In the Chiesa di San Rocco
Art exhibitions
Every year we ask artists with connections to Tuscany to do art exhibitions in the small 13th century church of Chiesa di San Rocco. The beautiful little church lies in front of Palazzo Tiglio and is still owned by the parish of San Pancrazio.
Chiesa di San Rocco
Chiesa di San Rocco is the oldest religious building in San Pancrazio built in the 13th century. This still ordained church is owned by the parish of San Pancrazio, that kindly offers it to us for art exhibitions during the summer months.
2 March - 31 May 2026
ANNA DEN DRIJVER
Echo’s Touch
In a time when we seem to be constantly connected, yet genuine connection often fails to take shape, visual artist and photographer Anna den Drijver compellingly draws on the myth of Echo and Narcissus, a story of longing and unattainability. Echo longed for Narcissus, but he saw only himself, trapped in his own reflection. From this myth, Den Drijver explores in her new work Echo’s Touch what it means to be in contact, with oneself and with others, in a world where image, communication and technology are ever more tightly intertwined.
Echo’s Touch consists of contemplative photographs of hands, threads, birds and nature, all of which explore what contact means, and how longing and touch can be felt and seen. Den Drijver does not understand touch as a boundary, but as entanglement: a resonance between body and world in which subject and object flow into one another.
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Anna den Drijver (The Hague, 1975) lives and works in Amsterdam. After a career in marketing, she graduated from the Fotoacademie Amsterdam in 2013. Her first book, Enchanted Blossom (2016), was selected by Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant as one of the most beautiful photobooks of the year. Den Drijver’s work has been published in various media and shown at PAN Amsterdam, Art Miami, Paris Photo and at the Fotomuseum Den Haag.
4 June - 26 July 2026
HELENE SCHMITZ
Through her photography, Helene Schmitz explores humanity's complicated relationship to nature and the elements, to time and transience. Schmitz's works often deal with conditions in the natural world that are about to shift, with transformations that turn what has been familiar into something unfamiliar. Her photographic suites are reflections on how the elements violently intertwine with human culture. Some of her award-winning books are dedicated to plants and the botanical world, also depicting also how plants were described during the Enlightenment. More recently, she has studied how human activities inscribe themselves in the contemporary landscape.
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Helene Schmitz studied at Stockholm University. She has a BA in Film and Art History. Her numerous solo shows in Sweden include Galleri Flach (2023), Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (2018), Skellefteå Konsthall (2017), Fotografiska Stockholm (2016), Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg (2015), Kristinehamns Konstmuseum (2012), and Galleri Leger Malmö (2007). She has participated in several group exhibitions, including The Romantic Eye at Nationalmuseum Stockholm (2024), Human / Nature at Fotografiska New York (2024), A HOME at Thielska Galleriet (2022) A Way Away, Landskrona Museum and Etnografiska Museet Stockholm (2018, 2019), Struktur, Avesta Art (2016) and Another Story, at MODERNA, Stockholm (2011).
24 September - 22 November 2026
BRUNO EHRS
Andy Warhol
Bruno Ehrs is a Swedish photographer with Europe as his workplace.. He has produced around 30 books, often with a focus on architecture, design and gastronomy. He is currently working for the French publisher Flammarion on a book about the 1920s design style Swedish Grace.
In addition to assignments for magazines and book publishers, he also works on his own photography projects with exhibitions and photo books.
Here at Palazzo Tiglio, Bruno will show a collection of images from his meeting with Andy Warhol at The Factory. When, as a young photographer, he was commissioned by a cultural magazine in 1979 to document the art scene in New York, he worked on putting together two images that together form a diptych, where the two images sometimes interact with each other. And sometimes the opposite, that a conflict arises between the two images. Bruno has had around 40 solo exhibitions, including at Moderna Museet, Nationalmuseum and most recently at Fotografiska, all in Stockholm.
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GRIETJE SCHEPERS
Sleeping Gold
Autumn 2025
When the gold starts to breathe, as if its lungs inflate and deflate, our senses are thrown into overdrive as we try to understand the living heap. This supposedly inanimate object gets passers-by to pause in wonder… The golden being becomes our friendly companion; it transforms an empty space to a shared one.
Where technology supposedly dehumanizes our environment, in Sleeping Gold it has quite the opposite effect.
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Since her graduation from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2008, Grietje Schepers set up her independent design practice. She creates large scale interior-defining installations from her studio in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Expanding simple concepts into big gestures, Schepers is not afraid to take on a large space. This is strengthened by her experiments with proportion and scale. With ease in making a space feel informal and light, her architectural installations create impact with an interplay of colour and spaciousness.
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ÉTIENNE KRÄHNENBÜHL
UNCERTAIN LIGHTNESS
Summer 2025
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Since the mid-1970s, Etienne Krähenbühl has presented his works in a host of personal and group exhibitions in Switzerland, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and the USA. Among the many distinctions he has received, he was awarded the Edouard Maurice Sandoz Foundation Prize in 2009.
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Currently based on the Leclanché site in Yverdon-les-Bains, the artist has large spaces that allow him to develop projects that take ever more breadth and scale.
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NATHALIA EDENMONT
Spring 2025
Probing and provocative, the elaborately staged photographs of Nathalia Edenmont explore fundamental themes such as birth, death, womanhood, sex, beauty, and decay. Juxtaposing opposing subjects and aesthetics, Edenmont’s work is underpinned by a tension between painting and photography, abstraction and figuration, attraction and repulsion.
Born in Yalta, Crimea, 1970, Edenmont trained at State Art School of Kiev, Soviet Union, Simferopol State Art School, Crimea, and Forsberg’s International School of Design, Stockholm, Sweden. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States and can be found in private and public collections globally including the Modern Museum Stockholm, Miami Art Museum and Moscow House of Photography Museum among others. In February 2014, Swedish public television broadcast a one hour documentary about Edenmont and her work. Edenmont has lived in Sweden since 1991.
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This exhibition is in collaboration with
WETTERLING GALLERY, Stockholm
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JEROEN HENNEMAN
Autumn 2024
‘Drawn in Space’
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Dutch Sculptor and part time San Pancrazio resident Jeroen Henneman shows new works made in his studio at La Valle di Sotto.
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Jeroen Henneman is a renowned Dutch Artist and well known for his sculptures, paintings and drawings. Henneman grew up in Haarlem and studied from 1959 to 1961 at the Institute of Applied Arts in Amsterdam. The artist lives and works in Amsterdam and has a second home and art studio in Tuscany-
He calls his sculptures 'Standing Drawings'. One of the most famous works of Henneman is the monument from 2006 for Theo van Gogh, the 'Cry' the memorial, was unveiled in 2007 in the Oosterparc Amsterdam. Another famous work is a portrait of Queen Beatrix.
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GILL BUTTON
​Summer 2024
‘The Impossible Stillness of Light’
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London based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery; creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
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​Recent solo shows include Echoes of Blue, Han Feng Art Space, New York; Traces of You, James Freeman Gallery, London; From Iceland to Lalaland, Ame Nue, Hamburg; Han Feng Art Space, Shanghai; Impermanence, Soho Revue, London, A Distant Glow, CANart Ibiza. With recent group exhibitions in Tokyo, LA, Madrid, Paris, Berlin.
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BOB JONKERS
Spring 2024
Amsterdam artist Bob Jonkers attended the Malmö Art Academy in Sweden and graduated in 2020. Previous exhibitions include Gallerie Bonnard in Neunen, Holland
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About Existential Mirror:
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A portrait of the artist gazing, either into the vast unknown outside of the canvas’ constraints, or directly onto the beholder. What lies behind the eyes? Do they yearn for knowledge, or do they hold within an understanding of life? Is the artist blind, or does he apprehend his sight? The self portraits invite the viewer to dabble with their meaning, to ask themselves if the paintings are asking questions or providing answers - or both.
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CHRISTIANE PERROCHON
Autumn 2023
Swiss-born artist Christiane Perrochon creates stoneware and porcelain ceramics entirely by hand from her studio in Castiglion Alberti, just a few kilometres from Palazzo Tiglio.
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Christiane Perrochon creates high temperature ceramics in stoneware and porcelain, entirely made by hand, which explore light and simple forms enriched with multi-hued glazes. Refined objects ready to be integrated in the most modern of contexts.​
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Christianes passion for color first stirred during her studies at the Ecole des ArtsDecoratifs in Geneva. Her forty years of research with high-temperature ceramic glazes continues to be a testimony to both her sense of depth and dedication. Obsessed with color and possessed with a sixth sense for discovering and developing hues that have rarely, if ever, been seen in stoneware, Chrstianes professional reputation is revered.
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LISELOTTE WATKINS
Summer 2023
Liselotte Watkins made a name for herself in fashion illustration, collaborating with fashion houses such as Prada, Miu Miu, and Rodebjer, as well as high profile publications including Vogue, The New Yorker, and Elle Magazine. She has now left illustration behind to pursue painting full time and has quickly established herself with a colourful aesthetic that is based on simplicity and precision.
Born in Nyköping, Sweden. She lives and works in Tuscany, Italy. She studied at the Art Institute in Dallas.
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In the exhibition "Attorno a me" Watkins explores the cherished things in her surrounding, her beloved books, artworks and daily objects that makes for the foundation of her inspiration.
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Previous exhibitions include solo exhibitions at
Villa San Michele, Capri 2019 ,
Millesgråden in Stockholm, Sweden 2021,
CF Hill in Stockholm, Sweden 2017-2022
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JEROEN HENNEMAN
Summer 2021, 2022
Previous years exhibitions by renowned dutch sculptor and artist Jeroen Henneman, part time resident in San Pancrazio with studio here, have been a great success with good visitor numbers and reviews!