Kou Gallery is the nonprofit exhibition space of the Kou Association.

The prevailing common sense notion that continues to place our contemporary postmodern world on art is that of a product with certain formal qualities associated with the idea of beauty that must produce above all a pleasant and comforting reaction in its recipient. Contemporary art seeks its own precise integration with social reality, with the environment around us, which inevitably brings it into confrontation with its visual context.

On this basis the project of Kou Gallery was born.

Its actions are dictated by a precise vision, according to which the work of art is not an object that is seen, but an instrument with which it is looked at, capable of rethinking ideas and human relationships in new terms.

Kou Gallery is establishing itself over the years as a place of encounter and contamination among artists. It is a meaningful place where one can compare and welcome novelties and innovative views.

Its primary objective is to increase the diffusion and knowledge of Italian and international contemporary art, paying particular attention to the new generations and to the dissemination of the work of Italian artists abroad.

Aware of the centrality of the direct relationship between artists, cultural operators and the public in the enhancement of the arts, Kou Gallery is actively committed to promoting cognitive engagement on the beauty emanating from the work of art and the emotional language of the artist.

Kou Gallery chooses to promote only artists with a strong communicative sense, who work on original concepts and techniques and can make a difference in today's and future art scene. Within its interdisciplinary space, the different expressive codes and personal research that each artist carries out in his or her work are translated and connected.

Creation, beauty and debate are for Kou Gallery founding and unavoidable factors of a renewal process that invests all artistic fields and is a spokesman for the desire to reaffirm the central role of the city of Rome in the Italian and international art scene.

The artistic director of Kou Gallery is Massimo Scaringella