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. 

The ground floor hosts Listen to Your Eyes. Artistic Works and Literatures from a Private Collection, an exhibition that gathers a series of works from the collection of Primo De Donno, one of the most sophisticated collections at a national level, preserved in Foligno, a few kilometers away from Spoleto. The collection - which includes works by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Piero Manzoni, Mario Schifano, Alighiero Boetti, Gino De Dominicis, Enzo Cucchi, up to artists emerged in the nineties like Vanessa Beecroft and Stefano Arienti - finds its uniqueness in the exceptional collection of books, documents, and ephemera that accompany the works, contributing to reconstruct the context that generated them and their critical fortune. The exhibition, curated by Primo De Donno, Saverio Verini, and Viaindustriae, focuses on the binary relationship between artworks and the "literature" connected to them: a journey through some of the main figures and poetics, movements and currents of the 20th century up to the present day, embracing a century of art history.