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.
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.