“L’Artificio” is the first project activated by LEA APS, Independent Artist-Run Project Space, born from the collaboration between visual artists and former RUFA students Elisa Selli and Ellen Wolf, under the patronage of the Primo Municipio di Roma Capitale. The L’Artificio project consists of a painting and drawing workshop featuring people with Down Syndrome… Find out more
A research project initiated in collaboration with NUS – National University of Singapore. It is with great pleasure that RUFA actively collaborates in the scientific project “Exploring Creativity and Visualization Dimensions“. The project is undertaken by Associate Professor Maria Kozhevnikov (Principal Investigator) and her laboratory at the National University of Singapore (NUS) jointly… Find out more
From 20 to 24 March, the Fine Arts Masterclass ‘DOUBLE TROUBLES’ will be held by :mentalKLINIK , the Brussels-based artist duo from Istanbul composed of Yasemin Baydar & Birol Demir, whose collaborative practice began in 1998. The visual arts students will have the opportunity to engage in an open and direct discussion with the… Find out more
The 2023 edition of the Painting and Music Prize is on the theme: ‘The Light of Life Beyond Abandonment’. The award is intended for students at the Fine Arts Academies and Music Conservatories who come together, dictated by a common inspiration, in the realisation of pictorial works and musical compositions, in a synaesthetic unicum of… Find out more
From Nov. 21-25, Painting students had the opportunity to work closely with artist Caterina Silva as part of the Masterclass: “Painting-gestures-alphabets”. Through painting and performative techniques the masterclass aims at creating with the students an alphabet of signs to be deployed either on the surface of the canvas or in space through the bodies…. Find out more
Visiting RUFA artist Enzo Cucchi and Graziano Menolascina, Artistic Director of PRAC – Centre for Contemporary Art. As part of the two-year painting workshop, RUFA students will have the opportunity to meet and discuss with artist Enzo Cucchi and Graziano Menolascina, Artistic Director of PRAC – Centre for Contemporary Art in Ponzano Romano. Maestro… Find out more
Congratulations to RUFA student Lorenzo Cappella for the inauguration of the double exhibition “CIECO ANIMALE”, together with artist Guido D’Angelo, on show in the KHLAB exhibition space from 11 May to 4 June 2022 The thought of animality has many faces, a multitude of gestures. Devouring the human mask, there where the gaze rises,… Find out more
Wang Yuxiang, a RUFA student in the School of Visual Arts, opens his solo exhibition at PRAC – Center for Contemporary Art – on May 8 at 10 a.m. PRAC Center for Contemporary Art inaugurates the new exhibition season with three solo shows curated by Graziano Menolascina: David Salle, a leading artist of the… Find out more
From 25 April to 1 May, the new exhibition “Quello che il cielo non mi ha detto” (What the sky didn’t tell me) by Amedeo Longo and Sofia Sotto Corona, artists and RUFA Fine Arts students, is open to the public. With “Quel che il cielo non mi ha detto”, Amedeo Longo and Sofia… Find out more
After the success of the 2021 edition, the Fine Arts masterclass “Sacralità/Sacro – Collaborative site-specific installation” is back. From 4 to 12 April the Fine Arts masterclass curated by Umberto Giovannini was held again, during which students worked on the realisation of a collective “site specific” project. The aim of the masterclass was to investigate… Find out more
The art project ‘The Corrupted Archive’ is continuously seeking contributions for the construction of a participatory visual archive. “What happens when an image deteriorates? Does a piece of reality vanish?” The art project The Corrupted Archive – by the artist Luca Spano in collaboration with Maurizio Lai – explores the implications of corrupted… Find out more
Sunday, March 20 marks the inauguration of the new project of lecturer Davide Dormino: “Quando il bambino era bambino”, with a text by Silvano Manganaro. The appointment is from 12 noon to 7 p.m. at Fondazione VOLUME! “…Quando il bambino era bambino, non sapeva di essere un bambino, per lui tutto aveva un’anima e… Find out more
CENTO PITTORI Under35 is an event in the 1st edition, organized and promoted by the Roman association Officine Vittoria, which will take place from 23 to 26 April 2022 along the entire Via Margutta, dedicated to artists under 35 and daughter of the historic “One Hundred Painters Via Margutta “. RUFA students are encouraged to… Find out more
A lapidary title for the exhibition project of the young RUFA artists and promoted by InsideArt: a concept dedicated to the conceptual and cultural end of the cigarette. An object that has accompanied the history of humanity for about two centuries, becoming a contradictory reference in contemporary iconography, a symbol of rebellion, bravado, virility,… Find out more
Congratulations to Maria Pina Bentivenga for an important goal. Our RUFA teacher has just been nominated – the only Italian artist – with the “Torri” project for the Queen Sonja Print Award , the Norwegian royal house’s engraving award. The Queen Sonja Print Award has become the world’s premier graphic art award – a… Find out more
RUFA School of Visual Arts student Wang Yuxiang, with his project “Pensa di uscire” (Think about getting out), as part of the Year of Culture between Italy and China, was the star of the first edition of the Bienniale di Todi. The event is promoted by Diego Costantini’s Tower Gallery. The winner of the first… Find out more
The “Antonio Gramsci” Foundation, as part of “HOME – House of Memory & Engagement”, an integrated didactic project developed as part of the Creative Hub, has decided to confirm the creative competition aimed at students of the Fine Arts Academies to creatively interpret Antonio Gramsci’s thought. HOME contest The fourth edition of the contest is… Find out more
Never the same, capable of declining art and places in unison, transmitting to the observer an ever-changing point of view. “Palais Coiffeur” exhibition is the new artistic work of RUFA lecturer Simone Cametti, in synergy with RUFA student and artist Antifigure, which can be visited until 22 December at the KH workshop in Via Flaminia… Find out more
RUFA and Fondazione smART- polo per l’arte are ready to cooperate together within the Bachelor of Arts in Painting course directed by the lecturer Fabrizio Dell’Arno, with the coordination of Emiliano Coletta. Two different meetings, in talk and workshop format, with Farid Rahimi for the realisation of a project in line with the teaching programme… Find out more
On Friday 19 November 2021 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., the RUFA Space will host the event Human: first-post-contemporary the final exhibition of the Workshop “Bodies, textiles, images” by Caterina Di Rienzo. RUFA Space RUFA Space, the multi-purpose area dedicated to events and exhibitions by the students of the Academy, continues to generate culture,… Find out more