Dancing Lights
Dancing Lights
At nhow Milano, light doesn’t simply illuminate: it transforms, vibrates, and moves. It is living energy, constantly evolving, just like the soul of the hotel itself. Chameleonic by nature, nhow Milano is a space that sheds its skin, reinvents itself, and allows itself to be traversed by the connections and visions that inhabit it. And it is in this spirit that the exhibition “Dancing Lights” was born, an immersive experience where light becomes dance, matter becomes gesture, and the viewer enters into a dialogue with movement.
The exhibition unfolds like a fluid choreography, a constantly shifting visual landscape. The works are not static: they breathe, they mirror, they seek each other. From the cosmic pulse of Avvassena’s Human Cosmogony to the mirrored reflections of Identities, from Tatjana Zonca’s meditative suspension to Dario Brevi’s chromatic whirlwind, each installation is part of a collective rhythm. Light thinks, matter dreams, the public moves.
This vision intertwines with the new international campaign “Dance nhow, Change nhow”, which celebrates dance as a universal language of transformation, expression, and connection. In all nhow hotels, travel becomes movement, a stay becomes a performance. Each space is an invitation to unleash your energy, to discover new perspectives, to feel the pulse of the place.
nhow Milano, with its DNA of contemporary design, multisensory experience, urban culture, and creative spirit, is the ideal stage for this narrative. The works on display embody the same dynamism that animates the hotel: they are forms that transform, gestures that are written in space, connections that ignite. This is where the exhibition and the hotel merge: seeing becomes an act of presence, understanding coincides with dancing, living is letting the rhythm of the world pass through you.
“Dancing Lights” is more than just an exhibition: it is an invitation to feel the change, to move with awareness, to dance in the light. It is the visual manifesto of a hotel that does not host art, but embodies it, and which today more than ever becomes a space for transformation, a creative hub, a place of freedom of expression.
OO - GROUND FLOOR
Human Cosmogony Composed 4
Avvassena (born 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Milan, Italy. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design and a Master’s degree in Communication Design from the Politecnico di Milano. Her research stems from a profound interest in human beings and their relationships with others and the surrounding environment
Artist: Avvassena
2024, 50x70cm
Digital manipulation of X-rays of several people on framed plexiglass
Human Cosmogony composed 3
Artist: Avvassena
2025, 50x70cm
Digital manipulation of X-rays of several people on framed plexiglass
Human Cosmogony composed 5
Artist: Avvassena
2024, 70x100cm
Digital manipulation of X-rays of several people on framed plexiglass
Human Cosmogony composed 2
Artist: Avvassena
2024, 200x150cm
Digital X-ray manipulation by many people using a Queenlight backlit device, aluminum
01 - FIRST FLOOR
Dite cheese!
Gabriele La Teana lives and works in Milan. His artistic career began around 2004 with street art and graffiti. His artistic research focuses on interiority, the human psyche, and the analysis of contemporary society and its psychological issues, leading him to a raw interpretation of reality.
Artist: Gabriele La Teana
2025, 60X60cm
Oil, acrylic, pastels, and markers on canvas
Spa
Artist: Gabriele La Teana
2025, 100x100cm
Oil, acrylic, pastels, and markers on canvas
The Guardian of Ideas
Stefano Epis is a multidisciplinary artist who transforms typography into an autonomous visual language. In his works, each letter becomes a sign and a gesture, interacting with space in a balance of rhythm and perception. His research, based on bold combinations and deconstructions, evolves with the introduction of color, which intertwines with his iconic black and white: a poetic duality between light and emotional depth.
Artist: Stefano Epis
2025, 120x120cm
mixed tencic
Love XXX
Artist: Stefano Epis
2019, 45×45
mixed technique gold leaf on canvas
Pluto
Giulia spent the first two years of her life in the African Sahara. Her father’s career then took the family to South Africa. These experiences helped shape her personality and instilled in her a curiosity to travel and discover the world and its many cultures. She studied fashion styling at the renowned Istituto Marangoni in Milan, which fueled her love of the arts. She later decided to move to London to further cultivate her creativity.
Artist: Giulia Caruso
2025, 120x120cm
250gr paper on wood, graphite watercolor, resin, acrylic, gold leaf, glitter
The hug
Artist: Giulia Caruso
2025, 180X180
250g paper on wood, watercolor graphite, marker, resins
02 - SECOND FLOOR
we are alone
In the 1970s, he attended technical studies and simultaneously frequented the workshop of Maestro Carlo Chiodini da Vittuone, a painter and sculptor. In 1984, he began his definitive career as a technical drawing teacher. At the same time, he continued to cultivate his passion for painting and other disciplines such as sculpture, Raku ceramics, and illustration.
Artist: Pierangelo Russo
2025, 1,80m x1,80m base 2,90m height
Mixed technique wood, gold leaf, mirrorflex
Amillion - Unfold
Milanese artist and professional. Alessandra embarked on a path that shaped her first as a painter, attending art high school and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. During her studies, she became an assistant to her photographer uncle, thus discovering the world of photography.
Artist: Ale Mattè
2023, 70X50cm
Print on Hahnemüle Bright White Cotton paper, real oak veneer frame with invisible glass
Quite elegance
Artist: Ale Matté
2023, 70X50cm
Print on Hahnemüle Bright White Cotton paper, real oak veneer frame with invisible glass
03 - THIRD FLOOR
I keep believing that the world is in color
Dario Brevi (born in Limbiate, Monza Brianza, in 1955) lives and works in his hometown. A graduate of the Brera Art School and a graduate in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic, he has been exhibiting since the 1970s, quickly gaining recognition on the international scene. He has collaborated with brands such as Ballantine’s and Swatch, and in 2014 he exhibited at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Artist: Dario brevi
2025, 140x120cm
Acrylics on MDF
The Right Direction
Artist: Dario brevi
2022, 97x50cm
Acrylics on MDF
We Are Nature
Dario Brevi (born in Limbiate, Monza Brianza, in 1955) lives and works in his hometown. A graduate of the Brera Art School and a graduate in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic, he has been exhibiting since the 1970s, quickly gaining recognition on the international scene. He has collaborated with brands such as Ballantine’s and Swatch, and in 2014 he exhibited at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Artist: Dario brevi
2025, 70X50cm
Colored pencils on paper
Of Everything and of The Void
Dario Brevi (born in Limbiate, Monza Brianza, in 1955) lives and works in his hometown. A graduate of the Brera Art School and a graduate in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic, he has been exhibiting since the 1970s, quickly gaining recognition on the international scene. He has collaborated with brands such as Ballantine’s and Swatch, and in 2014 he exhibited at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Artist: Dario brevi
2022, 76X44cm
Acrylics on MDF
O4 - FOURTH FLOOR
Beso edition of 4 silkscreens
Tatjana Zonca is an Italian-German artist who has spent her life between Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. She currently lives and works in Milan. Her works have been exhibited in Milan, Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, and London. Her creative journey began in fashion, but it was during her years in Hamburg that Zonca became interested in screen printing, a technique that combines photography and digital art, which became her primary focus.
Artist: Tatjana Zonca
2025, 18,3×16,4cm
Unique in digital reproduction from the original screen print
Sea of Light - Edition of 4 silkscreen prints
Artist: Tatjana Zonca
2024, 60x44cm
Unique digital reproduction of the original silkscreen
Beso unique print
Artist: Tatjana Zonca
2025, 100×87,7cm
Unique in digital reproduction from the original screen print
Sea inside unique print
Artist: Tatjana Zonca
2025, 120x92cm
Unique in digital reproduction from the original screen print