Fantom is a non-profit art organization based in Milan, Italy.
It explores the new trajectories of photography, sound, and the visual arts, conceiving and producing exhibitions, installations and performances, as well as recording and publishing projects.
Curated by Fantom’s Francesco Zanot, Questioning Pictures: Stefano Graziani is on view at Fondazione Prada Osservatorio in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan. The exhibition is open to the public from 9 November 2017 throughout 26 February 2018.
We are happy to announce the upcoming edition of Fotopub, independent visual arts festival based in the rural town of Novo mesto, Slovenia, whose curatorial coordination is carried out by Fantom’s Ilaria Speri.
Bari’s new centre for contemporary art and culture, a project wanted by the Municipality and directed by Fantom’s Massimo Torrigiani, comes to its second project with an exhibition dedicated to the most recent work of Diego Perrone (Asti, Italy, 1970), amongst the most significant and appreciated Italian artists of the international contemporary art scene.
The exhibition Fantasy Access Code (Codice di Avviamento Fantastico) curated by Davide Quadrio and Fantom’s Massimo Torrigiani, produced by Alcantara and first presented in the Apartment of the Prince of Palazzo Reale, Milan, has travelled to the K11 Art Museum from 22 June until 31 August 2017.
Dischi Fantom is happy to announce its first release Transmissions, a 4-record anthology of Soundwalk Collective. With an essay by David Toop.
The Many Lives of Erik Kessels, curated by Fantom’s Francesco Zanot, is on view at Camera – Italian Centre for Photography from 1st June until 30th July 2017. The exhibit offers the first solo retrospective dedicated to the photographic work of the Dutch artist, designer and publisher Erik Kessels.
We are happy to announce the exhibition Codice di avviamento fantastico (Fantasy Access Code), the second show in a cycle curated by Davide Quadrio and Fantom’s Massimo Torrigiani, commissioned and produced by Alcantara with the Municipality of Milan and Palazzo Reale.
We are happy to announce our latest project La città narcisista. Milano e altre storie (The Narcissistic City. Milan and Other Stories), Takashi Homma’s first solo show in Italy, opening in Viasaterna on Tuesday, March 21st.
We are happy to announce our latest project Controcuore, the first solo show by Mario Milizia in Viasaterna, opening on Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 6 pm.
The exhibition Ho visto un re (The King And I), curated by Fantom’s Massimo Torrigiani and Davide Quadrio, produced by Alcantara and first presented in the Apartment of the Prince of Palazzo Reale, Milan, from September 20th to October 23rd, 2016, is travelling to the Shanghai Gallery of Art from January 10th to February 9th, 2017.
Bari’s new centre for contemporary art and culture, a project wanted by the Municipality and directed by Fantom’s Massimo Torrigiani, has officially started its activities with Trame: Reality Art Cinema Invention.
Give Me Yesterday, curated by Fantom’s Francesco Zanot, inaugurates the program of Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada’s new exhibition space in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan dedicated to photography and visual languages.
Vogue Italia celebrates the bond between fashion and photography with Photo Vogue Festival, an international event entirely dedicated to fashion photography that will take place in Milan from 22nd to 26th of November 2016.
We are happy to announce our latest project Due Mondi, which brings together the Japanese artist Kensuke Karasawa, for the first time in Italy, and Francesca Rivetti’s latest project I Want To Talk To Seymour Too; opening in Viasaterna, on Tuesday, October 11th at 6 pm.
We are happy to announce the exhibition Ho visto un re (The King And I), curated by Fantom co-founder Massimo Torrigiani and Davide Quadrio, commissioned and produced by Alcantara with the Municipality of Milan and Palazzo Reale.
On the occasion of the third edition of Fotopub, independent photography festival based in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Fantom’s Ilaria Speri curated the first solo exhibition of the collective Live Wild.
Capo d’Arte, not-for-profit organization promoting contemporary art in Puglia, presents the seventh edition of its annual festival in Gagliano del Capo.
The Complete Essays 1973–1991 is a long-awaited collection of short, allusive texts on the curiosities of photography written by the great Italian artist, Luigi Ghirri. Published for the first time in English by Mack Books, the essays are curated by Fantom’s Francesco Zanot.
We are happy to announce 2016 – Sulla nuova fotografia italiana (On New Italian Photography), a group exhibition curated by Fantom for Viasaterna, opening on Tuesday, June 7 at 6 pm.
Curated by Fantom’s Francesco Zanot, Panorama is a first overview on the career of photographer and filmmaker Francesco Jodice. Presented at Camera, the Italian Centre for Photography, the exhibition – the third project since the inauguration of the Centre in October – is open from May 11th to August 14th, 2016.
After the international success of Dalston Anatomy, we are happy to announce the first solo show in Italy by Lorenzo Vitturi (Venice, 1980). The exhibition, curated by Fantom and opening in Viasaterna on Tuesday, April 5, brings together a series of original works produced specifically for the gallery spaces.
Presented by the Associazione socio-sanitaria Angelo Azzurro Onlus, with the support of Fondazione Vodafone Italia. From a project by Giovanni Calemma and Cristina Nuñez Exhibition. Curated by Selva Barni. Opening on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7 pm; Radisson Blu es. Hotel Via Turati 171, Rome.
We are happy to announce our latest curatorial project: Theo Drebbel – Project Room #1, the first chapter of a special programme of brief exhibitions dedicated to emerging artists and new discoveries, hosted at Viasaterna, Milan.
We are happy to announce the opening of Your Silent Face, an exhibition featuring Luca Andreoni’s latest project Inferno 1911 and a selection of works by Zhou Siwei, who makes his Italian debut here. The exhibition will be opening on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 6 pm at VIASATERNA, Milan.
On 17-18 October 2015, Fantom held the workshop Da foto nasce foto [From Picture to Picture] on the occasion of Uovokids 2015 at the Leonardo da Vinci Natural Science Museum, in Milan.
Fantom is happy to announce the opening of Col tempo – Nei dintorni di Carlo Scarpa, featuring 118 photographs by Guido Guidi.
You have until August 29th to visit “Altrove: Soundwalk Collective” at Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy. Having now reached its sixth edition, Capo d’Arte returns once more to look into unknown artistic worlds, with the aim of exploring other continents in both geographical and creative terms. The second exhibition in the trilogy of shows entitled Altrove…
We are happy to announce the opening of the exhibition “Jing Shen. The act of painting in contemporary China” co-curated by Fantom’s publisher and co-founder Massimo Torrigiani at PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea in Milan. Paintings, installations, drawings, sculptures and videos explore the specific nature of the act of painting in Chinese art through the work of twenty artists from…
The first monograph by Domingo Milella, curated by Fantom’s Francesco Zanot and published by Steidl, is a photographic journey from the artist’s hometown in the outskirts of Bari in southern Italy, taking us to Mexico City, Cairo, Ankara, Anatolia, Sicily, Tunisia, and as far as Mesopotamia.
On the 10th and 11th of June, Marsèlleria – in collaboration with Fantom – invited Raed Yassin to enact, for the first time in Italy, the performances “The Impossible Works of Raed Yassin” and “Solo Double Bass”.