The gallery partakes in Art Verona for the third year in a row. At the 21st edition of the fair, Studio Cenacchi is presenting works by Zeno Bertozzi, Domenico Grenci and Alessandro Saturno, three artists sharing a common interest in what emerges to the vision and eludes an immediate reading.

From the 17th of May 2025 until the 2nd of November 2025, in Senigallia an exhibition featuring Donata Pizzi’s Collection will be open. The exhibition, curated by Luca Panaro, showcases a selection of works owned by the collector from Milan. Among those there are two works by Elena Franco, which are included in the Inner space series. The two works can be viewed in the gallery.

The gallery partakes in Art Verona for the second year in a row. At the 20th edition of the fair, curated for the first time by Laura Lamonea, Studio Cenacchi is presenting a two-person exhibition featuring Augusto Gadea and Alessandro Saturno. The P09 stand is included in the Pittura ORA section, curated by Leonardo Regano.

The gallery partakes in the 3d edition of BOoks, Bologna art books festival, curated by Danilo Montanari and Lorenzo Balbi. The selection of vintage photographs of divas from the 50s and the 60s, which were on display during the fair, will be soon available on the website.

The collective project Un caro amico (A Dear Friend), dedicated to the Bologna massacre happened on the 2nd of August 1980, and curated by Tommaso Bonaventura, has won the Foundation Prize CarisBo for Collectors. From the 31st of July until the 7th of August 2025, the 1:1 scale black and white print of 37 bus is on display at Bologna Centrale high-speed railway station.

On Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 11am, the photographic project Ars Curandi by Elena Franco will be showcased at the Hôtel-Dieu of Porrentruy, located in one of the most beautiful swiss hospitals from the late-baroque period. The exhibition can be visited until Sunday, August 31st.
Some portraits depicting the swiss building will be added to the already existing collection, which includes images of the ancient hospitals in Santa Maria della Scala in Siena and others of the Hospices of Beaune in France and of the ex-hospital of Notre Dame à la Rose di Lessines, that are now museums.

Charity night
Proceeds will be donated to the “Metropolitan City of Bologna Flood Emergency” fund.

at 6pm
CARLO FELICE CHIESA presentes the following books:
– D. Ronzulli “1964. Fotostoria di uno scudetto”
– AAVV “We are in Champions”
MINERVA Editions

at 7pm
Benefit auction of the artwork
Bologna F.C. 12 may 2024, oil on canvas, cm 120 x 80
by the artist MAURIZIO TANGERINI
with the exeptional participation
GIORGIO COMASCHI
as auctioner

The work was awared to Pier Francesco Puccini for € 2.024
The full amount will be devolved to the above-mentioned fund

From the 11th to the 13th of October 2024, the gallery partakes in the XIX edition of Art Verona in the section Curated By.
The project of the stand is curated by Raffaele Quattrone and the artists on display are: Zeno Bertozzi, Francesco Bocchini, Elena Franco, Alessandro Saturno.

Simone Martinetto takes part with four photographs to the collective exhibition Narciso. La fotografia allo specchio at Terme di Caracalla, curated by Nunzio Giustozzi and open until the 3d of November.
In the exhibition, Simone Martinetto’s photographs will be exhibited along with other works by some of the most acclaimed photographers of the 20th century, such as Robert Capa, Helmut Newton, Lisetta Carmi, Cecil Beaton, Robert Doisneau and many more.
Isabella Rosselini’s picture has partaken in the exhibition Unexpected Cinema (January-March 2023) held at Galleria Studio Cenacchi and, along with other works, is available at the gallery.

A photograph shot by Marco Rigamonti, taken from the series Periplo siciliano (Sicilian periplus), has been selected by the writer Luca Martini and the publishing house peQuod as the cover for the last book published by the author, a collection of short stories entitled I giochi dei grandi.
The work, along with others included in the same series, is now available at the gallery.

The gallery partakes in the XII edition of MIA Fair, the first and most important art fair in Italy dedicated to photography.
The fair is held in Milan at the Superstudio Maxi in Via Moncucco 35, from the 23d to the 26th of march 2023.
Photographers on display: Elena Franco, Marco Rigamonti and Gian Butturini.

On Friday, December 16, 2022 at 6pm, Laura Falqui, essayist and writer, will present the book by Guido Piacentini Dal vero, photographs from 1970 to 1990 and haiku.

The artwork L.O.V.E. by Elena Franco has been selected among the winners of the first edition of the New Post Photography Prize of the MIA Photo Fair 2020. The work, which is included in the artistic research Imago Pietatis, was not supposed to be exhibited in 2020, as a consequence of the fair’s cancellation. It could be viewed from the 7th to the 10th of october along with other works made by the winners of the two previous editions of the prize.

Since the 25th of June, the permanent virtual exhibition Elena Franco Archivi e Arte Contemporanea has been available online on the Città degli Archivi website. Curated by Armando Antonelli, head of the archives at the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, the exhibition highlights the enduring dialogue between the past and the contemporary.

The online exhibition presents seven works created by Elena Franco in 2020 and exhibited at Studio Cenacchi as part of Imago Pietatis, on view until Saturday 4 July. It also features eleven photographs by the artist taken from the artist’s book, which brings together images of the Christ of Pity (Imago Pietatis) depicted on the spines of each of the 138 large registers, ledgers, journals and cash books dating from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century and preserved in the historical archives of the Fondazione del Monte.

For those wishing to explore the role of art in bringing archival heritage to new audiences, alongside the Imago Pietatis volume, on the Una città per gli archivi YouTube channel interviews with the following authors of the essays are available: Armando Antonelli, Elisa Baldini, Jacopo Cenacchi, Luisel De Gregoriis, Elena Franco, Fabrizio Lollini and Luca Panaro.

On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 6pm at Studio Cenacchi in Via Santo Stefano 63, Bologna, the writer Carlo Lucarelli, who shared a few years of theatrical activity alongside Kido Emiliani, will present a reading of the texts realized by him for the shows staged by Kido.
Theatre plays a central role in Kido’s artistic practice. The longstanding friendship between Kido and Carlo Lucarelli led them to work together in theatre for many years. Kido directed the Teatro Comunale di Mordano, first with the Compagnia delle Feste and later with the Compagnia Teatro Stabile di Mordano.

Starting on Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 6pm, on occasion of the opening of his solo exhibition Ritratti in galleria (Ritratti in galleria), Ennio D’Altri will set up a photo studio, where he will create nine new images of whoever would be interested in being portraited.
The author will be in the gallery and he will be available to execute photographic portraits during the usual afternoon opening hours (from 3pm to 7pm), on Saturday, December 1, 8, 15, 22, on Sunday, December 16 (from 4pm to 7pm) and by appointment.

Presentation of the dummy photobook (Chippendale Studio, 2017) and the book (Artema, 2017) Hospitalia by Elena Franco.
A talk with the artist in conversation with Tiziana Bonomo and Luca Panaro.
The event offers an opportunity to explore the origins of the Hospitalia publishing project, which began with the creation of a dummy photobook during a workshop at Chippendale Studio in January 2017 and subsequently developed into a book, with a foreword by Domenico Quirico, conceived by Tiziana Bonomo of ArtPhotò.