Vistamare is a contemporary art gallery based in Milan and Pescara.

Founded in Pescara in 2001 by Benedetta Spalletti in her hometown, the gallery aims to create a welcoming space for artists and to stimulate a dialogue based on meetings and sharing. The gallery space in Pescara is located inside an eighteenth-century historic palace, with nine rooms featuring frescoed vaults, where temporary exhibitions interact with remaining site-specific artworks made over the years, testifying the strong relationships built with the artists, from Ettore Spalletti to Joseph Kosuth, from Mimmo Jodice to Haim Steinbach.

In 2018, Benedetta Spalletti opened a space in Milan together with Lodovica Busiri Vici. The current gallery space is located inside a courtyard of an Art Nouveau building in Porta Venezia, featuring three exhibition halls designed to offer artists a space to express their projects and ideas. The central hall is dominated by a large skylight that floods the space with natural light and is complemented by two symmetrical and specular rooms.

Over more than 20 years of activity, the gallery has built relationships with curators, collectors, and institutions to promote the work of its artists.

The gallery aims to develop a program of research and experimentation, exploring the variety and the complexity of contemporary art languages: from video to sculpture and painting, from photography to performance. Vistamare has presented exhibitions of established artists alongside often dialogic exhibitions of artists from different generations, such as Rosa Barba, Mario Airò, Sara Enrico, Armin Linke, and Anna Franceschini. The gallery has brought Tom Friedman and Claudia Comte to Milan for the first time, artists who have since become part of its roster, and whose work has become an integral part of Vistamare’s bold and often forward-thinking approach.

Since 2022, the Milan space has started a series of in-depth studies named “Focus On,” centered on the research of emerging artists from the Italian and international scene, invited to exhibit for the first time with projects specifically conceived for the gallery’s space.