Sajan Vazhakaparambil Kolavan Kalyanikutty Mani is an artist whose practice interrogates the intersections of performance, archives, and Dalit consciousness. A central theme in his work is the reverberation of ancestral voices, critically engaging with the weight of colonial history and its contemporary manifestations.
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Elia Nurvista is an artist whose practice critically engages with food politics to examine power structures, social hierarchies, and economic inequalities. Through a diverse range of mediums—including workshops, study groups, publications, site-specific works, performances, video, and installations—she explores the social and political implications of food systems, addressing broader issues such as ecology, gender, class, and geopolitics.
Chaveli Sifre is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores healing traditions, the hierarchy of the senses, botany, and the belief systems that shape them. Through installations, sculptures, paintings, and participatory performances, she investigates the intersections of science, spirituality, ritual, and healing modalities, seeking to recover their long-lost connections.
Raul Walch is a visual artist whose practice is driven by political and ecological engagement. After studying Sculpture at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, he completed his studies in the class of Olafur Eliasson at UdK, Berlin, and was later a fellow at the Institut für Raumexperimente. His work often takes the form of sails, mobiles, kites, and flags, created through collaborative and performative processes.
We invite you to meet the Villa Romana Fellows 2025 and to encounter their work and research! Continuing the institution's tradition over the past decades, this year's programme kicks off on 21 March 2025 with an exhibition introducing the latest winners of the Villa Romana Prize. In celebration of Villa Romana's 120th anniversary, the artists intertwine their voices with Plurifonica. A choral for the 120 years of Villa Romana, our 2025 programme, featuring performative and installation interventions. Visitors will be invited to delve into the research of this year's fellow, to start conversations with them and to return to our House for Mending, Troubling, and Repairing throughout the whole year. This will represent a first moment to further explore the intersection of the work and research developed at Villa Romana and the Florentine art scene.
