{"id":9941,"date":"2020-05-08T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinksummer.com\/?page_id=9941"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:47:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pinksummer.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;custom-padding&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1><strong>about<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Pinksummer<\/strong> is a <strong>contemporary art gallery<\/strong> based in <strong>Palazzo Ducale<\/strong>, Genoa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Founded and directed by <strong>Antonella Berruti<\/strong> and <strong>Francesca Pennone<\/strong>, Pinksummer takes its name from a canvas by <strong>Takashi Murakami<\/strong> exhibited during the gallery&#8217;s first exhibition, which opened on <strong>February 19, 2000<\/strong>, in its historic location on via Lomellini. In 2005, Pinksummer moved to the Cortile Maggiore of Palazzo Ducale. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The unique character of Pinksummer lies in its operation within a city overlooking the Mediterranean\u2014a location liminal to contemporary cultural production and its market, yet historically significant for the sector. In fact, events such as the first Arte Povera exhibition (1969) and <em>A W-Hole House<\/em>, one of Gordon Matta-Clark\u2019s first cuts (1973), were realized thanks in part to the work of private galleries in Genoa. Against this backdrop, Pinksummer has conducted <strong>a free and radical research<\/strong> for over twenty years, developing through the work of <strong>Italian and international artists invited to produce exhibitions\u2014usually solo shows\u2014on themes dear to the gallery, such as the relationship between nature and society<\/strong>, with an architectural-driven utopian spatial perspective. The tools of this research also include <strong>press releases, often written in the form of interviews<\/strong> that, moving from the conceptual universe of each exhibition, investigate the artists&#8217; perspectives on art, humanity, and the &#8220;things of the world.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the gallery launched the first edition of <strong>Pinksummer Goes to<\/strong>, a project born from the need to engage with new and diverse contexts\u2014such as the city of Rome for the 2016\/2017 season, Palermo in 2018, the Ligurian Apennines in 2020, or Sofia in 2026\u2014at times interacting with highly distinctive historical spaces, as seen with Mark Dion&#8217;s solo exhibition <em>By the Sea<\/em>, hosted in 2021 at Palazzo Pallavicino Cambiaso.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Pinksummer <strong>website<\/strong>, currently <strong>undergoing renovation<\/strong>, is conceived as <strong>an archive of the gallery&#8217;s exhibition and speculative 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