Vernissage on Saturday, October 11 and Sunday, October 12, 2025, from 18:00 to 21:30, with the show remaining on view through November 5, 2025, at Von Buren Contemporary, Via Giulia 13, 00186 Rome. The presentation text is by Anna Gasperini and the exhibition is curated and organized by Michele von Büren.
Von Buren Contemporary presents its first post‑summer show as a trio exhibition centered on the theme of nature. The artists—Anastasia Norenko, Sofia Podestà, and Vera Rossi—are united by a steadfast commitment to nature and a stubborn insistence on staying true to their original vision. Anastasia Norenko’s landscapes are painted directly from nature in the open air, offering a meditative, painterly approach that speaks to a centuries‑old tradition while foregrounding contemporary concern for our threatened habitat; crucially, Norenko deliberately eschews modern digital tools to preserve a sense of naturalness.
Sofia Podestà presents two intertwined series, “Blooming” and “Dissolving.” The former offers warm, close‑up shots of wildflowers, buds, and twigs densely packed within the frame, while the latter captures sparse, autumnal landscapes that invite the viewer to read them as thresholds. Vera Rossi returns to familiar terrain with a new collection in which the central motif is a window overlooking a green, untamed garden. Vases of flowers placed before the window introduce light and transparency, and Rossi’s experimentation extends to her choice of medium, including plexiglass prints.
Vera Rossi was born in Milan in 1968. She has been photographing nature and still lifes since 1996, and in 2013 her photographs were featured in an installation at The Armory Show, New York, a premier international art fair. Since 2017, she has exhibited annually at the MIA Photo Fair in Milan, and in 2019 she was invited to show at the Landscape Museum (Museo del Paesaggio) in Verbania and at the Milan exhibition space of Italian stylist Antonio Marras, Nonostante Marras.
The exhibition text highlights the core idea of being true to nature: fidelity to natural subjects, traditional practices, and a minimal reliance on technologically mediated processes. The curatorial concept explores how each artist embodies authenticity while engaging with nature through distinct modalities—landscape painting, close‑up botanical photography, and window‑based light studies. If you’d like, I can tailor a refined English press article that centers specifically on Vera Rossi’s practice within this trio, or craft a concise press release with quotes and a clear event agenda.
Photo credits: The photographs belong to the gallery’s archive.
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