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28/05/2026

Upcoming in Milan

"Agent of Birth"
Deng Shiqing
Curated and text by Charles Moore
C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Foro Buonaparte, 48, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
10.06-24.07.2026

The exhibition was submitted via our partnering website

“Agent of Birth“ examines the increasingly transactional realities of reproduction through psychologically charged paintings. Merging Old Master draftsmanship with surreal humor, the body of work uses bodily fragmentation as contemporary social critique. At once seductive and unsettling, the exhibition transforms the figure into a contested terrain where intimacy collides with commerce, technology, and power.

Through "Agent of Birth", Deng reconfigures the language of figurative painting to examine the ethical complexities of surrogacy and reproductive capitalism. Monumental anatomies and carefully rendered surfaces echo the authority of Renaissance painting, yet these bodies are interrupted by synthetic objects, commercial symbols, and absurd narrative details that destabilize permanence and control. Here, the body is no longer idealized, but negotiated, segmented, and subject to external systems. Rather than approaching surrogacy through direct moral judgment, Deng investigates how reproductive technologies and contractual frameworks reshape ideas of bodily ownership and autonomy. The female body emerges as both intimate and public, yet increasingly mediated through labor and consumer desire. [...] (from pr)

Images: "Agent of Birth" exhibition views, ph Mattia Mognetti , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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26/05/2026

In Turin, Italy until 11 October

"Metamagico"
Claudio Costa
Curated by Marco Scotini
Text by Marco Scotini
Organized by C+N Gallery CANEPANERI
Supported by Archivio Claudio Costa
PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Via Giordano Bruno, 39/A, 10134 Torino TO, Italia, Turin
15.05-11.10.2026

The exhibition was submitted via our partnering platform

"Metamagico" explores Costa's central body of work from the 1970s, revolving around his founding obsession: the relationship between material culture, biological memory, and anthropological origins.
The exhibition follows a path that revisits the archive, the museum, and the ritual as sites where this relationship manifests.The exhibition is part of PAV’s historical research program dedicated to the roots of the relationship between art and the ecosystem - a direction it has cultivated since its foundation but which, in recent years, it has sought to extend to those pioneers who, as early as the 1960s and 1970s, anticipated the questions now central to the debate on ecology, biodiversity, and the memory of the living.
Within this framework, Claudio Costa occupies a unique position: he does not represent nature; he uses it as an archive, as a system of signs, as material that carries within itself the traces of biological and cultural time, convinced that the natural past is not lost but always latent, capable of being exhumed through the artistic gesture. (from pr)

Images: "Metamagico" exhibition views, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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25/05/2026

Upcoming in Milan

"Figure, not Figure"
Emmanuelle Castellan, Scott McCracken, Mirela Moscu, Luca Zarattini .moscu .zarattini
RIBOT, Via Enrico Noe 23, Milan
11.06-17.07.2026

The exhibition was submitted via our partnering platform

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. In painting, it is not. The path leading from tangible reality to its representation is neither immediate nor linear. To move beyond it — to reach that “state transition” from figuration to the Informal through abstraction — requires a vital, precipitous, deeply personal leap.

At times, this movement unfolds subtly and strategically; at others, it erupts into a catharsis of forms through moments of chaotic epiphany. The painter who emancipates themselves from strict fidelity to the real or the recognizable — to the familiar and the credible — embraces a risk that, veiled in ambiguity, may compromise plastic values historically regarded as resolved.

The project stems from this formal yet poetic reflection, giving shape to an exhibition that intertwines the practices of four artists from different backgrounds, united by layered and highly personal interpretations of contemporary figuration. (from pr)

Images: "Figure, not Figure" exhibition views, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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23/05/2026

Milan is getting busy

Updates soon 🎯

20/05/2026

Out today: the first article by our guest reviewer, Rachel Cecília de Oliveira — professor of Theory, Criticism, and History of Art at EBA-UFMG.

Discover 5 offseen exhibitions she selected as this month’s must-see highlights.

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The exhibitions were submitted through our partnering platforms and .

16/05/2026

Today we placed the 100th pin on the offseen map — and that calls for a little celebration (and some stats)!

So far, offseen has featured:
🗺️ 100 exhibitions
🌍 26 countries
🌐 4 continents
🤝 5 long-term collaborations
📍 11 venues currently featuring our map on-site
📝 6 exhibition reviews published

A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of this growing network of exhibitions, spaces, artists, curators, and conversations.

More pins coming soon!

14/05/2026

On view in Milan!

"Here...Now!"
Hiva Alizadeh, Matthew Allen, Guido Bagini, Stefano Caimi, Scott Campbell, Paolo Cavinato, Anthony Coleman, Inma Femenía, Greta Frau, Peter Frederiksen, Cristiano De Gaetano, Michael Johansson, Andrea Mastrovito, Sali Muller, Asuka Ohsawa, Pesce Khete, Edward del Rosario, Anila Rubiko, Guadalupe Salgado, Ward Shelley, Leonardo Ulian and more
THE FLAT - Massimo Carasi, Via Edolo 26 / Via Zuretti 25, 20125 Milan
📸 courtesy the artist and the gallery
09.04-09.06.2026

The exhibition was submitted via our partnering platform theitalianartguide.com.

07/05/2026

We’re excited to welcome Rachel Cecília de Oliveira as our guest art reviewer for the next three months.

A Professor of Theory, Criticism, and History of Art at EBA-UFMG in Brazil, she’ll be curating an upcoming selection of the top five offseen exhibitions.

Stay tuned for her picks ✍🏼

Cover images: “Transylvanian Painting Today” exhibition views, Adrian Ghenie “The Toy,” ph Matěj Doležel, courtesy the artist and the gallery (left); "The Shape of Life" exhibition views, ph Szymon Sokołowski , courtesy the artist and the gallery (right);

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