From December 4, 2025 to April 12, 2026, the exhibition Here and Now comes to life in the spaces of the deconsecrated church of Sant’Agnese in Padua, drawing inspiration from the sacredness of the place to engage in a dialogue with the present and contemporaneity.  

Featuring works from the AGIVERONA Collection and a selection of works from the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation Collection. A nucleus of 7 major works invade the Nave: installations, videos, photographs, and paintings (Nari Ward, Giovanni Ozzola, Jacopo Mazzonelli, Vincenzo Castella, Serena Vestrucci, Ivan Moudov, and Diango Hernández) alluding to the aura of the space, a building from the 12th century, once home to one of the city's most important places of worship until the 1940s. In the former sacristy, a selection of works from the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation Collection on the theme of sacredness, including artists such as Hermann Nitsch, Marc Chagall, Paul Jenkins, Jannis Kounellis, Robert Indiana, and Alberto Garutti.

The two collections ideally reflect around the thematic nuclei of spirituality, perception of time, and how the contemporary inhabits the space of memory, bridging the gap between the 20th century and the third millennium, showing how the concept of the "sacred" continues to evolve in current artistic sensibility: a sacredness no longer confined to the religious sphere, but understood as attention to the essential, to passage, to the embodied experience of the present.

The exhibition will be open to the public starting from Thursday, December 4, from 11:00 to 19:00.