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Guess who’s coming to SPA?

Guess who’s coming to SPA? … It’s ready for its second appointment… And this time the guest is Rebecca Russo.

A philanthropist, contemporary art collector and president of the Videoinsight® Foundation, Rebecca Russo has transformed her vision into a method that intertwines art, psychology and care.
With Videoinsight®, art becomes a tool for personal and collective transformation, capable of generating awareness and well-being.
What perspective will she bring to collection and collecting? What works, stories and experiences will go through SPA together with her?

March 15, 2025 | 5:00 PM  SPA | Spazio Per Arte – Palazzo Bellini, Oleggio (NO)
Free admission, reservations are required.

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO SPA? Palazzo Bellini, Oleggio (NO) March 15, 2025 | 5:00 PM

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Siena Health General States 2025

Siena Health General States

‘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

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”.

 

March 22, 2025

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 / Paolo Zamboni – Visual Thinking Strategies

 

 

Endless Summer

Thomas Braida’s work, “Siesta del sol, siesta per tutti”, 2019 – Courtesy the Artist; Videoinsight® Collection, Turin; Monitor Gallery, Rome, Lisbon – will participate in the “ENDLESS SUMMER” exhibition 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

Fondation A – A Stichting

Anna Maria Maiolino, “Por um fio (By a Thread)”from the series “Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction)”, 1976. Courtesy the Artist; Videoinsight ® Collection, Turin 
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan – Albisola 

Fondation A – A Stichting

“A partir d’Elle. Des artistes et leur mère”

By Julie Héraut 

23.01. – 18.05.2025

Roland Barthes, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Dirk Braeckman, Sophie Calle, Rebekka Deubner, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Paul Graham, Hervé Guibert, Michel Journiac, Lebohang Kganye, Ragnar Kjartansson, Anna Maria Maiolino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mark Raidpere & Ilene Segalove.

Ducato Prize

Ducato Prize 2023

Discover the Members of the Collector’s Board, completing the Ducato Prize selection committee.

10 international collectors will compete with the jury to elect the Ducato Prize 2023 winner and assign their special mention: Anastasia Sgoumpopoulou, Fabio Agovino, R.F. Jefferies, Enea Righi – Lorenzo Paini, Federica Maria Bianchi, Marco Ghigi, Marcelle Joseph, Roberto Spada, Rebecca Russo, Valter Cassandro.

The Ducato Prize is an Open Call Contemporary Art Award founded in 2019 to promote a dialogue between Italian and international Artists and the territory of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza in Italy. Check out their website for more information! This year’s edition is rooted in the relationship between the individual and the cosmos.

 

Credits: Michael Clegg, Martin Guttmann, ‘Portrait of Rebecca Russo with the Swan’, Videoinsight® Collection, Lia Rumma Gallery