APPLICATION
Deadline May 31st, 2026
Flashback
Art Fair
October 29 / November 1, 2026
Flashback – all art is contemporary
is a fair that transcends traditional chronological categories to focus on the works' ability to engage with the present, with contemporary needs and context. From this perspective, the year of creation isn't a discriminating criterion: what matters is the conceptual, aesthetic, and symbolic power of the artwork today.
Admission to the fair is reserved to exhibitors and galleries who guarantee the high quality of the works presented, from an artistic, historical and curatorial point of view.
Each exhibitor is required to present a coherent exhibition project, conceived as a unified and recognizable whole, in line with both their own path and specialization and with the guidelines, theme, and identity of Flashback.
The project must enhance the selected works through a clear narrative and a thoughtful exhibition approach, capable of establishing a dialogue among the works, the space, and the public.
Therefore, the Organization will take into consideration the Exhibitor's professional background, understood as an integral part of the presented project.
Specifically, the gallery's history, its exhibitions, both on-site and off-site, its catalogues and publications, and its participation in national and international fairs will be evaluated.
The Organization will evaluate the exhibition project taking into account the consistency between the gallery's previous experience and the submitted proposal, reserving the right to request additional materials for further study.
IN TIME
In its fourteenth edition, Flashback continues its exploration of time as a critical and active dimension of artwork. With IN TIME as its title and field of investigation, the fair renews its vision— all art is contemporary—examining time not as a simple chronological succession, but as a value, condition, and possibility of existence in the present.
IN TIME also means to be capable of intercepting the world's tensions, urgencies and transformations.
In this sense, being contemporary does not coincide with an historical date, but with a critical position, with the ability to inhabit the present and make it legible.
The title is inspired by Andrew Niccol's film, which proposes a sociological and anthropological vision in which time becomes the only truly available, measurable, and exchangeable resource.
Flashback IN TIME embraces this suggestion as a critical stimulus, inviting galleries to engage with time as the living material of the work. From this perspective, the artwork becomes a space capable of reactivating itself in the present and generating new readings.
Gallery owners are invited to select works that:
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demonstrate a current conceptual, aesthetic or symbolic strength
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raise questions that are still open, urgent, necessary
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maintain an ability to read and interpret in the contemporary context
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fit coherently into the gallery's path and specialization
Flashback IN TIME thus presents itself as a place where the past is never concluded and the contemporary is never definitive, but continually brought back into play through the gaze, the experience and the time of art.