Righi Collection Award

The Righi Collection Award, in its 4 th edition in 2026, focuses on the work of recent generations of Italian artists.

Currently consisting of over a thousand museum-quality works, the Righi Collection, one of Italy’s largest private collections of contemporary art, was created to work actively with the public and the community. Over the past thirty years, it has supported the work of artists (and of galleries) as well as the needs of public institutions.

It has formed a partnership with Museion in Bolzano (which stores a number of the collection’s works) and has co-produced projects included in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennial of Art and the Kassel documenta. The collection has also been the subject of exhibitions in museums and institutions such as the Collection Lambert in Avignone, Museion in Bolzano, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Grand Palais in Paris, and Palazzo Fortuny in Venice.
 

Promoter:
Enea Righi

Jury:
Michele Bertolino, Associate curator, Centro Pecci;
Andrea Viliani, Director, MUCIV-Museum of Civilizations, Rome;
Frida Carazzato, Research curator, Fondazione Museion.

Selected artists:
-       Andrea Di Lorenzo, Martagon, 2025 (UV print on acetate, 500x200 cm), Fuocherello Gallery (Hall 25, B52)
-       Lorenza Longhi, P/A 3, 2025 (silkscreen ink on fabric mounted on wood panel, aluminum, screws, 2 elements, 170x140x3 cm each Unique), Fanta-MLN Gallery (Hall 25, B36)
-       Liliana Moro, Piazza #2, 2007 (silver spray paint, stand, pedestal: 131x20x20 cm), Raffaella Cortese Gallery (Hall 25, B5)
 

Winning artist: Liliana Moro

Title of work: Piazza #2, 2007, (silver spray paint, stand, pedestal: 131x20x20 cm)

Gallery: Raffaella Cortese (Hall 25, B5)

Motivation: Liliana Moro is a radical artist who interprets every artistic act as a public act, and also as a political and civil act, that involves responsibility toward others and toward the public in general. Her work is based on tension between opposites: lightness and heaviness, freedom and rigor, method and experimentation, collapsing and rebuilding. She takes objects for what they are, affirms their ordinariness, and reworks them in an oblique relation that plays on surprise, ironic twists, and sense of artistic gesture.