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Women 80+: The Age of Possibilities opens at City Gallery Blansko (Czech Republic) on 7 March 2026 at 5 pm and runs from 8 March to 18 April 2026. The international exhibition, curated by Nadine Gandy and Jana Písaříková, is organised by the City Gallery in Blasko in collaboration with the Gandy Gallery in Bratislava and Trieste Contemporanea (as part of it’s programme dedicated to promoting contemporary Italian art abroad).

The exhibition invites reflection on the originality, radicalism, and freedom that develop beyond the age of eighty, bringing into dialogue artists from the former socialist bloc and Western Europe, and highlighting the different contexts in which their work was created and how these can profoundly influence artistic practice.

Women 80+: The Age of Possibilities brings together a generation of women from diverse artistic backgrounds, born in the 1930s and 1940s. While they differ geographically, politically, and formally, they share a common trait: an audacious search for new sensibilities.

The Triestine artist, Emanuela Marassi, represents the Italian contribution to the exhibition. The other participating artists are: Mária Bartuszová (Slovakia), Esther Ferrer (Spain/France), Marie Filippovová (Czech Republic), Dorothy Iannone (United States), Françoise Janicot (France), Alena Kučerová (Czech Republic), Adriena Šimotová (Czech Republic), and Jana Želibská (Slovakia).

Emanuela Marassi, in particular, presents works that trace a career which began in the late 1960s. Her practice initially developed in the applied arts, later expanding into painting, collage, and experimentation with unconventional materials such as copper and embroidery. Marassi has also created large-scale installations and video art, contributing significantly to feminist art on the international scene, and also she founded in 1974 the Mareba Group together with the Austrian artist Renate Bertlmann and the New Zealand artist Barbara Strathdee.