After celebrating a half-century of activity with a fantastic 2024 edition, marked by the return of large galleries and by many collectors, Arte Fiera looks to the future and confirms its growth under the leadership of Artistic Director Simone Menegoi and Managing Director Enea Righi.

The exhibition’s traditional halls (25 and 26), reconfirmed for 2025, will showcase the Italian scene: current and past artists, new and established galleries, publishers, critics and institutions. A complete panorama of which Arte Fiera is the most trusted interpreter, from post-war to emerging artists.

Exhibitors, sections and curators

After the return of galleries such as Apalazzo, Laveronica, Lia Rumma, Lorenzelli, Franco Noero, Ronchini, and Sprovieri in 2024 (confirmed for 2025 as well), Arte Fiera 2025’s 176 galleries include important new returns (such as Gió Marconi, Magazzino, Raffaella Cortese and Tucci Russo) and first-time foreign galleries such as Herald St.

Arte Fiera’s Main Section, divided as always into post-war and contemporary art, will be accompanied by four invitation-only curated sections: Photography and moving images, Pittura XXI, and, making its debut, Prospettiva, devoted to emerging artists, whether represented by new or established galleries.

Davide Ferri, critic and independent curator specializing in contemporary painting, has curated Pittura XXI since its first edition, while Photography and moving images will be curated for the third year by Gian Gavino Pazzola, curator of Camera - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin. For the second year, Multiples will be curated by Alberto Salvadori, critic and art historian; the debut of Prospettiva is entrusted to Michele D’Aurizio, curator and critic working in Italy and in the United States.

Alongside the curated sections there will again be Percorso: not really a section, but an itinerary that thematically links some of the stands in the Main Section and in the curated sections. After two years devoted to artistic forms (Ceramics in 2023 and Drawing in 2024), Percorso 2025 will also concern the content of the works: in fact, the new theme is “Community”.

14 exhibitors in the section dedicated to publishing and 13 exhibitors in the section dedicated to institutions complete the list of 203 exhibitors at Arte Fiera 2025.

The Main Section ranges from Modern and post-war art, always the exhibition’s strong points, to contemporary experimental art, with a strong emphasis on Italian art:

Milan

A Arte Invernizzi, Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio, ABC – Arte, Andrea Ingenito Contemporary Art, Art D2 – Modern And Contemporary Art, Bottegantica, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Glauco Cavaciuti, Ca' Di Fra, Galleria Clivio, Cortesi Gallery, Dep Art Gallery, Galleria D’Arte Frediano Farsetti, Galleria Gaburro, Galleria Poggiali, Studio Guastalla Arte Moderna E Contemporanea, Lorenzelli Arte, Lupo - Lorenzelli Projects, M77, Maab, Menhir Art Gallery, Francesca Minini, Primo Marella, Progettoarte Elm, Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani, Raffaella Cortese, Tonelli, Tornabuoni Arte, Vistamare, Wizard Gallery, Zero.

Bologna

AF Gallery, Enrico Astuni, Cinquantasei, Mag | Magazzino Art Gaze, Galleria Stefano Forni, Galleria Studio G7, Labs Contemporary Art, L'Ariete Artecontemporanea, P420.

Rome

Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea, Studio D’Arte Campaiola, Matèria, Eddart, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Russo, Richard Saltoun, Studio Sales Di Norberto Ruggeri, The Gallery Apart, Tornabuoni Arte, Z2o Sara Zanin.

Turin

Biasutti & Biasutti, Franco Noero, Giorgio Persano, Photo & Contemporary, Roccatre, Luce Gallery, Marcorossi Artecontemporanea.

Florence

Frittelli, Alessandro Bagnai, Galleria Poggiali, Il Ponte, Santo Ficara, Tornabuoni Arte, Secci.

Genoa

ABC – Arte, C+N Gallery Canepaneri, Pinksummer.

Naples

Andrea Ingenito Contemporary Art, Galleria Fonti, Gallerie Riunite, Umberto Di Marino, Shazar Gallery, Studio Trisorio, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro.

Venice

Contini, Alessandro Casciaro, Michela Rizzo, Ncontemporary.

Pietrasanta (LU)

Flora Bigai, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Galleria Poggiali, Secci.

Other cities

Todi (PG): Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio; Prato: Armanda Gori Arte; Open Art; Seregno (MB): Artesilva; Garzon (UY): Piero Atchugarry Gallery; Alessandria: Galleria Vigato; Bolzano: Alessandro Casciaro; Antonella Cattani; Legnago (VR): FerrarinArte; Padova: NP Artlab; Rossovermiglioarte; Modica (RG): Laveronica; Chiari (BS): L'Incontro; Mantova: Maurizio Corraini; Reggio Emilia: De' Bonis; Livorno: Galleria Giraldi; Guastalla Centro Arte; Trieste: Torbandena; Cortina D'Ampezzo (BL): Contini; Mucciaccia Gallery; Saronno (VA): Il Chiostro Arte & Archivi; Pistoia: Spazioa; Trento: Studio D'Arte Raffaelli; Palermo: Rizzutogallery; Alassio (SV): Matteo Bellenghi Modern & Contemporary Art.

Other countries:

Brazil: Galleria Continua, São Paulo (BR); China: Galleria Continua, Beijing (CHN); Cuba: Galleria Continua, Habana (CU); France: Galleria Continua, Les Moulins (FR), Paris (FR); Belgium: Edouard Simoens, Knokke (BE); Germany: Galleria Mazzoli, Berlin (DE); Hong Kong: Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong (HK); Singapore: Mucciaccia Gallery, Singapore (SG); Switzerland: Cortesi Gallery, Lugano (CH); Primo Marella, Lugano (CH); Repetto Gallery, Lugano (CH); Tornabuoni Arte, Crans Montana (CH); United Arab Emirates: Galleria Continua, Dubai (AE); United Kingdom: Herald St., London (UK); Mazzoleni, London (UK); Mucciaccia Gallery, London (UK); Ncontemporary, London (UK); Richard Saltoun, London (UK); Ronchini, London (UK); Sprovieri, London (UK); United States: Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami (USA); Richard Saltoun, New York (USA); Uruguay: Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Garzon (UY).

Photography and moving images, by now the reference point for collectors and photography enthusiasts, presents the photographic medium from a broad perspective and dialogs with other media (especially video). For the third year, the section will be curated by Gian Gavino Pazzola, curator of Camera - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin:

A Pick Gallery, Turin; Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan; Artopia Gallery, Milan; Umberto Benappi, Turin; Cartacea Galleria, Bergamo, London (UK); Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting, Milan; Ipercubo, Milan; Martini & Ronchetti, Genoa; MC2Gallery, Tivat (ME), Milan; Montrasio Arte, Monza, Milan, Piacenza; Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Porto Cervo (SS); Francesco Pantaleone, Palermo, Milan; Paola Sosio Contemporary, Milan; Podbielski Contemporary, Milan; Spazio Nuovo, Rome; Valeria Bella, Milan; Galleria Antonio Verolino, Modena.

Pittura XXI, now in its fifth edition, is a panorama of 21st-century Italian and foreign painting ranging from emerging talents to mid-career artists. Once again, the section will be curated by critic and independent curator Davide Ferri:

1/9Unosunove, Rome; A+B Gallery, Brescia; Acappella, Naples; Ada, Rome; Car Gallery, Bologna; Galleria Eugenia Delfini, Rome; Galleria Doris Ghetti, Ortisei (BZ), Milan; Fuocherello, Volvera (TO); Luca Tommasi, Milan; Nashira Gallery, Milan; NContemporary, Milan, Venice, London (UK); Plain Gallery, Milan; Ribot, Milan; Richter Fine Art, Rome; Société Interludio, Cambiano (TO); Studio La Linea Verticale, Bologna; Una, Piacenza; Z2O Sara Zanin, Rome.

Multiples, devoted to works in edition, will for the second year be curated by critic and art historian Alberto Salvadori. Multiples includes galleries, specialized bookstores, and ranges from graphics to sculpture in edition to artist books, in a multifaceted and inclusive panorama of art in edition:

Albicocco, Udine; Alexaria Gallery, St. Saphorin Lavaux (CH); Apalazzogallery, Brescia; Caputocolossi Incontro D’Arte, Brescia; Colophonarte, Belluno, Venice; Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna; Ed Gallery, Piacenza; Gió Marconi, Milan; Litografia Bulla, Rome; Montrasio Arte, Monza, Milan, Piacenza; Paradisoterrestre, Bologna; Tonini Editore, Gussago (BS), Milan; Treccani, Rome.

The new Prospettiva section, devoted to emerging artists represented by new or established galleries that have a research program, is entrusted to Michele D’Aurizio, curator and art historian working in Italy and in the United States:

Enrico Astuni, Bologna; Capsule, Shanghai (CHN); Umberto Di Marino, Naples; Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome; Fuoricampo, Siena; Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno; Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani, Milan, Lucca; Triangolo, Cremona.

Collaborations and partnerships

Fondazione Furla

For the third year, Arte Fiera and Fondazione Furla continue their collaboration on performance. After the Public Movement collective and Daniela Ortiz, Bruna Roccasalva, the Foundation’s Artistic Director, has invited the artist Adelaide Cioni (b. Bologna, 1976) to present a performance during Arte Fiera.

The artist conducts her research in a wide range of expressive forms, including painting, music, dance, and theater, but her starting point is drawing. Reflecting on the origin of signs, she explores patterns, i.e., the repetition of abstract decorative motifs both in nature and in artistic objects from all ages, re-elaborating them in a form that begins with drawing but becomes an investigation of color and shape, of body and language, of space and movement.

Flash Art Italia Award

Arte Fiera is happy to host the first edition of Flash Art Italia Award, which considers Italy’s entire art ecosystem with the goal of becoming the country’s most prestigious award in the field of contemporary art. The Award will give full value to artists, gallerists, museum directors, foundations, and independent spaces, as well as to territories, businesses, and relations between art and fashion, all with an innovative and unified viewpoint. The award ceremony will take place in Bologna on 7 February 2025, confirming Arte Fiera’s role as the reference point on the Italian art scene.

Arte Fiera and BPER

Arte Fiera is happy to announce that BPER Banca, the Main Partner of Arte Fiera’s 2024 edition, has renewed its commitment to the event for the next three years. This strengthens the bond between two organizations which, in their respective fields, are key players in Italy and abroad. By choosing to support Arte Fiera, BPER confirms it commitment to art and culture, convinced that they are essential for both local development and social inclusion.

ANGAMC

Arte Fiera 2025 also confirms its active collaboration with ANGAMC, l'Associazione Nazionale Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, by means of a permanent roundtable, a source of dialog and stimulus to ensure the fair’s growth.