XVI Florence Biennale 2027

Name: XVI Florence Biennale 2027
Address: Fortezza da Basso, Viale Strozzi 1, Florence, 50144, IT
Telephone: +390553249173

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XVI Florence Biennale 2027

International Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Design in Florence
Fortezza da Basso | 23 - 31 October 2027

The XIV Florence Biennale, which will take place at the Fortezza da Basso (Florence, Italy), from 14 to 22 October 2023, will engage participating artists and visitors in a rich programme of artistic and cultural activities. Aside from the main exhibition, there will be collateral events, performances, workshops, conferences, and lectures relating to the theme of the new edition: "I Am You. Indivi

dual and Collective Identities in Contemporary Art and Design". Founded in 1997, the Florence Biennale is the major contemporary art and design exhibition in Florence (Italy) and one of the world's leading contemporary art exhibitions. More than 450 artists and designers from 71 countries participated in the latest edition (XIII Florence Biennale 2021), which has been held under the patronage of the European Parliament, Italian Commission for UNESCO, Italian Ministry of Culture, Tuscany Region, and Municipality of Florence, and was attended by more than 10,000 visitors. Within the framework of the Florence Biennale, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Lifetime Achievement Award (for Art) and the “Leonardo da Vinci” Lifetime Achievement Awards (for Design) are conferred to individuals who have reached pinnacles of artistic achievement for their contribution to culture: Marina Abramović, Gustavo Aceves, Refik Anadol, Sauro Cavallini, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, David Hockney, El Anatsui, Arata Isozaki, Salvatore & Wanda Ferragamo, Ferrari & Pininfarina, Gilbert & George, Anish Kapoor, Elsa Peretti (Tiffany & Co.), Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paula Scher, Oliviero Toscani, Vivienne Westwood, and Franco Zeffirelli are among the recipients of the past editions. The first announced winner of “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Lifetime Achievement Award of the XIV Florence Biennale 2023 is world-renowned American photographer and filmmaker David LaChapelle.

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• Irina Iosip •

Romanian artist Irina Iosip holds a master’s degree from the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design at the George Enescu National University of Art in Iași. She views art as a sublime form of emotional, spiritual, and cultural awakening, with her practice centred on existential questions such as: “Through what forces and laws, and for how long, do we exist?”, “What is our role and destiny in this infinite existence?”. Some of her paintings are centred around the primordial element of water, which she considers magical: it sustains life and gives life, allows light to pass through, reflect, or be absorbed, and can transform its form, state, and energy. It has power to cleanse both the living and the non-living of what is not conductive to the supreme good. Iosip works with dry pastel, a medium that conveys the vibration of emotions and reveals the wondrous transformation of shades shaped by the intensity and direction of light.

Iosip has participated in numerous biennials and group exhibitions held in major cultural centres across Romania, including Bacău, Brăila, Bucharest, Buzău, Cluj, Iași, Galați, and Timișoara, among many others. Her work has also been presented internationally in countries such as Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Moldova, Poland, and Russia.

Irina Iosip

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• Radoslava Manova - Radé •

Radoslava Manova – Radé was born in 1971 in Pernik, Bulgaria. She now lives and paints in a small village, where she has found a shared spiritual world in which humanity, God, the Earth, and nature exist in harmony. Manova’s artworks leave traces — traces created with the intensity that the artist is able to imprint through her chosen tools. These traces embody the energy of movement, colours, marks, and incisions that take form and substance on the canvas, becoming a tangible visual language. Through these elements of her authentic, seemingly primordial expression, Manova transforms her recurring subjects into a mythological vortex, where pictorial echoes of Post-Impressionism and Expressionism merge into a unique system of contemporary spirituality.

Manova is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists. She has presented her artworks in numerous solo exhibitions, artistic projects, and events in Bulgaria, Portugal, Italy, and Serbia. Her work has also been featured in prestigious national and international collective exhibitions, including “Human Rights” in Italy, the “International Eastern Salon of Art” in Poland, the International Biennale “The Art of Miniature” in Ruse, Bulgaria, as well as national exhibitions in Razgrad, Burgas, Silven in Bulgaria, and many others.

Radoslava Manova

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• Nadia Bussacchini •

A returning artist from the previous edition, Italian visual artist Nadia Bussacchini intertwines her rich cultural heritage with global artistic influences, shaping a career rooted in classical techniques and deep artistic exploration. Originally from Brescia, Italy, she refined her skills under the guidance of master artists, later expanding her knowledge in art history and painting abroad. Her practice reflects a deep appreciation for the mastery of light and shadow, as well as the disciplined traditions of the “scuola bottega” method.

Bussacchini’s work has been exhibited internationally, from Mexico City and Texas to Switzerland, Italy, and Morocco, earning acclaim for its cultural depth and technical precision. At the Florence Biennale 2025, she presented three paintings: “Contemplation,” “The Light Within,” and “Revelation.” In recent years, she has also participated in the collective exhibition “Ventanas de México” in Japan, organised by Fomento Cultural México in collaboration with the Embassy of Mexico in Japan. Additionally, she has recently showcased her work at the “Annual Juried Exhibition” in Virginia and in New York.

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• Salama Al Mazrouei •

Salama Al Mazrouei is an Emirati visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the relationship between memory, identity, and belonging. Working primarily with mixed media, she combines painting, raw cotton canvas, textiles, and layered textures to create contemporary works rooted in the cultural heritage and landscapes of the United Arab Emirates. Her artistic language bridges tradition and modernity, transforming personal and collective memories into immersive visual narratives. Drawing inspiration from nature, Emirati symbolism, and human connection, her work reflects on the enduring bonds between people, place, and cultural identity.

For the XVI Florence Biennale, Al Mazrouei presents “Echoes of Belonging,” a series comprising “The Memory of Place,” “AMAN,” and “Naashat.” Together, these works explore memory as a living presence that transcends time through landscape, protection, and human relationships. The series invites viewers to consider how identity is shaped by the places we inhabit, the values we inherit, and the connections we share. The recipient of the Arab Woman Award in Arts (2013), Al Mazrouei has participated in more than one hundred exhibitions nationally and internationally. Through her work, she seeks to preserve cultural narratives while engaging in a contemporary dialogue that resonates across cultures.

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• Carina Wagenaar •

Born in 1969, Dutch artist Carina Wagenaar studied Fine Art in Amsterdam and creates life-sized medallions that reinterpret the historic cameo as contemporary sculptural wall works. Inspired by cameos, lace, relics, and narrative symbolism, her intricate compositions explore memory, emotion, spirituality, and the complexities of contemporary life. Working behind semi-circular acrylic glass, Wagenaar constructs immersive miniature worlds from an eclectic collection of found and reclaimed objects. Sustainability is central to her practice: by transforming existing materials into new visual narratives, she reveals unexpected beauty while giving overlooked objects a renewed purpose.

The medallion — traditionally a vessel for preserving treasured memories—serves as both framework and metaphor. Every artwork tells a story through carefully layered symbolism, inviting the viewer to decipher hidden meanings and make personal connection. Classical references merge seamlessly with playful and contemporary elements, creating works that are both intimate and monumental. Since 2015, Wagenaar has exhibited internationally in cities including Amsterdam, London, Milan, Florence, Paris, New York, Dubai, among many others. She was nominated for the “Van Gogh Prize 2015” by the Van Gogh Museum and has received awards including “Most Innovative D’Art Interior Decor Artist 2020” from BUILD Magazine, and “Most Innovative Contemporary Artist 2021” from EU Business News.

Carina Wagenaar

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• Alessandro Priano — ALE •

An engineering graduate from the Politecnico di Milano, Alessandro Priano built his career in consultancy and at leading multinational firms, while never abandoning his childhood passion for drawing. After a 24-year break, he resumed drawing during the March 2020 lockdown with a portrait of a woman. This marked the start of his artistic path: using drawing to capture life’s beautiful emotions — sweetness, tenderness, eros, and the sensuality of eyes, embraces, kisses, affections, and the human body. His work seeks to hold onto genuine feelings, turning a fleeting instant into a lasting presence.

In an era flooded with shallow, fast-moving digital images, drawing returns as a unique, physical, handmade act that gives weight back to memory and human connection. With images everywhere diluting what matters, ALE chooses realism to pause time and preserve what deserves to be remembered. Each painting is part of himself, like a child — a fragment of life given to others, in line with the motto “lo ho quel che ho donato (I have what I’ve given)”. At the Florence Biennale 2027, he will unveil a collection of embraces and gazes, creating a silent dialogue where time pauses and feeling becomes authentic and eternal.

Alessandro Priano

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• Bianca Pirlog •

Born in Romania, Bianca Pirlog is a London-based contemporary artist working between contemporary realism and symbolic figuration, her practice explores healing, memory, identity, and the invisible architecture of resilience. In her own words: “I paint the fragile moment where a human being chooses transformation over survival.” Cracked surfaces, gold, butterflies, flowers, and recurring archetypal figures form a visual language through which vulnerability is not concealed but elevated. Each fracture is treated as evidence of becoming rather than loss.

Rooted in a dialogue between Eastern philosophy and European artistic tradition, her paintings consider beauty as something earned through experience rather than perfection. They ask whether our deepest wounds are merely endings — or the precise places from which new life begins. Rather than illustrating narratives, Bianca constructs psychological spaces in which viewers encounter their own questions of transformation. Her work invites stillness, reflection, and the possibility that what appears broken may, in fact, be the beginning of its highest form. Over the years, she has participated in over ten exhibitions across Florence, Rome, London, Barcelona, Paris, New York, and Cairo, and has received multiple awards.
“The gold is not placed over the fracture. It is placed because of it.”—Bianca Pirlog

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• Svetlana Peter •

Svetlana Peter is an Austrian artist born in Dnipro, Ukraine, who pursued her artistic education in Moscow. After a long-standing career in marketing, she redirected her professional path and dedicated herself fully to her artistic practice, developing a distinctive visual language at the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Her work unfolds through an intuitive, process-driven approach in which layering serves as both a material strategy and a conceptual framework — simultaneously revealing and concealing, remembering and transforming. Within these stratified surfaces, figurative elements emerge as ephemeral presences, suggesting inner states rather than fixed identities. Circular forms, often left open, function as recurring structural motifs, evoking continuity, transformation, and the cyclical nature of time.

Through the integration of mixed media, including materials such as wood or metal, she extends the pictorial space into the physical realm, creating a dialogue between fragility and resistance. While her work resonates with contemporary conditions — ecological uncertainty, emotional fragmentation, and the search for connection — it avoids direct narration. Instead, it offers a poetic, life-affirming perspective in which vulnerability and transformation coexist, and beauty emerges as an active, resilient force. Svetlana’s work has been presented in exhibitions across Austria, Italy, and Belgium, reflecting her growing international presence.

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• Olga Vynnyk •

Olga Vynnyk is a Ukrainian artist and photographer living and working in North Devon, United Kingdom. In her artistic practice, she explores emotions, inner states, and the human experience through photography, using nature as a visual language and metaphor. Her work engages with themes of transformation, memory, the relationship between people and the natural world, belonging, and inner change. Through imagery, symbolism, and emotional storytelling, Olga creates visual narratives. She is particularly interested in unveiling the invisible — when feelings, memories, and inner experiences take shape within an image.

Her work has been presented at international exhibitions and biennales, including the London Art Biennale and the Chianciano Biennale. Through her artistic practice, she invites viewers into an emotional dialogue and encourages a deeper connection with themselves, nature, and the world around them.

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• Tenmi Hanagi •

Tenmi Hanagi is a self-taught visual artist. From an early age, she has felt a strong urge to express her perceptions and emotions through creative practice. Her work spans a variety of media, including drawing, collage, photography, installation, and oil painting. She began making drawings and collages in 1991, and six years later spent time in Peru working as an assistant to a contemporary artist. Her work is constantly evolving, drawing inspiration from a wide range of fields — including painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, and nature — resulting in a unique style guided more by intuition than by rules. Tenmi Hanagi believes that sight, hearing, and the other senses are not separate entities, but instead merge and interact, opening access to a higher realm where they intertwine. Resonating with these blended perceptions, she renders the “invisible” visible through her artworks, which she sees as a way to awaken the human senses that shape sensibility and transcend time.

From 2005 to 2022, she held a solo exhibition every year in Tokyo, Japan. She has also taken part in fourteen group exhibitions both in Japan and internationally, including in China, the United States, France, and Germany, and has received several awards in recognition of her paintings and photography work.

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