All the World's a Stage

November 7, 2025 – February 4, 2026

‘All the World’s a Stage’ is the fifteenth selling exhibition at Galerie56, a platform conceived to celebrate the intersection of art, architecture, and design. The exhibition marks the first official collaborations between Galerie56 and London’s Themes & Variations, and Milanese artist Benedetta Mori Ubaldini.
The exhibition offers a fresh take on avant-garde modern and contemporary design, featuring new sculptural work by Ubaldini and Mark Brazier-Jones alongside early works by Tom Dixon and Andre Dubreil. The importance of avant-garde sensibilities is brough to the foreground in ‘All the World’s a Stage’ while highlighting its impact and enduring influence on designers and artists to this day.
The works selected for ‘All the World’s a Stage’ span time periods and countries of origin but all share a visual language defined by the experimental and theatrical nature of the avant-garde style. There are a significant number of pieces from the Creative Salvage movement, which was founded by Tom Dixon, Mark Brazier-Jones, and the late Andre Dubreuil the same year that Themes & Variations founder, Liliane Fawcett, first set up her London-based gallery. As an early Patron of Dixon and Dubreil, and the first gallery to exhibit his work, Themes & Variations brings notable metal works spanning their entire careers.

Benedetta Mori Ubaldini is a contemporary Italian sculptor, especially known for her innovative and experimental approach to design. She works with different kinds of materials but is best known for her pieces of art made of mesh wire. Mori Ubaldini creates poetic, even symbolic sculptures from wire, playing between presence and absence – the result is worlds that are almost magical.