A Scientific Encounter: The Complex

A Scientific Encounter: The Complex

10 June - 31 December 2025
Private view: Tuesday, 10 June 17:00 - 20:00
Press Conference: Tuesday, 10 June 12:00

Palazzo Poggi Museum
Via Zamboni, 33, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy
A collaboration between Newcastle University and the Palazzo Poggi Museum (Bologna)

Co-curated by Gino Gianuizzi and Wolfgang Weileder

Featured Artists: Aurelio Andrighetto (IT), Sergia Avveduti (IT), Irene Brown (UK), David Casini (IT), Silvia Cini (IT), Gianluca Codeghini (IT), CuoghiCorsello (IT), Garry Doherty (UK), Amy Dover (UK), Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva (MK/UK), Daniel Laskarin (CA), Janet Laurence (AU), Claudia Losi (IT), M+M (DE), Dörte Meyer (DE), Maurizio Mercuri (IT), Stéphanie Nava (FR), Giancarlo Norese (IT), Marco Pace (IT), Jasmine Reif (DE/UK), Eva Sauer (IT/DE), Albrecht Schäfer (DE), Francesco Voltolina (IT), Wolfgang Weileder (DE/UK), Alberto Zanazzo (IT).

More information visit: sma.unibo.it/it/agenda/ascientificencounter

A Scientific Encounter: The Complex reimagines historical scientific objects as catalysts for new ways of seeing and thinking and uses artistic imagination to uncover latent meanings and challenge linear/teleological narratives of scientific progress. Acts also as a “rearview mirror” on the evolution of knowledge, reflecting shifts in material culture embracing a philosophical turn redefining object-subject relationships, revitalising the role of material culture in natural sciences.

By engaging with these collections through an object-oriented lens, artists liberate their latent potential, recontextualising them for contemporary discourse.