Eataly Art House – E.ART.H. presents from Wednesday 10 April to Saturday 31 August 2024 the exhibition of the 10 finalists of the second edition of the E.ART.H. Award. aimed at supporting young creativity under forty and dedicated to the theme of sustainability. The award is created in collaboration with illycaffè which shares values such as sustainability and beauty with Eataly Art House, as well as the same commitment to contemporary art.

Among the many artists who proposed their candidacy by responding to the open call, the jury invited to exhibit: Adam Bialek, Alice Capelli, Lara Dâmaso, Olga Kozmanidze, Francesca Macis, Vittoria Mazzonis, Judith Neunhäuserer, Francesco Pacelli, Lucia Simone, Lorenzo Doormats.

Tuesday 9 April , on the occasion of the vernissage of this new exhibition and of the project dedicated to Newsha Tavakolian created in collaboration with the Deloitte Foundation and Deloitte which opens to the public in the same period at the Art House, the name of the winner of the second edition of the E.ART Award will be announced .H. , selected by the jury composed of Chiara Ventura , co-founder and vice-president of E.ART.H., Carlo Bach , artistic director of illycaffè, the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto , founder of Cittadellarte, the curators and directors of Hamburger Banhof in Berlin Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath , the gallery owner Michela Rizzo .

The winner will receive a monetary award of €5,000 to support their artistic research.

Ten very different Italian and international authors, active in multiple contemporary languages, from performance to painting, through photography and the moving image, who also measure themselves with extremely experimental practices such as the interference between visual arts and sound or the construction of fictitious narratives.

Olga Komanidze , Lara Dâmaso and Alice Capelli designate the body and language as privileged tools of contact with the environment, Vittoria Mazzonis , Lorenzo Zerbini , Adam Bialek and Francesco Pacelli express the relationship between natural and artificial elements through the creation of objects with ancestral and hybrid, Judith Neunhäuserer , Lucia Simone and Francesca Macis address the complexity of environmental protection with different mediums, but with the common goal of undermining human indifference towards environmental emergencies. These ideas create a dense network of reflections on the themes that nourish current events, for which humanity is called to respond as guests of the Earth and on which artistic sensitivity can only express itself.

After the first edition focused on the theme of biodiversity, coordinated by Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of Treti Galaxie, and won by the artist Giovanni Chiamenti, with the work HORECA3000, the E.ART.H. Award. this year is aimed at sustainability and its implications with the environment, the climate, the ecological transition, but also the related economic, political and social implications.