02.02.2026

Shakespeare’s Women

To mend the living. To restore them. And then to breathe, deeply.
Hamnet tells the story of Shakespeare, or rather, of Shakespeare’s family, framed through an unexpected and profoundly intimate lens. It is a journey that invites our quiet participation and leaves us in tears by the final frame.
It is a beautiful film. Once again, women, mothers, both flawed and tender, tand at the center. The playwright himself, that towering genius (one of our most beloved and enduringly studied authors), remains almost peripheral. And yet, in the end, he is the one who sets everything right. He is a man, and a genius.
Why do we suggest seeing this film?
Perhaps above all, for the sheer poetry of its production design. The visual world of the film is nothing short of lyrical. Credit belongs to Fiona Crombie, whose meticulous and evocative design shapes every space the story inhabits. From the intimacy of the family home to the carefully reconstructed interiors, each environment resonates with historical authenticity and emotional truth.

Go and see it. Trust it. And allow it, in its quiet way, to mend a small part of you too.

27.02.2026

Anselm Kiefer, born in 1945, the German artist we know for The Seven Heavenly Palaces at Hangar Bicocca, became deeply admired there through those majestic creatures that mark our complex time. Now he returns with 42 large canvases that clothe the Sala delle Cariatidi and the small skylight room of Palazzo Reale in Milan.

The Alchemists lies at the heart of his exhibition, curated by Gabriella Belli. With this project, Kiefer pays tribute to the women who, between the Middle Ages and the early modern period, made decisive contributions to the birth of scientific thought: Maria the Jewess, inventor of fundamental tools and processes for the distillation and sublimation of substances; Cleopatra the Alchemist, active in Alexandria and author of symbolic texts and diagrams; and Trotula de Ruggiero, associated with the Salerno medical school and a key figure in medieval medicine. These personalities—suspended between science, spirituality, and experimentation—long remained at the margins of official narratives.

Anselm Kiefer’s work belongs to that European postwar trajectory that intersects with the research paths we have always followed, from Art Informel to the postwar avant-gardes. In The Alchemists, we find once again the same tension between matter, history, and experimentation that marked those movements, expressed here on a monumental and profoundly contemporary scale.

Anselm Kiefer. The Alchemists
Palazzo Reale, Milan, until 27 September 2026.

12.02.2026

A delicate yet powerful collection featuring the major Japanese women poets who wrote haiku. The volume, edited and translated by Cristina Banella, is of rare beauty. Each haiku is accompanied by an explanation, allowing readers to fully appreciate references, cultural connections, and nuances that might otherwise be difficult to grasp at first reading.

We offer you two of them, inviting you to read them all—as small daily oracles, or to seek and discover images capable of sparking subtle wonder or triggering possible revelations.

Wild geese
like little waves
gradually fading away

Abe Midorijo

On the tatami I sit
like a butterfly: a white
pumpkin flower

Hasegawa Kanajo

In the picture: Aiko Miyawaki, Listen to Your Portrait, 1975, incisione su granito nero / engraving on black granite, 66,5 x 66 x 22,5 cm.

20.01.2026

Studio Gariboldi is pleased to announce its participation at
Salon d’Art – Art Genève
Following the artistic direction showcased in the gallery, Studio Gariboldi presents Italy-Japan project, a selection of Japanese artists who worked in Italy during the 1960s.

The selection for Art Genève focuses on Aiko Miyawaki, Nobuya Abe, Katsumi Nakai, and Tomonori Toyofuku.

The elegant brass of Miyawaki’s sculptures, the organic forms of Toyofuku’s wooden works, the vibrant colors of Nakai’s openable painting-sculptures, and the elegance of Abe’s pieces will convey to the public the harmony and chromatic rigor of these brilliant overseas artists.

The body of work represents the result of an intense and meaningful encounter between Japanese avant-garde practices and the evolving European informal art scene-a decade marked by experimentation, innovation in materials, and intense intercultural dialogue. The project has received the Patronage of the Japanese Consulate in Milan.

Studio Gariboldi – Booth C47
From Thursday 29 January to Sunday 1 February 2026
Wednesday 28 January, opening by invitation only

Palexpo – Geneva
Route François-Peyrot 30
1218 Le Grand-Saconnex

You can request a preview or an entry ticket for the opening at:
press@studiogariboldi.com

12.12.2025

Special guests at the meeting with L’Antivassalli. Eugenio Gazzola and Paolo Di Stefano enlivened the Thursday meeting in the gallery with stories and personal memories. In the room, there were writers and artists, including Tullio Pericoli and the historian Marcello Flores D’Arcais.We retraced twenty years of Sebastiano Vassalli’s life and at the same time a moment of social and political change in the history of Italy. The relationship between the Einaudi publishing house and Sebastiano Vassalli, between the writers of Gruppo 63 and the cultural editorial offices of our major newspapers, was retraced by those who experienced that fertile historical moment.

Thanks to those present, to those who have written to us and to those who will come back to visit us to continue the artistic and literary dialogue that we intend to carry on in the Studio Gariboldi space, which is memory but also inspiration for our present.

Eugenio Gazzola, L’Antivassalli, Le Lettere, 2025

04.12.2025

Studio Gariboldi is pleased to invite you to a special meeting with L’Antivassalli.

On Thursday, December 11, at 5:00 PM, the gallery will host scholar Eugenio Gazzola, author of the book L’ANTIVASSALLI, and journalist and writer Paolo Di Stefano. At the center of their dialogue will be a giant of Italian literature: Sebastiano Vassalli. The writer—winner of the 1990 Strega Prize with La chimera—was also a painter. It was precisely through painting that Vassalli entered Gruppo 63, thanks to the support of poet Edoardo Sanguineti.

For this occasion only, Studio Gariboldi has set up The Vassalli Room, an immersive experience among the artist’s Pop canvases. The Vassalli’s Room will be open to visitors from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm on the day of the event.

04.12.2025

No other literary form can, better than the haiku, capture the Japanese sensibility in all its uniqueness. The haiku—poetry of extreme concision, bare yet always concrete—manages, with its mere seventeen syllables (5–7–5), to let us glimpse the poet’s experience.

You’ll find 66 of them in the small book by Yosa Buson, edited by Peter Otiv Norton, with poetic revision by Elena Pozzi.

Here is one we would like to share with you, perfect for reflecting on Katsumi Nakai’s kite, on view in our gallery through January 30.

Yosa Buson, Sessantasei haiku, La vita felice, 2025