The Rose That Grew From Concrete (5 September 2025 – 4 January 2026)
Museo Sant’Orsola Firenze
Curated by Morgane Lucquet Laforgue
Chiara Bettazzi, Bottega Bianco Bianchi Scagliole, Mireille Blanc, Bianca Bondi, Davidovici & Ctiborsky, Marion Flament, Federico Gori, Beate Höing, Flora Moscovici, Chris Oh, Elise Peroi, Clara Rivault, Shubha Taparia

The third and final edition of the exhibitions before the official launch of the renovation works, this group show brings together thirteen Italian and international artistic voices who engage with the former convent not only to tell the story of its transformations, but also to symbolically tend to its wounds.
Through site-specific works created using a variety of artistic languages and materials, each artist reinterprets the cycles of occupation, construction, and abandonment that have marked the place, and pays tribute to the strength of nature, capable, over the centuries, of pushing through the cracks in the concrete and blooming even in the harshest conditions.
The Rose That Grew From Concrete is an exhibition about resilience and the possibility of rebirth-even among ruins: a collective narrative that see the past as a root from which everything can start again.