Events Agenda at the Fair
Welcome to the Events Agenda at the Fair.
Discover the rich program of scheduled appointments: book talks, performances and awards. You can search for events by DAY, LOCATION and EVENT TYPE.
Thursday 05 february
from 16:00 to 16:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life.
Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes.
An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
from 17:00 to 23:00 Piazza Costituzione
Vernissage
from 18:00 to 18:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life. Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes. An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
Friday 06 february
from 10:00 to 18:30 Hall 26
The New Many Classroom
The New Many is a classroom dedicated to the practices, forms, and economies of artist’s editions in contemporary art and visual culture. Curated by Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti and Francesco Spampinato, in collaboration with the Second Cycle Degree in Visual Arts at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, the project unfolds within the Multiples section of ARTEFIERA 49 as a public-facing space for study, exchange, and production.
Conceived as a temporary platform for active observation and collective learning, the classroom investigates the notion of the multiple in its expanded, post-digital condition: from printed editions to art objects, from design and merchandise to artist records, digital practices, and NFTs. Through talks, working sessions, and on-site research activities, The New Many brings together artistic, curatorial, and production practices that critically engage with questions of reproducibility, distribution, and the circulation of cultural materials.
from 12:00 to 13:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
John Giorno. The Performative Word
John Giorno. The Performative Word (Mousse, 2026).
Participants: Lorenzo Balbi (Director of MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna), Nicola Ricciardi (Curator and art critic)and Bonnie Whitehouse, (Archivist and Registrar, Giorno Poetry System).
from 12:00 to 12:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life.
Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes.
An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
from 13:00 to 14:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Paolo Berti, Estetiche della geolocalizzazione. Pratiche artistiche e media locativi and AA.VV, AI & Conflicts vol. 2
Paolo Berti, Estetiche della geolocalizzazione. Pratiche artistiche e media locativi (Sapienza Università Editrice, 2025) and AA.VV, AI & Conflicts vol. 2 (Krisis Publishing, 2025).
Participants: the author, Daniela Cotimbo (Curator with Francesco D’Abbraccio and Andrea Facchetti of AI & Conflicts vol. 2, Independent curator and founder of Re:humanism, Professor of Theory and Method of Mass Media, RUFA - Rome University of Fine Arts) and Stefania De Vincentis (Associate Professor of History of Contemporary Art, Ca' Foscari University, Venice and author of Museo digitale. Esperienze e progetti).
In collaboration with La Galleria BPER.
from 14:00 to 15:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Silvia Camporesi, Una foto è una foto è una foto
Silvia Camporesi, Una foto è una foto è una foto (Einaudi, 2025).
Participants: the author and Walter Guadagnini (Photography historian).
from 15:00 to 16:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Michael E. Smith, CC
Michael E. Smith, CC (CURA, 2026).
Participants: Luca Lo Pinto (curator), Simone Menegoi (Critic and curator) and Tommaso Pasquali (Art historian).
from 16:00 to 17:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Award Ceremony Arte Fiera 2026
Arte Fiera is happy to present the awards for the 2026 edition. There are seven main supporters of Italian contemporary art at Arte Fiera: the event’s main sponsors, private collectors, and one national award. Seven awards involving emerging and mid-career artists, as well as a multiplicity of subjects and languages reflecting contemporaneity.
The award ceremony will be held on Friday February 7 at 4 PM in the Book Talk area of the Services Center.
In addition to the seven awards at the fair, there is the Arte Fiera Fund, an important new acquisition fund of €100,000 financed by BolognaFiere and Cosmoprof.
from 17:00 to 18:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Matteo Binci, Sound Chronicles. MPDS Audio Archive and Gabriele Tosi, AA. VV, Sound Chapters. Voices of Sound Experimentation in Italy
Matteo Binci (curated by), Sound Chronicles. MPDS Audio Archive (Quodlibet, 2025) and Gabriele Tosi (curated by), AA.VV, Sound Chapters. Voices of Sound Experimentation in Italy (Viaindustriae, 2025).
Participants: the curators, Alice Mazzarella (Viaindustriae) and Fabio Sisti (Sound designer, Editorial Coordinator Sound Chronicles).
from 18:00 to 18:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life.
Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes.
An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
Saturday 07 february
from 11:00 to 18:00 Hall 26
The New Many Classroom
The New Many is a classroom dedicated to the practices, forms, and economies of artist’s editions in contemporary art and visual culture. Curated by Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti and Francesco Spampinato, in collaboration with the Second Cycle Degree in Visual Arts at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, the project unfolds within the Multiples section of ARTEFIERA 49 as a public-facing space for study, exchange, and production.
Conceived as a temporary platform for active observation and collective learning, the classroom investigates the notion of the multiple in its expanded, post-digital condition: from printed editions to art objects, from design and merchandise to artist records, digital practices, and NFTs. Through talks, working sessions, and on-site research activities, The New Many brings together artistic, curatorial, and production practices that critically engage with questions of reproducibility, distribution, and the circulation of cultural materials.
from 12:00 to 13:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Giorgia Bertolino (curated by), NEWS FROM THE NEAR FUTURE. 30 years of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation
Giorgia Bertolino (curated by), NEWS FROM THE NEAR FUTURE. 30 years of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation (Allemandi, 2025).
Participants: the curator, Lorenzo Balbi (Director of MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna) and Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (President of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo).
from 12:00 to 12:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life.
Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes.
An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
from 13:00 to 14:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Il Giardino delle Risonanze
Il Giardino delle Risonanze (Hopefulmonster, 2025).
Participants: Costantino D'Orazio (Acting Director, National Museums of Bologna), Luana Toniolo (Director of National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia and Managing Director of Archeological Park of Appia antica) and Andrea Viliani (Director, MUCIV-Museum of Civilizations, Rome).
from 14:00 to 15:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Chiara Calgaro, Changing Room and Eleonora Agostini, A Study On Waitressing
Chiara Calgaro, Changing Room (Altana, 2025) and Eleonora Agostini, A Study On Waitressing (Witty Books, 2024).
Participants: the authors. Moderated by Saul Marcadent (Researcher at Iuav University, Venice, and curator).
from 15:00 to 16:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Raffaella Perna (curated by), Riga 49: Gruppo 70
Raffaella Perna (curated by), Riga 49: Gruppo 70 (Quodlibet, 2026).
Participants: the curator, Marco Belpoliti (Essayist and writer, Professor at Università Vita e Salute, Milan), Elio Grazioli (Contemporary art critic, retired Professor of History of Contemporary Art at University of Bergamo) and Nicolas Martino (critic, Professor of Esthetics at Academy of Fine Arts, Sassari, and at NABA).
from 16:00 to 17:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Alessandra Spranzi, La dimensione delle cose / The Dimension of Things
Alessandra Spranzi, La dimensione delle cose / The Dimension of Things (Viaindustriae, 2026).
Participants: the artist, Cecilia Canziani (curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, co-founder of IUNO and author), Ilaria Gianni (curator of the volume), Simone Menegoi (critic and curator) and Filippo Nostri (graphic designer).
The book was published with the support of the Italian Council (2024).
from 16:00 to 16:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life. Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes. An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
from 17:00 to 18:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Sudario #1: Ouroboros
Sudario #1: Ouroboros.
Participants: Rä di Martino (Artist), Irene Fenara (Artist) and Stefano Tripodi (Founder of Sudario).
from 18:00 to 18:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life.
Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes.
An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
Sunday 08 february
from 11:00 to 17:30 Hall 26
The New Many Classroom
The New Many is a classroom dedicated to the practices, forms, and economies of artist’s editions in contemporary art and visual culture. Curated by Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti and Francesco Spampinato, in collaboration with the Second Cycle Degree in Visual Arts at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, the project unfolds within the Multiples section of ARTEFIERA 49 as a public-facing space for study, exchange, and production.
Conceived as a temporary platform for active observation and collective learning, the classroom investigates the notion of the multiple in its expanded, post-digital condition: from printed editions to art objects, from design and merchandise to artist records, digital practices, and NFTs. Through talks, working sessions, and on-site research activities, The New Many brings together artistic, curatorial, and production practices that critically engage with questions of reproducibility, distribution, and the circulation of cultural materials.
from 12:00 to 13:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Alterazioni Video, INCOMPIUTO. La nascita di uno stile and AA.VV, Sicilia
Alterazioni Video, INCOMPIUTO. La nascita di uno stile (Humboldt Books, 2025) and AA.VV, Sicilia (Istituto Sicilia, 2025).
Participants: Chiara Baldovini (Istituto Sicilia), Martina Motta (Researcher) and Giacomo Porfiri - Alterazioni Video (Artist and author).
from 12:00 to 12:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life. Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes. An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
from 13:00 to 14:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Flavio de Marco, Screen Life and PIN. Pittura italiana del Novecento
Flavio de Marco, Screen Life and PIN. Pittura italiana del Novecento (Quodlibet, 2026).
Participants: the author, Lorenzo Balbi (Director of MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna), Luca Bertolo (Artist and professor) and Federico Ferrari (Philosopher and professor).
from 15:00 to 16:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato (curated by), Notti | Cinque secoli di stelle, sogni, pleniluni
Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato (curated by), Notti | Cinque secoli di stelle, sogni, pleniluni (Corraini, 2025).
Participants: the curators.
from 15:00 to 15:50 Padiglione Esprit Nouveau
Wardrobe
Performance by Chalisée Naamani
Wardrobe (2025), a new project conceived specifically for the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, combines a site-specific architectural presentation with a performance by the artist in person. Inspired by the dual nature of the Padiglione – manifesto of modernist ideals and prototype of the machine à habiter (a house is a machine for living) – Naamani transforms the building into a sort of large wardrobe in which she stages daily life through the act of ironing. By means of a simple and repeated gesture, Naamani transforms this domestic action into a critical device, revealing the ways in which the body becomes part of, adapts to, and renegotiates the spatial and functional systems of daily life. Admission is free and no booking is required. You do not need to purchase a ticket for Arte Fiera to attend the performance. Please note that the daily ticket (1 entry) does not allow you to leave and re-enter the fair. We therefore recommend that you visit the Padiglione before entering Arte Fiera or when you leave. Each performance lasts approximately 75 to 90 minutes. An Arte Fiera – Bologna Fiere project in collaboration with Furla Foundation. Curated by Bruna Roccasalva.
from 16:00 to 17:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Marco Scotini (curated by), Ugo La Pietra. La mia territorialità
Marco Scotini (curated by), Ugo La Pietra. La mia territorialità (Manfredi Maretti, 2026).
Participants: the artist, the curator and Manuel Orazi (Author and Professor of the History of Architecture and the City).
from 17:00 to 18:00 Centro Servizi - Area Book Talk
Clarissa Ricci, Mercanti a Venezia. La Biennale e il suo Ufficio Vendite
Clarissa Ricci, Mercanti a Venezia. La Biennale e il suo Ufficio Vendite (Armando Editore, 2026).
Participants: the author, Francesco Angelini (Adjunct professor at the University of Bologna and Ca' Foscari University of Venice), and Roberto Grandi (Professor at Bologna Business School – University of Bologna).