Flight Paths transforms the story of Rome’s beloved (and much maligned) parakeets into an exploration of urban environments, planetary ecology, and the entangled histories connecting humans, birds, and cities across millennia.

 

Flight Paths reveals that these so-called “alien” or “invasive” species have a far more complex relationship with the Mediterranean world than contemporary labels suggest. Exotic birds circulated in antiquity as symbols of power, empire, and global trade, connecting Ancient Rome to Afro-Asian geographies. By tracing these entangled histories, the exhibition positions birds as vital indicators of urbanism, adaptation, and environmental change—demonstrating that the life of a city can literally be read from a bird’s-eye view.

 

Flight Paths bridges into the contemporary with a roster of international artists and architects including Quando & Calzadilla, Alvin Curran , Craig Douglas, Chioma Ebinama, Studio Gang, Heather Hart, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta, Cassi Namoda, Laura Owens, STIMSON, Anika Roach, Raqs Media Collective , Roberto Zhao Renhui, alongside a dynamic younger generation of Italian artists— Catherine Biocca, Michela De Mattei, Michele Gabriele, Sara Ravelli, and Giorgio Orbi.

 

Each use birds as powerful indicators of ecological and political disruption across diverse geographies spanning North America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia, engaging contested concepts of population, migration, and extinction.

 

Through painting, sculpture, sound, architecture, film, and archival materials, Flight Paths explores how human and non-human habitats transform under climate stress and resource scarcity. 

 

At a moment when urban environments worldwide face rapid transformation, Flight Paths positions Rome as both illuminating case study and vital crossroads—a place where history, ecology, and imagination take flight.

 

The opening is proceeded by a conversation Sharing Our World with Birds with scientist and microbiologist Andrea Crisanti, architect Jeanne Gang, and ornithologist Francesca Manzini from 6:00 – 7:00 pm.

 

The exhibition is curated by Ilaria Puri Purini, Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome.

 

Following the exhibition opening on Monday 30th March, 6 – 9pm,  the exhibition will be open to the public from 3rd April to  11th July, 2026.

 

opening times: Fridays and Saturdays, 4:00 – 7:00 pm.

 

(please note access to the academy requires guests to a present a valid photo ID and to not carry a backpack or luggage on their person – locker facilities are not available)

 

AAR Gallery
McKim, Mead & White Building
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Roma
Italia

 

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Imagine a Dead Blue Whale Inside the Pocket of a Giant is a group show curated by Giulia Pollicita and Eunice Tsang featuring Michela de Mattei, Sara Ravelli, Tap Chan, Ocean Leung, Adam Harrison, Roberto Fassone, Simon Liu, and Adele Di Pasquale.

 

Michela will show a work from the series Handsightings, silver foil ‘scratch cards’ revealing grainy photogrpahic stills documenting the existence of the said to be extinct Tasmanian tiger (a.k.a the Thylacine). These frozen moments each come from a 19’29’’ video, assembled and edited by Michela from footage circulating amongst an online network of ‘Thylacine believers’. Echoing the ‘quest’ undertaken by this network, Michela occludes each of her stills behind a screen of grey, re-translating these digital records into chance encounters. Following her own quest-like process, Michela scratches into her print’s silvered surfaces so as to slightly reveal their haunting presences.

 

Opening on Saturday 21 March, the show will run until Friday 22 May 2026.

 

Current Plans
3F Remex Centre
42 Wong Chuk Hang Street
Hong Kong

 

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İMALAT-HANE opens the first exhibition of its 2026 program on 14 March 2026

 

Curated by Aslı Seven, Relevant is different points on the circle looks at accelerating processes of displacement; at the shifting and ambiguous nature of the extended kinship relations that sustain us within these conditions; and at their entanglement with violence and patriarchal power structures. It opens questions around human relations and the nuclear family as a site for the reproduction of power, whose effects reverberate across generations. What is the cost — and the fate — of love where power resides?

 

On view in Bursa from 14 March to 23 May 2026, Relevant is different points on the circle brings together works by Murat Akagündüz, Dilşad Aladağ, Özgür Atlagan, Fatma Belkıs, Ekin Kano, Merve Kılıçer, Can Küçük, Camille Pradon, Anna Schiefer, Merve Ünsal, and Gernot Wieland, with contributions by Gülkan Noir and Leyla Suarez.

 

İMALAT-HANE Sanat Mekânı
Işıktepe OSB
Kırmızı Cd. No: 1 D:7C
16140 Ni̇lüfer/Bursa
Türkiye

 

opening times: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm

 

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As part of the gallery’s one-year anniversary programme, members of femxphotographers, among them Hanna Mattes, will host About Love, an evening of conversation commencing at 6pm on Thursday 12th March.

 

Galerie Roberta Keil
Breite G. 12
1070 Wien
Österreich

 

Femxphotographers latest publication, LOVE, is available for purchase here

 

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Every month, the Artist-in-Residence Program invites three to four international artists to explore, experiment, and develop within the landscape of Sa Coma’s villages, valleys and pine-covered mountains.

 

The artists in residence for the month of March are Ismar Cirkinagic, Gary Hill and Gernot Wieland.

 

At the end of their stay, artists are invited to donate an artwork to CCA to be included in its future exhibition program.

 

Every month CCA invite you to meet the artists in residence with an Open Studio day. Occurring on a Saturday, entrance is free between 11am – 2pm (check at the beginning of the month to discover which Saturday has been selected).

 

Estanyera 2
07150 Andratx
Mallorca
España

 

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Camilla Low’s latest publication documenting the moments of creative nascency in her practice is now available for purchase in the UK through Belmacz website and gallery. With accompanying haikus by Karl Holmqvist and photographic imagery by Carla Åhlander, the book has been designed with both English and Japanese formatting.

Available to purchase for £23 on the website and at Belmacz book corner at 45 Davies Street.

Belmacz
45 Davies Street
London W1K 4LX
United Kingdom

opening times: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm

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Torso, Theresa Büchner’s first novella, is now available for purchase in the UK through Belmacz website and gallery. Written in German, it includes seventeen gory pigeon images alongside an accompanying bookmark featuring the photography of Barbara Klemm.

 

Available to purchase for £14 on the website and at Belmacz book corner at 45 Davies Street.

 

Belmacz
45 Davies Street
London W1K 4LX
United Kingdom

 

opening times: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm

 

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As part of the Parrhesiades II launch event on Friday 27th February, Toby Christian will show a new animation derived from Stringer.

 

TINA gallery
First Floor
191 Wardour Street
London W1F 8ZE
United Kingdom

 

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