My desire, my dream, my despair

Berlin
May 01 — Jun 14, 2025

MY DESIRE, MY DREAM, MY DESPAIR
OPENING & MUSIC AND DRINKS: 2 MAY 2025 | 7–10 PM
ARTIST TALK & DRINKS: 3 MAY 2025 | 5 PM
EXHIBITION: 1 MAY – 14 JUNE 2025
AOA;87 BERLIN

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend 2025, AOA;87 presents the exhibition “My desire, my dream, my despair” by the Italian artist collective Numero Cromatico, offering insight into their latest artistic research.
The exhibition presents three series of artworks that dialogue with each other through form, language and colour, offering the public an immersive experience: crossable curtains, luminous pieces and tapestries, artworks that activate the public on several sensory levels.
Is the exhibition, entitled My desire, my dream, my despair, a declaration of the artists’ love for art or for the public? Or is it a tool that Numero Cromatico offers the spectator to investigate their deepest feelings and bring them to consciousness?
The only way to understand this is to experience the artworks and the exhibition space designed ad hoc by the Italian collective.
As is always the case in Numero Cromatico’s projects, natural and artificial elements, artificial intelligence and craft techniques, art and neuroscience are put into dialogue. The result is a perceptual experience that engages the public on several perceptive levels.

Numero Cromatico is an collective artist, research center, and publishing house.
Nationally recognized for its monumental installations, Numero Cromatico merges visual arts, design, architecture, and literature with scientific knowledge—including neuroaesthetics, empirical aesthetics, experimental psychology, and digital studies. The collective aims to reimagine new forms of relationships between humans, nature, and technology while challenging the paradigms of contemporary society.
For years, the collective has fostered the debate on the relationship between art and neuroscience through Nodes – Journal of Art and Neuroscience, a specialized publication in neuroaesthetics that has become an international reference for researchers.
In 2019, Numero Cromatico conducted the first neuroaesthetic experiment at an Italian art fair during ArtVerona, earning the i10 Award for Best Independent Entity. In 2020, the collective was recognized by the Exhibit Program of the DGCC MiBACT and received the Artribune Award for Best Hybrid Space in Italy. In 2021, Numero Cromatico won the Re:Humanism Art Prize, the Abitante competition, the Sala Santa Rita Contemporanea Prize (supported by Azienda Speciale PalaExpo), and the Italian Council X grant from the DGCC of MiC. The collective was also nominated for the Brain Awareness Week Grant by FENS and the Dana Foundation for three consecutive years (2021–2023).
In 2022, the group won the Premio Taverna, was listed among the best stands at Arte Fiera Bologna, and was nominated by Exibart as Best Emerging Artist of the Year. In 2024, Numero Cromatico received the Talent Prize, supported by Inside Art.
For Milan Fashion Week 2025, the collective designed the runway for Marco De Vincenzo’s presentation of the luxury brand ETRO, titled “Take me into your dreams, among your darkest thoughts”.