LeoneSolia

A diptych for the Tissali Arts & Culture collateral pavilion at the 61st Venice Art Biennale. Verticality becomes structural and symbolic, composite towers built from layered urban waste: scratch cards, lottery tickets, city debris aggregating into unstable, seductive architectures.

A contemporary reliquary: the city is not a place but an accumulation of promises and serialized desires. Over this material field, a black-and-white pictorial counter-field surfaces an archaic, half-legible sacred imagery, verticality no longer as ascent, but as the structural memory of an ancient tension.

A multidisciplinary education program bringing urban cultures, street art, rap, skateboarding, streetwear, into schools, to revitalize spaces and build a shared sense of belonging and citizenship.

Leone Solia led five in-class collage sessions, guiding students to create eight 80×60 cm paintings and then collaborate on a 30 m² mural inside the school.

A solo exhibition (28 Sep, 16 Nov 2025) where Solia’s works don’t merely occupy Palazzo Costantino e di Napoli, they inhabit it, merging with its fractures and architectural remnants. Curated by Alessandra Agogliaro and Novella Hoffer.

Using reclaimed wood, cardboard, old doors and urban debris, Solia creates “decaying icons”: essential, almost primitive figures emerging like relics from a forgotten alphabet. The work does not restore the past but reveals the spiritual tension hidden within ruin itself, waste transfigured into presence.

“My last show was a purification.” Solia covered several of his historical collages in white, letting a new symbolic nucleus emerge, a trinity of pictograms that significantly reoriented his research. Curated by Chiara Modìca Donà dalle Rose.

Works on display included Atheist Trinity 1 & 2, Self Portrait N4, JD, The Popeslayer, Kamikaze, Nostalgia, Soul and Polaroid.

For the Venezia League, a community football tournament by ASD Santelena Venezia, Solia created ten captain’s armbands, one per team, using details extracted from his previously exhibited paintings.

Each armband becomes a small visual collage, turning a sporting object into a fragment of the city’s artistic memory. The final award ceremony was held inside Teatro La Fenice, Venice.

For RAGNATELA’s debut show “Il Cosa” at NAMA (Nuovo Anfiteatro Martesana), a one-night exhibition from 8pm to 2am, Solia presented a video-installation continuing the research of Exodology and Icone di Scarto.

He rereads classical iconography, reducing forms to the essential and inverting the relationship between viewer and sacred image: a new atheist icon, emptied of theology, becoming a tool for collective questioning. Developed during a workshop in the woods near Castello Margherita, Valle d’Aosta.

For the “encounter” theme of Festival Macchiato, Solia contacted photographers met between Venice and Milan, building Serie Politica, paper, acrylic and metal on wood. An irreverent, colorful series voicing the anger, desires and feelings of an often-unheard generation.

Works: Inri (Luigi Re), La Scala, La Pala, Stati Uniti d’Europa, Il Papi, Generazione Z, Strutture Arboree. The week also included a participatory art workshop with around fifty people.

Fifty students, a roaming happening through the calli of Venice for Carnival, ending in a real celebration. A participatory-theatre project by the Fondazione di Venezia, with Leone Solia among the artist-facilitators.Cinquanta studenti, un happening itinerante per le calli di Venezia durante il Carnevale, che culmina in una festa. Un progetto di teatro partecipativo della Fondazione di Venezia, con Leone Solia tra gli artisti facilitatori.五十名学生，一场在威尼斯狂欢节期间穿行于威尼斯小巷的巡游式偶发艺术，最终以一场庆典收尾。这是威尼斯基金会的一个参与式戏剧项目，Leone Solia 作为艺术家引导者之一参与其中。

Between 2022 and 2024, Leone Solia developed a significant part of his research in this historic late-1600s Venetian palace, a place of residency, encounter and exhibitions where his layered collage language took shape.Tra il 2022 e il 2024 Leone Solia sviluppa parte importante della sua ricerca in questo storico palazzo veneziano di fine Seicento, luogo di residenza, incontro ed esposizioni, dove prende forma il suo linguaggio stratificato del collage.2022 至 2024 年间，Leone Solia 在这座十七世纪末的威尼斯历史宫邸中发展了他相当一部分的研究，这里是驻留、相遇与展览之地，他层叠的拼贴语言在此成形。

An exhibition on OSB panels and reclaimed supports, building new images through accumulation and superimposition. Curated by Matteo Poletti and Alvise Guadagnino for Art Night Venezia at Studio Inchiostro 6300.Una mostra su pannelli OSB e supporti di recupero, che costruisce nuove immagini per accumulo e sovrapposizione. A cura di Matteo Poletti e Alvise Guadagnino per Art Night Venezia allo Studio Inchiostro 6300.一场以 OSB 板与回收材料为载体的展览，通过积累与叠加来构筑新的图像。由 Matteo Poletti 与 Alvise Guadagnino 策展，于威尼斯 Art Night 在 Studio Inchiostro 6300 呈现。