Appointments, events and exhibitions in Italy not to miss this summer

Ph. Dario Borruto

Design in a Real World
Hosted at Villa Marie—a historic 18th-century Tuscan residence restored to its original splendor—Design in a Real World celebrates the deep connection between design and the Tuscan territory, a region known for its artisanal richness and the origin of many of the participating designers. The "real world" in the title contrasts the constructed, artificial, and often hectic attitude of the city and industrial design with a more local, slow, and reflective craftsmanship-based perspective. This characterizes both the self-produced pieces on display and life outside major urban centers.

By appointment only until September 28
Villa Marie, Vorno



Festival delle Orestiadi
Every year, Gibellina hosts the Orestiadi Festival, a major cultural event and one of the key symbols of Sicilian culture.
Founded to support the cultural revival of Gibellina, this international festival of theater, music, and visual arts offers concerts, exhibitions, and performances of various kinds, held in the city’s artistic spaces and animated by the diverse languages of contemporary expression.

Until August 3
Fondazione Orestiadi, Gibellina



OCA Oasy Contemporary Art and Architecture
An immersive experience in the heart of the Pistoia Apennines, within the Oasi Dynamo nature reserve. This circular route features site-specific works by world-renowned architects and urban planners including Alejandro Aravena, Mariangela Gualtieri with Michele De Lucchi, Kengo Kuma, Quayola, David Svensson, Pascale Marthine Tayou, and Matteo Thun.
The works are designed to adapt to local characteristics, creating a deep symbiosis with the environment itself.

Until November 7
Oasi Dynamo, Limestre (Pistoia)


Ph. Mimmo Jodice

Mimmo Jodice. L’enigma della luce
An intimate journey through the most iconic photographs by Mimmo Jodice. Featuring 140 black-and-white images created between 1964 and 2015, the exhibition affirms the greatness of the Neapolitan master.
The thematic sequence explores the main themes of his work: language, social engagement, tradition, silence, relationship with classical art, and visions of nature and the city that go beyond national borders to form a global artistic perspective.

Until November 4
Castello di Udine



Pulci più di prima, ora
Artist Valerio Eliogabalo Torrisi engages with the archives preserved at the Casa della Memoria to give voice to buried stories, forgotten bodies, letters, and diaries recounting broken yet dignified lives.
All the displayed works are unpublished, the result of months of research and close engagement with archival documents, including letters from those sentenced to death, testimonies from deportees, stories of exile, and underground lives.

Until September 21
Casa della Memoria, Milano



Wangechi Mutu – Poemi della terra nera
A site-specific installation developed inside the rooms of Galleria Borghese, as well as on its façade and in its Secret Gardens, Poems of the Black Earth challenges classical tradition with suspended and fragmented forms. It creates a multilayered dialogue between the artist’s contemporary language and ancient authority.
Using sculpture, installation, and moving images, the artist introduces organic, fluid, and changing substances into a traditionally marble- and gold-dominated space, transforming the museum into a living organism shaped by loss, adaptation, and reconfiguration.

Until September 14
Galleria Borghese, Roma


Ph. Ginaluca Vassallo

Inventario Stagionale
A participatory photography project curated by Gianluca Vassallo. Inventario Stagionale invites locals and tourists to take part in a collective artistic experience. Every day until September 30, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM, anyone can be photographed (for free) by Vassallo.
Each evening, starting at 9:00 PM, those same individuals are invited to place their images within a grid occupying the exhibition space at GOLA. The exhibition functions as a living organism, capturing and reflecting the relationships formed within the seasonal community inhabiting San Teodoro over the summer.

Until September 30
GOLA, San Teodoro



Andrea Branzi e Michele De Lucchi
This exhibition presents a dialogue between two key figures in Italian and international design, exploring their vision of architecture in its most intimate and conceptual dimensions.
Andrea Branzi presents a selection entirely dedicated to glassworks—poetic, fragile, and conceptual objects. Michele De Lucchi showcases a collection of drawings created as personal and reflective gestures, alongside sculptures that focus on the stone as a symbolic and spiritual element.

Until August 8
Galleria Antonia Jannone, Pietrasanta