Amani Bodo
Rebecca Russo, in the context of Roma Arte Nuvola, has acquired, for the Videoinsight® Collection, the work by Amani Bodo “Mamiwata” 2025, acrylic on canvas, 134 × 124 cm, Galleria Primo Marella, Milan, Lugano
Il Sole 24 Ore
Arte in Nuvola celebrates its fifth edition
by Giorgia Basili and Nicola Zanella | 25.11. 2025
Palazzo Rota, Venice
Just meters from the majesty of St. Marco’s Square, “Palazzo Rota – Luxury Apartments” has opened to the public. This 14th-century residence has been restored to its former splendor by the Pacini Group. The historic building, protected by the Superintendency, is now home to exclusive residences, designed for travelers seeking an intimate and sophisticated experience. Palazzo Rota combines the charm of history with contemporary comfort. This elegant Venetian residence is a harmonious blend of history, aesthetics, and belonging. The restoration project, designed by Studio Marco Piva of Milan, honored the palace’s history: originally a textile factory, then a glassworks, a museum, and finally a noble residence. Each transformation has left its mark, making the building a precious testament to Venetian heritage. Palazzo Rota offers its guests a video art experience.
Works from the Videoinsight® Collection are exhibited in the apartments. The permanent exhibition entitled Videoinsight® Experience is the result of a collaboration between the Pacini Group and the Videoinsight Foundation – ETS.
Artistic Direction is by Rebecca Russo; curatorship is by Monica Bassetto.
List of works:
Beatriz Millar, Lux Mater, 2011, Videoinsight® Collection
Hans Op De Beeck, Parade, 2012, Videoinsight® Collection
Alejandro Pereda, A glass of fruit, 2016, Videoinsight® Collection
Marinella Senatore, Speak Easy, Director’s Cut, 2009, Videoinsight® Collection
Fabrizio Passarella, Il Giardino Rabescato, 2003-2016, Videoinsight® Collection
Fabrizio Passarella, Sogni, 2022-2025, Videoinsight® Collection
Flashback Habitat
Butterfly
Flashback Habitat. Ecosistema per le culture contemporanee
in collaboration with Videoinsight Foundation – ets
Butterfly by Rebecca Russo
VideoArt from Videoinsight® Collection
25.09.2024 – 30.03.2026
25.09.2025 | Talk by Tita Giunta
The butterfly is one of the most powerful and universal symbols of transformation, rebirth, and inner beauty. Its life cycle—from egg to larva, then to chrysalis, and finally to winged creature—represents a profound process of change and growth. It symbolically represents the soul, the passage between worlds, between life and death, between darkness and light. It is associated with freedom, the lightness of being, but also with fragility and impermanence, since its existence is brief but intense, like certain precious moments in life. The butterfly invites us to let go of the past, to accept change, and to have the courage to evolve. It reminds us that even what appears immobile or dark (like the chrysalis) can contain the seed of something wonderful. Human wounds, however painful, can become wings for soaring flights of emancipation and awareness, openings through which light enters. Every pain experienced, every fall, every loss leaves a mark, which is not just suffering: it is also memory, experience, truth. Limitations, losses, cause cracks, within which the possibility of transformation hides and reveals itself. Fragility inspires authenticity, strength, and radiance. Failure, faced with awareness, can become compassion, depth, art. Scars tell a story: they are not a flaw, but a form of beauty, truer. Vulnerabilities can transform into resources: becoming sensitivity, the ability to understand others, the desire for authenticity. The butterfly is poetry in motion, a silent messenger of hope, transformation, and new life.
Artworks:
Janet Biggs, Can’t find my way home, 2015, 09 min. 45 sec.
Maurizio Camerani, Sub, 1994, 06 min. 06 sec.
Emilia Faro, The Prince’s metamorphosis, 2010, 03 min. 29 sec.
Michael Fliri, Getting too old to die young 2008, 00 min. 47 sec.
Kate Gilmore, My love is an anchor, 2004, 07 min. 06 sec.
Goldiechiari, 1969, 2010, 04 min. 23 sec.
Vlatka Horvat, Restless, 2010, 08 min.18 sec.
Polina Kanis, Eggs, 2010, 17 min.28 sec.
Ali Kazma, Dance Company, 2009, 10 min. 17 sec.
Edson Luli, What is man, 2014, 06 min. 55 sec.
Marcos Lutyens, The subjective self: twinnapse, 2013, 01 min. 40 sec.
Ursula Mayer, The crystal gaze, 2007, 14 min. 39 sec.
Marcello Maloberti, Blitz, 2012, 07 min. 58 sec.
Masbedo, Glimà, 2008, 18 min. 26 sec.
Hans Op De Beeck, Parade, 2012, 11 min. 17 sec.
Fabrizio Passarella, Il Giardino Rabescato, 2003 – 2016, 15 min. 48 sec.
Fabrizio Passarella, Dreams, 2022 – 2025, 17 min. 30 sec.
Cheryl Pope, Stacks, 2010, 10 min. 05 sec.
Sissi, Daniele ha perso il treno, 1999, 01 min. 30 sec.
Michele Tombolini, Indelible marks, 2016, 17 min. 13 sec.
Ulla Von Brandenburg, Singspiel, 2009, 06 min. 39 sec.
Videoinsight Foundation – ets
The Videoinsight® Art Science Foundation created in 2013 by Founder President Rebecca Luciana Russo, in 2025 was transformed with the name Videoinsight Foundation – ETS, enrolling in the Third Sector – RUNTS with the Act DD 768/A2202B/2025 of 09/06/2025 – rep. n. 154516; CF 91356330372, in the section A22000 – WELFARE / A2202B “Other Third Sector Entities” of the National Single Register of the Third Sector, pursuant to article 22 of Legislative Decree 3.7.2017 n. 117 and article 16 of Ministerial Decree n. 106 of 15.9.2020. The new headquarters is located in via F. Bonsignore 7, 10131, Turin.
Premio Collective Castello di Rivoli 2025
Premio Collective Castello di Rivoli 2025
We are happy to announce that Adji Dieye (Milan, 1991) is the winner of the second edition of the Collective International Art Award for the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Thanks to the purchase made by Collective Members, the work Culture Lost and Learned by Heart: Butterfly, 2021, becomes part of the Museum’s permanent collection, as a donation.
Adji Dieye was selected by a commission composed of the Director of the Castello Francesco Manacorda, the Deputy Director and Chief Curator Marcella Beccaria and the Curator Marianna Vecellio, starting from a wide range of works created by Italian and international artists proposed by Collective Members. Andro Eradze (Georgia, 1993) and Agnes Questionmark (Rome, 1995) are the other two finalists of the second edition of the Award.
Adji Dieye’s practice develops at the intersection of image, urban spaces and cultural memory. Through the use of archival materials, or those relating to advertising and architecture, the artist investigates how national epistemologies are formed and transformed, questioning the visual and ideological structures that shape collective identity and the sense of belonging to it.
The winning work, Culture Lost and Learned by Heart: Butterfly, 2021, is composed of an iron structure on which is mounted a long silk sheet printed with fragments of images from the National Iconographic Archives of Senegal and the artist’s personal archive. The work reflects on the gestures that have crossed and subverted colonial institutional spaces, through a visual alternation of corporeal and architectural details. In this work, Dieye invites us to question the concept of the archive as a place of symbolic authority, selection and removal, rather than pure conservation.
“The award to Adji Dieye,” Marcella Beccaria and Marianna Vecellio declare, “recognizes the ability of this young artist to look critically at the ways in which the legacy of the past and the construction of memory influence the understanding of the complex present in which we live.”
The work will be visible to the public from September 25, 2025 at the Castello di Rivoli, in conjunction with Inserzioni, a new program curated by Francesco Manacorda focused on new commissions for the Museum.
Adji Dieye vince Collective per il Castello di Rivoli
Rivoli, Adji Dieye vince la seconda edizione del Premio d’arte internazionale Collective
Stati Generali della Salute, Siena, 2025
Stati Generali della Salute, Siena, 2025
‘Art that heals’
On March 22, 2025, Santa Maria della Scala hosted the first day of work of the 2025 edition of the exhibition dedicated to healthcare promoted by the Municipality of Siena. The day was dedicated to the analysis and story of how Art is and can be a valid support for Treatment. Through music, painting, theater and other disciplines, in fact, it offers a channel to express emotions and experiences that are difficult to verbalize, helping to process trauma or stress. The dances opened at 9:30 with institutional greetings from Nicoletta Fabio, Mayor of the Municipality of Siena; Giuseppe Giordano, Councilor for Health of the Municipality of Siena and Cristiano Leone, President of the Santa Maria della Scala Museum Complex. The debate, moderated by the journalist of La Nazione Cristina Belvedere, proposed interventions with professionals from all over Italy and Europe: the artistic director of the Teatri di Siena Vincenzo Bocciarelli, the artist Cesare Pietroiusti, Irene Sanesi, co-founder of the Cultural Welfare Center of Turin, Enzo Grossi, coordinator of the Art and Health course at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, Rebecca Russo, Founder and President of the Videoinsight® Foundation, Agnese Pieracci, head of the University Hospital of Siena, Cinzia Leone, famous actress and special guest who brought to the stage the testimony of how important art can be for health and its therapeutic power. Vincenza Ferrara and Paolo Zamboni held an immersive in-depth laboratory at Visual Thinking Strategies, an innovative method that uses cultural heritage as a tool for learning, promotion and social inclusion, improvement of interpersonal relationships, cultural mediation and well-being.
Siena Health General States 2025
The city of Siena confirms its position as a point of reference in the national and international debate on healthcare with the second edition of the Stati Generali della Salute, an initiative promoted by the municipal administration to address the new challenges of the healthcare sector. Three days of meetings, insights and interactive activities led experts, institutions and citizens to reflect on key issues for the well-being of the community. The morning of each day was occupied by conferences and debates, with professionals of national and international calibre, while in the afternoon dedicated activities and initiatives took place. “With this second edition of the Siena Health General States, Siena confirms its role as a protagonist in the debate on healthcare and well-being”, declared the Mayor of Siena, Nicoletta Fabio. “We have chosen three symbolic places in the city to underline the link between history, culture and health, with the aim of building the future of healthcare and services for citizens together”. The Councilor for Health of the Municipality of Siena, Giuseppe Giordano, reiterated the importance of the initiative: “With the States General of Health 2025 we want to renew our commitment to the promotion and protection of health, involving the entire community. Siena has always been a center of research and innovation in the medical and biomedical field, and we intend to enhance this identity through the comparison and sharing of ideas”.
Sala Italo Calvino, Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
Can Art be a form of Care? A journey between science and creativity to rediscover Art as Care.
Speakers: Vincenzo Bocciarelli – Actor, Producer, Artistic Director of the Siena Theaters, Cesare Pietroiusti – Visual artist, founder and coordinator of many research centers, projects and art conferences, Irene Sanesi – Co-Founder of CCW-Cultural Welfare Center, Enzo Grossi – Scientific Advisor Bracco Foundation, Founding Member Cultural Welfare Center of Turin, Coordinator of the Culture and Health Course at the University of Italian Switzerland, Rebecca Russo – Founder and President Videoinsight® Foundation, Philanthropist, Collector of Contemporary Art, Agnese Pieracci – Director of the AOU Senese, Cinzia Leone – Actress, Vincenza Ferrara and Paolo Zamboni – Visual Thinking Strategies
Endless Summer
Magazzini del Sale, Cervia, Endless Summer, 2025
Production: Magma
The work of Thomas Braida, Siesta del sol, siesta per tutti, 2019 – Courtesy the Artist; Videoinsight® Collection, Turin; Monitor Gallery, Rome, Lisbon – participates in the exhibition ENDLESS SUMMER that will take place at the Magazzino del Sale (Via Nazario Sauro, 24) in Cervia (RA), from May 17 to June 22, 2025.
With works by
Yuri Ancarani, Thomas Berra, Thomas Braida, Ermanno Brosio, Martina Bruni, Michele Bubacco, Jacopo Casadei, David Casini, Francesco Cavaliere, Goldschmied & Chiari, Adelaide Cioni, Giovanni Copelli, Lucia Cristiani, Rudy Cremonini, Giovanni De Francesco, Roberto DePinto, Jeremy Deller, Ettore Favini, Roberto Fassone, Oliviero Fiorenzi, Christian Holstad, Mino Luchena, Lorenzo Mason, Jonathan Monk, Davide Monaldi, Luca Nostri, Ornaghi & Prestinari, Bruno Peinado, Alessandro Pessoli, Marta Pierobon, Leonardo Pivi, Aronne Pleuteri, Luigi Presicce, Andrea Renzini, Salvo, Pierluigi Scandiuzzi, Mario Schifano, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Thea Vallé, Vedovamazzei, Flaminia Veronesi, Carlo Zauli
Edited by
Vittoria Caprotti, Viola Cenacchi, Rossella Farinotti, Davide Giannella, Gioele Melandri, Ornella Paglialonga, Giovanni Rendina, Valentina Rossi
With the artistic direction of Viola Emaldi, Alex Montanaro
Arte Mondadori
Ronald Ventura, William Kentridge, Joseph Kosuth, Thomas Ruff, AES+F, Marina Abramovic, Paola Pivi, Francesco Vezzoli, Robert Mapplethorpe, Francesca Woodman, Nathalie Djurberg, Tala Madani, Marinella Senatore, Yael Bartana, Keren Cytter, Laure Prouvost, Ali Kazma, …
Text by Paola Stroppiana
Art Director: Roberto Sartorelli
