Dannie Praed

Pro Biennial 2026
Title“Pro Biennial 2026”
Opening: Friday 8th May 2026 – 9.30 am
Venue: Hotel Amadeus - Spoleto Pavilion
Location: Rio Terà Lista di Spagna, 227 Cannaregio – Venice
Duration: from 8th May to 11th May 2026
Entry: Free
Opening hours: from 9.30 am to 18.00 pm
Organizer: Spoleto Arte
Curator:Salvo Nugnes, – presented by Salvo Nugnes
Info: Tel. 0424525190 – 3517250110 – info@probiennale.it – www.probiennale.it

From8th to 11th May Venice once again becomes a hub for contemporary art with the latest edition of the Pro Biennal,, held in the Spoleto Pavilion atthe Hotel Amadeus, in the heart of the lagoon city. The event, curated by Salvo Nugnes,brings together Italian and international artists in an exhibition that focuses on the expressive power of the works and the variety of contemporary creative languages.

The exhibition offers a programme rich in painting, sculpture, photography, graphic art, poetry and publishing, providing visitors with a direct encounter with different styles, techniques and visions. The works on display reflect diverse artistic sensibilities: from figurative exploration to abstract experimentation, including installations and photographic works capable of interpreting the present through original and personal perspectives.

Particular attention is paid to the artists featured in the event, who come from different countries and are united by a desire to transform art into a tool for cultural dialogue. Each section of the exhibition highlights individual talent and the works’ ability to convey emotions, reflections and new ways of interpreting contemporary reality.

Alongside the art exhibition, there will be contributions from distinguished guests including Pippo Franco, Marco Columbro, Giordano Bruno Guerri, president of the Vittoriale degli Italiani, Silvana Giacobini, Paolo Liguori and the soprano Katia Ricciarelli. Also in attendance will be the actress Marzia Risaliti, the director Giancarlo Scarchilli and the journalist and writer Maddalena Baldini.

The architecture sector will be represented by the archistar Caesar Faiffer, whilst Vanni de Conti will be representing international photojournalism. There will also be a musical programme featuring performances by soprano Tatiana Previati and the tenor Rino Scaturro. Other guests include Luigino Rossi, Gianni Marussi and the RAI journalist Antonietta Di Vizia, alongside numerous leading figures from the cultural scene. There will also be contributions from the public sector, with the participation of the Mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro and the president of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia.

The Pro Biennial thus reaffirms its role as a major international showcase dedicated to contemporary art, capable of highlighting the value of the works on display and the artists’ creative journeys, offering the public an intense and engaging cultural experience in the heart of Venice.

Here are the artists on display:

Actis Caporale Anna, Albiero Claudia Maria, Arnoldi Caterina, Bellussi Alberta, Benedetti Denis, Berti Davide, Bianconi Ilaria Rita, Bietti Monica, Boe Marinella, Bohm Walter, Bonfilio Margherita, Borsari Ardo, Breitfuss Eva, Brignoli Priya, Camaj Salvatore, Candriella Alessandra, Cantini Maura, Caputo Angela, Carullo Veronica, Ciriello Paola, Citino Annamaria, Covielli Lucchini Miriam, De Santis Enrico, Di Lullo Andrea, Estacchini Rosemary, Farg2, Ferrara Saverio, Ferrari Fabio, Giardina Natalia Nat, Giglioli Paola, Giurgevich Eleonora, Gonzalez Nora, Granito Giusy, Grechi Marco, Hayat Saidi, Lestingi Maria Eleonora, Lisa Raffaella, Llinares Ausina Lola, Lupo Malvina, Magnetti Alan, Maltoni Alessandra, Maquignaz Aime, Marangoni Claudio, Margari Franco, Minelli Charles, Montali Adriana, Moscatelli Vittoria, Nori Alberto, Nuances_whiteblack, Padovan Sara, Panariello Mariacarla, Pezzino Elisa, Pirola Adele Rosaria, Pizarro Schuster Mario, Po Kristi, Praed Dannie, Properzi Antonella, Resta Ettore, Rho Fabio Bartolomeo, Riba, Ricciardi Nicola, Rossetto Tommaso, Rotondi Ruggero, Sambucco Gino Maria, Sanzone Emanuele, Scalzo Pashianti Maria, Sechi Eleonora, Secondulfo Giovanna, Simoncelli Silvano, Sironi Fabrizio, Slavic Filip Bozidar, Spotorno Lorenzo, Veronica Van Saften, Sutti Nicola, Torresan Alberto, Mariagloria V.M., Verdelli Marco, Verdini Sara, Vitale Jane, Zaggia Igor, Zarrilli Lilian.

Title ‘“Biennial Art Expo 2026’’
Opening:Friday 20th March 2026 – 10.00 am
Venue: Stampa Palace of Soncino - Milan
Location: Via Torino, 61
Duration: from 20th March to 24th March 2026
Admittance: Free
Opening hours: from 10.00 am to 18.00 pm
Organizer: Art & Events
Curator:Salvo Nugnes, – presented Salvo Nugnes
Info: Tel. 0424525190 – 388 7338297info@artfactory.eventi.gmail.com – www.artfactoryeventi.it

From 20th to 24th March Milan will once again become an international showcase for creativity with the Biennial Milan Art Expo, a prestigious event conceived and curated by Salvo Nugnes,, art curator, journalist and writer who has been committed committed to promoting and raising the profile of contemporary art for many years.

The exhibition will take place in the evocative setting of Stampa Palace of Soncino, a historic building situated in the heart of the city,just a stone’s throw from Piazza del Duomo, (Cathedral Square), one of the Lombard capital’s most iconic landmarks. A setting of great charm and historical significance that will provide the backdrop for an event capable of uniting tradition and modernity.

The Biennial Milan Art Expo presents itself as a vast showcase of artistic languages, visions and creativity, designed to represent and celebrate all forms of art. From the visual arts to literature, from photography to sculpture, from music to poetry: a multidisciplinary journey that brings together different disciplines, united by a shared desire to express emotions, ideas and new perspectives on the contemporary world.

The event stands out for its international scope. Artists from over 60 countries will be in attendance, confirming once again Milan's role as a global crossroads of culture, creativity and artistic innovation. The city thus reaffirms its status as a hub for the exchange between different cultures, capable of welcoming and promoting talent from all corners of the globe.

Throughout the event, there will be no shortage of distinguished guests – leading figures from the worlds of culture, criticism and the performing arts – who will contribute through talks, meetings and discussions with the public.

However, the true stars of the event remain the artists, whose works will bring to life a rich and varied exhibition programme, showcasing the diversity of contemporary artistic languages. Paintings, photographs, sculptures, poems and books will interact with one another in a creative mosaic reflecting different sensibilities, stories and visions. Each work thus becomes a piece of a great collective narrative, in which art acts as a bridge between cultures, generations and different ways of interpreting reality.

The Biennial Milan Art Expo thus reaffirms its status as a major event on the international art scene: an occasion that celebrates the universal power of art and its ability to bring together people, ideas and creativity within a single, vast space for cultural exchange.

Here are the participating artists

Anna Actis Caporale, Venera Alaimo, Claudia Maria Albiero, Debora Alfero, Graziano Alghisi, Giovanni Alparone, Lina Amadori, Davide Antiporta, Giuseppe Arduca, Marinella Artale, Angelo Asaro, Guido Auriemma, Corrado Avanzi, Loris Babbini, Marco Baiotto, Rosalinde Bakker, Annalisa Baldini, Gaja Ballisti, Monica Bandecca, Beatrice Baracchini, Franka Baranović, Alessandra Barbierato, Marina Barbiero, Umberto Barillaro, Lucia Battagliola, Carla Battistella, Andrea Giuseppe Bella, Halina Benkovics, Paola Bettello, Emanuele Biagioni, Adalgisa Bitti, Marinella Boe, Walter Bohm, Stefania Bolognese, Paola Bonacini, Margherita Bonfilio, Bruna Bonni, Laura Bonomo, Gian Maria Borghi, Ardo Borsari, Tiziana Bortolotti, Maria Antonia Botticelli, Eva Breitfuss, Priya Brignoli, Roberta Bruno, Assunta Buono, Anna Burnelli, Mauro Bursi, Loriana Buscemi, Michele Gaetano Calamita, Danilo Calò, Andrea Cammisa, Maria Giuliana Campanelli, Fabrizio Cancelliere, Alessandra Candriella, Elisa Caponetti, Moira Caporaso, Angela Caputo, Laura Carbajo, Caro, Veronica Carullo, Angela Casalanguida, Alessia Casellato, Anna Maria Cavacini, Franco Cavallo, Cori Cavazzana, Stefania Ceccariglia, Rosanna Cecchet, Sabrina Ceruti, Maurizio Cervellati, Mattia Chiucchiù, Claudio Ciabatti, Francesca Coccurello, Serena Contino, Silvia Cordoano, Franco Corsi, Michela Cortese, Sarah Althea Cosmi, Alberto Costa, Elisa Costa, Enzo Costa, Rosalia Costanza, Alessandra Cotoloni, Marzia Cotroneo, Darja Črnologar Furlan, Alessandra Croce, Arianna Culoso, Sabrina Dalpasso, Giuseppe Damigella, Maurizio D'Andrea, Davide Danesi, Angelica De Rosa, Enrico De Santis, Antonella Demastro, Rosangela Di Noia, Luigi Di Paolo, Fabio Di Rosa, Feliciana Di Spirito, Isabella Diana, Gianmaria Donini, Giuliana Donzello, Matteo Alberto Epicheo, Resemary Estacchini, Fernando Famiani, Salvatore Farruggio, Michele Fattore, Maria Greca Fauci, Silvy Favero, Ivano Domenico Felaco, Julia Fernandez Rebollo, Irene Ferraro, Irene Ficacci, Fausto Francioni, Bruno Franciosi, Sara Fruet, Marta Furini, Sonia Gasser, Rudy Gazzola, Domenico Giaquinto, Natalia Nat Giardina, Gabriele Giardini, Luca Giordano, Maria Rita Gona, Giovanni Govani Alberghina, Elisa Granelli, Marco Grechi, Brice Grudina, Valeria Gubbati, Tiziana Guerra, Francesco Guglieri, Viola Guma, Saidi Hayat, Carola Helwing, Maria Da Luz Soares Henriques, Hanna Hromova, Valentina Iannaco, Luca Ingino, Nathalie Jacquounain, Kaio&Fanny Kaio Creations, Marika Kohanicz, Vladimir Korolkov, Maria La Gioia, Romina Lauriti, Maria Eleonora Lestingi, Roy Leutri, Lola Llinares Ausina, Mauro Lo Sole, Luli, Giorgio Lupano, Fabio Lupis, Malvina Lupo, Alberto Maccagno, Daniela Maesano, Federica Maggioni, Alan Magnetti, Alessandra Maltoni, Cristina Mansueti, Angela Ada Mantella, Aimé Maquignaz, Claudio Marangoni, Valentina Marchese, Franco Margari, Fratellini Margiotta, Massimo Mariano, Dragan Markovic Markus, Sara Marotta, Gustavo Martinez, Vilma Mattana, Brina Maurer, Nival Maya, Tania Medico, Antonio Melchiorre, Federico Meriggi, Eva Michalikova, Charles Minelli, Marta Mistrangelo, Silvio Moggia, Joy Moore, Antonio Morelli, Bruna Morlotti, Vittoria Moscatelli, Milvia Mucchiut, Michela Nagy, Antonietta Natalizio, Gianni Nava, Osvaldo Angelo Nicolì, Taisiia Nikitenko, Renato Nisticò, Gabriele Nizzoli, Luigi Noviello, Liliana Nowicka, Aurelia Nudda, Ilaria Elena Pacelli, Sara Padovan, Anna Paglia, Thomas Pagliero, Loredana Paglioni, Alona Panchyshyn, Antonella Panepuccia, Maria Papa, Stella Papa, Alex Papavassiliou, Maria Cristina Pasotti, Gioele Pavan, Mauro Pavan, Barbara Pellizzari, Antonella Perillo, Mario Perrotta, Gianluca Petrini, Giuseppina Petruccelli, Elisabetta Pienti, Patrizia Pierandrei, Adele Rosaria Pirola, Gianluca Pischianz, Elia Pittau, Mario Pizarro Schuster, Sigrid Plattener, Isabel Prada Ciaravolo, Dannie Praed, Egon Prijon, Massimo Privitera, Antonella Properzi, Robertino Francesco Radovix, Francesca Raia, Giulia Reale, Fabio Recchia, Ettore Giulio Resta, Fabio Bartolomeo Rho, Riba, Luca Ripamonti, Guillermina Rivera, Leumas Roa, Maria Milena Rocchetto, Alessandra Rodella, Fabrizio Roloc Cavagna, Santoro Romeo, Sabrina Rosi, Eleonora Rossi, Ornella Rossi, Manuela Rotili, Ruggero Rotondi, Mariapia Saccone, Salvadore Salamone, Gino Sambuco, Agata Sand, Maria Scalzo Pashianti, Salvatore Scaramozzino, Mira Scaroni, Erika Schininà, Antonino Sciartilli, Laura Segatori, Giulia Sella, Cinzia Serra, Mayafa Shibir, Lucia Sirianni, Paolo Simoncini, Fabrizio Sironi, Matteo Samuele Spini, Nicola Sutti, Grażyna Tarkowska, Roberto Tascone, Dimitrie Teodosiu, Lorenzo Terragin, Claudio Tonelli, Sabrina Tortorella, Davide Toscano, Antonella Trotta, Silvia Symae' Turci, Cosmo Ucciferri, A Mood of Low Culture, Laura Vacca, Luciano Vacca, Diego Vagnucci, Sara Verdini, Enrica Vergani, Liliana Vianello, Federica Virgili, Bernarda Visentini, Cristian Vitrano, Paola Volpe, Loredana Vuerich, Giorgio Zaffini, Igor Zaggia, Stefania Zecca, Massimo Zecchin, Alessandro Maria Zucca.

Title ‘’ Artists for the Jubilee ’’
Opening:Saturday 5th July 2025 - 10.00 am
Venue:Chiesa Santa Maria della Misericordia (Saint Mary of Mercy Church)
Location: Via Saccoccio Cecili beside civic 7 - Spoleto
Duration: from 5th July to 19th July 2025
Admittance: Free
Opening hours: from 10.00 am to 18.00 pm
Curator: Salvo Nugnes, - Present Salvo Nugnes,
Organizer: Art Factory Events
Info: info@artfactory.eventi.gmail.com – www.artfactoryeventi.it

Artists for the Jubilee curated by Salvo Nugnes opens in Spoleto with many guests VIP and talented artists

Saturday 5th July 2025, the splendid Church of Misericordia of Spoleto will open its doors to the official inauguration of the exhibition "Artists for the Jubilee", An event of great cultural prestige that brings together some of the brightest personalities of the Italian artistic and intellectual panorama. The initiative, curated by Salvo Nugnes, - affirmed art critic, writer and journalist - was born with the aim of celebrating the Jubilee of 2025 through the universal and powerful language of contemporary art.

The inaugural event will see the participation of numerous talented artists, selected for the quality of their aesthetic research and for the ability to confront the theme of the sacred in an authentic and personal way. The works on display range between painting, sculpture, photography and poetry, giving life to an engaging visual and spiritual path, capable of exciting and making you think.

Next to the artists, there will be important exponents of the cultural and institutional world, scholars, critics, journalists, collectors and representatives of the clergy. An exceptional frame that confirms the high profile of the initiative and the strong link between art and spirituality in the context of the Jubilee.

Salvo Nugnes, in his opening intervention, will emphasize the importance of offering a space to beauty as a tool for dialogue between the human and the divine: "Art has the power to speak where words are not enough. In this time so marked by uncertainties, the artists can offer a profound gaze, a gesture of light that accompanies the soul."

The exhibition, set up in a place full of history and sacredness such as the Church of Mercy, is configured not only as an exhibition, but as a cultural and spiritual experience that will accompany visitors along a path of introspection and renewal.

The inauguration on 5th July will kick off a calendar of appointments and meetings, including the conference on 6th July with Bishop Antonio Staglianò, President of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, and other authoritative figures from the ecclesiastical world. A unique opportunity to rediscover, through art, the profound meaning of Jubilee and Mercy, in a city that has always lived in the sign of beauty and spirituality.

Here are the names of the selected artists:

Anna Actis Caporale, Giuseppe Arduca, Angela arrest, Corrado Avanzi, Luciana Ballario, Tina Bevilacqua, Adalgisa Bitti, Paolo Boccia, Marinella Boe, Paola Bonacini, Bio, Loriana Buscemi, Michela Casaccia, Danilo Ceirani, Giovanni Compagnino, Tiziana La Rosa Coppola, Paolo Cremonesini, Marzia Cotroneo, Giuseppe Damigella, Giuseppe Damigella, Samantha de Lucchi, Marina Denegri, Aldo Diana, Giuliana Donzello, Natalia Dyakonenko, Rosemary Estacchini, Solaria Ferro, Cristian Finiguerra, Maria Chiara Franchin, Maria Rita Gona, Govani, Nada Graffigna, Gabriella Grippaudo, Marika Kohanicz, Tiziana Guerra, Vlad Korol, Daniela Litta, Francesco Litta, Francesco Litta, Francesco Litta, Francesco Litta, Francesco Logoteta, Claudio Marangoni, Mauro Martin, Silvana Mascioli, Charles Minelli, Milvia Mucchiut, Liliana Nowicka, Maria Petrucci, Giuseppe Piacenza, Patrizia Pierandrei, Elia Pittau, Julia Populin, Dannie Praed, Erminia Irran, Fabio Recchia, Ettore Giulio Resta, Maria Milena Rocchetto, Amelia Rachele Rossi Landi, Ruggero Rotondi, Gino Maria Sambuco, Milko Skontra, Claudio Spattini, Federica Virgili, Maria Teresa Vittone, Paola Volpe.

AEmilia Artquake
The art of Solidarity

Opening: Wednesday 11th July at 21.00 pm at the Saint Domenic Cloisters - Reggio Emilia

“Do not ask what can do the State or others for them. Ask yourself what you can do. This’s why of Artquake!”

The earthquake is an advent, that even before the ground, shakes the soul, the heart. One doesn’t have to be a direct victim, the world around you collapses and you find yourself in a few seconds starting from scratch. It’s an event that creates panic, the one silent and deep which will take root inside yourself, undermining the sand castle of certainties and hitherto unquestioned.

Then there is the helplessness, the impossibility of doing anything against the inevitable. Terror, panic set in, will not let you rest. And the noble piety toward the many people that in a fraction of life, after lot of work and hopes, find themselves without anything. It’s an ethical duty, an obligation even before a result of necessity to help those who currently experiencing the drama of the events and anxiety about an uncertain future. In this context I think it’s fair, even by those who live “the most beautiful part o f the world” art, helping those in need now more than ever.

The idea is that, primarily supported by Zonta International Club of Reggio Emilia, Bologna Academy of Fine Arts and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia (and all those organizations who will want to help, Region and Province in the head) to organize a collection of art works donated by artists from all over Italy, whose sale is aimed for the reconstruction of the municipalities of Rolo (RE), Cavezzo (MO), Quistello (MN), strongly affected by the earthquake. In this project, significantly entitled “ARTquake”, ”the shake of the art” , that has no other protagonist than the aim to help the affected victims, are called to participate from all over Italy, artists, curators, critics and gallery owners of different formations and individuals. To each one of them It will simply be asked to donate a work that later, under the auspices and the strict control of a non profit organization (we asked ANCI to take the responsibility), it will become part of a public exhibition in Reggio Emilia, before to be auctioned to give the proceeds to help the affected people. We have already raised the membership of the municipality of Reggio Emilia and its Civic Museums. The main cultural workers of the municipality of Reggio Emilia, led by Alberto Agazzani, creator of the project, with the organized secretarial help of Lia Bedogni and the communicative support of Lorenzo Paci (Equilibriarte.net) and Amedeo Bartolini (NFC Editions of Rimini). We expect support from the various Service Clubs operating in the area: Rotary, Lions, Soroptimist.

The exhibition will take place at the prestigious area of the Cloisters of Saint Domenic in Reggio Emilia, from 11th July to 5th September 2012.

The works will be exhibited with the suggestion of a minimum bid of buying direct (on-line at: www.artquake.it website or through a bank transfer form) for the direct purchase. The works remained unsold “directly” there will a raffle and the tickets will be sold at a price of € 50 each, during the conclusion of 5th September.

The proceeds will be fully and directly placed into the hands of the mayors of Rolo, Cavezzo and Quistello.

"Roberta's smile for Unicef" -"Rebuild Childhood" Project”
Paladiana City Hall of Milazzo 25th - 28th May 2012

Show Presentation
Paladiana Round Hall May 25th May 2012 18.00 pm

Exhibition and sale of paintings
Paladiana Glass Hall 26th to 28th May 2012
Hrs 10.00 am to 20.00 pm

All proceeds from the event will be donated to UNICEF for the project "Rebuild Childhood for Palestinian children in Gaza.
The Paladiana glass hall as in previous years will host the fourth edition of "Roberta's smile for Unicef".
This year the event wants to give practical help, through Unicef, to Palestinians children in the Gaza strip, one of the most tortured country of the earth, where the horizon of peace is far away.
The presence of numerous artists of many nationalities who have donated or pledged to donate their work for the realization of this project,
comfort the organizers, that hope to repeat the success of the event of May 2011 for the children of Darfur.

Dannie Praed - “The River”
35x45 cm 1990 - oil on canvas
(Berchtesgaden - Bavarian Alps – Germany)
Artwork donated to the Roberta Smedili association for the accomplishment of the fourth edition "Roberta's smile for Unicef" to be held in Milazzo (ME)
25th – 28th May 2012
"Rebuild Childhood" Project

Partecipating Artists
Ait Addi Ahmed Alesci Francesco Alice Mauro Allenby Francis Arena Vittoria Aveli Azzarello Erika Battigelli Riccardo Benedetti Carolina Berardicurti Barbara Bernava Angelo Berti Carla Bini Davide Boria Laura Butti Laura Buzio Martina Capiluppi Elisa Cannata Catia Caravello Milo Maria Careddu Marinella Carnevale Nicola Castellese Salvo Castelli Gianfranco Cento Simone Cesareo Angela Ciuchi Meri Coral Roberta Crotta Sabrina D'Alpaos Alba D’Anna Claudia De Francesco Massimo De Haan Paul Delicati Mario Dell'Ordine Silvana Dezzani Carlo Di Martino Adriana Disetti Marta Di Vita Alice Dominici Valentina Dumas Gabriella Fabiano Beniamino Farina Maurizio Fazzari Irene Ferramosca Annamaria Ferrara Italo Ferrero Valeria Ferretti Giulia Fileni Giuliana Filippetta Mariano Fiore Stefano Fracasso Pasqualino Frassinelli Sacha Garda Ilaria Gargano Giovanni Gatti Cocci Barbara Gatto Anna Griffi Roberta Grilli Roberto Kronstadiano Fiore Mauro La Ferla Vicari Nennella Lis Adrian Luscari Carmela Maffina Mauro Mantoan Malu Manzi Rita Marchese Laura Martinelli Angela Masri Hayssam Massimino Margherita Mazzoleni Stefania Meli Claudio Merler Marianna Mikeli Okiana Milakovic Bosiljka Milakovic Kristina Monterona Bert Mordenti Elena Motta Piero Mulinacci Sandro Munari Cinzia Mutti Sonia Rosaria Narciso Armando Nasr Makhoul Souad Nobili Maria Oakley Penelope Onestini Claudio Paglia Valentina Palombini Teresa Pantaleo Angelo Patrizioni Perticari Patrizia Pirela M. Yajaira M. Poli Mirna Porru Valerio Praed Dannie Ramos Tamara Resta Concetta Rizzotti Cinzia Rondini Elena Ruffini Umberta Russel-Davies Adrian Russel-Davies Jessica Salazar Marianela Sannino Antonio Sargas Savio Alberto Schellino Elena Sorbo Ferdinando Spanò Stefania Spartan Jeff Stemp Basil D. Toma Antonio Turco Lillo Vailati Luisa Volpicella Carlo Young Teresa Zambon Monica Zanuccoli Beatrice