Meridiana Prize: presentation of the winning projects

The presentation is dedicated to the winning projects of the first edition of the Meridiana Prize, promoted by Museo Madre and the Friends of Madre, with the support of Antony Morato and Fondazione Tridama. The initiative aims to highlight curatorial research and the emerging artistic scene of Southern Italy, fostering new connections between the Mezzogiorno and other contexts.

The speakers will include Angela Tecce, Eva Fabbris, Renato Magaldi, and Mario Francesco Simeone, together with Gabriella Rebello Kolandra and Samuele Piazza, who will present their exhibition projects — featuring artists Clarissa Baldassarri, Maria Luce Cacciaguerra, Anna Maria Maiolino, and Andrea Bolognino, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Effe Minelli.

The two exhibitions, which will be hosted at Madre between the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026, reflect on the theme of the first edition of the Prize, Everything Is All Things, inspired by Conversation in Sicily by Elio Vittorini. With their distinct methodological specificities, both projects share the vision of a South understood as an existential dimension extended on a global scale, bringing into dialogue different paths and sensibilities while drawing from memory and popular traditions — from Brazil to Naples — to question the nuances of contemporaneity.

Speakers: Angela Tecce, President, Fondazione Donnaregina per le Arti Contemporanee; Eva Fabbris, Director, Museo Madre; Renato Magaldi, President, Amici del Madre; Mario Francesco Simeone, Curator, Meridiana Prize; Gabriella Rebello Kolandra, Curator, Meridiana Prize Winner; Samuele Piazza, Curator, Meridiana Prize Winner

Language: Italian