Locus Solus
H18:00-00:00
2025/2026 Fellows’ closing event & DJ Set
H18:00-00:00
2025/2026 Fellows’ closing event & DJ Set
Practical information:
26.06.2026
H18:00-00:00
Istituto Svizzero
Via Ludovisi 48, Roma
Locus Solus. Anche le statue ricordano il futuro concludes the 2025/2026 residency of the Fellows of Istituto Svizzero. The event, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, will close with a DJ Set by Sandra Mason.
For the final event of this edition, which concludes the residency of the Roma Calling Fellows at Istituto Svizzero, the title Locus Solus. Even the statues remember the future draws inspiration from the eponymous novel by Raymond Roussel, in which a garden is transformed into a space of apparitions, automata, suspended figures, and forms capable of re-emerging from different times.
At its core lies its atemporal dimension: an isolated yet multiple space in which past and future seem to continually reflect one another.
The relationship between bodies, images, sculptures, historical documents, and reactivated memories thus becomes a central interpretative key. The statue appears as a metaphysical and meta-linguistic figure: a motionless body and, at the same time, a device of transformation, a memory of the ancient sculptural tradition and a prefiguration of the modern automaton.
As in the “statue étrangement vieille” described by Roussel, a “strangely ancient statue” placed within a stone niche, the works seem to inhabit an unstable threshold between what has been and what is yet to appear. Locus solus thus becomes not a single place, but a constellation of overlapping places and times: a space in which figures and double presences traverse the past in order to remember the future.
In this context, the contributions of the Fellows will populate the spaces and garden of Villa Maraini, moving through them as temporary and layered presences, among images, bodies, sounds, and memories reactivated through their time spent in Rome.
Fellows Roma Calling 2025/2026: Sultan Çoban (Visual Arts, Performance) Alexis Di Santolo (Archaeology) Isabella Foglia (Art History) Paul Hutzli (Visual Arts) margaretha jüngling (Visual Arts, Cooking) Amelia Juri (Literature) Viola Leddi (Visual Arts) Tobias Oswald (History) Caterina Schorer (Ancient Studies) Gabriel Stöckli (Visual Arts, Sound) Cinzia Tuena (History) Jacopo Zani (Architecture, Urban Studies) Eva Zornio (Visual Arts, Performance)
LIVE WORKS
H18:30–19:15
Eva Zornio & margaretha jüngling
Agatha’s Breast, 2026
Performance (45′)
H19:00–19:30
Amelia Juri
Literature, Art, and Politics from the Renaissance to the Present, 2026
Talk (30′)
H19:30–20:00
Tobias Oswald
Paraquarian Encounters. Musica dalle missioni gesuitiche del Sud America, 2026
Performance (30′)
H20:00–20:45
margaretha jüngling
heiress of scions, 2026
Intervention (45′)
H21:00–21:30
Tobias Oswald
Paraquarian Encounters. Musica dalle missioni gesuitiche del Sud America, 2026
Performance (30′)
H22:30–00:00
Sandra Mason DJ Set
PERMANENT WORKS
Alexis Di Santolo
Artemidi o meta-immagini in potenza, 2026
Installation
Jacopo Zani
Coal, Labor, Pollutants, and Trees. Italian “Cités” in Belgian Mining Regions (1946–1978), 2026
Installation
Isabella Foglia
Are you coming, Night?, 2026
Installation
Sultan Çoban
A June Night Tale, 2026
Video Installation
The Remains or the Gifts, 2026
Installation
Eva Zornio
Spellate (She, skinned), 2026
Installation
Paul Hutzli
Allegory of entrepreneurship, 2026
Installation
margaretha Jüngling
heiress of scions, 2026
Installation
Eva Zornio & margaretha jüngling
Agatha’s Breast, 2026
Installation
Sultan Çoban & Isabella Foglia
The Nightmare-Catcher, 2026
Installation
Viola Leddi
Untitled [to Marguerite], 2026
Painting
Le lettere sono mie amichette (Letters Are My Little Friends), 2026
Installation
Gabriel Stöckli
10 collage in baule, 2026
Series of 10 collage
Untitled, 2026
Installation
Caterina Schorer
The Scholar’s Desk, 2026
Installation
Amelia Juri
Literature, Art and Politics from the Renaissance to the Present, 2026
Installation
Cinzia Tuena
Lode ai gatti, 2026
Installation
Lorenzo Benedetti is a curator and art historian. Since 2016, he has co-directed the CSAV – Artists’ Research Laboratory at Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como. He was director of De Vleeshal in Middelburg and De Appel in Amsterdam, and curator at MARTa Herford and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. His curatorial research investigates the exhibition as a medium and the relationship between artworks, exhibition space, and publics. His recent projects include Expodemic at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Ibon Aranberri’s Quaderno del campo at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, and Expositio Mundi. The exhibition as medium in Macerata. He is also the founder and curator of 3500 cm², a project of artist posters distributed free of charge in cultural, urban, and social contexts.