpsed even when hidden behind a mountain.

Picture: Francesca Banchelli, I tre fuochi, 2026 (detail). Oil on cotton canvas, cm 80 x 150

30/04/2026

ROSA BARBA, “Tangible Kinships” | Installation views at Vistamare MILANO | Now on view through June 20, 2026 |

The Gallery in Milan will be closed Saturday May 2. We will reopen on Monday May 4 from 10.30am to 7pm!

Picture 1-2: Installation views
Picture 3: Rosa Barba, “They Are Taking All My Letters”, 2025.
Photo by Agostino Osio

22/04/2026

ROSA BARBA | Book Launch | Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series | OUT TOMORROW |

ROSA BARBA
New monograph published by , out tomorrow!
With Stuart Comer, Shanay Jhaveri, Élisabeth Lebovici, Julie Ault

Rosa Barba is a Berlin-based artist whose work offers a crucial deconstruction of film and sculpture and how the two relate to each other. While her installations and site-specific interventions challenge and reconstitute the viewer’s notions of cinema and its staging vis-à-vis gesture, genre, documents, and information, her films settle at an ambiguous point between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, thriving in a contemporary moment while hinging on fleeting memory and encroaching uncertainty.
Predicated by extensive study in a variety of places, and occasionally enhanced by live performances conceived to activate her pieces, Barba’s art provides an experience that brings back the audience to the bewildered, complex reality that surrounds us every day.
Extensively illustrated with more than 150 photographs, this first monograph on the groundbreaking artist includes essays and texts from art-world luminaries, an illuminating new interview with Barba, studio photography, and more.

16/04/2026

MIART | APRIL 17-19, 2026 | MILANO |

It’s preview day!

📍Vistamare
Booth C09-11
Allianz MiCo South Wing, Milano

With works by Rosa Barba, Claudia Comte, Sara Enrico, Joana Escoval, Anna Franceschini, Linda Fregni Nagler, Mimmo Jodice, Joseph Kosuth, Goshka Macuga, Eileen Quinlan, Ettore Spalletti, Agnes Waruguru

🗓️VIP Preview: Today
Public days:
Tomorrow, h 11.30 am – 8 pm
Saturday, April 18, h 11.30 am – 8 pm
Sunday, April 19, h 11 am – 7 pm

14/04/2026

ANNA FRANCESCHINI | “Nothing is more mysterious. A fact that is well explained” | “Movements” in collaboration with .moritz_art_film_festival | Film screenings Friday April 17, Saturday April 18 and Sunday April 19 |

Anna Franceschini
“Nothing is more mysterious. A fact that is well explained”, 2010
16 mm film transferred on dvd, colour, mute, 11’ 45’’

Fim screenings for “Movements”, a special project during
In collaboration with St. Moritz Art Film Festival
Curated by Stefani Rabolli Pansera

Friday, April 17th and Saturday, April 18th at 2pm and 4.30pm
Sunday, April 19th at 2pm and 4pm

During Miart 2026, there will be the debut of the special project “Movements”, dedicated to the moving image. The programme presents 20 films by artists represented by 15 galleries, exploring for the first time at miart the poetic and experimental language of video and artist film.
The theme of Movements: If Music investigates the relationship between music and cinema as a space of possibility, where film becomes not narrative but vibration, rhythm and resonance. The works presented show how sound can transform perception, space and the body, generating new forms of experience.
Among the selected works is “Nothing is more mysterious. A fact that is well explained” by Anna Franceschini. The video reflects the idea of a private dimension in which filmed objects—shot on 16mm film and later transferred to DVD—reveal the intimate life of things and of the environments that host them, acting as a conditioned reflection of the human condition.

Picture: Anna Franceschini, “Nothing is more mysterious. A fact that is well explained”, 2010 (video still).

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