On 1 July, at La Santissima Community Hub, *The Search for the Invisible* talk brings together Gabi Scardi (curator), Tiziana Pers (Rave East Village Artist Residency), Simona Da Pozzo (artist), Susanna Ravelli (Cas degli Artisti – Milan and Centro Itard) and Nicola Capone (philosopher).

The talk is part of Domestic Conversations for Public Actions: a project by Ex-Voto [radical public culture], promoted and co-funded by the City of Naples as part of its 2026/2027 cultural programme, in partnership with La Santissima Community Hub, Riot Studio and Dispaccio Art Book Shop. The project is curated by Nicola Ciancio, with artistic advice from Simona Da Pozzo and scientific advice from Giuliana Ciancio.

photos @Maria Nasti Filtro5

RAVE east Village Artist Residency

August 8th 8-11 pm

RAVE East Village Artist Residency is a meta-project created by the artists Isabella and Tiziana Pers together with Giovanni Marta and a sanctuary for rescued animals and trees. Since 2011 it supports research, dialogue and production in an experimental and multidisciplinary art project. It deals with the role and responsibility of contemporary art in relation to the otherness represented by animals, as well as indicating the need to reconsider our position in the light of a bio-centric, anti-speciesist perspective. It also offers an experience in which all the participants, artists, philosophers, critics, scientists, writers, architects and activists, get to share food, which is always vegan in respect for all sentient beings, and to share time and space together with trees that we saved from felling and animals that have been saved from slaughter and from consumer mechanisms by Tiziana through her practice Art_History (always in-progress).

Visit to the permanent artworks: Antonio Bardino, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Loretta Cappanera, Simona Da Pozzo, Igor Grubić, Ilare, Ryts Monet, Liliana Moro, Ivan Moudov, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Penzo+Fiore, Anna Pontel, Fabiola Porchi, Laura Pozzar, Nada Prlja, Janis Rafa, Eleonora Rinaldi, Giuseppe Stampone.

August 5th – September 11th MackHalle, Freiburg (DE)

collective exhibition curated by Susanna Ravelli (Casa degli Artisti) and Andrea del Guercio (Kulturwerk T66)

artists: Arianna Giorgi, Eleonora Roaro, Claudia Müller Montes, Daniele Nicolosi, Alessia Bernardini, Simona Da Pozzo, Francesco Ciavaglioli, Roxy Ceron, Matteo Bicego, il collettivo Visualcontainer, Concetta Modica e Julija Kasteluči,

Caterpillars, Humans, and Other Kale Ecologies, Simona Da Pozzo 2026, installation view at Meckhalle Freiburg

7-8 maggio, Fondazione Gori Celle

Workshop: Coesistenze Multispecie

As part of the ‘Coabitazioni: art, landscape and community’ project at the Fondazione Gori – Fattoria di Celle in Pistoia, a team of artists, curators and professionals are guiding young residents through research projects. ‘Coabitazioni’ is a seven-month training and research programme curated by Pietro Gaglianò and funded by the Region of Tuscany.

The first part of the programme, dedicated to the main disciplines of artistic production and curating, will feature the participation of, among others: Gabi Scardi, Lorenza Pignatti, Daniel Borselli, Costanza Meli, Giovanni Attili, Maria Giovanna Mancini, Chiara Damiani, Roberto Pino, Anna Lambertini, Daria Filardo, Lucia Giardino, Leandro Pisano and Irene Sanesi. The second part will focus on hands-on practice under the guidance of artists such as Vittorio Corsini, Emanuela Ascari, Stefano Boccalini, Simona Da Pozzo, Vida Rucli for the Robida collective, Virgilio Sieni and the Tempo Reale centre.

27.04.2026 from 5 pm

Ex-voto [radical Public culture] and L’Arsenale di Napoli present

頑張RIMARE | gamba’ri’mare at LA CURA, Santissima Community Hub

On 27 April at 5 pm at La Santissima Community Hub, Ex-Voto [radical public culture] and the Arsenale di Napoli present 頑張RIMARE | gamba’ri’mare, a work by Simona Da Pozzo that will be permanently installed in the spaces of LA CURA, becoming its distinctive and recognisable feature.

The work, born out of research within the Glocary|ˈGləʊkərɪ project—through which the artist explores the cognitive and verbal processes that bring visions to light through dialogue—consists of 340 hand-printed wooden tiles that spell out the word 頑張RIMARE, one of the terms donated to the project’s archive over the years (2011–2019) during which the participatory process spanned multiple cities, from Beirut to Münster.

This work reflects the meaning and aim of La Cura, amplifying the affective and ever-changing dimension of language.

頑張RIMARE was created in 2017 for the event Rompiamo le righe!, the launch party for Fondazione Cariplo’s three-year cross-sectoral programme Lacittàintorno, dedicated to urban regeneration, coinciding with the 13th Giornata del Contemporaneo, produced by Non Riservato in collaboration with Ex-Voto [radical public culture], through the post-typographic initiative realised thanks to the collaboration of Filippo Basile//Studio Florida, Cecilia Di Gaddo//*stardelight Design and curated by Nicola Ciancio, creating an environmental installation built with the public. The installation takes shape, with a nomadic spirit, through a technical device freely inspired by the movable type of letterpress printing and the bamboo books of Chinese tradition.

Exhibition OPENING

Saturday 21 March at 3.00 pm RAVE East Village Artist Residency, Soleschiano (Manzano, Udine),

artists: Camilla Alberti, Simona Da Pozzo, Jakup Ferri, Igor Grubić, Giulia Iacolutti, Ilare, Ryts Monet, Liliana Moro, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Penzo+Fiore, Isabella and Tiziana Pers, Nada Prlja, Danilo Sciorilli, Driant Zeneli.

The project is realised with the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia #IOSONOFRIULIVENEZIAIULIA and the Fondazione Friuli, in partnership with: the Municipality of Trivignano Udinese, ALL/University of Udine, Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, Trieste Contemporanea, Arteventi, with the support of Biolab – Plant Based Food. Main partner: Arsenalia

RAVE East Village Artist Residency is a meta-project created by the artists Isabella and Tiziana Pers together with Giovanni Marta and a sanctuary for rescued animals and trees
www.raveresidency.art info.raveresidency@gmail.com 324.8628511

Curatorial assistants: Irene Emanuele and Sofia Sorrentino.

The event will feature a walk through the village with an interspecies guided tour, exploring the works on display. The exhibition unfolds as a scattered route throughout the village: the works are scattered amongst the ancient stone houses and centuries-old trees, transforming the landscape into a space for experience and connection.

The exhibition RAVE AL SOLE stems from the experience of living alongside the animals and trees rescued and taken in by the village, weaving artistic practices with reflections on posthuman and anti-speciesist thought: these ‘other’ presences take centre stage, such as the figure of Copper, a mare in her late thirties who recently passed away at RAVE, whose personality inspired a wealth of reflections over many years.

In this sense, RAVE is a participatory, ever-evolving work-in-progress that intertwines contemporary art with concrete responsibility, generating over time an ecosystem of coexistence between human and non-human life forms.

The works are articulated through a plurality of languages that challenge hierarchies between species and invite us to imagine new forms of coexistence. Beneath the branches of a centuries-old mulberry tree saved from felling and transplanted to the RAVE site, the project invites us to adopt a different stance in the world: to recognise ourselves as living beings amongst living beings, beyond the divisions of species, gender, class or culture.

The works oscillate between political tension and an intimate dimension, suggesting that every collective transformation arises from a shift in perspective and the emergence of new shared narratives.

At the time of the spring equinox and the end of winter, the title plays on the name of the place where the experience takes root, alluding at the same time to Plato’s exit from the cave, in search of a potentially different truth, of a place in the light. ‘Staying in the sun’ as a metaphor for regeneration and collective connection, beneath the rays of the primary and universal source of life: 800 years after the death of St Francis, the Canticle of the Creatures, the only non-anthropocentric reference in the Christian tradition, begins precisely with the image of Brother Sun.

Video Art Screening

Friday, 6 March 2026, 7 p.m. C/O SuperOtium

Via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi 8 – 80135, Naples

A new edition of VVV-Residency is presented in the frame of the event Visual Conversation at SuperOtium.

VVV-r is a project run by VisualContainerTV and EX-VOTO [radical public culture], Arts University Bournemouth, curated by Alessandra Arnò and Simona Da Pozzo

VISUAL CONVERSATION, an evening dedicated to video art and moving images, scheduled for Thursday, 6 March 2026, at 7 p.m. in the art hotel and artist residence in the historic centre of Naples. Visual Conversation is the result of a collaboration between the Residenza VVV-R project and SuperOtium, Collezione Agovino, nctm and l’arte. Interweaving materials and perspectives that revolve around urgent themes, the collection of works explores the relationship between human and artificial intelligence, the construction of visual narratives, the use of found footage, and the perceptual transformations generated by digital interfaces.

Immagine di copertina e all’interno della rivista Infiniti Mondi n°40, rivista bimestrale, Napoli giugno 2025.

Testo, tratto dalla rivista, “L’acqua e le forme”, di Massimo Tartaglione.

“Le opere di Simona Da Pozzo riprodotte sulle pagine di questo numero di “Infiniti Mondi” appartengono a tre progetti, realizzati dal 2014 al 2025″

“L’idea di una lenta discesa quasi a planare più che alla dinamica della narrazione, in questa configurazione, fa pensare a quella della ricognizione o della scansione, accentuata dall’asciuttezza del segno grafico o dall’assenza del colore, che tuttavia si anima attraverso la vibrazione di natura corpuscolare e per la fitta densità del tratto. Il filo che lega questa ricerca è l’acqua: elemento primario e promordiale, che nella sua essenzialità diventa segno di una manifestazione vitale e indispensabile del mondo della natura e insieme un prodotto pienamente umano, un oggetto culturale ricostruito nel racconto del mito o trattato con le più raffinate e avanzate tecnologie rimanendo pire alla fine semplice acqua. Si potrebbe anzi dire che è proprio la distinzione tra oggetto naturale e oggetto culturale a slittare e a rarefarsi di immagine in immagine. Le forme enigmatiche e quasi totemiche delle strutture spaziali rimandano agli avanzati processi di conservazione e recupero dell’acqua come tappe di un lunghissimo viaggio che ha nel suo diramarsi e svolgersi plasmato le valle e i costoni rocciosi che, in questi disegni, assomigliano a frammenti di ossa o di epidermide. Se le piante diventano enormi architetture organiche l’inversione di scala fa dei bruchi, visti con un’ottica macro, l’eleogio di una meravigliosa e quasi fantastica complessità. C’è indubbiamente una prospettiva di ordine politico in questa progettualità ma la sua forza si esprime con una serrata evidenza proprio in quanto manifestazione artistica”

Massimo Tartaglione

Sep. 12, 2025  |  EXHIBITION

Opening of the exhibition 70 volte 7 Libri d’Artista; until January 6, 2026. 

Biblioteca Comunale Salvatore Quasimodo, Modica (Ragusa)

An exhibition curated by Concetta Modica featuring over 100 artist’s books created by more than 92 artists who explored the concept of the book.

Many of the books will remain in a special section of the public library for free consultation.

artists: Paola Alborghetti, Daniela Agosta, Silvia Amodio, Stefano Arienti, Alessia Armeni, Maura Banfo, Angelo Barone, Orazio Battaglia, Susanna Baumgartner, Renata Boero, Lorenza Boisi, Bruno Bozzetto, Lara Ilaria Braconi, Sergio Breviario, Gianni Burattoni,  Angelo Candiano, Francesco Carone, Andrea Cataudella, Arianna Carossa, Giorgio Cattani, Renzo Chiesa, Gabriella Ciancimino, Sarah Ciracì, Andrea Contin, Roberta Colombo, Ermanno Cristini, Alice Cattaneo, Martina Della Valle, Simona Da Pozzo, Carla Della Beffa,  Alessio De Girolamo, Luca Del Guercio, Federico Del Vecchio, Carlo Dell’Acqua, Paola Di Bello, Gabriele Di Matteo, Simona Di Rosa, Marta Dell’Angelo, Elena El Asmar, Alessandro Fabbris, Emilio Fantin, Serena Fineschi, Helga Franza, Eckehard Fuchs, Paola Gaggiotti, Stefania Galegati, Arianna Giorgi, Cristina Gozzini, Alice Guareschi, Michele Guido, Silvia Hell, Antonio Ievolella, T-Yong Chung, Sophie Ko, Giulio Lacchini, Gabriele Landi, Loredana Longo, Claudia Losi, Gino Lucente, Marco Andrea Magni, Guglielmo Manenti, Valeria Manzi, Giuseppe Maraniello, Amedeo Martegani, Yari Miele, Margherita Morgantin, Concetta Modica, Ignazio Mortellaro, Ignazio Monteleone, Elèna Nemkova, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Pancrazzi, Angela Passarello, ​Anita Pepe, Pasquale Polidori, Fabrizio Prevedello, Isabella Pulafitio, Pierluigi Pusole,  Sara Rossi, Angelo Ruta, Caterina Saban, Tarshito, Luca Scarabelli,  Marco Terroni Grifola, Marco Trinca Colonel, Eugenia Vanni, Luming Zhang, Simona Uberto, Sophie Usunier, Francesco Voltolina, Jonida Xherri, Italo Zuffi.