The Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires and Triennale Milano present – from June 26 to September 21, 2025, at the Palacio Libertad. Centro Cultural Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the exhibition “Pittura italiana oggi. Una nuova scena“ (Italian Painting Today. A New Scene”) an initiative promoted by the Unit for the Coordination of Italian Cultural Institutes at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, with the support of the Italian Embassy in Buenos Aires.
As a project conceived by Triennale Milano, curated by Damiano Gullì – Curator for Contemporary Art and the Public Program of the Milanese institution – the exhibition travels outside the Italian borders for the first time and reaches Buenos Aires, the first stop on an international tour that will then continue in Brazil and Mexico.
The exhibition is a key event in the enhancement of contemporary Italian painting and dialogue with the Argentine public, in line with the cultural mission of the Institute. Pittura italiana oggi. Una nuova scena develops as a follow up of the group exhibition of the same name presented at Triennale Milano in 2023 and focused on the emerging Italian scene of artists, born between 1990 and the 2000s, who express themselves through painting. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight, promote and enhance the richness and complexity of Italian painting in all its expressions and facets.
The presence of the artist Giulia Mangoni, who will create a site-specific work for the installation in Buenos Aires, will also promote direct exchange between the artistic scenes of the two countries.
Organized in five sections – Alone/Together; History, Stories and Tradition; Metaphysics of Everyday; In Beetween; Forms, Colors, Time, Matter – the exhibition touches on the themes of representation and self-representation, of the relationship with the object panorama of everyday life, of disciplinary contaminations and shifts, of the reinterpretation and distortion of traditional techniques and iconographies, of the fluid exchanges between abstraction and figuration and of the new abstraction. The result is a prismatic restitution of the many facets of painting today in Italy.
As said by Marco Maria Cerbo, Head of the Unit for the Coordination of the Foreign Ministry’s Italian Cultural Institutes, “Pittura italiana oggi is an excellence of cultural diplomacy for many reasons, starting with the high-level collaboration with Triennale Milano. The exhibition enhances many young artists on the international scene and reflects on contemporary paths of a centuries-old form of expression.” Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, stated: “We are very happy that the exhibition is presented internationally, particularly in Buenos Aires: a new opportunity to spread and explore the projects and ideas of young talents in Italian art, providing new ideas and interpretations. The exhibition stems from a large exhibition on the state of contemporary Italian painting presented at Triennale Milano in 2023, and now also becomes an opportunity to present abroad a cross-section of the contemporary art scene, through the expressive language of painting. ”
