A Selection of Glasstress
July 6–October 26, 2025
Art and contemporary glassmaking dialogue with history and the Trentino landscape
Artists: Ai Weiwei, Monira Al Qadiri, Pieke Bergmans, Pino Castagna, Loris Cecchini, Mat Collishaw, Tony Cragg, Jimmie Durham, Ryan Gander, Anna Jermolaewa, Marya Kazoun, Marta Klonowska, Mimmo Paladino, Cornelia Parker, Jaume Plensa, Laure Prouvost, Thomas Schütte, Wael Shawky, Lolita Timofeeva, Koen Vanmechelen, Fred Wilson, Erwin Wurm.
From July 6 to October 26, 2025, the historic rooms in Castel Belasi, in Val di Non (Trento, Italy), will host the exhibition FRAGILE—A Selection of Glasstress, an amazing exhibition project that sees dialogue between contemporary art and designer glass art.
Curated by Sandrine Welte and Adriano Berengo, FRAGILE brings together glass works by some of the most significant international artists in an exhibition that reflects on fragility as an existential condition and metaphor of contemporaneity. As pliable as it is fragile, here glass becomes a tool of poetical, political, and environmental expression. The exhibition opening will be at 6.00 pm on Saturday 5 July, with participation by the authorities, curators, and artists.
In the wonderful historical location of Castel Belasi, the exhibition will dialogue with sixteenth-century frescoes and views of the Alpine landscape, immersing visitors into art, history, and nature.
FRAGILE is part of the “Science & Humanities” programme at the MUSE, which explores the interconnections between scientific research and humanistic reflection through artistic, anthropological and philosophical languages and is promoted by the MUSE–Science Museum in collaboration with the Municipality of Campodenno, Castel Belasi contemporary art centre for eco practice and thought, and Berengo Studio, with the patronage of the Autonomous Province of Trento.
This initiative is part of the collaboration between the MUSE and Castel Belasi, contemporary art centre for eco thought, directed by Stefano Cagol and it strengthens the link between the museum and its local area, with art that—in dialogue with science—questions our time and our responsibility towards the future.
Dialogue that is also the subject of the other exhibition ongoing in the castle rooms until October 26, entitled Come ghiaccio (Like ice): Thoughts on disappearing with a view to the future. In the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, with works by international and Italian artists, this exhibition reflects on the concept of fragility and disappearance, between preservation, rebellion and spirituality in an era in which convictions and certainties are dissolving like snow in the sun. Projections, video installations, monuments and sculptural works, photo collages, sound works, red-tinted ice and shamanic dances stimulate thought about the speed of the current climate change, its power and the need to act now in order to limit its dramatic consequences. Curated by Stefano Cagol with works by AES+F (RU/DE/US), Almagul Menlibayeva (KAZ), Caroline McManus (US), Eleonora Roaro (IT), Emilio Perez (US), Gregor Hildebrandt (DE), Khaled Ramadan (LB/DK), Indra Moroder Valecha (IT/UK), Ivínguak` Stork Høegh (GL), Laura Pugno (IT), Peter Aerschmann (CH), Philip Samartzis (AU), Pietro Capogrosso (IT), Yitian Yan (CN)
Institutions
MUSE – Science Museum
Castel Belasi—“contemporary art center for eco thought”
