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Künstlerhaus Villa Romana, Florenz
Die Villa Romana ist ein Ort der zeitgenössischen künstlerisch Der Villa Romana - Preis ist der älteste deutsche Kunstpreis.
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Künstlerhaus Villa Romana, Florenz

Die Villa Romana ist ein Ort der zeitgenössischen künstlerischen Produktion und des internationalen Austauschs. Nur zehn Minuten vom Florentiner Stadtzentrum entfernt, vereint sie die Ruhe eines großen Gartengrundstücks mit der urbanen Realität einer Großstadt. Seit 1905 wird er jährlich an vier in Deutschland lebende Künstler verliehen. Er ist mit einem mehrmon

atigen Arbeitsaufenthalt im Künstlerhaus Villa Romana, einem freien Atelier sowie einem monatlichen Stipendium verbunden. Seine Bestimmung ist es, herausragenden Künstlern die Gelegenheit zu geben, sich während eines längeren Aufenthalts in Florenz auf die Entwicklung ihres künstlerischen Werks zu konzentrieren. Die Villa Romana-Preisträger werden von jährlich wechselnden Juroren benannt. Das Künstlerhaus Villa Romana wurde 1905 von dem deutschen Maler Max Klinger ins Leben gerufen. Die Geschichte des Villa Romana - Preises ist mit bedeutenden Künstlern wie Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz, Ernst Barlach, Georg Baselitz, Horst Antes, Michael Buthe, Anna Oppermann, Katharina Grosse verbunden. Oft wurde der Villa Romana - Preis am Beginn einer Karriere verliehen und hat so moderne Kunstgeschichte mitgeschrieben. Mit Ausstellungen, einem breiten Spektrum an Veranstaltungen und Einladungen internationaler Gastkünstler betreibt die Villa Romana heute den Dialog mit Produzenten und Publikum, platziert sich im internationalen künstlerischen Kontext und fördert die Kommunikation mit den Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums. In der an kunsthistorischen Schätzen überreichen Stadt Florenz positioniert sich die Villa Romana als ein Forum zeitgenössischer Kunst, das Dialoge mit dem Publikum vor Ort und Kooperationen mit internationalen Partnern initiiert.

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Casa per Artisti Villa Romana, Firenze

Villa Romana è un centro di produzione di arte contemporanea e di scambio internazionale. A soli dieci minuti dal centro di Firenze, unisce la tranquillità di una villa neoclassica all´interno di un vasto parco alla realtà di un grande centro urbano. Il Premio Villa Romana è il più antico premio tedesco conferito ad artisti. Dal 1905, viene assegnato annualmente a quattro (inizialmente tre) giovani artisti. Consiste in una borsa di studio e nella possibilità di risiedere e lavorare per diversi mesi nella Casa degli artisti di Villa Romana. Il suo obiettivo è consentire a dei giovani artisti particolarmente meritori la possibilità di dedicarsi completamente all´evoluzione del proprio linguaggio artistico durante un lungo soggiorno a Firenze. Villa Romana è stata fondata nel 1905 dal pittore tedesco Max Klinger. L´opera di questo artista, di cui è stato ricorso il 150esimo anniversario della nascita nel 2007, veniva celebrata e rivalutata tramite una numerosa serie di mostre (per esempio: Museum der Bildenden Künste di Lipsia, Kunsthalle di Amburgo, Staatliche Kunsthalle di Karlsruhe). Da più di 100 anni, il Premio Villa Romana è legato al nome di artisti di grande significato. Nel periodo antecedente la prima guerra mondiale furono ospiti di Villa Romana artisti del calibro di Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz, Ernst Barlach, Max Pechstein e Georg Kolbe. Il Premio Villa Romana è stato spesso assegnato ad artisti che si stavano affacciando ad una significativa carriera ed è quindi strettamente legato alla storia dell´arte contemporanea. Attraverso mostre, incontri con ospiti internazionali e un ampio ventaglio di iniziative, Villa Romana porta avanti nel presente un fitto dialogo con gli artisti e il pubblico, situandosi in un contesto artistico internazionale e promuovendo la comunicazione con le culture del Mediterraneo.

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Residence for artists Villa Romana, Florence

Villa Romana is a place of contemporary artistic production and of international exchange. Only ten minutes away from the city centre of Florence, it combines the peacefulness of a neoclassical villa within a large garden property with the urban reality of a city. The Villa Romana Fellowship is the oldest German art prize. Since 1905, Villa Romana Fellowships have been awarded to four (originally three) young artists annually. The Fellowship consists of a stay of several months, working in the artist´s house Villa Romana, the use of an atelier and a monthly stipend. Its purpose is to give outstanding young artists the opportunity to concentrate on their artistic development during a prolonged stay in Florence. Villa Romana was founded in 1905 by the German painter Max Klinger, whose work was being honoured and reappraised through numerous exhibitions in 2007(at the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, at the Kunsthalle Hamburg, and at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe amongst others) to mark his 150th birthday. The history of the Villa Romana Fellowship has been associated with significant artists for over 100 years. Before the First World War, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz, Ernst Barlach, Max Pechstein and Georg Kolbe were among the guests of the Villa. The Villa Romana Fellowship has often been awarded at the beginning of a career and as such has helped to write modern art history. Through exhibitions and a broad range of events Villa Romana interacts with producers and the public, placing itself on the international artistic scene and promoting communication with the cultures of the Mediterranean area.

18/07/2024

🌀 JOIN US TOMORROW 19.07🌀 for a series of appointments with our 2024 Fellow Monaí de Paula Antunes and dramaturgist Maicyra Leão (Maternal Fantasies).

✨Workshop:

Towards a children assembly, an intergenerational perspective
For children from 6-12 years old, in german
11-15:00

The workshop invites participants to engage in the construction of visual narratives that bridge the imaginative world of children with the adult universe, fostering a dialogue between their desires, criticisms, and perspectives. By exploring how children visualize their surroundings and everyday life, we will overlay these insights with relationships built on utopian desires to construct a tangible future. This future will be grounded in the concrete experiences of children, rather than relying on pre-established discourses about what constitutes a good future.

🗣️Talk:

Knowledge-sharing session with Maicyra Leão (Maternal Fantasies), in conversation with fellow Monaí de Paula Antunes
From 15-16:00

The dramaturgist, professor and member of Maternal Fantasies Maicyra Leão presents aspects of her work with the feminist art collective, and particularly with their intergenerational live performances. This year’s fellow Monaí de Paula Antunes sets relationships between Maicyra’s experience and the children’s takeover that took place at Villa Romana in the summer of 2023 under her artistic direction.

🎉 Takeover Reunion - Release of the Video Documentation
For all ages
From 16:00

Children, families, educators, artists, Villa Romana inhabitants and their extended network gather under the olive tree one year after the magical week in the summer of 2023, when children took over the Villa Romana. We take the occasion to meet again, play, cook and eat together and watch the release of the video documentation of the project developed with much care by the Archipel team.

28/06/2024

🔔 We are so pleased to announce the second chapter of
GREATER THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS. The Villa Romana Fellows 2022 and intertwined echoes of the Fellows 2023🔔

As for the first chapter of this project, Villa Romana finds a suitable temporary home in an artists’ project space rather than in a museum: a space that historically in the city of Berlin has been continuously engaging with pressing social concerns and with the very possibilities of troubling, questioning, and critically tackling our times and contexts – a practice that Villa Romana embraces on an everyday basis, as A House of Mending, Troubling, and Repairing.

This exhibition and series of interventions functions as an engine of relationships and of connections, multiplied throughout bodies, art pieces, sound echoes, and through cross-references across the history of an institution about to turn 120 years old: the artists’ house Villa Romana. It is a celebration in two chapters of the Villa Romana Fellows 2022 intertwined with echoes of the Fellows 2023 and further resonances from the Florence artists’ house. These two generations of Villa Romana Prize winners lived intense times of institutional transition and transformation, against the backdrop of a world slowly transitioning out of one of the major crises of our times, the pandemic. Their work, their fellowship, and their resilience have materialised into a multidirectional force that we want here to embrace as something greater than the sum of each artist’s contribution.

The second chapter of the exhibition (4 July - 4 August) unfolds with the work of 2022 Villa Romana Fellows with Jasmina Metwaly and Alexander Skorobogatov with echoes by Diana Ejaita and Pinar Ogrenci (Fellows 2023).

Following the vernissage, Villa Romana is also pleased to launch the four artist booklets that form the Villa Romana publication of the Fellows 2022.

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graphic design by Lilia Di Bella
spatial strategies by Cecilia Buffa
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📆 Opening on 4 July 2024
⏳ from 7pm
📍 Spittastraße 25, 10317 Berlin, Germany

25/06/2024

🌴 Join us for a special evening at Trattoria Guaiana! 🎬

Tomorrow, June 26th, at 20:30, we’re screening Daphne Di Cinto’s ( ) acclaimed film Il Moro ( ) . 🎥 Meet the filmmaker herself in conversation with Mistura Allison (.a ).

📍 Villa Romana, Via Senese 68
📆 Wednesday, 26 June 2024
🕰️ 20:30

23/06/2024

💥 ONE MORE WEEK TO GO! 💥 Join us for the finissage of the first chapter of GREATER THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS. The Villa Romana Fellows 2022 and intertwined echoes of the Fellows 2023.

Join us on Sunday, June 30 at the Berlin artist-run space After the Butcher ( ) featuring the works of 2022 Villa Romana Fellows Neda Saaedi () and Haure Madjid () with echoes by 2023 Fellows Samuel Baah Kortey () and Jessica Ekomane ( )

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📆 Finissage on 30 June 2024
🕰️ From 4pm-8pm
📍 Spittastraße 25, 10317 Berlin, Germany

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Photo credit: Raisa Galore (.galofre)

19/06/2024

In post anthropocentric times, beyond western musical traditions, and in an epoch of dysphoria mundi and deep transition, we lend an ear to nature, to its rhythms and sounds, to the too silent relations between things, those that we are incapable of hearing amidst the loudness of our daily activities. We know they might not sound celestial, we are aware that they could sing out brutally, but we are compelled to listen.
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ECLITTICA. Exercises of attunement and cosmic resonances As the etymology of the word suggests, in the days between 20 and 24 of June, in the boreal hemisphere the sun seems to stop (sol + sistere), and stand still: Across Pagan and Christian traditions, the days of the solstice have been celebrated for thousands of years with ceremonies, rituals, and offerings. As we strive to re-attune collectively to the rhythms of nature in a collaborative way, through our garden and the practices of co-cultivation that we support here, for us these days also represent a brief period of rest between planting and harvesting. An occasion to invoke fertility and joy. The solstice is a liminal space, a threshold, a time when transformational experiences are possible. Some people believe that these days the veil between this world and (the) other world(s) is thinner, and the possibility of navigating through different dimensions is more contingent.

03/06/2024

🌵Trattoria Guaiana (2024) finally opened its doors at Villa Romana yesterday. Thank you all for supporting us in multitudes. Join us this week for a full line up of public programming, ending with the inauguration of the “Giardino Manteo” and cactus grill in our garden 🌵

Happening this week:

🍍 4 June: Radio Guaiana Toscana with Radio Papesse, with chef Prince Asford (), artist Niccoló Moronato (), researcher Alice Crippa () and curators Elena Agudio () + Mistura Allison (.a)

🍍 5 June: Talk with Guia Rossignoli (Restorer, Opificio delle Pietre Dure), Francesca Bigoni (Curator, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, SMA University of Florence), Fausto Barbagli (Ornithologist, Museo La Specola, SMA University of Florence) and Niccolò Moronato (Artist)

🍍 9 JUNE: With Lia Markey (Newberry Library, Chicago), Brian Brege (Syracuse University), Leslie Geddes (Tulane University) and Niccolò Moronato (artist)

🔜: Screening of Il Moro (2021), dir. Daphne di Cinto ()

See you a tavola! ✨

21/05/2024

📣 We are so pleased to announce GREATER THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS. The Villa Romana Fellows 2022 and intertwined echoes of the Fellows 2023 📣

For the first time the Villa Romana Fellows present their work at the Berlin artists-run space After the Butcher ( ), founded and animated by former Villa Romana Fellow Thomas Kilpper. In times of devastation, deep polarizations, sense of fear, and unsettling feelings, the artists’ house Villa Romana, founded in 1905 by Max Klinger with the aim of creating room for an independent forum and for free artistic experimentation, finds a suitable temporary home in an artists’ project space rather than in a museum: A space that historically in the city of Berlin has been continuously engaging with pressing social concerns and with the very possibilities of troubling, questioning, and criticality tackling our times and contexts – a practice that Villa Romana embraces on an everyday basis, as A House of Mending, Trobling, and Repairing. In this very moment of unrest and of general crisis, the urgency of criticality, of being close to one another, the need for talking, and making sense of things together, seems crucial. There is an urgency for holding each other, for grieving together, but also for celebrating each other’s commitment to the understanding of artistic work as a labour of repair.
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The first chapter of the exhibition (30 May – 30 June) unfolds with the work of 2022 Villa Romana Fellows Neda Saaedi and Haure Majid with echoes by Samuel Baah Kortey and Jessica Ekomane (Fellows 2023) and cross-border radio interferences from Villa Romana at present.

📆 Opening on 30 May 2024
🕰️ from 7pm
📍 Spittastraße 25, 10317 Berlin, Germany

31 May – 30 June: I Chapter, with Haure Madjid () , Neda Saeedi ( ), and with Samuel Baah Kortey( ) and Jessica Ekomane ( ).
5 July - 4 August: II Chapter, with Jasmina Metwaly, Alexander Skorobogatov, and with Diana Ejaita and Pınar Öğrenci.

27/03/2024

On Wednesdays we are rummaging the Villa Romana archive! Here comes another entry for this regular column by our ✨

In 1976, Nikolaus Lang resided at the Villa Romana alongside Bertram Weigel, Michael Bette and Michael Buthe. He was part of the group known as “forensic experts,” artists dedicated to collecting artifacts bearing traces of human intervention and actions, presenting them in a methodical and systematically labeled manner. By the time he arrived in Florence, Lang was already recognized as the foremost German representative of this movement.

Lang delved into exploring the historical and local contexts of the biographies of individuals concealed behind the discovered artifacts, as well as the physical remains themselves. During his time in Florence, Lang produced a pivotal work centered on a new thematic complex, addressing natural history and the destiny of nature. While traveling from Volterra to Palagio, he observed sand pits revealing layers of pigment, already utilized by Tuscan artists for frescoes in the Quattrocento.

Lang collected and organized samples of the pigments, ultimately creating a cycle that spanned from the mineral deposits of the paint to its application on paper. Simultaneously, this work allowed him to engage with the fine art of painting. A few years later, Lang showcased the resulting piece at documenta 6, titled “Colors: Attempts to Visualize Earth Tones,” alongside two other works produced in Florence.

25/03/2024

We are pleased to introduce you to a former guest artist - Lena S. Keslin (), a New Mexico-based photographer, whose residency in Villa Romana dates back to 1973 and 1978, capturing the life of Villa Romana. Her return was not only a reunion, but a bridge to our past, offering valuable insights through an exclusive interview conducted by our wonderful intern Maike Wild and archivist Carlotta Castellani.
For Lena, as for most of us, Villa Romana is a place of fond memories, a sanctuary she longed to revisit. “Whenever I would do any kind of past life regression or one of those weird things, they would say, go to the place in your mind where you felt really at home, I would go to Villa Romana’s garden in my mind. It gives me the chills. It was a very special place for me.”
As Lena’s practice as photographer developed during her stay in Florence, she encountered many remarkable personalities. From Joachim Burmeister, former director of Villa Romana to numerous artists such as Irene Peschink, Hella Berent, Catharina Cousin, Walter Störer and Fried Rosenstock, each of whom left an indelible mark on her artistic journey. And then there was Bruno Casini, her good friend, the gardener, who brought her eggs, flowers and artichokes every morning.
‘ was becoming who I was meant to be. Florence just really spoke to my love of history, of architecture, you know, of being what I was longing for. I have an old soul, I guess. And 1 think I also have a very European soul; I feel very European.
[.. ] I feel Italian, you know, I still feel like when I’m here that a part of me is really home.”

23/03/2024

🎶 Join us to the first presentation of
“Acous-Coustic Sessions” as part of Zine Acoubie ( ) and Lorenzo Sandoval ( ) project “Acous/Eco/Oikos”.
The project researches the relationship between acoustics, domesticity and circular economy though the use of textile production and modular systems. For this first session, they introduce “Acous/Eco/Oikos”, alongside intervention by Villa Romana 2024 Fellow artists Rubén D’hers and Sergio Zevallos. The activations will be followed by a shared cous-cous meal 🍛 Come in multitudes!

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🗓️ Wednesday 27 March 2024
⏳ 19:00 - 21:30
📍 Villa Romana, Via Senese 68
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With the support of the Anna Lindh Foundation

12/03/2024

Join us for a lecture with philosopher Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca‘ Foscari University Venice) and his new book The Eye of Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (Verso, 2023) at Villa Romana on March 20 at 7pm.

In a roundable with our Villa Romana Fellow Monai de Paula Antunes and artist and curator Lorenzo Sandoval, guest artist resident, we will discuss how the myth of AI is grounded on the quantification and invisibilisation of our situated and social intelligence, and how algorithmic practices have been always existing in different cultures and times of human civilisation.

Organised in collaboration with Tiziano Bonini Baldini and the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena.

Background image of the poster is from “Shadow Writing (Geometry of Water)”, Lorenzo Sandoval, 2023
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01/03/2024

As we respond to the call set out by BHMF ( ) to repose as resistance; we start the season in sweet contemplation and immense gratitude of a moving Black History Month as we opened ‘Notes On The Wake. Rhapsody and Lamentations In Three Acts’ (on view until March 30 💥) featuring the generosity of Leo Asemota (), Lerato Shadi (.leratoshadi ), and Helena Uambembe ( ). We are grateful to Naomi Kelechi Di Meo ( ) for a powerful performance.

Followed by a transformative workshop event on February 17th, ‘Like Swarming Maggots: Archival Practices across Libya and Italy’ with readings by Amalie Elfallah (.arch ) and NiccolòAcram Cappelletto (.acram ), performance lecture by Tewa Barnosa ( ) and transnational sharing by Sarri Elfaitouri ( ) — as part of Like Swarming Maggots: Uses and Abuses of Colonial History by Alessandra Ferrini (.ferrini ) 💫

09/02/2024

💥 SAVE THE DATE!

A day of workshops, readings, and presentations on archival research, anticolonial approaches to artistic practice, literature and translation. Exploring Libyan heritage and Italian colonial legacies through the practices of Tewa Barnosa, Sarri Elfaitouri, Alessandro Spina, Amalie Elfallah and Niccolò Acram Cappelletto.

🗓️ 17.02.2024, 11:00 - 19:30
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This project is part of Like Swarming Maggots: Uses and Abuses of Colonial History by Alessandra Ferrini, a book project supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.

08/02/2024

+ SAVE THE DATE 👁️

𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝑶𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒌𝒆. 𝑹𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒔 is a critical invitation to grieving and resting well, through the practices of Leo Asemota, Lerato Shadi and Helena Uambembe.

The exhibition opens with performances and reading by Helena Uambembe, Naomi Kelechi Di Meo and Leo Asemota.

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🗓️ 16.02.2024-30.03-2024
🗓️ Opening: 16.02, 19:00. Performances 19:30-20:30

Curated by Mistura Allison, in the framework of Whole Rest, IX Edition by Black History Month Florence ( ).

16/01/2024

🥁We are so pleased to announce the winners of Testing Grounds Residency at Villa Romana starting in April 2024. Introducing:

🌱Saverio Cantoni (they/them) is a white, masculine-presenting cyborg, disabled - oral Deaf - artist based in Berlin. Saverio moved to Berlin nine years ago after attending public school in Italy, graduating in Art and Architecture. They is the author of a series of research projects, from which cycles of interconnected works derive. Saverio embraces tentacular thinking, developing different outputs that take the form of moving images, sounds, performative actions, and publishing projects; they combine different media to offer multiple access to their world-making.

🌱Yuni (Hoa Yun) Chung (she/her) is a visual artist based in Berlin, works with object, drawing, performance, video, sound and text. She studied literature and visual arts in South Korea, and is currently a student at MA Raumstrategien in Weißensee Kunsthochschule. In her practice, she uses metaphors to create a space where multiple media and different social contexts are interwoven, revealing the structural violence without replicating it.

🌱Gabriella Hirst (she/her) is an artist and writer. She was born and grew up on Cammeraygal land and is currently living in Berlin. She works primarily with moving image, sculpture, performance, and with the garden as a site of critique and care. Gabriella’s practice explores the politics of capture. She is interested in how art and archival structures attempt to keep dynamic places, objects, people and stories in a state of stasis. She is inspired by eco-feminism, plant stories, cinema history, and science fiction.

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This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

28/12/2023

Rummaging the Villa Romana Archive

Today’s post, the last of the year from our archive column, delves into a period before Villa Romana became an artist residence under Max Klinger’s ownership.

In 1850, a villa with approximately 40 rooms was constructed on the outskirts of Florence, deriving its name from Via Romana, later renamed Via Senese in 1870. Jewish advocate Giuseppe Servadio acquired the property and its surroundings in 1865.
Records indicate that engineer Mario Gigliucci and his family resided in the villa from 1872 to 1882. Among his children, Nerina Gigliucci stands out as one of the most intriguing female figures of her time and a significant woman in Italian nobility during the late 19th century.

Reflecting on her childhood in the villa, Nerina recalled, “As an eight-year-old, I was prescribed country air, so my parents rented Villa Romana... We stayed there for five years until the house on Savonarola Square was finished.“(Here she was talking about Villa Rossa, today Syracuse University). Although it wasn’t an easy sacrifice for her parents to move 2 km away from the city center, the villa offered comfort and spaciousness. The garden featured a beautiful lawn behind the villa with a salon opening onto it, providing a magnificent panorama of the city. (Extracts from the Villa Romana yearbook, 1903-1980).

Nerina Gigliucci became a member of the first Florentine women’s club founded in 1908, aiming to encourage women’s studies and intellectual pursuits. Inspired by these ideals, she cultivated friendships with American, Scottish, and English women, including Emily Sears, a pioneer in women’s higher education. Nerina expressed her creativity through poems and plays, often recited in her Florence home. Later in life, she became a nurse, volunteering during events like the Spanish epidemic, before marrying Gian Angelo Medici of Marignano and settling in the Medici’s villa in Briosco. The Medici family and, in particular, Nerina left many useful works to the town of Briosco e.g. the nursery school (1934). Until her death, she remained actively involved in social works and cultural activities.

20/12/2023

Throwback Wednesday* 🫂 We have been fondly looking back at photographs reviewing one year in Villa Romana. All of these memories have one thing in common... in this house, we love to gather and convene.
These fragments show just a small percentage of the amazing community we are so lucky to have, both old and new. We are so grateful to have the privilege to share, think, cook, and shapeshift in togetherness from day to night.
Here’s to another convivial year in the House for Mending, Troubling, Repairing 💥

19/12/2023

Throwback Tuesday 🫂 We have been fondly looking back at photographs reviewing one year in Villa Romana. All of these memories have one thing in common... in this house, we love to gather and convene.
These fragments show just a small percentage of the amazing community we are so lucky to have, both old and new. We are so grateful to have the privilege to share, think, cook, and shapeshift in togetherness from day to night.
Here's to another convivial year in the House for Mending, Troubling, Repairing 💥

19/12/2023

Throwback Tuesday 🫂 We have been fondly looking back at photographs reviewing one year in Villa Romana. All of these memories have one thing in common… in this house, we love to gather and convene. These fragments show just a small percentage of the amazing community we are so lucky to have, both old and new. We are so grateful to have the privilege to share, think, cook, and shapeshift in togetherness from day to night. Here’s to another convivial year in the House for Mending, Troubling, Repairing 💥

10/12/2023

One year into her time at Villa Romana, Kaleidoscopic Projects interviewed our director. Read the conversation between Leonardo Bravo and Elena Agudio here:
https://kaleidoscopicproject.substack.com/p/kaleidoscopic-no-25-elena-agudio

Kaleidoscopic Projects focuses on the actions and practices of cultural workers, designers, educators, artists, and activists working at the intersections of creativity, collaboration, and new imaginings.

Elena Agudio is an art historian, author, curator and mother of two children. Since December 2022 she has been the Director of the Villa Romana in Florence. She studied art history at the University of Venice - Ca’ Foscari and holds a PhD in contemporary art and design from the University of Palermo. From 2013 to 2022 she was the Artistic Co-Director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, where she conceived, curated and co-curated exhibition projects, discursive programmes, and event series. Her work is dedicated to unfolding curatorial and artistic practices as forms of questioning and troubling, exploring the disruptive force of collective imagination and enacting other forms of co-habitation and togetherness.

06/12/2023

What better way to start the week than supporting our very own Villa Romana inhabitants? Over the span of two invigorating evenings of sharing sessions organised by and - our dear curator .a and 2023 fellow , shared their respective research in conversation with . Inviting an engaged audience to imagine spaces of gathering and exchange ranging from future congress reactivations to monumental sculpture parks (watch this space!👀)

Thank you to for facilitating moments of reflection and futurity.

Recordings of both talks will soon be available via channels! 📼

22/11/2023

Rummaging through the Villa Romana Archive

Georg Baselitz is a name that constantly pops up while going through the Villa Romana archive. The scholar from the year 1965 was a close friend of Joachim Burmeister, the director of the Villa Romana from 1972 to 2006, and many letters of their correspondence can be found in the rich collection.

Baselitz was one of the prize winners that often visited Via Senese from his home in Castelfiorentino in the 1970s and 1980s. He also returned to the Villa Romana to participate at the Salone Villa Romana and presented his artworks in a salone-exhibition in 1988.

He wrote about his time in Florence, an episode in his early life that influenced his work further on: „My first prize was the Villa Romana Prize [...]. Modern art that we, the scholarship holders, needed, didn’t exist. There were no galleries and no museums for it. But instead this old art, the Mannerists, for example, whom I had read about in Gustav René Hocke.“

Baselitz was invited to show an exhibition in the Palazzo Vecchio and decided to simultaneously present his work in the Villa Romana, to show his gratitude towards the artist house. „”Georg Baselitz. Disegni e grafica“ was the title of lithographs, created in 1985/1986 and 18 newly made drawings with the title „La sedia di Paolo“, which he created especially for the villa and on the basis of which Katalin Burmeister was publishing an artist’s book of the same title.

With this cycle of paintings, Baselitz paid homage to Paul van Gogh’s well-known work „La sedia di [Paul] Gauguin“, which he had painted exactly 100 years earlier. In these archive pictures you can see Georg Baselitz during the vernissage of “Georg Baselitz. Disegni e grafica” at the Salone Villa Romana.

This column is curated by in collaboration with Carlotta Castellani and Villa Romana

22/11/2023

Rummaging through the Villa Romana Archive

Georg Baselitz is a name that constantly pops up while going through the Villa Romana archive. The scholar from the year 1965 was a close friend of Joachim Burmeister, the director of the Villa Romana from 1972 to 2006, and many letters of their correspondence can be found in the rich collection.

Baselitz was one of the prize winners that often visited Via Senese from his home in Castelfiorentino in the 1970s and 1980s. He also returned to the Villa Romana to participate at the Salone Villa Romana and presented his artworks in a salone-exhibition in 1988.

He wrote about his time in Florence, an episode in his early life that influenced his work further on: „My first prize was the Villa Romana Prize [...]. Modern art that we, the scholarship holders, needed, didn’t exist. There were no galleries and no museums for it. But instead this old art, the Mannerists, for example, whom I had read about in Gustav René Hocke.“

Baselitz was invited to show an exhibition in the Palazzo Vecchio and decided to simultaneously present his work in the Villa Romana, to show his gratitude towards the artist house. „”Georg Baselitz. Disegni e grafica“ was the title of lithographs, created in 1985/1986 and 18 newly made drawings with the title „La sedia di Paolo“, which he created especially for the villa and on the basis of which Katalin Burmeister was publishing an artist’s book of the same title.

With this cycle of paintings, Baselitz paid homage to Paul van Gogh’s well-known work „La sedia di [Paul] Gauguin“, which he had painted exactly 100 years earlier. In these archive pictures you can see Georg Baselitz during the vernissage of “Georg Baselitz. Disegni e grafica” at the Salone Villa Romana.

This column is curated by in conversation with Carlotta Castellani and Villa Romana

08/11/2023

Rummaging through the Villa Romana Archive.

In June 1945, Villa Romana was confiscated by the Italian state and subsequently leased by the forced administration. This marked the beginning of an interesting period in the history of the institution, when a circle of Italian artists found themselves within its walls. Among them were the Florentine painter Giovanni Colacicchi and his wife Flavia Arlotta - also an artist -, the painter Memo Vagaggini, and the painter Adriana Pincherle along with her husband, the painter Onofrio Martinelli.

Born in Rome in 1905 from an upper-middle class family of Jewish origin (her younger brother was the writer Alberto Moravia), Adriana Pincherle's early exposure to fine art was through her father, who painted with watercolors. After completing her classical studies, she immersed herself in the Roman artistic scene, attending free courses at the Academy. In 1931, she made her debut at the group exhibition "Prima mostra romana d'arte femminile" at the "Galleria di Roma." Her first solo show followed shortly after, gaining her the attention of art critics.

Pincherle was passionate about experimenting with dramatic colors in her works. Her husband, the painter Onofrio Martinelli, had a significant influence on her art. She was also inspired by French artists like Henri Matisse, whose style played a substantial role in one of her most famous artworks: A two-dimensional self-portrait, created between 1931 and 1932, can be found in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. In this artwork, she portrayed herself in her studio, holding a color palette.

In the later stages of her artistic journey, Adriana Pincherle returned to the enchanting world of domestic interiors, a theme she had explored extensively in the 1940s.

Adriana once expressed, "My painting has always been figurative, not realist. In this sense, I've felt a strong affinity for the Informal movement, which essentially pushed my passion for color to the extreme." Her commitment to figurative art allowed for interpretation and expression while maintaining a connection to the tangible world.

27/10/2023

So proud to share that our fellow Samuel Baah Kortey () will be showcasing his research at The Recovery Plan () here in Florence. The exhibition inaugurates tomorrow Saturday 28th October from 18:00.

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THERE ARE TIMES LIKE THESE

curated by BHMF
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The Recovery Plan
Via Santa Reparata 19r, Florence
October 28-December 3 2023
Opening Saturday October 28 at 6PM

How might we articulate the time that we are living in, in a way that is conscious and caring of how much our time is informed by what has preceded us? How might we attend to all that has evaded commemoration yet is the ground upon which we stand? There are Times Like These is an exhibition based on ongoing research by artist Samuel Baah Kortey, currently a fellow at the Villa Romana. The project examines the aesthetics of commemoration, public forms of ancestral veneration and the role of celebrating cultural and political figures in life, not only in death.

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