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20.12.2022

Villa Romana wishes you a festive season!

01.12.2022

Rajkamal Kahlon exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien

27 Nov 2022

Empty flat on 1st floor
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE
7 hours exhibition and party

24 Sep 2022

Exhibition by Kerstin Brätsch at the Ludwig Forum Aachen

02 Sep 2022

Villa Romana Prize 2023

27 Aug 2022

Bahman Jalali and Rana Javadi at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC

26 Aug 2022

Dariya Kanti international guest artist at Villa Romana

26 Jul 2022

OPEN STUDIOS 2022
Saturday 3 September from 5 pm till midnight

22 Jun 2022

Shannon Bool, Villa Romana Fellow in 2013, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum

08 Jun 2022

The new catalogue is out: Villa Romana Fellows 2021

02 May 2022

Dr Elena Agudio takes over as director of the Villa Romana in Florence from December 2022

19 Apr 2022

2022: The Year of the German Language in Italy

10 Mar 2022

Pauline Curnier Jardin, Villa Romana Fellow 2021, at the LIAF-Lofoten International Art Festival, Venice

07 Feb 2022

International Guest Artists 2022: Dariya Kanti and Luna De Rosa
a cooperation between the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana, Florence

03 Feb 2022

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas will represent Poland at the 59th Venice Biennale

03 Feb 2022

Stefan Vogel exhibits at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.

21 Jan 2022

Adela Demetja and Lumturi Blloshmi at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

21 Jan 2022

Nora Schultz will be the new professor for Sculpture and Installation at the Vienna Academy

18 Nov 2021

OPEN CALL
Artist Residencies in Florence for two Roma Contemporary Artists in 2022

06 Oct 2021

Marwa Arsanios and Fehras Publishing Practices, International Guest Artist at Villa Romana in 2017, will be participating at Documenta 15.

06 Oct 2021

Małgorzata Mirgi-Tas (Gosia Mirga), International Guest Artist at Villa Romana in 2020, will exhibit at the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Arts in 2022.

29 Jun 2021

Haure Madjid, Jasmina Metwaly, Neda Saeedi and Alexander Skorobogatov are the Villa Romana Fellows 2022.

26 Jun 2021

Judith Raum, Villa Romana Fellow 2015, presents two installations relating to Otti Berger's work at Bauhaus Dessau.

13 May 2021

Open Call - Scuola Popolare II /2021
Villa Romana in collaboration with ARCI Galluzzo

29 Apr 2021

International Guest Artists 2021: L'uboš Kotlar and Norbert Oláh
a cooperation between the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana, Florence

30 Mar 2021

Natalia Czech, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, exhibits the work series Cigarette Ends (2020) at Kunstverein Heilbronn

25 Mar 2021

Pauline Curnier Jardin, Villa Romana Fellow 2021, presents her first institutional solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin

11 Mar 2021

Archival Absence
Video series: presentations, discussions

04 Feb 2021

OPEN CALL
Artist Residencies in Florence for two Roma Contemporary Artists in 2021

03.02.2021

The Broken Archive: Black Italy
Online Streaming

27 Nov 2020

Visual Politics of (Im-)Mobility
Online-Conference

30 Oct 2020

Villa Romana Fellows 2021
Pauline Curnier Jardin, Lene Markusen, Musa
Michelle Mattiuzzi, Giuseppe Stampone

18 Sep 2020

Edi Hila, first International Guest Artist at Villa Romana (2007), exhibits at Vienna Secession

01 Sep 2020

Jeewi Lee, Lerato Shadi and Viron Erol Vert, Villa Romana Fellows 2018, at the Berlin Art Week 2020

13 Jull 2020

Delaine Le Bas and Malgorzata-Mirga-Tas (Gosia Mirga), International Guest Artist 2020, participate in the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

11 Jun 2020

Natascha Sadr Haghighian presents passing one loop into another at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

10 Jun 2020

Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Villa Romana Fellow
2017, participates at Sonsbeek 2020 - 24

29 May 2020

The studio room 45cbm of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents a solo exhibition of Alice Peragine, Villa Romana Fellow 2020

14 May 2020

Open Call - Scuola Popolare in the garden of Villa Romana

04 May 2020

Natalie Czech, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, has been appointed professor at the Institute FREIE KUNST of Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig.

27 Mar 2020

Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and artist Nasan Tur, jurors of the Villa Romana Prize 2018, have been appointed professors for Spatial Strategies at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee

11 Mar 2020

Anike Joyce Sadiq, Villa Romana Fellow 2015 receives the Förderpreis of the Rainer Wild Art Foundation.

21 Nov 2019

International Guest Artists 2020: Robert Gabris and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
A cooperation of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) with Villa Romana

04 Nov 2019

Viron Erol Vert
Artist edition for Villa Romana

02 Nov 2019

Works by Judith Raum, Villa Romana Fellow 2015 and Kerstin Brätsch, Villa Romana Fellow 2019 will be on view with the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in October 2019.

15 Oct 2019

Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano, Villa Romana Fellows 2014, teach at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the academic year 2019 /2020.

14 Sep 2019

Mariechen Danz, Villa Romana Fellow 2013 and Özlem Altin, Villa Romana Fellow 2020, will be exhibiting at the Istanbul Biennale.

13 Sep 2019

Shannon Bool, Villa Romana Fellow 2013, exhibits at the Kunstverein Braunschweig.

22.08.2019

Open Call
Artist Residencies in Florence for two Roma Contemporary Artists in 2020

25 Jun 2019

International guest artists at Villa Romana 2019
Essa Grayeb, Jonatan Benjamin Boyadgian, Heja Türk

21 Jun 2019

Villa Romana Fellows 2020 nominated:
Özlem Altin, Lydia Hamann/Kaj Osteroth, Alice Peragine, Amelia Umuhire
plus: first Artist Research Fellowship with Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence
Esper Postma

02 Jun 2019

Mariechen Danz, Villa Romana Fellow 2013, Flaka Haliti, Villa Romana Fellow 2016 and KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), Villa Romana Fellows 2019 are exhibiting at the 14th Triennale Kleinplastik in Fellbach.

01 Apr 2019

Christophe Ndabananiye, Villa Romana Fellow 2018, receives the Baldreit Grant 2019 /20.

23 Mar 2019

Kunsthalle Bielefeld dedicates a comprehensive solo exhibition to Anna Oppermann, Villa Romana Fellow 1977.

07 Mar 2019

Villa Romana Fellow 2016 Flaka Haliti has been shortlisted for the Biennial Nationalgalerie Award.

14 Feb 2019

Mikhail Karikis exhibits his work Children of Unquiet at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. The oeuvre was created first as sound-work in 2012 as part of the project New Landcapes, a collaboration between Radio Papesse and Villa Romana.

31 Jan 2019

Nico Joana Weber, Villa Romana Fellow 2016,
receives the Bonner Kunstpreis 2019

27 Dec 2018

29 June to 26 July 2019
Ei Arakawa, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, and Nora Schulz, Villa Romana Fellow 2011, hold workshops at the Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como (IT)

02 Nov 2018

Natascha Süder Happelmann at the Venice Biennial 2019

27 Sep 2018

Christiane Möbus, Villa Romana Fellow 1978, is awarded the Hannah Höch Prize.

21 Sep 2018

Carina Brandes, Villa Romana Fellow 2017,
presents her work at Kunstverein Heilbronn.

20 Sep 2018

Viron Erol Vert, Villa Romana Fellow 2018, is part of the group show
DIE GRENZE at National Kasteew Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kasachstan.

01 Aug 2018

Petrit Halilaj, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, presents his solo show Shkrepëtima at Paul Klee Center in Bern.

01 Aug 2018

Vincent Vulsma, Villa Romana Fellow 2011, receives an Artist-in-Residency grant from the Mondriaan Fonds.

01 Aug 2018

Soudade Kaadan, Villa Romana guest artist in 2014, participates in the Orizzonti Competition of the Venice Film Festival.

16 Jul 2018

Villa Romana Fellows 2019 nominated

Summer 2018

Ei Arakawa, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, and Yorgos Sapountzis, Villa Romana Fellow 2013, hold courses at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.

07 Jul 2018

Judith Raum, Villa Romana Fellow 2015, won the LIVE WORKS Performance Act Award Vol.6.

29 Jun 2018

Villa Romana Fellows 2016 /2017: Andrea and Matei Bellu, Carina Brandes, Kasia Fudakoswki, Flaka Haliti, Stefan Pente, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Stefan Vogel, Nico Joana Weber, Jonas Weichsel will exhibit at Kloster Corvey, Höxter (DE)

02 Jun 2018

Viron Erol Vert, Villa Romana Fellow 2018, will participate in the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art.

11 May 2018

Ei Arakawa, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, at Kunstverein Düsseldorf

04 May 2018

Jeewi Lee, Villa Romana Fellow 2018, will open her solo show Abgang at Lichthaus Arnsberg.

01 May 2018

Viron Erol Vert, Villa Romana Fellow 2018, will present his artistic project Meze: A Cosmopolitan Culinary Stimulation on the occasion of the bicentenary of Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe.

03 Mar 2018

Kasia Fudakowski, Villa Romana Fellow 2017, is exhibiting her work at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

02 Mar 18

Mariechen Danz, Villa Romana Fellow 2013, takes part in the exhibition Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art at Haus der Kunst, Munich.

01 Mar 2018

Fehras Publishing Practice, the Syrian artist collective working in Berlin, presents the book When the Library Was Stolen at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut on 01 March.

23 Feb 2018

Congratulations to Soudade Kaadan! The Syrian filmmaker, international guest artist at Villa Romana in 2014, has received the Baumi Script Development Award, endowed with 20,000 euros, for her planned second feature film NEZOUH.

28 Jan 2018

Jonas Weichsel, Villa Romana Fellow 2016, is exhibiting his work at the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, DE.

12 Jan 2018

Carina Brandes, Villa Romana Fellow 2017, at the Mdbk, Leipzig

23 Dec 2017

Happy New Year 2018

27 Nov 2017

The new pavilion in the garden of Villa Romana

21 Nov 2017

Villa Romana Fellows take up teaching posts

17 Nov 2017

Kasia Fudakowski (Villa Romana-Fellow 2017) is taking part in the round table Becoming a Feature at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.

04 Nov 2017

Karolina Bregula, international guest artist in 2014 and 2015, is exhibiting her work at the Fotoaura Institute of Photography, Tainan.

24 Oct 2017

Anike Joyce Sadiq, Villa Romana Fellow 2015,  at Stadtmuseum Stuttgart

29 Sep 2017

Kevin Jerome Everson: So I Can Get Them Told
film retrospective at the Tate Modern

26 Sep 2017

Petrit Halilaj, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, at New Museum, New York

24 Aug 2017

Gravity for All at Mahalla Festival, Istanbul

28 Jul 2017

Kasia Fudakowski, Villa Romana Fellow 2017, is participating at the 15th Istanbul Biennial.

18 Jul 2017

Shannon Bool, Villa Romana Fellow 2013, in Portikus XXX - 30 Jahre Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

05 Jul 2017

Petrit Halilaj, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, wins the Mario Merz Prize

04 Juli 2017

Bassel Al Saadi is international guest artist at Villa Romana in July and August 2017.

24 Jun 2017

Kasia Fudakowski, Villa Romana Fellow 2017, at Museum Ludwig, Cologne

21 Jun 2017

Johannes Paul Raether, Villa Romana Fellow 2015, and Kevin Jerome Everson on Mousse 59

02 Jun 2017

Carina Brandes and Kasia Fudakowski, Villa Romana Fellow 2017, at Sprengel Museum Hannover

31 May 2017

Villa Romana Fellows 2018

11 Apr 2017

Johannes Paul Raether, Villa Romana Fellow 2015, at Kunstverein Düsseldorf

24 Mar 2017

Support the Dat film workshop II!

16 Mar 2017

Yann Monel at the Grand Palais Paris

15 Mar 2017

The Flying Carpet
Workshop by Farkhondeh Shahroudi

27 Feb 2017

Heide Hinrichs, Villa Romana Fellow in 2013, at the Kathmandu Triennale in Nepal

23 Feb 2017

Villa Romana Fellows Ei Arakawa and Nora Schultz at the 5th edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster

07 Feb 2017

Villa Romana Fellows Petrit Halilaj, Mariechen Danz and Yorgos Sapountzis at the 57th Biennale in Venice

12 Jan 2017

Nora Schultz, Villa Romana Fellow in 2012, at the 5^th edition of the Skulptur Projekte Muenster

16.12.2016

Happy New Year 2017

01 Dec 2016

The Villa Romana Fellows 2017

10 Nov 2016

Dat_ Workshop
Make your film. Tell your story.

02 Nov 2016

International guest artist, November 2016: Natalia Ali

04 Oct 2016

Soudade Kaadan, international guest artist in 2014, at the 6th Malmo Arab Film Festival

30 Sep 2016

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Villa Romana Fellow 2008, at Hamburger Kunsthalle

30 Sep 2016

Karolina Bregula, international guest artist in 2015 and 2016, at the 41st Gdynia Film Festival

25 Sep 2016

Loretta Fahrenholz, Villa Romana Fellow 2014, at the Fridericianum, Kassel

03 Sep 2016

Opening: Tremolino - Artists’ Bar 
With: Beat Thang, FunkeeFlow, MatzeKatze, Big Bass and Roi Yeli (Hip Hop / Electronic)

01 Sep 2016

Stefan Vogel, Villa Romana Fellow 2016, has built a temporary house for his gallerist in the garden of Villa Romana.

15 Aug 2016

Composer in Residence 2016: Mauricio Pauly

30 June 2016

Visit of the State Minister for Culture and Media, Monika Grütters, on 30 June 2017

30 June 2016

Georg Baselitz, Villa Romana Fellow in 1965, at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt

04 May 2016

Edi Hila, who was a guest at the Villa Romana in 2007, has been invited to the next Documenta.

03 May 2016

We are very pleased to welcome the Syrian artist Rula Ali from May 10 to July 4 as international guest artist at the Villa Romana.

03 May 2016

Villa Romana Fellows Johannes Paul Raether und Ei Arakawa take part in the Berlin Biennale 2017, as well as atelier le balto.

22 Apr 2016

Refuge /Migration: Invitation to create an artists’ network

21 Mar 2016

Unfortunately, the Syrian artist Alice Khatib can not begin her residency at the Villa Romana (01 April - 30 June 2016), since the Embassy of Italy in Istanbul denied her the visa.

18 Mar 2016

Opening of the exhibition
Villa Romana Fellows 2016
Flaka Haliti, Stefan Vogel, Nico Joana Weber, Jonas Weichsel

26 Feb 2016

Alice Al Khatib and Bassel Al Saadi are the international guest artists at the Villa Romana in 2016.

04 Feb 2016

Due to construction works at the Villa Romana, the 2016 season presenting the Villa Romana Fellows Flaka Haliti, Stefan Vogel, Nico Joana Weber and Jonas Weichsel will begin on March 1 instead of the usual date of February 1.
We are already looking forward to welcoming you to the first exhibition of the new Fellows, which will open on 18 March at 7 pm!
The Villa Romana Team

03 Dec 2015

Petrit Halilaj (Villa Romana-Fellow 2014) is having his first solo exhibition in Italy Space Shuttle in the Garden at the  Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan from 03 December - 13 March 2016.

27 Nov 2015

Mikhail Karikis is presenting at the Carroll/Fletcher Gallery in London in London, Children of Unquiet and several other works from the same project produced between 2013 and 2014 in collaboration with Radio Papesse and premiered at Villa Romana last July 2014. Children of Unquiet is currently touring with the British Art Show 8 and is on show in London from 27 November 2015 to 30 January 2016.

22 Nov 2015

Vincent Vulsma (Villa Romana-Fellow 2011) is taking part from 22 November 2015 to 17 April 2016 in the exhibition TextIlities...and Roses too at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como.

17 Nov 2015

Anike Joyce Sadiq (Villa Romana-Fellow 2015) is taking part from 17 November - 20 December 2015 in the exhibition VISIO. Next Generation Moving Images at the Strozzina, Florence (organised by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival).

16 Nov 2015

Judith Raum (Villa Romana-Fellow 2015) shows on 16 November 2015 at 7 pm her lecture performance ’am of the opinion strike is useful, at careof, Milan.

7 Nov 2015

Perform: Supposing layers of silence
Jeremiah Day, Jacopo Miliani, Francesca Banchelli
a project curated by Villa Romana in collaboration with Kinkaleri/is it my world?

02 Nov 2015

Photo Edition Villa Romana
Yann Monel

30 Oct 2015

Judith Raum (Villa Romana-Fellow 2015) is presenting her lecture performance ’am of the opinion strike is useful, on 30 October 2015 at 6 pm at the Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin.

24 Oct 2015

Luciano Bartolini. Pensare all’Oriente, Identificazione di un feticcio
Curated by Paolo Emilio Antognoli
You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening on Saturday, 24 October at 7 pm.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 2 to 6 pm and by appointment

10 Oct 2015, 6 pm

Talk: Jacopo Mazzetti

01 Oct 2015

Aby M. Warburg's Mnemosyne picture atlas
A symposium and an exhibition (to 16 October)
You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening on Thursday, 01 October at 8 pm
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 2 to 6 pm and by appointment

29 Sep 2015

Alisa Margolis and Anike Joyce Sadiq (Villa Romana-Fellows 2015) are presenting their exhibition The Light in me Weighs a ton from 29 September 2015 - 28 October 2015 at C2 in Florence.

16 Sep 2015

Opening of the exhibition FLORENZ CONTEMPORARY with the 2014 and 2015 Villa Romana Fellows and Francesca Banchelli, Federico Cavallini, Leone Contini, Gaetano Cunsolo, Giacomo Laser, Juan Pablo Macias, Margherita Moscardini, Filippo Manzini, Robert Pettena and Justin Randolph Thompson.

5 Sep 2015

OPEN STUDIOS 2015

25 Aug 2015

Loretta Fahrenholz (Villa Romana Fellow 2014) is presenting her first institutional exhibition Drei Frauen from 28 August - 08 November 2015 at the Kunsthalle Zürich.

21 Aug 2015

Mona Marzouk exhibition RENOVABITVR (RENEWAL) will be extended to Friday, 11 September 2015.

17 Jul 2015

A wonderful reminder of For the birds , an artwork of Alvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj, Villa Romana Fellows 2014.

09 Jul 2015

Book launch Villa Romana Fellows 2014 Loretta Fahrenholz, Sergei Tcherepnin, Alvaro Urbano, Natalie Czech, Petrit Halilaj, Ei Arakawa.
At Bar Babette, 36 Karl-Marx-Allee.
Soundtrack of the evening curated by AUT Records.

02 Jul 2015

Mona Marzouk: RENOVABITVR (RENEWAL)
You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening on Thursday, July 2 at 7.30 pm.
6.30 pm: Mona Marzouk in conversation with Angelika Stepken
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 2 to 6 pm and by appointment

17.06.2015

Screening: The Things Left to Say
A walk through 40 years of cinema in Syria,
curated by Soudade Kaadan and Charlotte Bank.

13 Jun 2015

music@villaromana: FOUR WALLS

28 May 2015

The Villa Romana 2016 Fellows have been announced

25.05.2015

Artist Talk

13 Mar 2015

In the frame of the symposium UNMAPPING the RENAISSANCE Radio Papesse interviewed Johannes Paul Raether (Villa Romana Fellow 2015) on the occasion of his performance. Listen to the interview on Soundcloud.

09 Feb 2015

Read the interview with Lebanese artist Ghassan Halwani (international guest artist at Villa Romana from September to November 2014). Halwani recently won the film prize for International Cooperation awarded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

07 Feb 2015

Loretta Fahrenholz (Villa Romana Fellow 2014) was awarded the Hans-Purrmann-Prize.

01 Feb 2015

News-Archive (2015 - 2010)