Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari is a major exhibition dedicated to one of the most distinctive voices in postwar Italian conceptual art.
Bringing together photography, video, artist’s books, and archival materials, the show focuses on Vaccari’s pioneering “Esposizioni in tempo reale”—works that unfold through audience participation rather than fixed forms.
Through immersive environments, urban traces, and collective encounters, the exhibition explores how images, memory, and perception are produced in real time, positioning the viewer as an active participant in the work itself.
Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari
28.03–13.09.2026
Curated by Frida Carazzato and Luca Panaro
Exhibition Design by Fosbury Architecture
Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo
On the occasion of the fifth stop of the international tour presenting the volume Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui?, a new moment of exchange takes shape: the conference “Feminist Resonances between Text and Image: Visual Practices since the 1970s.”
The event invites us to reflect on how, since the 1970s, feminist thought and practices have reshaped the relationship between word and image—challenging established hierarchies and opening up new possibilities of meaning. From visual poetry to queer practices and transmedia experimentation, the conference explores how artists and gender non-conforming practitioners have transformed language and representation, rewriting narratives around the body, identity, memory, and power.
Organised by Frida Carazzato (Museion), Francesca Verga (Ar/Ge Kunst) and Francesco Ventrella (University of Sussex).
Special thanks to all participants:
Karen Di Franco, Nam Huh, Lucy Reynolds, Assunta Ruocco, Giulia Zompa, Giulia Colombo, Maria Paganopoulou, Camilla Paolino, Hamida Sivac, Yiyang Chen, Julie Rose Bower, Elena Cologni.
Free admission with registration required by May 13.
For more information and to register: [email protected]
Feminist Resonances between Text and Image: Visual Practices since the 1970s
Friday 15.05.3026
10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Arts A108, University of Sussex
Discover the full programme via the link in bio.
Supported by @creativita_contemporanea of the Italian Ministry of Culture - #MiC under the #ItalianCouncil program (2024).
Il Palestinian museum (@palmuseum ) è un museo non governativo in Cisgiordania dedicato alla storia, alla cultura e alla società palestinese in chiave contemporanea. È stato inaugurato il 18 maggio 2016, tre giorni dopo il 68esimo anniversario della Nakba, l’esodo forzato di oltre 700mila palestinesi a seguito della nascita dello Stato di Israele nel 1948.
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Last Friday we opened Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari. Your presence made the essence of Vaccari’s practice tangible, where artworks come to life through audience participation.
With this exhibition, Museion presents a major survey of Franco Vaccari, one of the most distinctive voices in postwar and conceptual Italian art. Photographs, videos, artist’s books, and archival materials offer a comprehensive look at his environments—spaces designed to be experienced, shaped, and activated.
From early verbo-visual works exploring language and memory, to projects capturing traces of human presence in public spaces, each environment invites interaction, allowing visitors to leave marks and help the work unfold in real time.
Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari
28.03–13.09.2026
Curated by Frida Carazzato and Luca Panaro
Exhibition Design by Fosbury Architecture
Photos: Tiberio Sorvillo
Museion wishes to honor the memory of the artist Berty Skuber, who recently passed away. Her artistic practice spanned several decades with both coherence and freedom, beginning in the 1970s. Over the course of her career, she developed an extraordinarily diverse body of work, yet certain themes remained constant from the very beginning: a keen attention to linguistic signs, a critical dialogue with the everyday world around her, a focus on creative processes unfolding over time, and the importance of exchange and collaboration with others.
Her practice, open and deeply rooted in relationships with the world and with people, leaves a lasting mark on the contemporary art landscape. Museion joins in mourning alongside her children, John Daniel and Jessica, her family, friends, and all those who shared in her human and artistic journey.
Photo credits:
1. Berty Skuber, 10 Kalender, 1973-1981, Museion Collection. Photo: Augustin Ochsenreiter.
2. Berty Skuber and Henry Martin, behind her work “10 Kalender” (1973–1981), part of the exhibition Doing Deculturalization (Museion, 2019). Photo: Anna Cerrato.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Feminist Resonances between Text and Image:
Visual Practices since the 1970s
One Day Conference, University of Sussex, 15th May 2026, with keynote speaker Karen Di Franco (UAL)
On the occasion of the publication of the book Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui? (Bruno, 2025) dedicated to the Italian visual artist and poet Lucia Marucci (Florence, 1933), we invite contributions for a one-day conference to think together about how feminist discourses and practices have transformed and continue to transform the relationship between text and image in art and culture since the 1970s. Full CfP can be viewed on the second slide.
Please send a 250-word proposal, a title and a short bio indicating the subject “Call for Papers. Feminist Resonances” by 27th March 2026 to: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
The international presentation tour of “Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui?” continues with its fourth stop on March 2, 2026, at 2 PM at the University of Liège.
Curators Frida Carazzato and Francesca Verga will introduce the trilingual monograph, in conversation with Maria Elena Minuto (University of Liège; Royal Holloway, University of London) and Michel Delville (University of Liège), offering insights into Marcucci’s creative practice.
The book presents the first in-depth critical reflection on her work, situating her at the crossroads of historical and contemporary poetry, avant-garde experimentation, and linguistic innovation. Through the interplay of words, image, and performance, it reveals how Marcucci transforms language into acts of resistance, subtle disruption, and continual reinvention.
Produced by Museion in collaboration with @argekunstbz , and published by @books.bruno .
Supported by @creativita_contemporanea of the Italian Ministry of Culture - #MiC under the #ItalianCouncil program (2024).
Photos: Giacomo Bianco
In March we’re opening the doors to a major exhibition dedicated to Franco Vaccari (Modena, 1936–2025), a key voice of postwar and conceptual Italian art. Bringing together photographs, videos, artist’s books, and archival materials, the exhibition explores Vaccari’s environments as the core of his practice. Conceived for what would have been his 90th birthday, it marks his first major institutional exhibition in Italy in over a decade.
Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari
28.03–13.09.2026
Opening: 27.03.2026, 19:00
Curated by Frida Carazzato and Luca Panaro
Exhibition Design by Fosbury Architecture
Design: Due Studio
Motion: Cristopher Vega
