Chalisée Naamani – 2026

Arte Fiera and Fondazione Furla renew their collaboration for the live performance program curated by Bruna Roccasalva, Artistic Director of the Foundation.
After the projects by Public Movement (2023), Daniela Ortiz (2024), and Adelaide Cioni (2025), the 2026 edition will feature Chalisée Naamani (b. 1995, France).
Chalisée Naamani’s cross-disciplinary approach embraces painting, sculpture, fashion, and technology in a blend of different styles and materials. She explores the construction identity and the mechanisms of bodily representation within contemporary visual culture weaving together elements of mainstream culture, art history and autobiography. Her works are often developed by assembling recycled materials and fabrics printed with images from a constantly expanding personal archive, taking form in what she calls vêtements-images or “image clothing”: garments conceived as paintings or sculptures never meant to be worn.
For Arte Fiera 2026, Naamani will be presenting new work that combines performance, sculpture, and installation that transforms the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau into a kaleidoscopic interweaving of symbols, materials, and images. Built in the park across from the fairgrounds in 1977, the Padiglione is a faithful reproduction of the original design by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for the 1925 Exposition International des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Dual celebrations will be celebrated in 2025 and 2027: the one-hundred years of the Padiglione’s creation and the fifty years of its construction in Bologna.

Chalisée Naamani (b. 1995, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts in Paris, where she lives and works. She has had solo exhibitions in galleries and in public institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2025), Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2024), La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (2021), and Art-O-Rama, Marseille (2021), and has participated in numerous group shows in spaces such as Hangar Y, Meudon (2024); Nice Biennal, Nice (2022); Poush, Paris (2022); Reiffers Institute, Paris (2022); La Villette, Paris (2022); BOZAR, Brussels (2022). She was awarded the Pista 500 Award of Pinacoteca Agnelli (2023), the Prix des Fondations for sculpture and installation (2021), and the Prix Benoît Doche de Laquintane (2021).