The sky in a room
From Gino Paoli’s song to the frescoes of Mantegna, Correggio, and Tiepolo, and on to James Turrell: how a room becomes sky—and how space exists only through the gaze of the one who inhabits it.
In Venice, Paulo Nazareth’s exhibition intervenes in Ando’s space, transforming it from a neutral container into a device shaped by history, bodies, and trade routes—reactivating the memory of the Dogana.
From Gino Paoli’s song to the frescoes of Mantegna, Correggio, and Tiepolo, and on to James Turrell: how a room becomes sky—and how space exists only through the gaze of the one who inhabits it.
At HangarBicocca in Milan, exhibitions by Benni Bosetto and Rirkrit Tiravanija turn domestic space into a narrative and relational device, between body, architecture, and participation.
At the Variety Arts Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, a temporary program has reactivated a historic venue that has moved through vaudeville, cinema, and civic culture, presenting works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the United States for the first time.
Beyond the Biennale, Venice becomes a labyrinth of international art. Here’s our guide to the must-see exhibitions unfolding across the city.
We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment
We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
Inside Valletta’s Grandmaster’s Palace, a scaled replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel becomes a reflection on authorship, power, and the narratives of art at the Malta Biennale.
At MIA Photo Fair in Milan, Phillip Toledano presents his AI-generated images and advances a radical claim: in an age where anything can be false, documentary survives only by staging the collapse of truth.
In London, the artist turns the foundation’s apartment into a habitable sculpture and actually puts it on the real estate market, somewhere between fiction, desire, and urban critique.
From Milan to Pistoia, Venice to Gibellina, spanning painting, photography, design, and architecture: Domus has selected the exhibitions to add to your calendar for the beginning of spring.
At the Serpentine North in London, "A Year in Normandy and Some Other Thoughts About Paintings" confirms how the former enfant terrible of British Pop Art has now become above all a lifestyle phenomenon.
At the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, the exhibition “Claire-obscur” places works by Pierre Huyghe and Fujiko Nakaya in dialogue with the Rotonde designed by Tadao Ando, transforming the concrete cylinder into a perceptual device that reveals the central role of light in his architecture.