Eva Fabbris is the new Artistic Director of Fondazione Società delle Api

ROME.- The Fondazione Società delle Api announces the appointment of Eva Fabbris as Artistic Director. Already a member of the Advisory Board since its inception, Fabbris takes on a role that marks a new phase in the institutional development of Società delle Api, strengthening its curatorial structure while preserving the collective dimension that has characterized the Foundation. Her directorship will help give curatorial form to an already collective approach, which involves the role of artists and curators in shaping the cultural programme.

The appointment comes at a particularly vibrant moment for the Foundation. With the opening of its Roman space at via Gregoriana 40 on 14 February 2026, Società delle Api gave expression to its nature and mission: to welcome and bring together artists, curators and scholars, and to create the conditions for shared projects to emerge through dialogue. On the occasion of the inauguration, over 70 artists, designers, curators and critics connected to the Foundation were invited to create an A4-format work on paper. The project translated the principles of belonging, welcome and sharing that characterize Società delle Api into a simple gesture. During its first year of activity in Rome, this approach found further expression in an exhibition and cultural programme that brought into the public sphere a network of relationships and practices of exchange built over time.

This process gave rise to a first cycle of exhibitions, comprising of both projects already presented and upcoming events, each with its own voice and a different way of interpreting the Foundation’s spaces and ideas. Taken together, the exhibitions outline a founding season: a plurality of perspectives through which Società delle Api has chosen to introduce itself to the city and develop its contribution to contemporary culture.

From 22 April to 23 September 2026, the spaces hosted Soglia / Common Acts, an exhibition presented by Francis Offman in dialogue with works by artists from the Silvia Fiorucci Collection. The project brought together artistic practices that explore material, gesture and everyday life, including site-specific interventions by Offman himself.

Opened on 9 October 2026 and running until 26 January 2027, Chiara Camoni, I fiori del male, curated by Alice Motard, places the flower at its centre, a recurring motif in the artist’s practice, is explored here in its more complex and unsettling dimensions. In dialogue with Camoni’s works, pieces by Fantine Andrès, Maria Loboda, Marianne Marić, Vibeke Mascini, Lionel Sabatté, Adrianna Wallis and Yuyan Wang introduce different perspectives and sensibilities, serving as counterpoints to the artist’s practice and broadening the reflections on the flower and its multiple expressive possibilities.

The programme will continue:

From 13 February to 14 May 2027, with Cinemini, an exhibition curated by Marianna Vecellio, which brings site-specific works by Anna Franceschini into dialogue with objects by Mathieu Matégot and other works from the Silvia Fiorucci Collection. The artist’s research, which spans different languages and media—from film to performance, from kinetic sculpture to photocopying—forms part of the experimental approach that characterizes the Foundation’s programme.

From 26 May to 24 September 2027, an exhibition by Rodrigo Hernández and Silvia Bächli, curated by Oriane Durand, will be presented. The project stems from two periods of residency in Rome, dedicated to observation, study and dialogue. The artists will explore the city together with the curator, and their two distinct perspectives will be reflected in the exhibition.

The programme will conclude with an exhibition by Isabella Costabile, curated by Ben Broome, from 8 October 2027 to 21 January 2028. The artist has already taken part in a residency in Rome in June 2026, devoted to artistic research on the themes of the exhibition.

A range of expertise spanning artistic practice, curating, museum management and publishing has come together around Società delle Api. Through their exchange, independent projects emerge, contributing to a shared vision.

Silvia Fiorucci, founder of Società delle Api, states: “The appointment of Eva Fabbris as Artistic Director of Società delle Api brings me back to the spirit in which this initiative was born: the desire to share and expand my passion for art, transforming my personal journey as a collector into a collective experience shaped by encounters, relationships and affection. Eva is one of the people with whom I have shared this journey from the very beginning, building a relationship of friendship, mutual esteem and deep affinity over the years. I am therefore particularly happy that today, with her professional experience and curatorial sensibility, she can contribute even more actively to the Foundation’s evolution. Together, we want to continue nurturing the collective and experimental nature that defines us, enriching it with Eva’s vision, which is capable of opening up new perspectives and imagining new forms of art production.”

Eva Fabbris states: “I have known and been involved with Società delle Api since its foundation; I have always felt a strong affinity with, and drawn great inspiration from the central place given to artists in its activities and in the spirit that animates it. It is their poetics that nourish the vision with which Silvia devised the prototype for an art project based on encounters and affinities. Until now, Società delle Api has been characterised by informality and fluid formats; with the opening of the space in Rome, we want to share its sensibilities and outcomes with a wider audience, broadening the scope of dialogue and research. I am delighted to lead this process.”

Eva Fabbris will begin contributing to the Foundation’s cultural programming as early as the 2027 season, through the development of discursive content that will complement the exhibition calendar already defined. The entire programme she conceives will begin in 2028. The development of new projects will proceed alongside the first cycle of initiatives, allowing each research process to unfold in its own time and open up further perspectives.

Founded in 2018 by Silvia Fiorucci, Società delle Api has built its programme through residencies, projects and collaborations across various European locations. The opening of its space in Rome has added a new centre to this network, bringing together hospitality, artistic production and encounters with the public. Eva Fabbris’s appointment marks a further step in the Foundation’s development, as it continues to grow through the experiences it fosters and its ability to turn them into opportunities for shared knowledge.