Progetto

We are incredibly honoured to announce that our next artist is Tarik Kiswanson, opening this summer at Progetto.

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1. Tarik Kiswanson, The Relief (R. Gabriel, 1945), 2023, “Armoire de sinistrés”, oak, beech, resin, fiberglass, paint, exhibition view, Material Evidence, 2025, Fundação de Serralves, Porto

2. Tarik Kiswanson, The Wait, 2023, resin, fiberglass, paint, stainless steel, Marcel Duchamp Prize 2023, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023–2024

3. Tarik Kiswanson, The Relief (Steinway Victory Vertical, 1944), 2025, piano, fiberglass, resin, paint, piano crate, Sfeir‑Semler Gallery, Hamburg

4. Tarik Kiswanson, A Century, 2024, ash and cherry wood, Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

5. Tarik Kiswanson, Foresight, 2024, George Nakashima’s chair and Adolf Gustav Schneck’s chair, Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

6. Tarik Kiswanson, Seuil, 2025, plaster, oak, neon lights, paint, Institut Suédois, Paris

7. Tarik Kiswanson, The Fall, 2020, film, 9’ 42”, Carré d’Art—Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes

8. Tarik Kiswanson, The Reading Room, 2020, film, 5’ 44”, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, 2023–2024

9. Tarik Kiswanson, Anamnesis, 2025, resin, stainless steel

10. Tarik Kiswanson, The Window, 2021, charcoal on paper

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In our library by Tarik Kiswanson:

Becoming, Éditions Dilecta & Bonniers Konsthall, 2023

Nest, Hallands Konstmuseum and Mousse Publishing, 2022

The Window, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp and JBE Books, 2023

Mirrorbody, Distanz Verlag, 2021

AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, Jean Boîte Éditions, 2018

The Air Conditioner (2016-2025) was produced in Lecce, Italy from iron ingots melted down from a decommissioned air-conditioning unit originally located in an insurance company in Tehran. The unit first appeared as part of a temporary public sculpture in Tehran in 2016. It was subsequently reassembled and returned to its original site in northeast Tehran, where it remained in operation until November 2018. The work was then transported to New York and melted into iron ingots, which were exhibited at the SculptureCenter in 2019 and again in 2021. In 2025, Emamifar brought the ingots to Lecce, where a local ironworker carved them into doorstops.

These were exhibited in Disjecta at Progetto, Lecce, where they functioned to hold open the gallery’s doors. At Emalin, the doorstop continues this operation: here it holds open a door not usually accessible to the public

Niloufar Emamifar
The Air Conditioner, 2016–2025
Mixed iron
2.5 x 8 x 4 cm

Niloufar Emamifar
The Air Conditioner, 2016–2025
Mixed iron
1.5 x 8.2 x 3 cm

Contour Fatigue II, Emalin, London, UK
17 April – 23 May 2026
Olga Balema, Adriano Costa, Niloufar Emamifar, Namio Harukawa, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Jac Leirner, Kate Spencer Stewart, Franco Vimercati

Courtesy of the artist and Progetto, Lecce.
Photos by Stephen James.

The new rooftop space at Progetto is connected to the main space by a small passageway, making concurrent programming possible, including exhibitions, screenings, readings, and more.

When we first conceived of the rooftop, we referred to it as the poetry space—or a space for poetry—thinking of poetics as something expansive. The rooftop is visible from the streets below, from the balconies of our neighbors, and from within Progetto. The stairs leading to the roof were designed by Grant Mooney.

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Il nuovo spazio sul tetto di Progetto è collegato allo spazio principale tramite un piccolo passaggio. È destinato a mostre, proiezioni, reading e altro. Siamo felici di espandere Progetto in questo modo e di rendere possibile una programmazione parallela.

Quando abbiamo immaginato per la prima volta il tetto, lo abbiamo chiamato lo spazio della poesia — o uno spazio per la poesia — pensando alla poetica come a qualcosa di espansivo. Il tetto è visibile dalla strada sottostante, dai balconi dei nostri vicini e dall’interno di Progetto. Le scale che conducono al tetto sono state progettate da Grant Mooney.

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Stairs
Grant Mooney & iron work by Emanuele Sergi (Gagliano del Capo)

Railing
La Bottega Del Ferro (Squinzano)

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Marco Vitale
I am you,
you are me.
Let everything be
for our neighbor.
May 19, 2025, 6pm–sunset
Rooftop Space at Progetto

On Monday, May 19, 2025, from 6pm until sunset, Progetto inaugurated its new rooftop space with Marco Vitale’s work: I am you, you are me. Let everything be for our neighbor.

This durational, site-responsive work unfolded as an act of writing, witnessing, and intimate exchange. It began with a night spent alone writing inside Progetto and extended into a ritual shared with others—through a writing workshop.

Participants who had taken part in a writing process the day prior returned to guide one-on-one encounters throughout Progetto—a quiet choreography of voices, as performers read texts shaped by their time in the space. The rooftop became the place of arrival: a site of listening and shared reflection, as day turned to dusk.

The work closed with a projection of the writings in the Progetto library—a visual echo, both archive and offering.

Participants: Lara Gigante, Marco La Cava, Thomas Lanzellotti, Marvin Vese, Matteo Terzi, Danilo Billermann, Alba Cobo, Lauren Spedicato, Angelica Calabrese.


photos Gianluca Pisicchio

Vattene Nuvola Nera: Magic and the South
Symposium with Grazia Amelia Bellitta
Sunday, March 30, 2025
13.00 lunch / 17.00 open discussion with food and wine.

On Sunday, March 30, 2025, Progetto presented Vattene Nuvola Nera, a symposium exploring magic, care, and ritual inherent in food. A lunch for 21 guests, symbolizing ‘The World’ in tarot, inspired by the maternal act of nourishment as a form of protection, healing, and rebirth.

As a child, my mother transformed every dish into a daily spell, a medicine that fought weakness and illness, an act of love meant to restore my energy and vitality. But also her despair when I wouldn’t eat. She would suffer too, taking on my discomfort so that I could heal.

In this project, I sought to recreate that gesture of care, transmitting the same protective and regenerative energy to my guests. Every dish became a portal to a symbolic dimension, where food was not just sustenance, but a magical practice that heals and unites. The table, set to evoke the intimacy and imperfection of a home dining space, became the altar of this collective ritual.

The public was invited to observe the ritual, participate in the transformation of the table, and at the end of the meal, reflect and discuss the meaning of this act: food as magic, the meal as a spell, the table as an altar.

Vegetables, cheese, cured meats, meat, and wine were produced by Grazia Amelia’s father from their small family farm in the countryside (Stellosa) in Oriolo, Calabria, and brought to Lecce to be prepared at Progetto. A punk zine menu was created for the event, with a publication to follow.

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Sunday, March 30, 2025 at Progetto:
13.00: Lunch followed by an open community talk at 17.00 with food & wine.
17.00: Progetto opened to all to speak about magic, the South, food as healing, and more.

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Zine Menu / Publication: Panopticon Publishing, Grazia Amelia Bellitta, text by Enrico Camprini. Culinary support: Giulia Baglivo (Apulian chef, Tricase)

Photos by Gianluca Pisicchio

photos by Gianluca Pisicchio

Niloufar Emamifar is included in Grant Mooney: sum at Museum Abteiberg.

With his relational concept of sculpture, Mooney creates a field of currents and flows between objects from the collection of Museum Abteiberg, selected historical works, and works by other contemporary artists.

The Wolves is a cast site in Puglia characterized as a zone of indeterminacy. This space is materially present yet juridically unsettled, and thus excluded from conventional zoning regulation. The site was identified in Marittima, Italy, through a process of fieldwork that relied on local knowledge and oral accounts.

Niloufar Emamifar
The Wolves
2025
Polyurethane resin, soil, asphalt, dust
402 x 203 x 2.75 cm

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Grant Mooney
sum, curated by Alke Heykes
with Laura Aguilar, Olga Balema, Joseph Beuys, Patricia L. Boyd, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Hanne Darboven, Melvin Edwards, Niloufar Emamifar, Flint Jamison, Jannis Kounellis, Grant Mooney and Winona Sloane Odette, Robert Morris, Ulrich Rückriem, Karin Sander, and Takis

Museum Abteiberg
29 March – 20 September 2026




Image credits:
1-3 Grant Mooney, sum, installation view, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 2026.
Courtesy the artist and Museum Abteiberg.
Photo: Studio Kukulies.

4 Photo: Simon Veres

Niloufar Emamifar, Offcut
Kunsthalle Zürich
07.02 – 25.05.2026

Installation views of the exhibition are now online. For more information and the full documentation please visit Kunsthalle Zürich’s website. The exhibition is curated by F***y Hauser and continues until 25 May 2026.

Supported by / Unterstützt vom SüdKulturFonds.

Photos: Gina Folly

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Artists and writers we have worked with at Progetto over the past years through exhibitions, short programs, symposiums, political dinners, and library publications. We look forward to continuing this work with many more artists and writers in the future.

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Artisti e scrittori con cui abbiamo lavorato a Progetto negli ultimi anni attraverso mostre, brevi programmi, simposi, cene politiche e pubblicazioni della nostra biblioteca. Non vediamo l’ora di continuare questo lavoro, in futuro, con molti altri artisti e scrittori.

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Sandra Abbate
Ambra Abbaticola
Hugo Bausch Belbachir
Grazia Amelia Bellitta
Alexander Ingham Brooke
Dora Budor
Nina Canell
Giacomo Cavalera
János Chialá
Cineteca di Bologna – Michela Zegna
Kyle Dancewicz
Aria Dean
Michael Dean
Niloufar Emamifar
Stefano Faoro
ektor garcia
Lara Gigante
Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter
Dan Graham
Ebony L. Haynes
E. Jane
Audre Lorde
Sara Magenheimer
Cecilia Mangini
Enrica Anastasia Marangio
Grant Mooney
Marco Musarò
Wyatt Niehaus
Amalie Svarre Nielsen
Winona Sloane Odette
Pat O’Neill
Lydia Ourahmane
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Q***r Market Show
Ser Serpas
SoiL Thornton
K. Verlag
Marco Vitale
Marina Vishmidt
Robin Watkins
Bri Williams
Michaela Züge-Bruton

Design by PEACH

Niloufar Emamifar
The Wolves, 2025
Polyurethane resin, soil, asphalt, dust 
402 x 203 x 2.75 cm

Niloufar Emamifar
The Wolves, 2025
Polyurethane resin, soil, asphalt, dust 
380 x 47 x 3.5 cm

The Wolves and Manduria are casts of sites in Puglia characterized as zones of indeterminacy. These spaces are materially present yet juridically unsettled, and thus excluded from conventional zoning regulation. These sites were identified in Manduria and Marittima through a process of fieldwork that relied on local knowledge and oral accounts.

Niloufar Emamifar
Disjecta
July 27 - December 31, 2025


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