From September 10, 2019 to September 30, 2024

From Adrian Paci to Debora Hirsch, from Sisley Xhafa to Nico Vascellari, from Loris Cecchini to Gianni Caravaggio, Pierre Bismouth and many others: there are more than 80 Italian and international artists - mostly born after the seventies - protagonists of Contemporanee / Contemporanei, the exhibition project curated by Denis Isaia inaugurated on September 10, 2019 in the spaces of the Polo Santa Marta and in other locations of the University of Verona.

The project - the result of an agreement between the University of Verona and AGIVERONA thanks to which the association has loaned part of its collection for five years - inaugurates a path of knowledge and research, which aims to make students protagonists first and foremost.

Contemporanee / Contemporanei, in fact, is not only an exhibition, but a project of awareness and continuous training in contemporary art that includes innovative educational paths and the direct involvement of students in the organization of conferences, talks, guided tours of the exhibition.

The project aims on one hand to develop transversal skills in students and on the other hand to promote actions to enhance contemporary art, transforming the University into a place of confrontation with art, understood as an interpretative key to reality. An invitation that extends to the entire community, to discover and engage with contemporary creativity.

A new way, as Giorgio Fasol, President of AGIVERONA, says, to "be infected without fear by the importance of research, the vertigo of discovery, the thrill of passion, the pleasure of contact, the urgency of dialogue and confrontation".

Set up in the spaces of the Santa Marta complex - former Provianda of the Habsburg troops, since 2009 the seat of the University of Verona - and in other locations of the University, Contemporanee / Contemporanei is the first public exhibition of contemporary art in Italy dedicated to works mainly produced in the 2000s.

The exhibition path, conceived by curator Denis Isaia, aims to freely and informally contaminate university life also thanks to a set-up - realized in collaboration with architect Francesca Maria Martellono - that enhances and highlights the historical value of the building and predisposes to discreet and poetic encounters with the works. This space that today welcomes knowledge and experimentation, open to the university community, the city and the territory, will be the sounding board for the works of the over 80 artists involved.