Failing Supreme at Mezz’aria Community Hub in Bologna

The group exhibition 'Failing Supreme' opens at Mezz’aria Community Hub in Bologna, curated by the Infrarosso collective (Anna Zanette, Greta Virdis, Aurora Taiti). The show occupies a long-abandoned cold storage room within the hub, a former hospital and barracks turned urban regeneration project. Seven artists from the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna—Eugenio Bengalli, Andrea Cimino, Marco Erpete, Sofia Gala Finotto, Riccardo Ruggieri, and Francesca Maria Toscano—present works that engage with the site's industrial aesthetics and themes of failure, memory, and transformation. Marco Erpete adapts his 2023 observational documentary 'Centro Estetico' into a video installation, with a monitor suspended from meat hooks. Andrea Cimino transforms the space into a personal archive with his 'Recollection' series, including a liquid latex dress and a thermoreactive vest, plus 'Best Before End: 12/2008'—seventeen tin candies representing years since his father's death. Francesca Maria Toscano's 'Ritratto di un addio' (2024) uses Google Street View to trace a past relationship. Riccardo Ruggieri draws on metal plates with charcoal and graphite. Sofia Gala Finotto's 'L’Attrazione' (2026) features a helium balloon printed with her ID card, stuck against the ceiling. Eugenio Bengalli presents a PVC print from his Portugal rave series. The exhibition runs June 7–14, 2026.