On Saturday, June 28, 2025, starting at 11:00 AM, the inauguration of the new exhibitions at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto is scheduled. The cycle, which will last throughout the summer season until November 2, includes five new exhibition projects: a solo show by the internationally renowned artist William Kentridge titled Fugitive Thoughts; an exhibition featuring a selection of works from the collection of Primo De Donno; an exhibition of posters from the Festival dei Due Mondi; a solo show by Stefano Cerio titled Bodies of Air; an exhibition to celebrate the ten years of activity of the Mahler & LeWitt Studios association, active in Spoleto since 2015.

With this series of events, Palazzo Collicola continues the celebrations of the twenty-fifth year since its opening: a milestone that will be celebrated throughout 2025 with a rich program of exhibitions and initiatives. The Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, one of the venues of the Musei Civici di Spoleto, will also be involved in the summer inaugurations with an exhibition by Gianni Politi titled Things Will Never Be the Same Again (of the anarchic power of love) curated by Saverio Verini.
The exhibition program is made possible thanks to the Municipality of Spoleto, in collaboration with: Festival dei Due Mondi, Lia Rumma gallery, William Kentridge Studio, CaRiSpo Foundation, Friends of Palazzo Collicola association, Viaindustriae, Mahler & LeWitt Studios, University of West Georgia, and with the support of Maggioli Cultura e Turismo. 

On the second floor of Palazzo Collicola, Bodies of Air is presented, curated by Stefano Chiodi, featuring a selection of photographs by Stefano Cerio. The project is carried out within the framework of the public notice "Photography Strategy," promoted by the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, which selected Palazzo Collicola as one of the subjects.

Thanks to the call, the museum was able to acquire the photographic series Brenva and Aquila created by Cerio: in Aquila (2019-2021), the artist installed churches, castles, and inflatable slides in the landscape around the Abruzzo city hit by the 2009 earthquake, places frequented by hikers captured in moments of emptiness and silence, reactivated by the presence of amusement park games; in Brenva (2023), named after the famous glacier at the foot of Mont Blanc which, due to climate change, is rapidly disappearing, an inflatable wall was created, placed where the end of the glacier used to be, making the lost space visible in recent years, also representing the limit of our gaze and the lack of vision for the future. Two projects with a strong conceptual imprint, at the intersection of photography/contemporary art/environmental art, which engage different languages to artistically document the radical transformations of our time.