Events - Mahler & LeWitt Studios

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Calendar 2026
Mahler & LeWitt Studios, Spoleto

UPCOMING

Festival Session: 15 June – 12 July

Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, 26 June – 12 July

27 June

Exhibition Openings:

jocjonjosch – in negotiation
Casa Romana, Musei Civici di Spoleto
Supported by Horizon Foundation and Nicole Beutler Projects. ‘In Negotiation’ commissions a large-scale ceramic sculpture by the English-Swiss collective jocjonjosch, developing their experimental thinking around collaborative making practices. The collective began developing the sculpture on a research residency at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in 2024. Info>

Filippo Marignoli, curated by Peter Benson Miller
Palazzo Collicola, Musei Civici di Spoleto
Peter Benson Miller’s residency at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios supports his curatorial work for the exhibition dedicated to the painter Filippo Marignoli (Perugia, 1926 – Seattle, 1995), marking the centenary of the artist’s birth. The exhibition is promoted by the Marignoli di Montecorona Foundation. Info>

5 July

Laurie Anderson, Eyvind Kang, Martha Mooke – SPIN
16.00, Auditorium della Stella, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi
Supported by Fondazione Carla Fendi and the Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation. Avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson is joined by genre-defying string innovators Eyvind Kang and Martha Mooke to workshop their new trio SPIN at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios ahead of its debut at the Spoleto Festival. Info>

8 July

Lembit Beecher with Erinys Quartet and Friends: Between Generations
18.00, Chiesa di Sant’Agata, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi
Presented by American Academy in Rome and Mahler & LeWitt Studios. Samuel Barber Rome Prize winner Lembit Beecher presents a world-premiere of a movement from ‘A Book of Falsehoods’, composed during residencies at the American Academy in Rome and the Mahler & LeWitt Studios. Info>

11 July

Open Studios – Mar Figueroa, Ekene Ijeoma, and William Corwin
11.00 – 13.00, Via Brignone 18
Presentations by current residents including Ekene Ijeoma, awardee of the Creative Capital x Mahler & LeWitt Studios International Residency Incubator Program, and Mar Figueroa, the awardee of our residency with the Yale School of Art / Yale University Art Gallery. Info coming soon>

12 July

Roll Call: Spoleto – Ekene Ijeoma
11.00–11.45, Palazzo Collicola, Musei Civici di Spoleto
Awarded the inaugural Creative Capital International Residency Incubator opportunity with the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in partnership with the Musei Civici di Spoleto, Nigerian-American conceptual artist Ekene Ijeoma presents a site-specific iteration of his project Roll Call. Drawing on the Nigerian tradition of naming people after virtues, the work uses custom text bots to transform bureaucratic phonetic spelling systems into virtue-signalling acrostic poems connected to Umbrian dialects and idioms. Guests are invited to submit their names to the attendance list and in the performance Ijeoma will generate and recite a unique acrostic poem for each attendant. ‘Roll Call: Spoleto’ reimagines a traditional system of communication as an act of collective empowerment cutting across cultural boundaries. Info>>

Summer Session: 15–26 July

Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop

The 2026 Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop is organised in conjunction with Vocal Masterclass Stockholm and The Luxon Rose Trust. Dedicated to the next generation of singers, Jeremy Carpenter and Matthew Rose are joined by a team of world leading coaches.

Directors: Matthew Rose and Jeremy Carpenter

Faculty: Nicole Cabell, Daniel Cohen, Daniela Pellegrino, Iain Burnside, Amy Lane, Brian Dickie, Martin Dubé, Jonathan Friend, Paula Suozzi

16–19 and 21–24 July

Open Rehearsals
Sala Pegasus, Piazza Bovio, 17.00–18.00
Sit-in on open rehearsals and learn about the discipline of singing from world experts.

19 July

Concert – Faculty and Students from the Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop
19.00, Sala Pegasus, Piazza Bovio
Free Entry

26 July

Concert – Faculty and Students from the Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop
Venue tbc
Free Entry

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Fall Session: dates tbc

Research and Development Session: Shock Forest Group

Sheryn Akiki, Axel Coumans, Susanna Gonzo, Nicolas Jaar, Daria Kiseleva, Jelger Kroese, Masa Nazzal

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PAST

Winter Session, 13–23 February

Sculpture Speaks Louder Than Words – Barry Flanagan Palazzo Collicola, Musei Civici di Spoleto (continues until May 23). We are pleased to present a program for schools and the public alongside the exhibition ‘Sculpture Speaks Louder Than Words – Barry Flanagan’ curated by Mahler & LeWitt Studios alumna Jo Melvin and supported by the artist’s estate.

Public Program: Jo Melvin, James Cave, Adelaide Cioni, Toby Christian, Gertrude Gibbons. Schools Program: led by Giulia Filippi, with Liceo Artistico di Spoleto and Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia.

22 February

Jo Melvin, ‘Sculpture Speaks Louder Than Words’
Palazzo Collicola, 11:00–11.45 Tour of the exhibition with the curator Jo Melvin.

Gertrude Gibbons/Jo Melvin and students from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia: ‘Where is my voice?’, with Barry Flanagan’s ‘O for orange U for you: poem for the lips’
Sala Pegasus, 12:00–12.45 A short film exploring aphasia, from the perspectives of both speaker and listener, followed by a recording of Flanagan’s experimental poem: both works highlight the vicissitudes of language and explore alternative modes of expression.

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Spring Session: 23 April – 19 March

Spring Residents: Johanna Hedva, George R. Miller, Anna Curzon Price, Peter Benson Miller, Màrcia Nemer, Sarah Cain, Lembit Beecher, Kathleen Henderson, Cal Peternell Info>

17 April

Open Studios
18.00–20.00, Via Brignone 18

18 April

Public Program, ‘Sculpture Speaks Louder Than Words – Barry Flanagan’

Palazzo Collicola, 16:00–16.45
Toby Christian – flamespeak
Shadows coalesce with text and speech in this new performance exploring the fragility of the printed word. Presented with the collaboration of students from the Accademia Belle Arti Perugia.

Sala Pegasus, 17:00–17.30
Adelaide Cioni – Bla Bla Bla
An exploration of language and visuality: “A performance lecture on infinity or, a bunch of questions with impossible answers, revolving around patterns, translation and the human condition (and yes, thank god there will be pictures).”

Casa Mahler (Via degli Eremiti 7), 18:00–20:00
James Cave – The Desert Hills Fan Out Like Playing Cards
In this performance for piano and field recordings (gathered by Nyla Van Ingen), Cave imagines Spoleto as a place filled with sonic ghosts from different musical eras and parlays with historical figures through the language of music.

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We look forward to welcoming you to Spoleto. Please follow the links above, check back for updates, or email info@mahler-lewitt.org with any questions.

2025

2024

Opening 14 December, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto: A tribute to Afranio Metelli (1924–2011) celebrating the Umbrian artist’s centenary, curated by Mahler & LeWitt Studios curatorial fellow Serena Schioppa. More info>>

Screening 3 December, Cinema Sala Pegasus, Spoleto: Andrea Fortis’s documentary Femmenell is a journey between the sacred and the profane in which the Femminielli, an ancient Neapolitan non-binary population, fight for their survival against the march of modernity. More info>>

Join us for our program at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi 67. Our events and exhibitions are directly linked to the residency program at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios. At the Ex Battistero della Manna d’Oro, in partnership with Fondazione Carla Fendi, we host a photography exhibition by Luis Alberto Rodriguez, with Afra Zamara: Legàmi – Studies in the costume archive of the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi made in response to the festival’s recently established costume archive. In the Torre Bonomo with Valentina Bonomo, Jonathan Monk stages an exhibition responding to work by Sol LeWitt, titled Jonathan Monk: SL. At MUTECO, the textile and costume museum, Cecilia Ceccherini and Alberto Valz Gris: Umru – tales from a hydrosocial landscape presents a large-scale tapestry with sound installation exploring how communities are defined by their access to water. In partnership with the American Academy in Rome, we present a concert of new work by composer Baldwin Giang: Scenes from the Post-Diaspora, performed by Ensemble Garage at Sala Pegasus. We participate in a talks program with FuoriFestival’s Radio 2Mondi, who also host a book launch with radical artist publishers Kolxoz Collective and Viaindustriae as part of our Quasi-Book program. Finally, join us for Carly Breame: Ceramica Umbra and an Open Studio with artist in residence Christopher Paul Jordan. We look forward to welcoming you.