
Exhibition preview·London
Amy Winehouse's belongings restaged as Alex Margo Arden opens 'Nothing Personal' solo at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation
Alex Margo Arden's 'Nothing Personal', the solo exhibition tied to the inaugural Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize awarded at Frieze London 2025, opens at the Foundation in London on 9 October 2026 and runs through 23 January 2027. The show restages the personal property of Amy Winehouse across all of the Foundation's rooms, probing how celebrity ownership turns everyday objects into sites of fetishisation and speculation.
The Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation opens its major autumn presentation on 9 October with 'Nothing Personal', a solo exhibition by Alex Margo Arden that will run through 23 January 2027. The exhibition follows Arden's receipt of the inaugural Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize, awarded at Frieze London 2025 in recognition of her presentation 'By All Accounts' with the gallery Ginny on Frederick. The prize jury included the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, artist Lydia Ourahmane, and the Foundation's curator Vittoria de Franchis, who now curates this show with Tom Mouna as assistant curator. At the heart of 'Nothing Personal' is a body of work built around the personal possessions of the late singer Amy Winehouse. Drawing on estate auction catalogues, interviews, exhibition documentation, and backstage and paparazzi photographs, Arden identified specific objects connected to Winehouse through ownership, attribution or association, then recovered and re-collected them for installation across the Foundation's rooms. The result treats the afterlives of celebrity belongings as a subject for conceptual inquiry rather than mere memorabilia. The exhibition examines what happens when ownership by a famous figure transforms ordinary things into charged relics. Arden frames the objects both as reenactments that expose the logics through which ownership confers value, and as everyday things in their own right: touched by countless hands, held close, eventually passed on. The distinction between originals and parallel objects matters less than what viewers project onto each, and the show confronts the impermanence that objects quietly bear witness to. 'Nothing Personal' continues Arden's long-running engagement with how events, histories and images are understood and made visible in new contexts. The artist, an alumnus of the Royal Academy Schools whose work is held in the Arts Council Collection and the Royal Academy Collection, uses theatrical methodologies of remaking and reperformance to question authority, authenticity and labour. The London opening, announced on the gallery's social channels on 6 October, places one of the year's most-discussed prize winners at the centre of the Foundation's 2026 programme.


