THE GALLERY

PUNTO SULL’ARTE art gallery is a benchmark for Italian and international Contemporary Art. With two galleries, all in Varese, it is located in a strategic position, few kilometres from Milan, the Swiss border and Lake Maggiore. Every year the gallery presents, in the exhibition venues, at least seven shows. Since 2012, it has regularly taken part in Modern and Contemporary Art Fairs.

Always committed to the promotion of contemporary painters and sculptors, PUNTO SULL'ARTE has a dual soul: on the one hand, it has always tent to the international art market. Curiosity and sensitivity towards what is moving around the art scene has been, and still is, one of the keys to the success of the Gallery, able to boast an important portfolio of artists from all over the world. On the other hand, it is, however, strongly based on the discovery and promotion of Italian artists with contemporary sensibility and mastery.

The gallery also collaborates with outstanding local and international partners, including Ristorante Galleria Arté al Lago di Lugano a prestigious venue overlooking the lake that combines contemporary art and fine dining; Tavolo Unico, an innovative museum-restaurant with which we have launched a collaboration, featuring dedicated spaces showcasing projects and artists represented by the gallery; Banca Generali Private and Banca Intesa Sanpaolo private, leading banking institutions with which it develops projects dedicated to collectors and investors, as well as Cellini,a historic florist in Varese, with whom it creates synergies that bring together art and a culture of beauty.

Among the represented painters: the Italian artists Claudia Giraudo, Matteo Massagrande, Tom Porta and Silvio Porzionato, the Slovenian artist Jernej Forbici, the American painter Brian Keith Stephens, the Chilean artist Federico Infante, the Italian hyperrealists Valentina Diena, Sabrina Milazzo, Roberto Bernardi and Ottorino De Lucchi.

Among the sculptors: the international renowned artist Annalù, creator of majestic resin works including the famous series "Dreamcatcher", the talented Valeria Vaccaro, master in the processing of white Carrara marble, the American-Swedish Jill Höjeberg and the Norwegian Lene Kilde who creates works inspired by the emotions and personalities of children. The Argentinian Silvia Levenson creates refined glass works, while the Italian Giorgio Laveri makes fascinating ceramic works with third-fire interventions; Internationally well-known bronze sculptors such as the Italian Alex Pinna and Matteo Pugliese, the Swedish Johannes Nielsen and the Japanese Kyoji Nagatani.

The desire to expand in the international art market has led PUNTO SULL’ARTE to establish many fruitful collaborations with foreign galleries, thus exhibiting its artists in international markets (United States, France, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands) and presenting in Italy artists that were previously unknown on the national market. PUNTO SULL’ARTE is founded on two cornerstones: reliability and frankness. Under the guidance of Sofia Macchi, who is Swedish but who has been living in Italy since the 90s, the Gallery has always carried out a crystal-clear approach, thus showing the artworks pricelists in both its Galleries and during the Art Fairs. PUNTO SULL'ARTE has always given great importance to digital media through a complete and always up-to-date website and main social networks - Facebook and Instagram. Thus, offering the chance to visit the Gallery and the current exhibitions through 3D Virtual Tours, consulting the online catalogues and being always very responsive on Whatsapp. It is also present on two of the most important digital art platforms: Artsy and Artland. Since 2012 it also takes part of ANGAMC, the Italian National Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries.

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PUNTO SULL'ARTE Gallery has rapidly evolved over the years. Founded by the passion of Sofia Macchi in 2011, PUNTO SULL'ARTE has established itself as a benchmark for collectors and enthusiasts, like her, of Contemporary Art. In 2013 it was expanded for the first time: new spaces were added to the large rooms on the ground floor of the original Gallery in the Liberty building in Viale Sant'Antonio in Varese. In 2019 the Gallery then grew again, opening new and larger rooms and reaching a surface of about 450 square meters of exhibition space. While the large rooms on the ground floor are intended for temporary exhibitions, the new rooms on the first floor are dedicated to all the artists of the gallery, through constantly changing and carefully studied sets-up. In 2020, despite the uncertainties and difficulties of a year marked by the COVID-19 emergency and the resulting economic and social challenges, the Gallery embarked on a new challenge and a new path with the opening of a second exhibition space in the pedestrian historic center of Varese, in the heart of the “Garden City”: PUNTO SULL’ARTE II “Centro Storico.” In 2026, the venue relocated to Via Albuzzi / Vicolo Santa Chiara 1, an even more central location, chosen to further strengthen the dialogue with the city and its cultural fabric.

PUNTO SULL'ARTE confirms again itself as a point of reference for Art, an oasis for Contemporary Art in Varese.