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2025/2026 

"GENERATIVE METAMORPHOSIS"

 3rd Florence Annual International Art Exhibition

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EXHIBITION

 

DATE

23/01/2026- 29/01/2026

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LOCATION

Via Montebello 22-24/R, FI

Dopo il successo della 2ª Florence Annual International Art Exhibition (2025), ospitata a Palazzo Bellini della famiglia Bellini, l’edizione 2025/2026 di “GENERATIVE METAMORPHOSIS” – 3rd Florence Annual International Art Exhibition inaugurerà ufficialmente il 23 gennaio 2026, con apertura al pubblico fino al 29 gennaio. La mostra si svolgerà presso CASA ABITATA, nel cuore storico di Firenze: un contesto urbano stratificato nei secoli, in cui le pratiche più avanzate dell’arte contemporanea vengono messe in dialogo serrato con la memoria e l’eredità culturale della città, delineando un campo di confronto ad alta intensità tra tradizione e futuro.

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L’edizione di quest’anno riunisce artisti provenienti da 16 Paesi e aree geografiche, tra cui Italia, Cina, Stati Uniti, Canada, Regno Unito, Germania, Corea del Sud, Belgio, Turchia, Serbia, Thailandia, Bulgaria, oltre a Ucraina, Polonia e Austria, ecc. Restituendo un panorama plurale di contesti culturali. La struttura partecipativa enfatizza la compresenza di prospettive transregionali, transmediali e interdisciplinari, facendo sì che l’“Annual Exhibition” non si configuri soltanto come evento espositivo, ma anche come nodo di dialogo internazionale capace di operare in modo continuativo: un dispositivo che ricerca un equilibrio dinamico tra metodologie globali dell’arte contemporanea e le tradizioni culturali locali di Firenze, radicandosi nel terreno delle politiche culturali pubbliche toscane e mantenendo, al contempo, un’apertura sostanziale verso il discorso artistico internazionale.

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Works Showcase

ARTIST

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Massimo Vito Avantaggiato - Victoria Bradley- Riccardo Biondi - Jianping Chen - Evgeny Chernyakovsky - YutongChen- Zeya Chen- Liudmila Evgeneva - Chun Fan - Aldo Frangioni - Yumei Feng- Neri Fadigati - Jingxin Gan - Marcello Guasti e Artemisia Viscoli - Jingyun Guan- Michael Gault - Hongzhan Gao -  Christel Haag- Albena Hristova - Chantelle Huang - Alessandrajane - Liang-Ming Jia - Mica Jiang - Klara König - Hyun Jung Lee - Yujie Li - Oleg Litvinov - Mariusz Makula -Xuewen Mao - Teodora Micić - Bahar Talebi Najafabadi - Silvia Noferi - Juanjuan Pan - Filiz Pür - Phumin Phupha - Roberto Pupi - Mimmo Roselli - Giovanna Sparapani - Robert Sunderman - Ari Schruth - Costina Stan - Irina Smirnova -Seymour - Yiwen Teng - Dmytro Tytula - Konrad Winter - Qiuxin Wang - James Wiens - Yu Xiang - Max Yaskin - Ziyi Yan - Peng Zheng - Tianle Zhao

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Following the successful presentation of the 2nd Florence Annual International Art Exhibition in 2025 at the Bellini Family Palace, the 2025/2026 “GENERATIVE METAMORPHOSIS” – 3rd Florence Annual International Art Exhibition officially opened on January 23, 2026, at CASA ABITATA in the historic center of Florence, and will run through January 29. Using the urban space at the heart of Florence as its medium, the exhibition introduces forward-looking contemporary artistic practices into an architectural setting layered with time, juxtaposing classical order with contemporary methodologies as a tangible on-site structure, and thereby constructing a high-intensity arena of dialogue between tradition and the future.

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Concepita come progetto annuale di arte contemporanea a vocazione internazionale per il territorio toscano, questa terza edizione consolida e amplia ulteriormente la propria architettura istituzionale e il proprio posizionamento accademico, con l’obiettivo di affermarsi come uno dei progetti annuali di riferimento per l’arte contemporanea internazionale in Toscana. Il progetto gode del patrocinio ufficiale della Regione Toscana, del Comune di Firenze, dell’Associazione Nazionale di Belle Arti d’Italia e dell’Associazione per lo Sviluppo Culturale NOMYA, ed è stato formalmente inserito nel quadro delle politiche culturali pubbliche e delle strategie di sviluppo culturale urbano. Il dispositivo espositivo non si fonda su un singolo spazio né su un evento episodico, ma su una piattaforma istituzionale interconnessa: da un lato, in relazione con istituzioni culturali e risorse accademiche di Firenze e della Toscana; dall’altro, in sinergia con una rete internazionale di comunità artistiche formatasi progressivamente negli ultimi anni, costruendo così un meccanismo annuale sostenibile capace di connettere governance culturale locale e scenario contemporaneo globale.

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On the opening day, the exhibition completed its first public presentation, generating an intensive on-site exchange around contemporary art, urban memory, and mechanisms of public cultural governance. Beyond participating artists and general audiences, the event received high-density attention and support from Florence’s cultural institutional ecosystem and public cultural governance networks, spanning multiple dimensions: national-level cultural heritage protection and professional technical bodies; the management and operational chain of key historic-cultural sites within the city; local public affairs and public service governance systems; international brand cultural resources and art-collecting networks; international academic and arts education communities; as well as systems of public cultural production and cross-media creation.

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This structural presence on site provided verifiable field-based support for the exhibition’s positioning within a narrative chain of “public cultural policy framework – urban cultural development strategy – institutional ecosystem – international resource networks.” It further strengthens the exhibition’s institutional visibility, city-level network connectivity, and communicative authority as an annual international contemporary art node project in the Tuscany region.

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On the opening day, the exhibition completed its first public presentation, generating an intensive on-site exchange around contemporary art, urban memory, and mechanisms of public cultural governance. Beyond participating artists and general audiences, the event received high-density attention and support from Florence’s cultural institutional ecosystem and public cultural governance networks, spanning multiple dimensions: national-level cultural heritage protection and professional technical bodies; the management and operational chain of key historic-cultural sites within the city; local public affairs and public service governance systems; international brand cultural resources and art-collecting networks; international academic and arts education communities; as well as systems of public cultural production and cross-media creation.

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This structural presence on site provided verifiable field-based support for the exhibition’s positioning within a narrative chain of “public cultural policy framework – urban cultural development strategy – institutional ecosystem – international resource networks.” It further strengthens the exhibition’s institutional visibility, city-level network connectivity, and communicative authority as an annual international contemporary art node project in the Tuscany region.

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In terms of attending guests and professionals, in addition to the curatorial team of this edition and Ms. Rossella Tesi, President of Associazione Nomya, the jurors and relevant professionals present on site included: former Mayor of Fiesole, Aldo Frangioni, who has also served within public transport and public cultural institutional systems (including ASSTRA, PRIAMO, and ATAF); Alessandro Belisario, who previously held leadership responsibilities within the management system of Palazzo Medici Riccardi and has long worked across Tuscany’s public-institution framework in areas including education and training, culture, and tourism, and who currently serves as President of the Friends Association of Palazzo Davanzati and Casa Martelli, as well as Secretary-General of a European research institute in Florence; Daniela Dini, a cultural heritage restoration professional from Gallerie degli Uffizi, who has participated in restoration projects related to Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore; and Ronaldo Fiesoli—artist, architect, designer, and curator—who maintains collaborative links with the art and cultural project system of Patrizia Pepe / Tessilform.

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Taken together, this on-site composition further demonstrated the coordinated reinforcement among the city’s cultural-space networks, public cultural program mechanisms, and international cultural resource systems.

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The exhibition simultaneously announced six major awards for this year’s edition: the Outstanding Contribution Award, Honorary Mention Award, Excellence in Visual Arts Award, Best Emerging Artist Award, Best Creativity Award, and Artist of the Year Award. As an integral component of the annual exhibition mechanism, this award system is designed to strengthen the exhibition’s academic orientation and public communication effectiveness through a clearer value framework, and—within Florence’s historic and cultural core context—to establish sustainable professional recognition and an archival record for participating international artists.

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Award Recipients

  • Artist of the Year Award: Roberto Pupi

  • Outstanding Contribution Award: Riccardo Biondi | Qiuxin Wang | Mimmo Roselli | Juanjuan Pan | Silvia Noferi

  • Honorary Mention Award: Marcello Guasti & Artemisia Viscoli | Chantelle Huang | Chun Fan | Aldo Frangioni | Xuewen Mao

  • Best Creativity Award: Jingxin Gan | Ari Schruth | Mica Jiang

  • Excellence in Visual Arts Award: Hongzhan Gao | Alessandrajane

  • Best Emerging Artist Award: Klara König

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