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Oracles Beyond the Sea
Villa Medici Fellows’ Exhibition
19.06 - 07.09.2026
- Guest artists
- Nastasia Alberti
- Jacques Kaufmann
- Adriano Tramontozzi
- Alice Visentin
Curators Roberto Pontecorvo, Imma Tralli (Marea Art Project)
Associate Curator Camille Coschieri
Villa Medici presents the collective exhibition marking the culmination of the sixteen Fellows’ year-long residency at the French Academy in Rome.
The exhibition
As it does every year when summer is on the horizon, the French Academy in Rome brings together the projects produced by its sixteen fellows in a collective exhibition to mark the end of their year-long residence at Villa Medici. On this occasion, the artworks leave the intimacy of the studios for the exhibition spaces where they meet the public.
Oracles Beyond the Sea welcomes and celebrates the projects created by the fellows in residence at Villa Medici, evoking the experiences they went through over the course of the year in Rome.
The exhibition showcases the meeting of multiple aesthetic languages, trajectories, and geographies. It gives form to projects spanning the visual and performing arts, music, curating, the history and theory of the arts, as well as literature and architecture, revealing a creative practice in constant motion. Some works appear as completed pieces, while others remain ongoing processes.
In a constant tension between the poetic and the political, through heterogeneous genealogies, practices, and lines of research, the exhibition encourages visitors to imagine the works as oracles or sibyls to be consulted—not in search of definitive answers, but in welcome of visions, omens, and questions capable of transforming one’s gaze.
The public is invited to move between these worlds and take part in a collective ritual. Every gesture thus becomes a song, a sign, or a threshold.
The exhibition title is inspired by the work Oracles from the Sea (1998), by Palestinian visual artist Vera Tamari.
The publication
To accompany the exhibition, Villa Medici is publishing a book that recreates the Fellows’ research and projects during their year-long residency in Rome, enriched by contributions from authors invited to put the Fellows’ work into perspective.
With contributions from Nastasia Alberti, Alma Chaouachi, Eddy De Pretto, Adrienne Drake, Cécile Guilbert, Tamsin Hong, Karim Kattan, Maylis de Kerangal, Bernard Quirot, Laurie Laufer, Anne Montaron, Myriam Rabah-Konaté, Georgia René-Worms, Luisa Santacesaria, Öykü Sofuoğlu, Francesco Vitali Rosati.
Images : © Daniele Molajoli
In 2021, Imma Tralli and Roberto Pontecorvo founded Marea Art Project, a residency program and curatorial platform on the Amalfi coast. Developed in dialogue with Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Director of the Pecci Center in Prato, and in collaboration with Carol LeWitt, Chair of the Governing Board of Yale University Art Gallery, this project revitalizes feminist, queer, and decolonial knowledge. From Southern Italy, Marea Art Project works to restore centrality to memories and practices that span the Mediterranean.
Fellows 2025-2026
Practical information
June 19 to September 7, 2026
Opening hours
From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, last admission at 6.30 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays
Prices
Full price – €12
Reduced price – €10
TRIBU card – €2
The ticket gives access to the fellows’ exhibition and the Festival des Cabanes.
Please read before visiting
Pets, motorcycle/bicycle helmets, strollers, large bags, and suitcases are not permitted inside the Villa Medici.
The Villa Medici does not have a coat check or luggage storage on site.
Some areas of the Villa Medici are partially accessible to people with limited mobility (exhibition halls) or completely inaccessible (M. Piccoli cinema). If this applies to you, please consult the “Accessibility and Services” section and contact us in advance of your visit so we can ensure the best possible experience for you (select “Visit the Villa”).
Supporters & Partners
*Conditions for reduced rates and free admission
Reduced rates
- Under 25
- Job seekers upon presentation of proof
- Residents and members of foreign academies in Rome
Free admission
- Under 18
- Holders of VILLA MEDICI SOLO or DUO membership cards (only for temporary exhibitions)
- Journalists
- People with disabilities (with a companion)
- ICOM or ICOMOS cardholders
- Holders of the French Ministry of Culture’s Carte Culture (with a companion)
- Professional artists in the graphic, plastic and photographic arts upon presentation of the annual certificate issued by the French organisation responsible for their affiliation
- Residents and staff of the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid and the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto
- Members and staff of the Ecole française de Rome
Free or reduced-price tickets are issued upon presentation of valid proof of eligibility.
