Thirty students, thirty artistic journeys and, for many of them, their first experience of exhibiting in an art gallery.
At the NAAG-Novel Academy Art Gallery in Rivoli, The Great Collective Exhibition #1 opens, the first instalment of a major exhibition project dedicated to the students of Novel Academy.
Drawing, painting, watercolour and calligraphy come together in an exhibition that brings work created in the Academy’s classrooms into a real gallery, exposing it for the first time to the exhibition space and the public.
The Great Collective Exhibition was conceived to build a tangible bridge between artistic training and the exhibition experience. It is not a traditional end-of-course exhibition but a programme that will run throughout the 2026–2027 season for Novel Academy and NAAG, progressively involving around 300 students across four exhibition cycles.
The first instalment will feature 30 students with diverse experiences, techniques and sensibilities. It offers an opportunity to discover new artistic paths and witness the moment when the passion nurtured within an academy meets the walls of a gallery for the first time.