Why Nat Projects

We are pleased to announce the opening of “EROS AND ASHES”, an exhibition by Palina Adriana and Yulia Bas, on May 15th at 6:00 PM at @spaziosassetti , Florence. Palina Adriana moved from fashion design between London, Paris, and New York into painting, developing a visual language that blends abstraction and figuration through expressive gestures and realistic elements. Based in Florence since 2021, she has been exhibiting between Paris and Zurich since 2024. Yulia Bas, after a successful career in architecture and yacht design between Italy and Spain, returned to art and now works from Barcelona. Her practice has been presented internationally, including collaborations with Christie’s London and major art fairs, with works held in private collections worldwide. The works of two artists emerge from moments of rupture and transformation. Through painting, both artists explore fragmentation, renewal, and the continuous reshaping of identity between emotional tension and new forms of expression. - @yulia__bas @paliblu The exhibition is curated and produced in collaboration with @why_nat_projects . Special thanks to @feudomaccariwinery 🥂Opening: 15 May 2026, 6:00 pm 📍 Via dei Sassetti 1, Florence #AriaArtGallery #FlorenceArtExhibition

“Hunting Shadows” has officially opened! A solo exhibition by Veljko Vučković, curated and organized in collaboration with @why_nat_projects . Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening night and helped make it a special moment. The exhibition explores the transformation of cinematic imagery into painting, moving between film stills, digital manipulation, and the canvas, where narrative, ambiguity, and perception constantly shift. The exhibition is now on view at the Aria Art Gallery. We look forward to seeing you! - 📍 Borgo Santi Apostoli, 40R, Florence ⏰ Monday to Saturday, 10.30am-1.30pm | 3.30pm-7.30pm Light Design: @targetti_lighting #AriaArtGallery #ArtOpening #FlorenceArt @veljko___vuckovic

glad to share our duo exhibition with @yulia__bas Florence, @spaziosassetti 
In collaboration with @ariaartgallery 
Curated by @whynat 

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Aria Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of HUNTING SHADOWS, a solo exhibition by Veljko Vučković , on Friday, April 24 at 7:00 PM at Borgo Santi Apostoli 40r. The exhibition is curated and organized in collaboration with @why_nat_projects . According to the curator, Nataša Radojević, the exhibition brings together a new body of work, marking a significant shift in both scale and conceptual scope within Vučković’s painterly practice. While politically engaged European cinema of the 1960s and 1970s remains a key reference, the new works also draw on film noir and films gris, expanding the visual and atmospheric range of the paintings. The exhibition also maintains a dialogue with Italian cinema, including crime films, creating a resonance between the works and their presentation context. These influences introduce new motifs and narrative tensions while sustaining the artist’s ongoing exploration of power, ambiguity, and image construction. Light Design: @targetti_lighting ⏰ Opening: 24 April 2026, 7.00 pm 📍Borgo Santi Apostoli 40R, Florence #AriaArtGallery @veljko___vuckovic

Last days to visit "The Target is You". The exhibition features works by Daniele Sigalot, Tomasz Kopcewicz, Federico Ferrarini, Federico Uribe, Sossio, Lorenzo Malfatti , Angelo Brescianini, Marko Lađušić, Andrea Guastavino, Michelangelo Bastiani and Milija Čpajak. In collaboration with @why_nat_projects . Onview until this Saturday! - “Nothing can happen externally to a man without his inner consent, even if unconscious. Nothing can occur without first passing through his Vision.” - Elio D'Anna 🗓️March 10 - April 18. 2026 📍 Borgo Santi Apostoli, 40R, Florence ⏰ 10.30am-1.30pm | 3.30pm-7.30pm PH: @liomorph #ContemporaryArt #ArtInFlorence #AriaArtGallery @eliodanna

‘Topologies of the Unseen’ by @poparapredrag features the works from his latest series (2022–2026), with a focus on monumental formats. These works continue the artist’s exploration of complex relationships between abstraction, materiality, and elemental forces. Popara’s paintings do not function as representations but as events—a space where energy accumulates, transforms, and establishes a dialogue with the viewer. The works do not depict landscapes in a traditional sense; rather, they construct fluid, imaginary systems in which water, air, earth, and fire intersect, generating intricate relationships between movement and stability, chaos and order. Through layered textures, emphatic gestures, and intense chromatic contrasts, Popara articulates liminal states—zones between emergence and disappearance, formation and dissolution. Each surface carries traces of the performative act, recording the process of creation and creating a dynamic, multi-layered visual experience. Central to Popara’s practice is the relationship between humans and nature. In his work, nature is neither illustrative nor nostalgic; it is an immanent framework of existence. The series Nature as Universal Energy Form reflects contemporary instability—ecological, social, psychological, and existential—while monumental formats amplify both the physical and emotional impact. The viewer becomes an active participant, engaging with the process, perception, and contemplation that Popara’s paintings encourage, reconnecting with elemental forces that shape both nature and human experience. Popara redefines painting as a living, processual system—not merely a reflection of the world, but an extension of it. Color, gesture, and material in his compositions create a dialogue between the visible and invisible, chaos and order, transient and enduring, while evoking both introspective and universal dimensions. Curated by @why_nat_projects x #cmscollection ‘Meet The Artist’ with Predrag Popara, taking place on April 18 from 3-6 PM Krunska 73, Belgrade. 📷 @marijana.n.jankovic #whynat #predragpopara #cmscollection

“The Target is You”, on view from Monday to Saturday! The exhibition features works by Daniele Sigalot, Tomasz Kopcewicz, Federico Ferrarini, Federico Uribe, Sossio, Lorenzo Malfatti , Angelo Brescianini, Marko Lađušić, Andrea Guastavino, Michelangelo Bastiani and Milija Čpajak. “THE TARGET IS YOU” explores the notion of the target not merely as an external object, often associated with danger, conflict, and the imagery of contemporary events, but as a symbolic device pointing toward an inner dimension. In this perspective, the target is no longer simply a point to be struck in space. It becomes an invisible place: a psychological threshold where perception, memory, and imagination shape what we experience as reality. In collaboration between @ariaartgallery and @why_nat_projects - 🗓️March 10 - April 18 2026 📍 Borgo Santi Apostoli, 40R, Florence ⏰ Monday to Saturday, 10.30am-1.30pm | 3.30pm-7.30pm @danielesigalot @michelangelobastiani @milijacpajak @tomekkopcewicz @federicoferrarinistudio @federicouribeart @sossio.art @lorenzomalfattiarte @ladjusicmarko @andreabenedettoguastavino PH: @liomorph #ContemporaryArt #ArtInFlorence #AriaArtGallery #WHYNAT

Visit "The Target is You", on view from Monday to Saturday! The exhibition features works by Daniele Sigalot, Tomasz Kopcewicz, Federico Ferrarini, Federico Uribe, Sossio, Lorenzo Malfatti , Angelo Brescianini, Marko Lađušić, Andrea Guastavino, Michelangelo Bastiani and Milija Čpajak. "THE TARGET IS YOU" explores the notion of the target not merely as an external object, often associated with danger, conflict, and the imagery of contemporary events, but as a symbolic device pointing toward an inner dimension. In this perspective, the target is no longer simply a point to be struck in space. It becomes an invisible place: a psychological threshold where perception, memory, and imagination shape what we experience as reality. Every work of art emerges from this tension. Its ‘intention’ often reveals itself only during the act of creation, becoming fully legible once the work is complete. What appears suddenly in the finished artwork is therefore the result of a deep and very long preparation. As @eliodanna writes: “Nothing can happen externally to a man without his inner consent, even if unconscious. Nothing can occur without first passing through his Vision.” - 🗓️March 10 - April 18. 2026 📍 Borgo Santi Apostoli, 40R, Florence ⏰ Monday to Saturday, 10.30am-1.30pm | 3.30pm-7.30pm @danielesigalot @tomekkopcewicz @federicoferrarinistudio @federicouribeart @sossioart @lorenzomalfattiarte @ladjusicmarko @andreabenedettoguastavino @michelangelobastiani @milijacpajak PH: @liomorph #ContemporaryArt #ArtInFlorence #AriaArtGallery

Predrag Popara’s Solo Show ‘Topologies of the Unseen’ opens on Thursday, April 2, at 7 PM, at Krunska 73, Belgrade. The exhibition is organized in collaboration between WHY NAT Projects and the CMS Collection. The show will feature around ten works from @poparapredrag latest series (2022–2026), with a focus on monumental formats. These works continue the artist’s exploration of complex relationships between abstraction, materiality, and elemental forces. Popara’s paintings do not function as representations but as events—a space where energy accumulates, transforms, and establishes a dialogue with the viewer. His works do not depict landscapes in a traditional sense; rather, they construct fluid, imaginary systems in which water, air, earth, and fire intersect, generating intricate relationships between movement and stability, chaos and order. Through layered textures, emphatic gestures, and intense chromatic contrasts, Popara articulates liminal states—zones between emergence and disappearance, formation and dissolution. Each surface carries traces of the performative act, recording the process of creation and creating a dynamic, multi-layered visual experience. Central to Popara’s practice is the relationship between humans and nature. In his work, nature is neither illustrative nor nostalgic; it is an immanent framework of existence. The series Nature as Universal Energy Form reflects contemporary instability—ecological, social, psychological, and existential—while monumental formats amplify both the physical and emotional impact. The viewer becomes an active participant, engaging with the process, perception, and contemplation that Popara’s paintings encourage, reconnecting with elemental forces that shape both nature and human experience. Popara redefines painting as a living, processual system—not merely a reflection of the world, but an extension of it. Color, gesture, and material in his compositions create a dialogue between the visible and invisible, chaos and order, transient and enduring, while evoking both introspective and universal dimensions. Curated by @why_nat_projects

• @prismaartprize The winner of Prisma Art Prize - 18th Edition is Heather Drayzen with Giverny Oil on linen, 18 × 14 in A figure caught behind a green frame, light filtering through fabric and memory, everything feels slightly suspended, like a moment you can’t fully enter, only witness. A quiet scene that doesn’t shout. Congratulations to Heather Drayzen, winner of the 18th edition of Prisma Art Prize. A heartfelt thank you to our Jury for the time, care, and attention dedicated to this edition — the artistic director @marcocrispano , the curator @domenico_de_chirico and the jurors @giacomoxguidi @pallavicini_collezione isorropiahomegallery @andreavittoriag @ciprian__muresan @natascia_natalie_nat @silentartexplorer @ego_projects @alberto.bellotto , Anselm Jappe, @an_italian_art_collector @the_dummys_tales Full winners list on our website (link in bio). Prisma Art Prize is produced by @ilvarco Creative Hub #PrismaArtPrize #Winner #HeatherDrayzen #Giverny #OilOnLinen ContemporaryPainting Painting EmergingArtists ArtPrize ArtJury

• @prismaartprize HONORABLE MENTION - Prisma Art Prize 18th Edition Sebastian Haas with “afterwards, no excuses” Oil, spray paint on reverse glass (framed), 30 × 40 cm A room appears like a fragment pulled from a surveillance feed or a half-remembered scene - furniture, shadows, and hard edges suspended in cold light. The reverse-glass surface adds a strange distance: everything feels sealed behind a barrier, like evidence, like aftermath. Quiet, tense, and uncompromising. Congratulations to Sebastian Haas for this Honorable Mention. A heartfelt thank you to our Jury for the time, care, and attention dedicated to this edition — the artistic director @marcocrispano , the curator @domenico_de_chirico and the jurors @giacomoxguidi @pallavicini_collezione isorropiahomegallery @andreavittoriag @ciprian__muresan @natascia_natalie_nat @silentartexplorer @ego_projects @alberto.bellotto , Anselm Jappe, @an_italian_art_collector @the_dummys_tales Full winners list on our website (link in bio). Prisma Art Prize is produced by @ilvarco Creative Hub #PrismaArtPrize #HonorableMention #SebastianHaas #AfterwardsNoExcuses #ReverseGlassPainting OilPainting SprayPaint ContemporaryArt ContemporaryPainting ArtPrize ArtJury

• @prismaartprize HONORABLE MENTION - Prisma Art Prize 18th Edition Arthur Laidlaw with Cut Glass Gouache, acrylic, and oil on linen, 140 × 170 cm Bodies gather in a tight interior, faces slipping out of focus, as if identity were something unstable, caught in reflections, interruptions, and the noise of the room. Color cuts through the composition like sharp light on glass: vivid, messy, alive. The ordinary becomes charged, and the intimacy turns slightly uncanny. Congratulations to Arthur Laidlaw for this Honorable Mention. A heartfelt thank you to our Jury for the time, care, and attention dedicated to this edition — the artistic director @marcocrispano , the curator @domenico_de_chirico and the jurors @giacomoxguidi @pallavicini_collezione isorropiahomegallery @andreavittoriag @ciprian__muresan @natascia_natalie_nat @silentartexplorer @ego_projects @alberto.bellotto , Anselm Jappe, @an_italian_art_collector @the_dummys_tales Full winners list on our website (link in bio). Prisma Art Prize is produced by @ilvarco Creative Hub #PrismaArtPrize #HonorableMention #ArthurLaidlaw #CutGlass #Gouache OilOnLinen AcrylicPainting ContemporaryPainting FigurativePainting ArtPrize artjury