ARTEFIERA 2026 | Hall 25 – Booth B5

Born in Mesagne, Brindisi, Italy in 1978. He lives and works in Cassano delle Murge, Bari, Italy.
He works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2015.

Francesco Arena explores the relationship between collective history and personal experience as intersecting lines. His works originate from concrete data treated as fixed rules that shape form and proportion while allowing multiple interpretations.

In 2024, he received the XXVI Pino Pascali Prize.

Born in Baden, Switzerland, in 1956. She lives and works in Basel.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2013.

Silvia Bächli has developed a sustained drawing practice centered on white paper and a restrained range of materials. Starting from the body and its movements, her works capture fleeting, cinematic moments that extend into broader emotional and perceptual realms.

Born in 1958 in Warsaw, Poland. He lives and works in Otwock, Poland and Oliva, Spain.
He works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2004.

Miroslaw Balka’s practice spans installation, sculpture, video, and drawing, marked by a restrained and elegiac sensibility. Using everyday materials, his works reflect on personal and collective memory, shaped by Catholic ritual and Poland’s fragmented history.

Born in Venice in 1965. She lives and works in Berlin.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2017.

Monica Bonvicini emerged in the mid-1990s with a multifaceted practice examining architecture, power, and gender. Her Hurricanes and Other Catastrophes series are large-scale black-and-white drawings reflecting on climate-driven destruction and its social implications.

Bonvicini's site-specific installation Come Run With Me, 2024 currently stands on Pinacoteca Agnelli's Pista 500 in Turin.

Born in 1983, she lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2024.

Gabrielle Goliath’s practice attends to lives shaped by unequal value, affirming black, brown, femme, and queer ways of being. Her ongoing series Beloved honor a chorus of radical and everyday femme presences through acts of recognition and love.

Goliath's solo show Personal Accounts is currently shown at MoMA PS1 through March 16, 2026. She has taken part to the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.

Born in Shkodër, Albania, in 1944. He lives and works in Tirana, Albania.
He works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2022.

A key figure of the Balkan art scene, Edi Hila bears witness to Albania’s social and political history through painting. His works bring together personal and historical time, layered through a process of revision that turns each canvas into a pictorial palimpsest.

Hila's latest major solo show travelled from Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg to Moderna Museet Malmö, still on show through April 2026.

Born in 1955 New York. She lives and works in New York City.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 1997.

Roni Horn’s five-decade practice spans sculpture, photography, drawing, and books, exploring how perception changes with place and time. She creates complex relationships between the viewer and her works, challenging the idea of an “identical experience".

Born in Scalea, Italy, 1942. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2009.

Anna Maria Maiolino’s work draws from female experience under Brazil’s 1970s–80s dictatorship, spanning performance, sculpture, video, photography, and drawing. Her early prints resisted the military regime, later evolving into minimalist, interactive installations.

In 2024 Maiolino has been awarded with the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Born in 1966 in Codogno, Italy. He lives and works in Milan.
He works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 1999.

Marcello Maloberti draws from urban life and ordinary events, using a visionary neorealism to blur the line between art and everyday experience. His MARTELLATE series unfolds as short poems in drawings, sculptures, and neon works, like pages of an open book.

Maloberti's latest major exhibition was hosted by PAC, Milan in 2024, where RIBALTARE È SEXY, 2024 originated.

Born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany. She lives and works in New York.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2001.

Kiki Smith is a leading artist whose work has focused on the female body since the 1980s, exploring loss, death, and the body as a vessel for memory. Her later work expands into animals, domestic objects, and mythic narratives across diverse media.

Born in Milan in 1940 and died there in 2001.
He is represented by Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 1995.

Franco Vimercati was a meticulous photographer of everyday reality, known for his precise compositions and focus on objects. His work evolved from early series to later studies that explore endlessly varying ways of representation.