Debora Garritani, Monica Mazzone, Alessandro Nanni are the winners of the tenth VAF Award, assigned on September 27 at the Mart in Rovereto. On the same occasion, the Scientific Committee composed by Elena Pontiggia, Gabriella Belli, Nicoletta Colombo, Volker W. Feierabend, Serena Redaelli, Denis Viva awarded a lifetime achievement award to Marcello Morandini. “The VAF […]

As in 2019, the Italian stage of the VAF Prize is hosted at the Mart. At the opening, the names of the winners and/or the winners will be announced. After the first stage at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel from 15 June to 1 September 2024, the project will come to the Mart from 28 September […]

We would like to point out that in the ‘The prize section of this site you can find an interesting introductory speech written by Dr. Peter Kruska, Director of the Stadtgalerie in Kiel, on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition in Kiel, and an article written by Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi, President of Mart, […]

The VAF Foundation is very pleased to announce that the first stage of the tenth edition of the ‘VAF Foundation Prize’ will be inaugurated on 14 June 2024 at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel, Germany. Thirteen finalists will be on show: ADRIANO ANNINO, ANTONIO BARBIERI, CHIARA CALORE, VALENTINA DIENA, ROBERTO FANARI, DEBORA GARRITANI, TERESA GIANNICO, JACOPO […]

The Scientific Committee of the ‘Startè. Una vita per l’arte’ edizione2024 has awarded the prize to Volker W. Feierabend, who will receive a sculpture entitled “Nozze” (Wedding) by Francesco Vaccarone, donated by the artist’s family. The ceremony, in which Feierabend will participate, will take place on Monday 12 August at 9 p.m. in the Sala […]

On Thursday 11 April at 5:30 pm, the conference “The donation of the VAF Foundation” will be held in Aula N of Palazzo Liviano, organized within the cycle “The Liviano Library for…” of the Library of Sciences of Antiquity Art Music Liviano During the meeting, open to the public, the volumes published by the VAF […]

#Collanaartistidelnovecentoritrovato# On Monday 8 April at 5:00 pm, the meeting between Giorgio Lodetti and Elena Pontiggia took place at the Libreria Bocca dal 1775 for the presentation of the volume dedicated to Emilio Malerba – VAF Stiftung – Manfredi Edizioni the meeting will be visible online: #socialtvlbocca2024

10th EDITION OF THE VAF FOUNDATION AWARD 2024 The VAF Foundation is very pleased to announce that the first stage of the tenth edition of the “VAF Foundation Award” will be held at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel, Germany, from June 15th to September 1st, 2024. The pre-selection of artists, carried out for the first time […]

The series Rediscovered artists of the Twentieth Century, desired and promoted by the VAF-Stiftung, aims to bring to the attention of today’s art world some masters of the twentieth century who were once known and then slowly forgotten over the decades. Only those artists of the last century, therefore, who are not part of the […]