Hosted by Soho House Rome for a weekend of discovering the city’s most interesting galleries – and the perfect place to talk directly with those who work in the art world, through a series of talks hosted by Sara Terzi which we tell you more about below – we had the time to put together a list of the six exhibitions that, in our view, are worth seeing in Rome right now, among all the galleries that took part in the initiative. It is no coincidence that our base was here: Soho House Rome houses one of the most extensive private art collections of its kind, curated in 2021 by Kate Bryan and Sara Terzi, with a focus on Roman and Italian artists and a thematic thread around the concept of Saints and Sinners.
- Francesca Woodman at Gagosian — around fifty photographs, many previously unseen, made throughout her life. An exploration of her affinities with Surrealism that restores the visionary power of an artist who continues to speak to the present.
- Friedrich Kunath at Tim Van Laere — painting, sculpture, installation and video in evocative, melancholic compositions suspended between German Romanticism and American West Coast pop culture.
- Francesco Cima at Spazio Amanita — Osteria del sole is a solo show of landscapes that bring together distant physical and temporal spaces, bathed in a twilight light that recalls the emotional resonances of Romanticism.
- Tornabuoni Arte — Passo a due traces, through pairs of works in dialogue and letters exchanged between artists, the transformations that shaped new visual languages. On show: Fontana, Burri, Accardi, Dorazio, Magnelli and others.
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- Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea — Dopo le sei di sera. Derive del realismo magico explores the persistence of certain aesthetic trajectories of magical realism in contemporary art, with works by Alessia Armeni, Anne Buckwalter, Dario Carratta, Ruoxi Jin and Luca Rubegni.
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- Monitor — 50 x 35, a solo show by Elisa Montessori, a painter whose research traces the influence of two worlds: the cultural richness of the West and the more gestural, hidden language of the East.
Soho House Rome accompanied the gallery trail with a programme of talks. Sara Terzi, Senior Art Collections Manager, spoke about the curatorial vision and acquisition process behind one of the largest private collections of its kind: over 11,000 works on permanent display across all the Houses around the world. Alongside her, in conversation with the collective Numero Cromatico, a discussion on artistic practice at the intersection of art and neuroscience, and on the installation Now more than ever. Closing the programme, a panel with Mario Mainetti and Sara Piccinini, moderated again by Sara Terzi, on the inner workings of institutions of the calibre of Fondazione Prada and Collezione Maramotti.
cover: Luca Rubegni, Allégorie italienne, Passage (2024), on show at Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea in Dopo le sei di sera
