Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome.
Artists in the exhibition: Terry Adkins (American Academy in Rome fellow, 2009–2010), Iván Argote (French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici fellow, 2021–2022), Joel Blanco (Real Academia de España en Roma, 2024–2025), Bianca Bondi (French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici fellow, 2024–2025), Matthew Connors (American Academy in Rome fellow, 2024–2025), Rebecca Digne (French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici fellow, 2018–2019), Esra Ersen (German Academy Rome – Villa Massimo fellow, 2019–2020), Jenny Holzer (American Academy in Rome fellow, 2003–2004), Christoph Keller (German Academy Rome – Villa Massimo fellow, 2017–2018), Evangelia Kranioti (French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici fellow, 2021–2022), Hunter Longe (Swiss Institute fellow, 2024–2025), Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier (French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici fellows, 2014–2015), Julian Rosefeldt (German Academy Rome – Villa Massimo fellow, 2018–2019), Ruaidhri Ryan (The British School at Rome fellow, 2021), Giovanna Silva (American Academy in Rome fellow, 2019–2020), Hayahisa Tomiyasu (Swiss Institute fellow, 2020–2021), Nicole Wermers (German Academy Rome – Villa Massimo fellow, 2012).
"Sublime cliché is the title of the exhibition for the third edition of the Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome. For centuries, the Eternal City has been a gold mine of visual metaphors, through which the city manifests its cumbersome and indecipherable grace. Rome as a fragmentary, tragic and poetic city: a dizzying, conflictual complexity that in a paradoxical way simultaneously reflects its own opposing stereotypes, hovering between wonder and decadence. Perhaps this is why even today Rome continues to stimulate lively curiosity, as a pole of attraction and influence on the imagination of artists."