Kaiser Art

13/04/2026

The sea is calling. GENOA has always been a city defined by its deep connection to the sea.
On 14 April 2026, at 5.30 pm, at La Claque, this heritage will be celebrated with OCEAN VOICES BY CRESSI.
The event is dedicated to SHARK CONSERVATION, research in the Mediterranean and the transformative power of visual storytelling in shaping public awareness regarding the responsibility of OCEAN CONSERVATION, the impact of communication and human activities on ECOSYSTEMS, and the role these will play in the present and future of SUSTAINABLE TOURISM.
The evening is by invitation only and requires prior registration, and has been fully booked for days.
With Ocean Ramsey, Julie Gautier, Luca Tixi and Juan Oliphant. Featuring a photo exhibition by Federico Traverso. With the participation of Area Marina Protetta Portofino (Portofino Marine Protected Area).
Cressi is a historic family-run scuba diving company celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, having been founded in Genoa in 1946.
Conservation is not an ideology. It is management. It is continuity. It is responsibility.

13/04/2026

GINO PAOLI passed away in Genoa on 24 March 2026 (he was born in Monfalcone on 23 September 1934). His song IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA is considered a masterpiece of the GENOESE SCHOOL and is perhaps one of the finest songs of 20th-century Italian songwriting. It was composed by him and first released in 1960, performed by Mina, on the 45rpm single “Il cielo in una stanza / La notte”.
Paoli himself recounted that the lyrics describe an encounter with a pr******te, with whom he had fallen in love, which took place in a brothel in Genoa, recognisable by its “purple ceiling”. The circumstances and surroundings are poetically transfigured: the melody begins slowly and intimately, rising towards INFINITE and dreamlike SPACES, where the harmonica, which “sounds like an organ”, renders the experience almost mystical. Despite the subject matter, this classic of Italian music represents a SYMBOL OF FREEDOM AND EMOTIONAL INTENSITY and, above all, of the power of feelings to transform our perception of reality.

Il cielo in una stanza - GINO PAOLI (Mitropa Cup Creations - yt1.2012)

23/02/2026

FELIX, DARE TO DREAM (Italy, 2024, 105 min.) is a film directed by Valerio Bariletti and Morgan Bertacca, who also produced it. The protagonist is FELIX LEU (born in Switzerland in 1945 and dead at the age of 57 in 2002): eclectic artist, existentialist and hippie in the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, he discovered TATTOOING as a resource to support his traveller life, but then he became an innovator.
Roaming the world, Felix and his wife Loretta gave their four children a fertile ground to grow up independently as artists. Felix challenged conformity and social rules proving that an UNCONVENTIONAL ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE is possible. Even though he is no longer with us, anyway, his spirit keeps living through the eccentric family that tells his story. And it is a compelling story, because it is not only about art, but also about FREEDOM and nomadic existence, about exploring one’s CREATIVE ABILITIES and remaining true to one’s dreams.
The film – winner of the Audience Award at the 2025 Doc’n Roll Film Festival in London – will be screened on Monday 23 February 2026, at 9 p.m., in Genoa, at the Circuito - Cinema City (Vico Carmagnola 9). The event will be preceded by a meeting with directors VALERIO BARILETTI and MORGAN BERTACCA, led by art critic and journalist Linda Kaiser.

22/02/2026

An exhibition in Genoa pays tribute to PAOLO DI PAOLO (1925-2023), the photographer who has finally been “rediscovered.” Through stories and portraits, the retrospective “FOTOGRAFIE RITROVATE” (Rediscovered Photographs) at the Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura sheds light on the brief but intense artistic career of the photographer who, describing himself as an “amateur”, contributed to shaping the golden age of ITALIAN PHOTOJOURNALISM in the 1950s and 1960s.
In the article by Linda Kaiser, published on 11 December 2025 in the Italian magazine ARTRIBUNE, you can also read about the characteristics of this great photographer’s direct visual language and the EMPATHY he was able to create with his subjects.

Palazzo Ducale di Genova presenta “Fotografie Ritrovate” la retrospettiva che racconta la parabola artistica del fotografo Paolo DI Paolo, a cura dalla figlia Silvia Di Paolo e Giovanna Calvenzi

06/12/2025

The Festival dell'Eccellenza al Femminile (Festival of Female Excellence) - 21st edition, under the artistic direction of Consuelo Barilari, for Liguria European Region of Sport, with the patronage of Comitato Regionale Liguria and Federazione Italiana Nuoto (Italian Swimming Federation) Liguria, in co-production with ARÊTÉ THEATRE (USA), presents the theatre and swimming project EUMENIDI IN PISCINA based on the classical tragedy “The Eumenides” by Aeschylus. The show, in its national premiere in Italy, will be staged at the di Albaro in Genoa (Piazza Henry Dunant 4) on Saturday 6 December 2025 at 6.30 p.m.
American director and choreographer Jahanmir directs actors and athletes from Rari Nantes Savona, the Italian artistic swimming champions for 21 consecutive years, coached by Giallombardo. The audience will witness a spectacular show, both outside and inside the water, where the first DEMOCRATIC COURT in history will take place, in which JUSTICE, with great relevance, wants and must triumph for peace between the opposing parties. Tickets are on sale at www.eccellenzalfemminile.it.
SWIMMING ATHLETES: Beatrice Andina, Valentina Bisi, Greta Gitto, Giorgia Macino, Ginevra Marchetti, Sarah Rizea, Sophie Tabbiani, Giulia Vernice and Flaminia Vernice (the Furies), Gabriele Minak (Charon).
ACTORS: Mariachiara Di Giacomo, Antonella Loliva, Miriam Lilith Russo (the Furies), Giovanni Costamagna (Apollo), Irene Mori (Athena), Raffaele Barca (Orestes), Enrica La Rosa (Clytemnestra), Marika Ruta (Pythia).
At the end of the show, there will be a toast with the entire cast and the audience, with wines kindly provided by Squillari Genova – L’Enoteca italiana dal 1946. Aperitifs at a special price.

22/11/2025

Contemporary art tells the story of MOBY DICK in an exhibition at Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura in Genoa. The most famous WHALE in literature is the starting point, together with HERMAN MELVILLE’s novel of the same name (published in 1851), for an exhibition dedicated to large cetaceans, past and present, real or imaginary. From Pino Pascali to Tacita Dean, the whale is rediscovered as a METAPHOR for the challenges of contemporary civilisation.
In the article by Linda Kaiser, published on 13 November 2025 in the Italian magazine ARTRIBUNE, you can also understand the originality of the interdisciplinary exhibition itinerary.

Esce dalle pagine di Melville e approda a Palazzo Ducale la balena Moby Dick. Da Pino Pascali a Tacita Dean, la mostra genovese rilegge il tema della balena e le sue implicazioni metaforiche attraverso l’arte contemporanea

08/08/2025

The 1st ‘DOG SAFETY IN WATER’ DAY will be held on Saturday, 9 August 2025, at the BAU BAU VILLAGE in ALBISSOLA Marina (SV, Liguria, Italy), from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather and sea conditions permitting. The event was organised and promoted by CRESSI DOG [https://www.facebook.com/cressidoggear], the technical line dedicated to dogs by Cressi, a historic company that manufactures diving equipment, founded in Genoa in 1946 and still owned by the same family. During the day, with the support of Cressi Dog technicians, it will be possible to try out Cressi Dog LIFE JACKETS and neoprene WETSUITS. These high-quality products, in terms of design, materials used, functionality and aesthetics, have been developed for the well-being and safety of our four-legged friends. The event, the first of its kind in Italy, was conceived to raise awareness among pet owners and animal lovers about the IMPORTANCE OF SAFETY in the water.

25/07/2025

On the stage of the Fortezza di Mont'Alfonso, a marvellous place 5 minutes by car from Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (LU), as part of the Festival ‘Mont'Alfonso Sotto le Stelle’, for the first time ‘IL GIOCO DELL'UNIVERSO’ (THE UNIVERSE GAME) will be staged, in which the story of FOSCO MARAINI - anthropologist, orientalist, mountaineer, photographer, writer and poet - is brought to life through the writing of his daughter DACIA. At the end of the performance, Dacia Maraini herself will dialogue with Licia Colò, testimonial of the project.
The conception and direction of the show are by Consuelo Barilari, while the performers are Manuela Kustermann and Maximilian Nisi, with the dramaturgy by Maria Dolores PESCE and the scientific advice for the images by Linda KAISER.
Admission is free with reservation on this site: www.festivalmontalfonso.it.

17/07/2025

"Art saves you". An interview with artista JACOPO BENASSI for his exhibition in GENOA. After his RESIDENCY at Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, the artist presents his EXHIBITION: no less than 110 works produced over the last five years, spanning painting, photography, sound and performance. Here you can read the article by Linda Kaiser, published in ARTRIBUNE on 15 July 2025.

Jacopo Benassi libero!” è il titolo della grande mostra appena inaugurata al Palazzo Ducale di Genova. L’artista ligure porta 110 opere tra pittura, fotografia, suono e performance

14/07/2025

Come and watch this interesting presentation of the docufilm THREADS OF HERITAGE. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF ART CRIME, directed by Brian Parodi and produced by the Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology of ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (IIT) and No Panic Agency.
The FREE PUBLIC SCREENING will take place on 14 July 2025 at 9.00 pm in the Cortile Maggiore of Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura in GENOA, Italy, with an introduction by Arianna TRAVIGLIA, coordinator of the Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT_Venice), Giacomo MONTANARI, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Genoa, and Linda KAISER, critic, art historian and journalist. We’ll talk about art, protection / preservation and new technological tools!
“Threads of Heritage is not just a denunciation of illicit dealing, but a declaration of intent: PROTECTING CULTURAL HERITAGE is a collective responsibility, which requires awareness, scientific research and international collaboration. In this perspective, RITHMS represents an important opportunity to pool MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE within a digital platform designed to concretely support the police, enhancing the effectiveness of investigation and PREVENTION against this phenomenon" (Arianna Traviglia).

16/02/2025

“VOLEVO ESSERE UN DURO” (I wanted to be a tough guy) is the song with which Tuscan singer Lucio Corsi, inspired by an intimate and essential imagery, participated in the SANREMO ITALIAN SONG FESTIVAL 2025, finishing in second place, but winning the Mia Martini Critics’ Prize. ‘It talks about how the world would like us to be infallible, with the solidity of stones and the perfection of flowers, without however telling us that all flowers hang by a thread. It talks (assuming this song has a mouth) about how normal it is to become something other than what you dreamed of'. It is an EXISTENTIAL STATEMENT that places this ARTIST outside conformity, in a mix of fairytale and dream, of poetry and romance.
The MUSIC VIDEO for the song is a kind of remake of that of “We’re Not Gonna Take it”, a song by Twisted Sister, the leading American hair metal band of the 1980s. Between comedy and surreality, the familiar episode features a child who, in protest, locks himself in his room, which is also the REFUGE OF HIS IMAGINATION.
Credits: A Borotalco.tv Production, DIRECTED BY TOMMASO OTTOMANO, starring Massimo Ceccherini, Leonardo Pieraccioni, Laura Locatelli, Alvise Cimarosti, Mariia Zhizhkun.

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