Five galleries, one independent space and Poliart join the Special Prizes of the Combat 2025 Prize. Each gallery/space, independently of the prize jury, will select one artist from the eighty finalists to realise a new collaboration (solo or group exhibition or site-specific project). All exhibitions and events will be realised in the 2025-26 exhibition season. The project is designed to continue the artistic research and give continuity to the confrontation opened during the participation in the Prize.
A PICK GALLERY is a contemporary art gallery that, as its name suggests, focuses on the careful research and selection of emerging artists on the international scene. The gallery is dedicated to the research of new artistic languages, regularly curating solo and group exhibitions, participating in national and international fairs, and producing events in collaboration with other galleries and organisations. The space of approximately 300 square metres, located in the centre of Turin, allows them to work on exhibitions with large-scale and site-specific works.
Founded and directed by Margherita Maccaferri, BoA Spazio Arte is a young art gallery in the centre of Bologna, which presents itself as a new meeting place for contemporary art. Proposing a heterogeneous selection of artists and styles, BoA Spazio Arte pays special attention to young talents, accompanying them in the realisation of solo and group exhibitions. Since its opening in November 2023, BoA Spazio Arte has realised several exhibitions, presenting artists (most of them under 30) with different styles, each time creating a diversified narrative and an intense dialogue between the works, and has participated in institutional events such as Art City 2024 (promoted by Arte Fiera), Open Tour 2024 (organised by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna) and The Others Art Fair 2024, an independent art fair in Turin.
LABS Contemporary Art has been operating in the Bolognese territory since October 2014. Since its beginnings, the space was created as a place dedicated to research, with a particular focus on the dialogue between historicised art and contemporary art, attentive to the territory and history of Bologna. There is a strong link between the exhibition space and the history of the city. The building dates back to the 13th century, when the Church of S. Maria della Ceriola stood in the place of the current gallery, an aspect that can still be seen today in the architectural complex of the structure.
Mondoromulo arte contemporanea is a young gallery in Sannio, attentive to a new generation of artists, and focuses on the need to create a new contemporary art audience around itself. Mondoromulo celebrates art as play, exploration and creative freedom, and is a space where artists and visitors meet to share emotions, ideas and authentic visions. With an unconventional spirit, the gallery offers exhibitions and projects that go beyond conventions, focusing on the essence of art: looking, discovering, surprising and rediscovering.
Nashira Gallery is a young art gallery founded in 2022 by Ludovica Bifulco. The name comes from the star Nashira, 'Bearer of Good News', symbol of her innovative vision. Located in the heart of Milan, near the Duomo, it is a reference point for artists, collectors, and contemporary art enthusiasts. It promotes dialogue between emerging and established artists, collaborating with Collezione 54 and other galleries to create dynamic and stimulating exhibitions fuelled by encounters between different generations, cultures, and expressive techniques.
Since 2019, the SAC – Spazio Arte Contemporanea is the new exhibition venue of the Cultural Association Blob ART. The Cultural Association Blob ART is a non-profit organisation for the promotion of contemporary artistic research, which has been passionately encouraging cultural experimentation in all its forms, in Italy, since 2009.
The POLIART company, leader in the processing of expanded polystyrene, will award an artist selected among the finalists, supporting the production of a work. The maximum format can be 200 x 60 x 80 cm. Technical specifications:
Promoted by the newly established marketplace THE PLACE together with the Ultracontemporary Art Project Association (U-ART-P aps), in collaboration with Calcografica Petronilla, the prize was created with the aim of bringing intaglio printmaking back to the forefront for younger generations — a historic artistic technique that has played a key role in shaping important expressive languages within the Italian art scene. The prize consists of support for the creation of an intaglio print.
