Exhibition // Rivolta Femminile // 12.09.2025
Rivolta Femminile is a collective exhibition that takes its name from the radical feminist movement founded in Italy in 1970. Grounded in practices of self-definition, refusal, and embodied knowledge, the exhibition brings together artists whose work engages with feminist thought, material agency, and the politics of representation. Rather than presenting a unified aesthetic or singular narrative, Rivolta Femminile embraces plurality—allowing multiple voices, bodies, and positions to coexist.
The exhibition explores how feminist resistance can be articulated through material practices, memory, and the re-reading of history. Across different artistic approaches, the participating artists engage with themes such as autonomy, care, inheritance, labor, and the reclamation of marginalized or silenced forms of knowledge. The works challenge patriarchal frameworks that have historically shaped both artistic canons and social structures, proposing instead alternative ways of seeing, making, and being.
Materiality plays a central role within Rivolta Femminile. Many of the works emphasize process, tactility, and transformation, foregrounding the body, both human and non-human, as a site of experience and political meaning. Through clay, textiles, moving image, and other media, the exhibition situates feminist practice not only in theory, but in matter itself.
Rather than framing revolt as a moment of rupture alone, Rivolta Femminile understands it as an ongoing, collective process. The exhibition positions feminism as lived practice: relational, intergenerational, and rooted in shared struggle and care. In this sense, Rivolta Femminile becomes both a space of encounter and a proposition—inviting reflection on how resistance can be sustained through collective presence and making.
