UNHUMAN: Malisa Catalani

SimonBart Gallery is pleased to announce UNHUMAN, a solo exhibition by Italian artist Malisa Catalani. The invitation-only preview will take place on February 4, 2026, at 6:00 PM, at the gallery’s main venue in Piazza Cavour 6/E, Bologna, in the presence of the artist. The exhibition, featuring a selection of 18 bronze sculptures, develops within the context of ART CITY 2026. The exhibition design has been developed in collaboration with Pantheon Service.

UNHUMAN by Malisa Catalani investigates the female body as a site of transformation and the transcendence of codified identity. The bronze sculptures originate from a classical matrix yet fracture the Greek ideal of harmony through breaks, absences, and luminous tensions. The body—traditionally conceived as a complete and closed form—becomes an unstable, vulnerable surface in constant metamorphosis, marked by internal energies that alter its presence. 

The project engages with posthuman discourse, in which the subject is no longer defined by a fixed essence but by relationships, processes, and openings toward the other. Catalani proposes bodies that do not represent identities but possibilities: sensitive organism oscillating between memory, loss, and regeneration, traversed by marks that evolve into new emotional geographies. 

In UNHUMAN, sculpture becomes both a political and poetic agent, inviting a rethinking of the human as a dynamic space of becoming—a territory in which matter itself emerges as a tool of resistance and renewal.