From November 20, 2025, to January 25, 2026, Florence will host Bones of Tomorrow, the first institutional exhibition in Italy by Georgian artist Andro Eradze, an increasingly prominent figure on the international contemporary art scene. The city thus becomes the stage for a widespread project that embraces two key locations in its cultural scene: the Project Space at Palazzo Strozzi and the former Teatro dell’Oriuolo, home to IED Florence.
Two venues, one sensory experience: a journey into an imaginary world where what we see is never all that is happening.
An aesthetic suspended between light, metamorphosis, and elusive presences
The visual world of Andro Eradze is a place where certainties are loosened. His works—videos, photographs, installations—live in that fragile territory where the human fades into the non-human, the natural mixes with the artificial, and time moves in unpredictable directions.
In the rooms, the gaze opens onto fruit slowly rotting, sharp fences, flowers burning with hypnotic calm, animals crossing nocturnal landscapes like symbolic presences. Everything vibrates with a constant enigma, as if each image were the trace of an event that we cannot fully grasp.
There is never a linear narrative. Rather, there is the sensation of entering a dimension where every element is in transformation, where something is happening—or could happen—in the next instant.
Bones of Tomorrow: what remains, what will be
The title, Bones of Tomorrow, is already a poetic statement. The “bones” are what survives, the remains that time cannot erase. “Tomorrow,” on the other hand, opens up the possibility, the anticipation of the future as a continuous construction.
Eradze works precisely in this tension: the exhibition becomes a reflection on how the future is rooted in the past, on how what remains can become the basis for what is yet to take shape.
In her images, there is always an absence that becomes presence. Each work is a clue, a threshold, an invitation to let oneself be carried away by ambiguity without confining it to a definition. It is a future that moves, grows, and changes. A future that already has bones.
The dual heart of the exhibition: Palazzo Strozzi and the former Teatro dell’Oriuolo
The exhibition is conceived as a single body pulsating in two different locations in the city.
At the Project Space in Palazzo Strozzi, the atmosphere is rarefied, almost cinematic. The video installations expand the space and suspend time: the walls become narrative surfaces, the rooms are transformed into chambers of perception.
At the former Teatro dell’Oriuolo, the view becomes more scenic. Here, the architecture of the old theater dialogues with the idea of backstage that runs through Eradze’s entire poetics: lights that illuminate hidden details, imperceptible movements, shadows that suggest untold stories.
Visiting the exhibition in both venues thus becomes an urban ritual, a crossing that links the two spaces and constructs a single fluid, dense, immersive experience.
An artist who recounts the present through the spectral
Born in Tbilisi in 1993, Andro Eradze has already exhibited at institutions such as MoMA PS1, The New Museum, the Venice Biennale, WIELS, and GAMeC. His research is a constant investigation of the boundary between presence and ghost, between what we inhabit and what eludes us.
His visual language is never illustrative, never frontal: it is a cinema of the threshold, a story made up of signals, intuitions, and imperceptible movements. Objects and organisms become unexpected protagonists, rejecting the centrality of the human gaze and liberating new narrative possibilities.
In Bones of Tomorrow, this poetics finds an ideal space: Florence, with its architecture and memory, becomes a perfect counterpoint to a work that speaks of metamorphosis, heritage, and imagination.
A project created to dialogue with the city
Curated by Arturo Galansino and Daria Filardo, with the contribution of the Master in Curatorial Practice at IED Florence, the exhibition represents the increasingly close relationship between education, research, and cultural institutions.
It is a project designed to open up new scenarios, not only to tell the story of an artist, but to allow the public to immerse themselves in a different way of observing time.
The publication edited by Marsilio, curated by Martino Margheri, accompanies and explores the central themes of the project, creating a bridge between physical visit and theoretical reflection.
Visit Bones of Tomorrow
Admission to the exhibition is free at both venues, with different opening hours to offer everyone the opportunity to explore the two chapters of the exhibition.
Project Space, Palazzo Strozzi – Piazza Strozzi
Every day: 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Thursday: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.
Ex-Teatro dell’Oriuolo, IED Florence – Via dell’Oriuolo 31
Monday to Saturday: 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Closed: December 24, 2025 – January 6, 2026
