Ventinovegiorni is a contemporary art project organized by Kou and hosted in the Menexa Space at Palazzo Montoro in Rome. The project is tied to the temporality of the lunar cycle: the full moon has always served as an attractive sign, drawing the observer’s gaze toward a fixed point of reference.

Our program aims to highlight an artist in correspondence with each full moon. Every twenty-nine days, a new artist is presented and illuminated by a fertile moon, within the hospitality of a non-conventional creative workspace. Menexa is not a gallery, but it once was, and it still preserves that appearance while seeking to create trait d’union that may contribute to shaping a future for contemporary art.

Like a slingshot, the project seeks to launch new ideas, using the moon as an accelerator—just as space probes use its gravity to propel themselves into unexplored depths. Thus, after the first cycle began in 2012, a series of new full moons has emerged, shining without the need for cura, in the awareness that art is not an illness and therefore does not require curators.

Since 2013, these cycles have been carried forward by the artists themselves, who—by taking on the challenge—accept the responsibility of selecting the next participant, creating an original path free from protagonism.

This year, Ventinovegiorni has chosen to focus on the new by appointing a curator at their first experience and involving very young, truly emerging artists.