ITSLIQUID Group is pleased to announce the opening of the 17th edition of ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2025, international exhibition of photography, painting, video art, installation/sculpture and performance art. The exhibition will open to the public on December 05, 2025, at 06:00 PM at Medina Art Gallery in Rome, and will run until December 18, 2025.
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2025 analyzes the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary times, through two main sections: MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES.
MIXING IDENTITIES analyzes the hidden parts of our identities, through an immersive experience inside the fascinating universe of the complex labyrinths of our consciousness. The human body is a changing system that connects us with other bodies and spaces to perceive the surrounding reality; a strong communication system with its own language and infinite ways of expression.
FUTURE LANDSCAPES are abstract, infinite and conceptual, associated with a sense of freedom and infinite extension. Primarily experienced with the mind, spaces redefine their limits and borders, transforming surfaces in an open flow of pure ideas. This section focuses on the concept of the borders and the structures between body, mind and soul, the human identity and the city, the space and the ground.
Across their diverse practices, the over forty selected artists from around the world embody the core themes of the ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2025, each offering a distinct perspective on the evolving relationship between body, identity, and space.
From Turkey, Cenk Akaltun draws on his background in screen printing and graphic design to develop an organic, process-driven pictorial language inspired by the spiritual symbolism of water. Its fluidity, chromatic merging, and dual role as both life-giving and destructive inform compositions that behave like living organisms, evoking ecosystems that span from the microscopic to the urban scale. Each painting functions as a unified spiritual structure, where individual elements gain meaning only through their connection to the whole.
With a similar background yet different results, Steffen Wagner- a Berlin-based artist and graphic designer – merges typography with a refined minimalist aesthetic: rooted
in drawing, his practice has evolved into a deep investigation of letterforms and their expressive potential. Through posters, sketches, and experimental typographic systems, Wagner seeks clarity, rhythm, and emotional impact, treating visual design as a tool for dialogue and empowerment, and affirming creativity as a boundless force.
Xu Kangyi’s photographic practice began as an instinctive way to preserve fleeting moments charged with quiet emotion: moving between Macau and Boston, she gravitates toward silhouettes, natural light, and delicate tableaux where stillness reveals human vulnerability. Often portraying solitary figures or subtle exchanges between strangers, her images explore identity as a fluid entity shaped by memory and place. Rather than isolating her subjects, she lets them blend with shadow, reflection, and architectural space, inviting viewers to find echoes of their own experiences. Similarly guided by the idea that everything in life is connected, Mirela Lesneanu investigates the parallels between human bodies and organic structures using collage, printmaking, ink, acrylics, and photography to reflect on ancient nature symbolism, cycles of death and renewal, and the belief in the sentience of trees. Her layered mixed-media compositions take viewers to look beyond appearances and rediscover their kinship with the natural world, transforming personal reflection into a universal meditation on belonging.
Within this context, Rome once again becomes an active interlocutor between its centuries of cultural memory, amplifying the narrative power of the contemporary works on display. In this setting, Artur Mirzoyan’s practice resonates with particular intensity, combining rigorous academic technique with the immediacy of a cinematic key frame, through which he reinterprets symbolic motifs from classical European art. Using precise silhouettes, smooth contours, and a deep, varied colour palette, often enriched with gilding, his compositions uncover the drama embedded in a single moment, suspended between movement and stillness, expanding the language of classical painting and opening new pathways for visual storytelling.
