The aim of the Righi Collection Award, in its third edition in 2025, is to acquire a work at Arte Fiera that will be added to the collections of MAMbo - Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Bologna, with specific focus on the work of recent generations of Italian artists.
Currently consisting of over a thousand works of museum-like quality, the Righi Collection, one of Italy’s largest private collections of contemporary art, was created to work actively with the public and the community. Over the past thirty years, it has supported the work of artists (and of galleries) as well as the needs of public institutions.
It has formed a partnership with Museion in Bolzano (which stores a number of the collection’s works) and has co-produced projects included in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennial of Art and the Kassel documenta. The collection has also been the subject of exhibitions in museums and institutions such as the Collection Lambert in Avignone, Museion in Bolzano, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Grand Palais in Paris, and Palazzo Fortuny in Venice.
Jury:
Lorenzo Balbi, Head of Modern and Contemporary Art Area of Bologna Musei
Andrea Viliani, Director of Museum of Civilizations, Rome
Bart van der Heide, Director of MUSEION, Bolzano
Winner: Andrea Romano
Title of winning works: Anteo, The Art of Self-Denial, mixed media on cotton paper, 60x50 cm, 2024 and Te Rerioa, Fake Flock Two, graphite on cotton paper, white marble statuary, 80x70x5 cm, 2024
Gallery: Federica Schiavo Gallery, B17
Motivation: The jury selected works by Andrea Romano, presented at Arte Fiera at a monographic stand by the Federica Schiavo Gallery and in the city with a work dedicated to Anteo Zamboni, strongly linked to Bologna’s political and social history but interpreted with a new language and a modern reflection on the monument and on its rethinking.