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Adel Abdessemed
GALLERIA CONTINUA is pleased to announce the reopening of its Roman space with a solo exhibition by Adel Abdessemed, launching a new program of exhibitions, projects, and collaborations dedicated to the vitality of contemporary artistic research. The gallery returns to enliven the cultural scene of the capital, reaffirming its vocation for building dialogues between languages, generations, and territories. Primavera Romana, the title of the exhibition conceived by Abdessemed for his first solo show in the Eternal City, brings together a rich group of drawings that range from intimate scale to large formats. Developed in thematic clusters and created between 2010 and 2025, these drawings transcend the limits of technique in order to capture the essence of their subjects. The line virtuosic and precise yet also instinctive, rapid, passionate, at times brutal conjures up intense images to which the artist gives new symbolic life and meaning, transforming the ordinary into something that questions and provokes the viewer. In these words, Adel Abdessemed introduces us to the exhibition : Primavera Romana, an […]

Primavera Romana

Galleria Continua, The St. Regis, Roma

11 December, 2025 - 29 February, 2026

Primavera Romana

Galleria Continua, The St. Regis, Roma

11 December, 2025 - 29 February, 2026

GALLERIA CONTINUA is pleased to announce the reopening of its Roman space with a solo exhibition by Adel Abdessemed, launching a new program of exhibitions, projects, and collaborations dedicated to the vitality of contemporary artistic research. The gallery returns to enliven the cultural scene of the capital, reaffirming its vocation for building dialogues between languages, generations, and territories. Primavera Romana, the title of the exhibition conceived by Abdessemed for his first solo show in the Eternal City, brings together a rich group of drawings that range from intimate scale to large formats. Developed in thematic clusters and created between 2010 and 2025, these drawings transcend the limits of technique in order to capture the essence of their subjects. The line virtuosic and precise yet also instinctive, rapid, passionate, at times brutal conjures up intense images to which the artist gives new symbolic life and meaning, transforming the ordinary into something that questions and provokes the viewer. In these words, Adel Abdessemed introduces us to the exhibition : Primavera Romana, an introspective season in which Rome awakens its deepest secrets... An intimate dialogue with the Eternal City... its light, its shadows, and its silences... This city that watches as much as it allows itself to be watched...