Festivals & Fairs

Art fairs, biennials, triennials, festivals and cultural manifestations — Art Basel, Frieze, TEFAF, Venice Biennale and beyond.

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GLOW Light Festival 2020: Connecting the Dots with 1,000 LEDs and 20,000 Children festival-fair
The GLOW Light Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands, was cancelled in 2020 due to pandemic restrictions, but the city launched a special installation titled "Connecting the Dots" as…
Club to Club Festival Goes Fully Online, Draws 49K+ Views festival-fair
The Club to Club festival, founded in 2002 by Associazione Culturale Xplosiva, was forced to abandon its hybrid format and move entirely online due to Italy's red zone…
GemellArte 2020: Street art unites Terni and Saint Ouen in Renaissance-themed festival festival-fair
The second edition of GemellArte, an international contemporary art festival organized by Gn Media and directed by Chiara Ronchini, has opened in Terni, Italy. The project revives…
Cinema d’iDEA 2020 Goes Online with Films by Women Directors festival-fair
The fourth edition of Cinema d’iDEA, a festival celebrating films made by women, will take place online from November 15 to 21, 2020, and will be available throughout Italy via…
Ravenna street art festival Subsidenze reimagines Dante and Virgil festival-fair
From September 22 to 30, 2020, Ravenna hosted its sixth Subsidenze urban art festival, showcasing four murals along with a temporary installation by artists Zed1, Millo,…
West Bund Art & Design 2020 Opens as Key Shanghai Art Event festival-fair
The West Bund Art & Design fair in Shanghai, which runs until November 15, signals a resurgence in China's art market, coinciding with the Young Art Fair. This prominent event,…
Arte Fiera Bologna Cancelled for 2021, Rescheduled to 2022 festival-fair
Arte Fiera Bologna, originally scheduled for January 2021, has been cancelled due to Italy's COVID-19 restrictions. The decision follows the government's November 3 decree banning…
ArtVerona 2020 goes digital with three online events festival-fair
ArtVerona's 16th edition, originally scheduled for October 2020 and postponed to December, has been definitively moved to 2021 due to the second wave of the pandemic and the…
BRAFA 2021 pivots to decentralized 'home edition' amid pandemic festival-fair
The Brussels art fair BRAFA has postponed its January 2021 edition to 2022 due to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, the fair launched BRAFA @ HOME in the…
Artissima Unplugged: Stasi Frenetica diffusa a Torino rimandata per lockdown festival-fair
A Torino, prima dell'entrata in vigore dell'ultimo Dpcm, si è svolta una 'non inaugurazione' per la mostra Stasi Frenetica, curata da Artissima Unplugged. La preview riservata ai…
Flashback 2020 goes diffuse across Turin galleries amid pandemic festival-fair
Due to health concerns, Flashback 2020 has relocated from Pala Alpitour to several galleries in Turin, which will remain open until November 8. The Galleria del Ponte is expecting…
Legacy and Memory at the Venice Biennale Danza festival-fair
The 2020 Venice Biennale Danza featured two distinct approaches to artistic legacy. An unreleased 1987 film by Pina Bausch, titled "AHNEN ahnen," was discovered in her archive by…
Ro.Me Museum Exhibition 2020 goes fully digital for its third edition festival-fair
Ro.Me Museum Exhibition 2020, originally planned as a hybrid event, will now be entirely online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The third edition runs from November 25 to 27, 2020,…
DAMA Fair Cancels 2020 Edition Amid Pandemic festival-fair
The DAMA fair in Turin has canceled its 2020 edition, originally planned as a Live Programme at Palazzo Chiablese from November 5-8. Founder Giorgio Galotti announced the decision…
Biennale Musica 2020: A 'Proximity' Edition in Pandemic Times festival-fair
The 2020 Biennale Musica in Venice, the last curated by Ivan Fedele, proved remarkably suited to the pandemic era despite being planned before COVID-19. Titled 'Incontri'…
The Others Fair Cancelled, Organizers Open Empty Pavilion to Public festival-fair
The Others art fair in Turin has been cancelled due to Italy's new COVID-19 restrictions, which ban all trade fairs. Despite adhering to health measures and securing the spacious…
Generazione Spontanea: Emotional Archive at Palermo's Festival of Migrant Literatures festival-fair
The sixth edition of the Festival delle Letterature Migranti in Palermo (October 21–25, 2020) introduced a visual arts section titled Generazione Spontanea, curated by Agata…
EDIT Napoli 2020: 70 espositori tra design e artigianato al Complesso di San Domenico Maggiore festival-fair
EDIT Napoli, curated by Domitilla Dardi and Emilia Petruccelli, was organized in collaboration with the Culture and Tourism Department of the Municipality of Naples, featuring 70…
Davide Bertuccio Wins Canon Prize at Cortona On The Move festival-fair
The 2020 edition of Cortona On The Move, an international documentary photography festival in the Tuscan countryside, has shifted its focus to visual narrative and aims to create…
Gabriele Mainetti presenta 8 minuti di Freaks Out alla Festa del Cinema di Roma festival-fair
Alla Festa del Cinema di Roma, il regista Gabriele Mainetti ha tenuto un incontro ravvicinato con il pubblico, dialogando con il direttore artistico Antonio Monda e il…
Biennale Teatro 2020 Confronts Censorship in Venice festival-fair
The 2020 Biennale Teatro, the final edition under Antonio Latella's direction, took place in September instead of its usual summer slot. The festival centered on the theme of…
Paratissima Art Station Kicks Off Turin Pre-Art Week with Hybrid Format festival-fair
Paratissima has launched its 2020 edition as Paratissima Art Station, a multi-stage fair spread over two months, beating other Turin art fairs by ten days. The first stop,…
Videocittà 2020 Goes Hybrid: Rome Festival Extends to January 2021 with YouTube Channel festival-fair
Videocittà, a vision festival established in Rome in 2018 by Francesco Rutelli and artistic director Francesco Dobrovich, has revamped its format for its third iteration, which…
Le Vie dei Tesori 2020 opens hidden Palermo sites to the public festival-fair
The 14th edition of Le Vie dei Tesori is underway in Palermo, running every weekend until November 8, 2020. The festival opens over 70 normally inaccessible sites including…
Berlin Photography Month: 100 Venues Host 500 Photographers in 2020 festival-fair
Despite pandemic restrictions, Berlin hosts its European Month of Photography with over 100 venues and 500 photographers in October 2020. Key themes include the 1990s, Cold War,…
JR documentary premieres at Lo Schermo dell'Arte 2020 in Florence festival-fair
The 13th edition of Lo Schermo dell'Arte, Florence's annual film and contemporary art festival directed by Silvia Lucchesi, will feature the Italian premiere of a documentary on…
Fortuna: Nicolangelo Gelormini's dark fairy tale premieres at Rome Film Fest festival-fair
Nicolangelo Gelormini's film 'Fortuna' premiered at the 15th Rome Film Festival, starring Valeria Golino and Pina Turco. The film is inspired by the real-life murder of…
Walk-In Studio #2: Milan's Open Studio Festival Returns with Pandemic Reflection festival-fair
Walk-In Studio, the open studio festival in Milan, returns for its second edition from October 20 to 24, 2020, featuring over 300 artists and 40 curators across 63 exhibitions and…
Steve McQueen's Small Axe Series Premieres at Rome Film Festival festival-fair
At the 15th Rome Film Festival, Steve McQueen presented his television series Small Axe, a collection of five films originally conceived eleven years ago. In a press conference,…
Cristina Kristal Rizzo's 'Toccare. The White Dance' at Torinodanza festival-fair
Cristina Kristal Rizzo's new choreographic work 'Toccare. The White Dance', commissioned before the lockdown, premiered at Torinodanza as a response to the pandemic's constraints.…
Officina della Scultura 2020 Goes Open-Air in Bergamo and Milan festival-fair
The third edition of Officina della Scultura, curated by Associazione Piero Cattaneo, has been reformatted as an open-air event due to the pandemic. Running until October 25,…
Torino Art Week 2020: NESXT Festival Cancelled Due to COVID-19 festival-fair
NESXT, the contemporary art festival directed by Olga Gambari and held annually during Torino's art week centered around Artissima, has been cancelled for 2020 due to the…
Fotografia Europea 2020-21: True Fictions and Autumn Photography Program in Reggio Emilia festival-fair
In autumn 2020, the Comune di Reggio Emilia and Fondazione Palazzo Magnani unveiled an exhibition program that resumes projects interrupted by the pandemic. The Autumn Photography…
Indigenous Leader in Verbier Declares Art Requires Courage, 13th Havana Biennial Reflects Global Tensions festival-fair
An indigenous leader speaking in Verbier, Switzerland, made a bold statement that artistic expression demands bravery rather than timidity. The 13th Havana Biennial in Cuba…
Pixar's 'Soul' Opens Rome Film Fest, Docter Gets Career Award festival-fair
Pixar's 'Soul' opened the 15th Rome Film Festival, a pandemic-era edition held under constant alert. Director Pete Docter, currently Pixar's chief creative officer, received a…
Scripta Festival 2020: 'La città che sale' nelle Case del Popolo fiorentine festival-fair
La quarta edizione di Scripta Festival. L'arte a parole, ideato da Pietro Gaglianò per la Libreria Brac, si tiene dal 17 al 31 ottobre 2020 in tre Case del Popolo dell'area…
Flashback 2020 becomes a diffused fair across Turin galleries festival-fair
Flashback, the contemporary art fair in Turin, has transformed its 2020 edition into a diffused fair due to the worsening national health situation. Instead of taking place at the…
EDIT Napoli Returns for Second Edition as Italy's First In-Person Design Fair of 2020 festival-fair
EDIT Napoli, the design fair focused on authorial and editorial design, returns for its second edition from October 16 to 18, 2020, at the monumental complex of San Domenico…
Club to Club Festival Rebrands as C0C for Hybrid 2020 Edition festival-fair
Club to Club, the avant-pop and electronic music festival founded in 2002 by Associazione Culturale Xplosiva, has rebranded as C0C (CZEROC) for its 2020 edition, running from…
Frieze London Adapts to Pandemic with Hybrid Format and Local Focus in 2020 festival-fair
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of significant international art fairs, such as Frieze London, which shifted to a hybrid format featuring digital…

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