Italy

This year’s must-see shows range from a Nordic Pavilion exploring transgender spaces to a compelling Lebanese project confronting the realities of ecocide

At Fondazione Prada, Milan, a group show studies the variations and chance connections that form our worldview

From Shirin Neshat’s haunting films to Sam Lock’s minimalist canvases, here’s what not to miss during miart

At Fondazione Merz, Turin, the artist’s experimental works examine acts of making, foregrounding process over product

In an immersive installation at Basement Roma, the artist uses archery to challenge notions of strength and gender stereotypes

At APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia, the artist’s first solo retrospective mainlines virility and homosocial tenderness as a foil to abject mementos of the AIDS crisis

In his first solo institutional exhibition at Centro Pecci, Prato, the artist’s intimate vignettes honour queer sensuality

The artist's latest show at Francesca Minini, Milan, celebrates the defiance of the unconforming

From the all-women programme at The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens to Marianna Simnett’s UEFA-inspired film

At Peres Projects, Milan, the artist's new video takes her idolization of My Chemical Romance to cinematic new levels

At Museion, Bolzano, 'HOPE' aims to stimulate individual and collective imaginations

At Sant’Andrea De Scaphis, Rome, the artist instils an apparently bucolic setting with a sinister undertone

At Fondazione Memmo, Rome, the artist’s new video reaffirms their identity outside of socialized norms and constructs

This year's edition, ‘Persons, Persone, Personen’, celebrates ecologically minded contemporary art that is joyful and sensual

Writer Thea Hawlin on Giulia Cenci’s dark installations, where the past, present and future converge

At Fondazione Memmo, Rome, the artist's latest installation voices concerns on power inequalities and global uneasiness

At Fondazione Prada, the artist’s site-specific installation plays on puns and cultural icons to debate identify politics through the story of a cartoon bear called Who

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

Why it’s not so simple to move art online – and other news from our Europe dispatch

As Italy comes under full lock-down, surveying the effects of a global health emergency