Following the Call for Artists “ROADSHOW”, open from 21 March 2026, Art4Women received submissions from artists across its community for the artistic decoration of the electric van Kia PV5 Cargo — the official visual manifesto of the project.
Submissions were evaluated on their coherence with the curatorial concept “Traverse. Connect. Transform.”, their alignment with the call’s thematic pillars, and the artistic quality and visual impact of each proposal across diverse urban settings.
Artisti Selezionati
Caterina Ardizzon, I Made Space for Myself
This project speaks directly and powerfully to contemporary female empowerment — the beating heart of Art4Women’s mission. Through the image of a woman claiming spaces and dimensions that have historically been denied to her, the work turns the van into a public declaration of self-determination. The affirmative register of the title — a statement in the present tense, not a promise — gives the piece an immediate visual presence that resonates with the widest range of audiences across Italy’s public squares.
Serena Gianoli, Bodies in Transit
This project captures the very essence of the RoadShow: a cultural device in motion, one that transforms through contact with communities, places, and energies encountered along the way. The metaphor of a body that moves, fragments, and reassembles itself gives visual form to the complexity of collaborative networks and fluid contemporary identities — central themes of the curatorial concept. “Bodies in Transit” is an open system — much like the van’s journey itself — that renews with every city it enters.
Aria Carelli, The Encounter
This project embodies the strategic vision of the RoadShow as a public act that turns the urban landscape into a space for dialogue. The idea of art that moves toward the passerby — intercepting them in the ordinary gesture of walking past — reflects the van’s calling to become a travelling, accessible work of art. The notion of an “aesthetic invasion” captures precisely art’s capacity to inhabit any urban context, making every street a gallery open to the sky: a perfect synthesis of the RoadShow’s mission.
The three selected artists will be contacted by Art4Women to kick off the project and finalise the artwork files in the format required for automotive vinyl wrapping. Production and application of the wrap are covered by the organisation.
Each selected artist will receive a fee of €300.00, as set out in the call.
This announcement is published on the occasion of the official launch of the RoadShow project, which took place during Milano Art Week 2026, at the Art4Women headquarters in Via Durando 38, Milan.