Galleria Continua was founded in 1990 by Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi and Maurizio Rigillo, with the intention, evident in the name, to give continuity to contemporary art in a landscape rich with the signs of ancient art. Occupying a former cinema, Galleria Continua established itself and thrived in an entirely unexpected location in a town - San Gimignano – steeped in history, timeless and magnificent.
In 2004 Galleria Continua began a new adventure in Beijing, China, showing contemporary Western artists in an area where they are still little seen.
Three years later, in 2007, Galleria Continua inaugurated a new peculiar site for large-scale creations - Les Moulins - in the Parisian countryside.
In 2015 Galleria Continua embarked on a new path, opening a space in La Habana, Cuba, devoted to cultural projects designed to overcome every frontier. In 2020, the same year as Galleria Continua’s thirtieth anniversary, a new space in Rome opened, dedicated to an open interculturality and new forms of dialogue and encounters between art and the public. In 2020, a space in São Paulo also opened, situated inside the Pacaembu sports complex. In early 2021 a new space opened in Paris in the heart of the Marais, just a few steps from the Centre Pompidou. In the same year, the gallery also inaugurated a space inside the most iconic hotel in the world, the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah in Dubai.
HISTORY
ARTISTS
- Adel Abdessemed
- Etel Adnan
- Ai Weiwei
- Leila Alaoui
- Juan Araujo
- Kader Attia
- Daniel Buren
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Iván Capote
- Yoan Capote
- Loris Cecchini
- Elizabet Cerviño
- Chen Zhen
- Nikhil Chopra
- Marcelo Cidade
- Carlos Cruz-Diez
- Jonathas de Andrade
- Berlinde De Bruyckere
- Leandro Erlich
- Carlos Garaicoa
- Antony Gormley
- Gu Dexin
- Shilpa Gupta
- Subodh Gupta
- Carsten Höller
- Eva Jospin
- Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
- Kan Xuan
- Anish Kapoor
- André Komatsu
- Jannis Kounellis
- Jorge Macchi
- Ahmed Mater
- Cildo Meireles
- Sabrina Mezzaqui
- Moataz Nasr
- Rudi Ninov
- Hans Op de Beeck
- Ornaghi & Prestinari
- Giovanni Ozzola
- Michelangelo Pistoletto
- Qiu Zhijie
- Tobias Rehberger
- Arcangelo Sassolino
- Manuela Sedmach
- Serse
- Kiki Smith
- Nedko Solakov
- José Antonio Suárez Londoño
- Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
- Ana Maria Tavares
- Pascale Marthine Tayou
- Armando Testa
- Nari Ward
- Sislej Xhafa
- José Yaque
PAST SHOWS
GALLERY ARTWORKS
Locations
Galleria Continua
Via Del Castello, 11
San Gimignano
53037
Via Del Castello, 11
San Gimignano
53037
Dashanzi Art District 798 #8503, 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst.
Beijing
100015
46 Rue de la Ferté Gaucher
Boissy-le-Châtel
11769
Aguila de Oro, Rayo 108 entre Zanja y Dragones, Barrio Chino
Havana
Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 3
The St. Regis Rome
Rome
00185
Rua Desembargador Paulo Passalaqua s/n, Portão 14
São Paulo
01234-010
87 rue du Temple
Paris
75003
74147 - Jumeirah St - Umm Suqeim 3
Burj al-Arab