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Finding your way through contemporary art
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An independent Italian guide for approaching artists, studios and artworks through precise questions, verifiable sources and time to look.
Arte contemporanea · sotto $50.000
Five artists. Five continents.
Five artists with works under $50,000. Unique works where accessible; for blue-chip names such as Murakami, signed and numbered editions. Each price refers to a specific work, not a general market valuation.
New profiles · Contemporary artists
Three distinct practices. Three ways to change how we see.
Edson Luli questions perception, Daniel González turns celebration into shared space, and Olimpia Zagnoli takes drawing beyond the page. This dossier brings them together because each, through a different medium, makes the viewer an active part of the image.
Tre artisti · 01
Edson Luli
From Shkodër to Milan, Luli uses video, print, LED and installation to question how we construct reality.
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Tre artisti · 02
Daniel González
The Buenos Aires-born artist turns celebration into a shared space through reflective materials, performance and temporary structures.
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Tre artisti · 03
Olimpia Zagnoli
The Milan-based artist moves from editorial illustration to kinetic sculpture, ceramics, books and the official Milano Cortina 2026 poster.
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San Lorenzo · Roma
San Lorenzo in Rome: galleries, artist studios and Pastificio Cerere
A cultural guide to San Lorenzo: the 1943 bombing, Pastificio Cerere and the work of Monitor, Matèria and Numero Cromatico.
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Xi Niu · Rhinoceros Roma
Xi Niu in Rome: seven routes through contemporary Chinese art at Rhinoceros
Curated by Claire Shiying Li, the exhibition brings together seven artistic practices and reads the Silk Road as a living space of exchange, identity and change.
Read the article and discover the artists →Three opening features
Three practices.
Three ways to inhabit the image.
01The body asks no permission
From female empowerment to sologamy, a multidisciplinary practice turns symbols and stereotypes into acts of self-determination.
02Between perfect image and wounded matter
Painting and photography meet around portraiture and identity, from the torn magazine works to Tales of Humans in a Landscape.
03The portrait after the face
Stencil, line and altered advertising images: melancholic figures emerge when the public image loses its seductive function.
Focus
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01Focus · Art market and collecting
THE MUSEUM SHOP. Buying art editions under €1,500
Six clear questions about museum editions, prints, posters, multiples, provenance, framing and value.
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02Focus · Art market and collecting
Martin Bertelmann in Rome: Inside the First Image at Curva Pura
Photography, video and installation ask where an image begins and what remains of the physical print in digital circulation.
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03Focus · Art market and collecting
Art between €50,000 and €100,000 in Europe: artists, prices and checks
Public auction results show how to read this market band without turning evidence into an investment promise.
Read the story →Quote · 01—03
Art, madness and freedom
Three iconic sentences. Three short readings against the myth that turns distress into talent.
01Louise Bourgeois
“Art is a guaranty of sanity”Read →
02Dubuffet × Zinelli
“A madness that builds”Read →
03Artaud × Van Gogh
“Creating to escape hell”Read →
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New · Young artists and the market
THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS.
3 UNDER 20.
Aelita Andre, Andres Valencia and Mikail Akar: rapid rises, published entry points below €5,000 and a method for looking beyond age.
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New · Posters, editions and reproductions
ART FOR ALL.
Gilbert & George.
Well-printed posters and large editions: a high-quality visual product can be an excellent purchase without becoming an investment promise.
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New · Contemporary art photography
Photography under
€1,500.
How to choose a print through edition, process, signature, provenance and care. Four international photographers become concrete examples of a method.
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Pigneto · Roma
Pigneto in Rome: artists, street art and cinema in a montage-neighbourhood
From Pasolini and Rossellini to contemporary studios: the people who turned Pigneto into a form of storytelling.
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New · Collecting guide
Art under
€5,000.
Six artists, documented prices, unique works, photographs and editions: Elena Ketra, Massimo Scognamiglio, Marco Réa, David Shrigley, Julie Cockburn and Shepard Fairey.
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New focus · Photography and identity
Francesco Arena.
Other Identity.
An unmissable Exibart column becomes an archive of contemporary identity, read through Robert Gligorov, Stefano Gervasoni and Massimo Scognamiglio.
Read the focus and see the images →Our point of view
Buying art does not mean predicting a return. It means recognising a practice, understanding its path and choosing to accompany it.
Essential guides · Ready to read
01Buying art: your first artwork
Eight checks before a thoughtful purchase.
02Collecting art
Focus, budget, documentation and care.
04Painting or photography?
Original, edition, medium and conservation.
Further encounters
Criticism, mediation
and memory.
04Stefano Esposito · Takeawaygallery ↗
Looking from the gallery’s side
A photographer and gallerist on independent mediation, relationships with artists and transparency for collectors.
05Barbara Martusciello · art a part of cult(ure) ↗
Removing the background noise
Criticism, curating and independent publishing as a space for depth, relationships and memory.
06Melancholy becomes narrative
Autobiographical painting, resin-sealed books, words and collage: personal memory and art history accumulate in dreamlike images.
Two lateral stories
The work changes
when the process changes.
Public art · Action
Arte da Rubare
For twenty years, the work has come alive when a passer-by carries it away and becomes part of the performance.
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Digital art · Philosophy
Francesco D’Isa
Generative error, latent spaces and authorship after the artist accepts a partial loss of control.
Read the feature →Paths and further reading
05Affordable, not minor
Price does not assign cultural quality.
06Reading an artist’s career
Seven documentary signals before choosing a work.
07222 artists: reading the map
What the 2026 Exibart selection actually measures.
08Art under €5,000
Data, opportunities and realistic expectations.