EXHIBITION REVIEW
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2025 – 15TH EDITION
July 11 – 24, 2025
ITSLIQUID Art Space – Rome, Italy

ITSLIQUID Group is pleased to announce the great success of the 15th edition of ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2025, an international exhibition of photography, painting, video art, installation/sculpture and performance art, at ITSLIQUID Art Space – Rome. The Art Fair opened its doors on July 11 and will run until July 24, 2025.

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The 15th edition of ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR represented a forum for the direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals, and provided a unique opportunity for artists and exhibitors to present their works to an international audience of art professionals seeking to acquire, publish and encourage the best talents in contemporary art. The exhibition analysed the body-space relationship and the hybridisation between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban contexts in contemporary times, through two main sections: MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES.

MIXING IDENTITIES analysed the hidden parts of our identities and their infinite modes of expression, through an immersive experience in the fascinating universe of the labyrinths of our consciousness. While FUTURE LANDSCAPES focused primarily on the concept of boundaries and structures between body, mind and soul, human identity and the city, space and ground, transforming surfaces into an open flow of pure ideas.

The artists presented in this edition offered a collective reflection on these curatorial paths, weaving together interiority and materiality, energy and ritual, structure and spontaneity. Despite the variety of media and approaches, what united their practices was a shared sensitivity to the spaces we carry within and those we inhabit or imagine around us.

Working with graphite and dry pigment, Kristina Mariinskaya developed a visual language rooted in botanical precision but expanded into the metaphysical. Her delicate, spiraling compositions seem to pulse with invisible forces, echoing the energy fields that connect all living forms. Her approach, suspended between scientific observation and spiritual vibration, resonates with both MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES, embodying a sense of quiet continuity that threads through the exhibition.

A similar dialogue between fluidity and form animates the works of Silvia Pusceddu, whose paintings unfold as layered rituals. Drawing on emotional memory and spontaneous gesture, her pieces offer a kind of cartography of the self – vivid, saturated, and resolved through the symbolic gesture of the black outline. For Pusceddu, painting becomes a grounded act of healing, an intimate choreography of rhythm, line, and release. Echoes of this emotional processing appear in the practice of Lyne Bourgeois, who balances detailed mark-making with intuitive motion. Her ink and acrylic compositions on paper explore the push and pull between peace and challenge, between introspection and expansion. Like Pusceddu, Bourgeois uses the act of creation as a vehicle for transformation, navigating the shifting terrain of identity with quiet strength and grace.

If the mentioned artists explore inner fields and personal energy, Jurgita Baleise pushes us toward the raw materiality of form. Using liquid metals (copper, iron, aluminium) she creates richly textured surfaces that evoke archeological depth and industrial memory. Her compositions suggest maps, symbols, and layered time, making visible what is often left unspoken: the way matter carries history, and how identity can crystallize in texture. Her work grounds FUTURE LANDSCAPES in the tactile, in the physical negotiation between transformation and permanence. In a conceptual yet no less grounded register, Hakan Erkam expands the conversation toward the surreal and the socio-political. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography, and sculpture, and reflects a critical awareness of how structures – ecological, cultural, digital – shape human experience. Like Baleise, Erkam is concerned with surfaces and what lies beneath them, but through a more narrative lens, destabilizing familiar realities and inviting new ones to emerge.

Completing this constellation is Ana Júlia Ribeiro, whose practice challenges the very notion of boundaries. Her “paintings destined for chance” escape the gallery walls, traveling through public space and finding new meaning in the hands of strangers. By embracing unpredictability and refusing to confine her work to a fixed context, Ribeiro blurs distinctions between art and life, artist and viewer, process and result. Her gesture is at once philosophical and generous, anchored in the belief that identity and landscape, like art itself, are ever-evolving and shared.

Together, all the exhibiting artists articulate a vision of contemporary art as a living dialogue between gesture and idea, presence and absence, structure and freedom. Their works do not offer answers, but open spaces: for reflection, for questioning, for reimagining the forms of connection between body, mind, and the world we inhabit.

organized by ITSLIQUID Group
curator Luca Curci
general manager Giulia Tassi
project manager Amaride Ferrante
project coordinator Annachiara Recchia
collaborator Vittoria Vallebella
graphic designer Marina Caracciolo
supported by ORIGINAL GALLERY | UAB “QUALIFIED SOLUTIONS PARTNERS”

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ABOUT US

ITSLIQUID is a web-based information platform, founded in 2001 by Luca Curci, dedicated to the worldwide distribution of information about calls for entries, exhibitions and events at some of the world’s leading art galleries, museums and foundations selected. ITSLIQUID has already built a readership of more than 300.000 qualified subscribers. Among them architects, designers, artists, collectors, art critics, curators, dealers, and other personalities of the International art, architecture and design world. It provides advertising services, press office services for events and projects, articles and specials published on the website, and media partnerships services.

During the last 20 years, ITSLIQUID Group has become a cultural hub between creatives, exhibition spaces and art lovers. Among our international partners, Art Now Fair, Art Vancouver, Design Tokyo, INDEX Qatar, INDEX Saudi, The Big 5 Construct Dubai, The Big 5 Construct Qatar, Photo LA Los Angeles and international magazines like Art Style. ITSLIQUID Group supports some of the most important no-profit organizations, like UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, SSCS – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, One Tree Planted, The Ocean CleanUp and Plastic Oceans, with the goal to increase public awareness about environmental issues. Click here to find out more.

ITSLIQUID GROUP includes a section dedicated to the organization of international art events, managing exhibitions of painting, photography, video art, installation and performance; it organizes solo and collective shows, art residencies and international contests. Its object is to use new technologies to globalize the language of art, and to connect artists working in every part of the world.

ITSLIQUID Group manages a variety of art spaces all over the world; among them Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello in Venice and different historical buildings, ELEMENTS Contemporary Art Space in London city centre and other different partners worldwide. Since its beginning, the group has organized more than 250 events all around the world, involving more than 5.000 artists, in more than 60 international venues in Italy, the USA, Canada, the UK, Spain, France, etc. Most of the last events have been realized in museums (CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Spain, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, etc.), galleries and private foundations.

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OUR LOCATION

ITSLIQUID Art Space – Rome is a Contemporary Art Space in the city centre of Rome. The Gallery hosts solo and collective shows with a rich variety of contemporary painters, photographers, designers, architects, sculptors, performers and video makers.

ITSLIQUID Art Space – Rome is located in a prestigious historical building, a few minutes walk from Colosseum and Roman Forum. The exhibition space is on the ground floor, with four main rooms and three bright shop windows on the street. Easily accessible, the space is fully equipped for hosting exhibitions and events.