New Voices – New Freedoms: In Rome, Sixteen Artists Explore Freedom Through Art
From September 4 to 10, 2026, the Medina Art Gallery will host an international group exhibition curated by Carmelita Brunetti: a journey through photography, painting, digital art, and visual poetry, in search of new languages and new forms of expression.
In an era marked by profound transformations, social tensions, and increasingly complex identities, art continues to represent one of the last spaces where thought can move freely.
Born from this awareness is “New Voices – New Freedoms”, the international group exhibition that will open on September 4, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., at the Medina Art Gallery in Rome, located at Via Merulana 220.
Curated by Carmelita Brunetti, art critic and editor-in-chief of Artonworld.com Magazine, the exhibition brings together sixteen artists from different geographic and cultural backgrounds, each offering a personal vision of the contemporary world.
The title captures the heart of the project: new voices claiming new freedoms. Freedom to experiment, to question reality, to transcend the boundaries imposed by convention, and to transform individual experience into a universal language.
Art as a Space of Resistance
“New Voices – New Freedoms” does more than simply present a succession of works. It constructs a journey in which painting, photography, digital art, figurative art, abstraction, and visual poetry enter into dialogue, giving shape to intimate narratives, social reflections, and acts of resistance.
Each artist interprets freedom differently. For some, it means denouncing society’s contradictions; for others, protecting their own identity, exploring the spiritual dimension, observing nature, or investigating the invisible structures of matter.
In all cases, artistic creation becomes an act of presence.
To create is to affirm one’s existence, to defend the right to an autonomous perspective, and to find new aesthetic solutions even when the cultural or social context seems to demand adaptation, silence, or conformity.
The exhibition thus invites us to consider art not merely as an aesthetic experience, but as a testimony: a space in which creativity can still become openness, awareness, and possibility.
Sixteen Different Visions of the Present
Among the participating artists is Danilo Preto, who addresses the tensions and contradictions of contemporary society through provocative works.
The Norwegian artist Morten Klementsen, on the other hand, explores the possibilities of digital art, constructing innovative imaginary worlds where technology and visual sensibility converge.
The works of Miriam Fabijan arise from intimate narratives and existential themes, while Silvia Nencioni develops a poetics suspended between gesture, dream, and vision.
Marcello Perruzza places the faces and identities of the rural world at the center of his work, transforming them into a human and social testimony. Annamaria Perruzza, on the other hand, navigates the realm of figurative art, interweaving mythology, imagination, and the dreamlike.
The digital geometries of Karin Monschauer construct ever-changing visual interweavings. Inbal Kristin’s artistic photography explores nature and the relationship between reality and perception.
Particularly intense is the work of Cosimo Gagliardi, who transforms light and his own physical condition into a personal form of visual poetry.
Roberto Pestarino uses photography to celebrate natural beauty and draw attention to the need to protect it, while Emilia Berlingieri contemplates matter in its deepest dimension—among cells, atoms, and microscopic structures.
In the works of Pietro Bellani, words and images merge, transforming into visual emotion. Andréa Lobel constructs symbolic and spiritual narratives, while Salvatore Stancampiano presents visions linked to society and the anxieties of the present.
The digital art of Mahfouz Ilham addresses the themes of identity and cultural belonging. Tiziana Contino, finally, entrusts the purity of the line with the task of transcending visible reality and approaching the realm of the transcendent.
Sixteen artists, then, but above all sixteen different ways of interpreting their own time and exercising creative freedom.
A Collective Statement
The choice of the Medina Art Gallery, a space dedicated to experimentation and contemporary research, provides the exhibition with a context capable of highlighting the diversity of the artistic languages on display.
The group exhibition will be open daily through September 10, 2026 and will be accompanied by a catalog published by Artonworld.
“New Voices – New Freedoms” presents itself as a collective statement, but also as an invitation to the public: to observe the works without seeking a single interpretation and to recognize in the diversity of perspectives an essential form of richness.
Because artistic freedom does not consist solely in the ability to create. It also consists in the ability to be heard, understood, or even challenged, without giving up one’s own voice.
And it is precisely in the encounter between these voices—different and irreconcilable—that art continues to demonstrate its most authentic strength.
New Voices – New Freedoms
Medina Art Gallery
Via Merulana 220, Rome
Opening: September 4, 2026, at 6:00 p.m.
On view through September 10, 2026
Information: info@artonworld.com
