Michele Ciacciofera. Lettere Mediterranee

From October 29th to December 20th, 2025, BUILDING GALLERY presents the exhibition Lettere mediterranee by artist Michele Ciacciofera (Nuoro, 1969), represented in Italy by the gallery.

The exhibition, which is the second solo show that BUILDING has dedicated to the artist after Condensare l’infinito (2024), is displayed across three floors of the gallery and offers a comprehensive overview of Ciacciofera’s graphic, pictorial, sculptural, and installation work focusing on historical, anthropological, and political themes related to the Mediterranean, including new productions, historicized works, and previously unseen reactivations.

Memory, ancient and contemporary myths, archaeology, magic, literature, nature, and ecology are the open chapters that will allow visitors to read Michele Ciacciofera’s practice from recent years, presented in this exhibition according to a thematic itinerary conceived specifically for each floor of BUILDING GALLERY.

Together with new artworks created specifically for the exhibition, the project features, for the first time in Italy, the reactivation of some of the Sardinian-Sicilian artist’s most emblematic works, such as the installations Janas Code (2016/2017), Terra Madre (2024), and The Hand of Nature (2024). Alongside them, a vast corpus of works—paintings, textile artworks, large ceramic sculptures, sculptures made from recycled materials—shows the variety of media that has always characterized Ciacciofera’s research on matter.

Lettere mediterranee is a retrospective that retraces the highlights of Michele Ciacciofera’s artistic research, bringing together—alongside unpublished works that show the most recent evolution of his practice—more historicized and well-known works by the artist, already presented in exhibitions at public institutions such as the Venice International Art Biennale, Mardin Contemporary Art Biennale (Turkey), the MA*GA Museum in Gallarate, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart (France), the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing (China), and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Passerelle in Brest (France).

In conjunction with the exhibition, Michele Ciacciofera presents the installation The Nest of the Eternal Present at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo Not All Travelers Walk Roads — Of Humanity as Practice, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, co-curated by Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Keyna Eleison.