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P420

International Contemporary Art Gallery
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P420 ARTE CONTEMPORANEA E LIBRI ha inaugurato lo scorso 23 gennaio 2010 il proprio spazio a Bologna in Piazza dei Martiri 5/2, adiacente al MAMBO e nei pressi del centro storico e dalla stazione di Bologna. P420 nasce con il preciso intento di presentare e trattare l'opera di artisti appartenenti alle principali avanguardie nate, in Italia e all'estero, tra gli anni ‘50 e gli anni ‘80, con partico

lare attenzione ai decenni '60 e '70, così incredibilmente ricchi e prolifici di nuove idee e di nuove espressioni artistiche. E' in quest'ottica che la proposta di P420 propone parte dalla corrente Informale degli anni Cinquanta per arrivare alle più recenti esperienze degli anni ‘70, attraverso la destrutturazione di Zero e Nul, le innovazioni artistiche e culturali introdotte dall'Arte Concettuale, Processuale, dalla Land Art, Minimal, Narrative, Performance, Arte ottica-cinetica e Programmata, Arte Povera, Fluxus e manifestazioni multimediali, Poesia Visiva e Concreta, Nuova Pittura, ecc. P420 dedica inoltre la massima attenzione alla ricerca nel settore della documentazione, intendendo arricchire le conoscenze del collezionista mediante una notevole proposta di documenti originali quali cataloghi e monografie degli artisti e delle correnti artistiche trattate. Il supporto documentale non sarà mai considerato secondario all'opera e sarà invece sempre presente nelle mostre e negli allestimenti come parte integrante di un progetto di presentazione dell'Arte Contemporanea al pubblico che integri gli schemi dell'attività commerciale con le esigenze collezionistiche e gli aspetti più prettamente culturali e poetici della ricerca artistica.

06/06/2026

: Monika Stricker

Monika Stricker’s paintings have a classical spirit, but her work often conveys a sense of the provisional, while her unexpected subjects never leave the viewer indifferent.

After a number of years in which the artist has painted faceless men with open legs, displaying their anatomy deprived of a p***s, a mutilated identity because it is deprived of what identifies power in the patriarchal society, Monika Stricker’s new subjects originate, as the artist explains, from the relationship with her own fantasies and admirations. Indefinite figures that lose any points of reference, primates seen in the act of breastfeeding, dogs, feet, Stricker’s new subjects are a pretext to talk about intimate relationships, existential condition of human being.

Artwork: Monika Stricker, Michelangelo, 2023, oil on canvas, 90 x 64 cm 📸 Carlo Favero

Portrait of the artist

📸Hubertus Huvermann

Courtesy the artist and P420, Bologna

05/06/2026

It's 🌍

To mark this occasion, we share a work on paper by Laura Grisi — an artist whose entire practice was rooted in a deep attention to the natural world.

Artwork: Laura Grisi, Untitled, (1965-66), acrylic and mixed media on card, 100 x 66 cm

📸 Carlo Favero

Courtesy Laura Grisi Estate and P420, Bologna

01/06/2026

: 'See Through', the second solo show at the gallery by Merlin James.

Many of James's exhibitions — such as the one presented in these spaces in 2020 — resemble scores in which homogeneity and variation seem to coexist. The impression is that of a jam session in which the freedom of the musician is total, precisely due to the repetition of a minimal structure; of a rhythm that, when translated into terms of display, is made of visual, thematic-conceptual but also chronological reiterations.

The title of the new solo exhibition, 'See Through', points precisely in this direction. It is a phrase that clearly references painting and the interplay of opacity and transparency in images, but also evokes the common English expression "to see something through", meaning to carry something to completion, or to dedicate oneself over time to the realization of a project.

The exhibition is accompanied by a critical essay by Enrico Camprini.

📆 11 April — 6 June 2026

📸 Carlo Favero

Courtesy the artist and P420, Bologna

30/05/2026

: ‘La follia che viene dall'Incanto’

P420 is pleased to announce the opening of ‘La follia che viene dall’Incanto’, a group exhibition curated by Luca Caccioni.

This show is a project in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna (Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna), Ascom Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries of Bologna, and the Zucchelli Foundation (Fondazione Zucchelli Bologna) on the occasion of Opentour.

Artists on display: Asia Galeati, Federico Grilli, Yichen Li, Yunru Quan, Paolo Saputo, Enrico Scapinelli, Luisa Maija Severino, Giuseppe Urciuolo, Changchang Xu, Morigen Yan.

📍 P420, Bologna

📆 11 June – 25 July

Opening: Thursday 11 June, 3–11 pm

28/05/2026

: ‘Alessandra Spranzi. La dimensione delle cose’, Viaindustriae, 2026

This artist book, edited by Ilaria Gianni, with texts by Cecilia Canziani, Ilaria Gianni, Estelle Hoy, Quinn Latimer and Simone Menegoi, is conceived as a long-form reflection on a practice unfolding over more than two decades. It seeks to render the complexity of a body of work that moves across photography, collage, found imagery, drawing, and video, tracing its development from its initial articulations to the present.

The volume articulates the evolution of Alessandra Spranzi’s practice while foregrounding a set of recurring motifs that persistently traverse and structure her research, such as the tension between scale and intimacy, the circulation and transformation of images, and the oscillation between reality and marvel.

📸 Carlo Favero

👉 Available on our website

26/05/2026

Laura Grisi’s work at ‘Oltre le nuvole / Beyond the Clouds’, a group exhibition at XNL Piacenza, curated by Chiara Gatti, Paola Pedrazzini and Gianmarco Romiti, with the participation of the Storyville collective.

Laura Grisi’s work has always been considered part of Italian Pop Art, though even from the outset she actually went beyond that category, promptly intercepting various lines of international artistic research and applying them in her own original synthesis.

The exhibition is part of a project that—alongside a theatrical program and a sound installation—investigates the theme of the sky and its metamorphoses through the work of 20 artists.

📍 XNL Piacenza

📆 2 April – 5 July 2026

📸 Daniele Signaroldi

Courtesy Lara Facco P&C and XNL

23/05/2026

: ‘Xian Kim: Respite for this Afternoon’

P420 is proud to announce the opening of Xian Kim’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, titled ‘Respite for this Afternoon’.

Kim Xian (1992, Seoul, South Korea – lives and works in Seoul, South Korea) reimagines familiar creatures and objects by reconstructing them with textures similar to plastic. She approaches her work with the intent to focus solely on the essence, stripping away the additional elements that are often encountered in daily life.

The objects and creatures reimagined as still life do not convey any particular temperature, yet they reveal forms that are objective, simple, and at times, candid. Everything in her paintings exists in an idealized state of nothingness, embodying the complexity of reality, or rather, the absence of conceptual ideas. Her works escape from reality and create a unique utopia of Kim Xian’s own. This space, which feels like a world of zero gravity, is free and peaceful, allowing one to forget all of the worries and troubles of the world.

📆 11 June – 25 July 2026

Opening: Thursday 11 June, 3 pm – 11 pm

22/05/2026

: ‘Creature, Creatori. San Francesco e l’arte contemporanea’, a group exhibition at - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli and featuring Alessandro Pessoli’s work.

Alessandro Pessoli is an interdisciplinary artist who has gained international
acclaim for his highly expressive imagination, drawing on his inner, often unconscious personal narratives, but also on wider-ranging considerations on the state of contemporary visual culture and art history.

Using a variety of media, from painting to drawing, stencils to terracotta, Pessoli charges his canvases and sculptures with a remarkable wealth of images, all connected by great emotional intensity. His apparently chaotic compositions, upon closer analysis, reveal their craftsmanship, at times bordering on photorealism. Through the use of a palette that ranges from bright to dreamier colors, his works strike a balance between the amusing and the grotesque, opening up ironic and almost savage reflections on the contemporary world.

The exhibition goes beyond the iconographic image of St Francis to recount his way of looking at the world and the ethical value of his thinking.

📍 MAXXI

📆 22 May — 20 September 2026

📸 Carlo Favero

Courtesy the artist and P420, Bologna

21/05/2026

- Merlin James: See Through

‘See Through’ is the second solo show at the gallery by Merlin James. The title is a phrase that clearly references painting and the interplay of opacity and transparency in images, but also evokes the common English expression “to see something through”, meaning to carry something to completion, or to dedicate oneself over time to the realization of a project.

Courtesy: the artist and P420, Bologna

Produced by P420

Video: ©️ P420 (The Factory PRD)

21/05/2026

to Joachim Schmid! 🎉

Joachim Schmid has worked with found photography since the early 1980s. He began his career as a freelance critic and the publisher of ‘Fotokritik’ and, after ceasing publication in 1987, he focused on his own art production, based primarily on found photography and public image sources.

Schmid’s use of extended series reflects his concern with photography as an encompassing, culturally dispersed and ubiquitous social and aesthetic discourse that runs throughout the public and private spheres of modern life. Yet the fundamental richness of Schmid’s photographic raw material – along with the sardonic wit he so often displays – derails any attempt to read his work as pure anthropology or social science. His artistic preoccupations reflect a close observation of photographic history and a fascination with photographic images themselves in all their alternately bizarre and conventionalized aspects.

📸 Carlo Favero

Courtesy the artist and P420, Bologna

Indirizzo

Via Azzo Gardino 9
Bologna
40122

Orario di apertura

Martedì	10:00 - 14:00
	15:00 - 19:00
Mercoledì	10:00 - 14:00
	15:00 - 19:00
Giovedì	10:00 - 14:00
	15:00 - 19:00
Venerdì	10:00 - 14:00
	15:00 - 19:00
Sabato	10:00 - 14:00

Telefono

+390514847957

Sito Web

https://p420gallery.com/

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