The Exhibition “There’s No Place Like Home” at CIRCOLO: Home as a Space for Dialogue
What does “home” mean today? The exhibition “There’s No Place Like Home” challenges every stereotype, transforming the concept of living into a field of tension between identity, politics, and utopia. Both welcoming and unsettling, intimate and dysfunctional, the home becomes a critical device that exposes power structures and traditional models.
Hosted by CIRCOLO, the project space of the Saikalis Bay Foundation at Via della Spiga 48, the show is curated by Cloe Piccoli and brings together works from three generations of Italian artists based in Milan, Berlin, Zurich, and Geneva. Through installations, video, painting, and performance, the exhibition reimagines domestic space, drawing inspiration from revolutionary experiments like Womanhouse (Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, 1972) and the conceptual investigations of Dan Graham and Robert Smithson. Featured artists include Markus Schinwald, Sabrina Zanolini, Davide Stucchi, Beatrice Marchi, Antonio Allevi, Fabio Cherstich, Alessandro Agudio, Emanuele Marcuccio, NM3, Elisabetta Laszlo, and Gianni Pettena. A journey through architecture, objects, and collective memory, where the personal becomes political.
Set within a historic building, CIRCOLO merges domestic intimacy with the dynamic energy of a non-profit platform dedicated to art and design. Founded by collectors Nicole Saikalis Bay and Matteo Bay, the foundation aims to build an interdisciplinary and international community through exhibitions, residencies, and initiatives like Art Takes Over and WeArtExperience. At the opening of There’s No Place Like Home, the other night, the art world gathered. Among those captured in our photographs—besides Nicole Saikalis Bay, Matteo Bay, Cloe Piccoli, and the exhibiting artists—were Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Ilaria Tronchetti Provera, and Pirelli HangarBicocca’s Chief Curator Roberta Tenconi, as well as Carla Morogallo and Damiano Gullì from Triennale Milano, curator Luca Cerizza, gallerist Giò Marconi, art critic Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Alberto Salvador, Sergio Vittorio Antonini, Cristiano Seganfreddo, Marc Spiegler and AMICI of Saikalis Bay Foundation. Leading figures from the art and cultural scene came together in the heart of Milan, not just to admire the exhibition but to embrace the invitation to rethink the meaning of home—past, present, and a future yet to be imagined.
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
Photos: Niccolò Campita
