Désirée Nakouzi De Monte & Andrea Parenti of Collezione Nancy Delroi
Collezione Nancy Delroi gathers the body of work by the Italo-Lebanese duo founde by Désirée Nakouzi De Monte and Andrea Parenti, in Milan-March 2024. Their practice was shaped over a decade of collaboration as co-directors of MRZB Art Group, active between Amsterdam, Turin, Milan and Beirut (2014-2024).
Collezione Nancy Delroi’s practice articulates its language through the détournement o clichés and the tensions of performative community, built on the edge of the rupture of contemporary society. Grimy collages made from dismantled sofas reconfigure the authority of the Old Master in the trauma and obsolescence of domestic residue; A misé-en-scene—furnitur fragments, emptied middle-class symbols—assembled into pathetic yet deliberate compositions, aiming to evoke new cult-like imaginary by reshaping the dominant
narrative. Collezione Nancy Delroi is also conceived as a House-Gallery and Officina. Founded in 2024, located in Viale Bligny—Milan. Directed by Nakouzi and Parenti. The presentations aim to explore new formats — through open-ended creation, formalization, friction, including a variety of exhibitions, events, and situations, shaped through self-organized programmes — functioning as experimental frameworks.
Costumes Party: Love, Beauty, Fame
2026
Chromogenic print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper, varnish, wood, nails
210 x 240 cm
Se méfier du coup de foudre
2026
Chromogenic color print, upholstery studs, late tweenty-century wooden furniture elements, nails, wood, late 19-century Guilloché’s frame
60 x 50 x 10 cm
from the Dance by 5 series: FLESH!
2026
Chromogenic print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper, varnish, found wood panels, upholstery tacks, nails
142 x 140 cm
from the Furniture Series, Untitled
2025
Found chairs, mannequin torso, portion of a 1960s chandeliers, carved wood
90 x 130 x 40 cm
Tableaux of fifteen figures, Every third thought shall be my grave
2025
Mannequins, early 2000s IKEA wardrobe doors, cigarettes, drywall, forks, crystal glasses, glass ashtray, design furniture Untitled 02
variable dimensions
Laurice Najjar, Monocrome #5
2024
Sofa leather
103 x 165 cm
EXHIBITIONS at HAUS GALLERY & OFFICINA
2025 Exhibit A, with Bernadette Corporation, Matt Gess, Collezione Nancy Delroi
New Cult-like Images or Come il Patto Tra Adulti Diventa un trattato Di Strategia Affettiva – with Wilhelmina Merante and Leyla Riggio
Debùt – Collezione Nancy Delroi
2024 Haus der Kunts – with Armature Globale, Achille Filipponi,Caroline Devrait
Genetic– with Anastasia Kreslina, Jenna Marvin, Katja Kabalina Sergey Kantsedal
DBWIUABD SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Vulcana. Sublimation, Island of Stromboli, Stromboli, IT;
I feel it all, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE;
An Incomplete Survey on Portraiture. Vol.1, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR;
2025 Dialoghi & Repliche, Inter, Copenhagen, DK;
Rissa, Galleria Matta, Milan, IT;
Civic Servant Exhibition, Kozlat Studio, Berlin, DE;
Sensor, at GDL525, Amsterdam, NL;
2024 Fourth, at GDL525, Amsterdam, NL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 MiArt, SoloBooth, Galleria Des Bains, Milan, IT;
Les qualités serieus, Galleria Solito, Milan, IT;
2025 Collezione Nancy Delroi – Debùt at Collezione Nancy Delroi, Milan, IT;
From 2014 to 2024, the work of Nakouzi and Parenti was presented under the collective MRZB in the following contexts:
Solo exhibitions
2024 THIRST, Galerija Močvara, Zagreb, HR;
2023 Una Decade nella Tana, Baleno International, Rome, IT;
Kiki’s Fugue: Spleen at the Verge of Boredom 2, Sint An onienstraat, Amsterdam, NL;
STILI DRAMA XX-XXI, Nico Gallery, Bari, IT;
2022 Feral G, GDL 525, Amsterdam, NL;
2021 STILI DRAMA XVIII-XXI, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna, IT;
2020 Le Stanze di Mauve in ciò che è conosciuto come il Reame dell’Irreale, Associazione Barriera, Turin, IT;
2019 K_Night, Bastione San Maurizio, Turin, IT;
2018 Haptic rooms missing deeds, target="_blank">Bologna.cc, Amsterdam, NL;
Am I weeping? (DIP dripping floors), TRIPLA, Bologna, IT;
Group exhibitions
2024 CONSUMED, De ateliers, Amsterdam organized as part of Hound at Woonhui with further screenings by Stanya Kahn/Harry Dodge, Eduardo Williams, Amsterdam, NL;
Sculture nella Città 1971/2024, Saletta per L’Arte Pescheria, on an invitation by Cornelia Mattiacci, Pesaro, IT
2023 Iniziative di II, Another Studio, Rome; Circuit City Showroom, GDL 525, Amsterdam, NL;
Untitled (seduta in Ufficio Circondata da Teste e Corpi), Europalace Uffici,Turin, IT;
Systema, Conservatoire de Marseille Pierre Barbizet, Marseille, FR;
Subtle Fixations, Baleno International, Roma, IT;
Banana Split, slippery and hurt, BACO, Club Gamec Prize, Bergamo, IT; 2022 Nel paese delle ultime cose - SUPERBLAST II, Manifattura Tabacchi, Firenze, IT;
Baitball 2, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT;
2021 Ciak Collecting - Collezionismo Italiano Attivo, Palazzo Orti Manara, Verona, IT;
2020 G.O.D., Plague Pro, online;
Silent Machines, Hyperlink, Athens, GR;
2019 Pot of Mormorii, Bologna.cc, Amsterdam, NL;
Beneath the Beach - Rizome parking garage, The Wrong Biennale, online;
Lili’s diaries - SATURNALIA 2019, Macao, Milan, IT;
Snoozin’Gutsss, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL;
Tulpamacer, Underground Flowers, Kampung Ava Kayu;
2018 Streaming Realities, Grace, Athens, GR;
Communal Leaking, Macao, Milan, IT;
2017 Feedback #1 Marshall McLuhan and the Arts, West Gallery, The Hague, NL;
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS SELF ORGANISED AND CURATED
Collezione Nancy Delroi, Milan, IT
2024 HAUSE DER KUNST, with works by Achille Filipponi, Armature Globale, Caroline Drevait, Collezione Nancy Delroi;
GENETIC, with works by MRZB, Anastasia Kreslina, Jenna Marvin.
GDL 525, Amsterdam, NL
2024 HAUSE DER KUNST, with works by Achille Filipponi, Armature Globale, Caroline Drevait, Collezione Nancy Delroi;
GENETIC, with works by MRZB, Anastasia Kreslina, Jenna Marvin;
Sensor, a live performance by Golin and Ivan Cheng with works by MRZB.
2023 Circuit City Showroom, with works by Christiane Blattmann, Kira Scerbin, MRZB, Shade Théret, Temra Pavlovic.
2022 FERAL G, with works by Alexander Iezzi and MRZB.
LSL, Turin, IT
2022 STILI DRAMA, book launch, 200 pp., 100 copies, self-printed and produced.
2021 Ivan Cheng & GOLIN + Screening LA GIOSTRA DI LULU;
Languer, with Rada Koželj, Germana Frattini, Roberta Mansueto;
Due Pitture Seleniche: Paludi xx, Una Fontana per Lulu, with Alan Stefanato and a text by Treti Galaxie;
SHOOCK! L’estati di Sinto, Jacqueline e Mara, with works by Anna Bolina, Good & Bad (Marina M. Kolushiva, Victor Stuhlmann, Ossi Lehtonen), Junkie Foxx, Ivan Cheng, Rada Koželj, Kelman Duran, Golin, Trans Mon, Gigo8931, Moody Monday;
Black Tarantula, with Jante Alliage, Kiernan Francis, Aurélien Potier, Costanza Candeloro, Helena Velena.
2020 From Birth (1# Spleen), with Jordan Dawson.
RESIDENCIES, PRIZES & GRANTS
2024 Culture Moves Europe, Goethe-Institut’s Mobility Grant;
2023 Development Grant, AFK – Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst;
Finalist, Club GameC Prize 2023, Bergamo, IT;
2022 SUPERBLAST – NAM Not A Museum, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, IT;
2021 Torino Social Impact Art Award / Artissima 2021, Turin, IT;
Shortlisted for MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE, Rome, IT;
Shortlisted for Ducato Prize, Piacenza, IT;
CASTRO Projects with Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo Fellowship, Rome, IT;
2020 Studio Programme at Cripta747, Turin, IT;
2019 Development Grant, AFK – Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst;
2018 Residency at MACAO – Centro per le Arti, la Cultura e la Ricerca, Milan, IT.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Kiki’s Fugue: Spleen at the Verge of Boredom 5, performance and prototype for a publication, San Serriffe Bookshop, Amsterdam, NL;
Experience Journal, King Kong Magazine, Triennale Milano, Milan, IT;
2023 TRANSLIGHT, issue 0 | Undeath, visual and text-based contribution, Milan, IT;
Sleeper Cell Magazine, visual and text-based contribution, La Fayette Anticipations, Paris, FR;
MRZB, report by Alessandra Franetovich for Progetto Panorama by La Quadriennale Foundation, Rome, IT;
2022 Nel paese delle ultime cose – Superblast II, Aa. Vv., NERO Editions, Rome, IT;
As We Leave the Window Open, Rusty S. Pitty Blue o Le Sorelle I–IV, Liste Art Fair Expedition Programme, Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH;
Flash Art #358, Rusty S. Pitty Blue o Le Sorelle I–IV, visual project by MRZB with a text by Francesco Tenaglia;
InsideArt #125, Anno 18, Merzbau, visual project by MRZB with an interview by Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni;
X Magazine, issue 1 | Inside the Outlying Bodies, visual and text-based contribution;
STILI DRAMA – Stili Drama XIII–XXI / La Giostra di Lulu XLI–XLIV, self-publishing by MRZB, 100 copies produced by San Serriffe, Amsterdam, NL;
Montezpress Radio, radio-operetta Potti Potti by MRZB, produced by Montezpress Radio, New York, US;
ATP DIARY – I (never) explain #138, visual project and text by MRZB, selected by Zoe De Luca;
2021 NERO Editions, Guerrilla against the Unceasing Hostilities of the Living – Part #2 and #3, text by Michele Bertolino and visual project by MRZB.
2025 Exhibit A, with Bernadette Corporation, Matt Gess, Collezione Nancy Delroi
New Cult-like Images or Come il Patto Tra Adulti Diventa un trattato Di Strategia Affettiva – with Wilhelmina Merante and Leyla Riggio
Debùt – Collezione Nancy Delroi
2024 Haus der Kunts – with Armature Globale, Achille Filipponi,Caroline Devrait
Genetic– with Anastasia Kreslina, Jenna Marvin, Katja Kabalina Sergey Kantsedal
DBWIUABD SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Vulcana. Sublimation, Island of Stromboli, Stromboli, IT;
I feel it all, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE;
An Incomplete Survey on Portraiture. Vol.1, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR;
2025 Dialoghi & Repliche, Inter, Copenhagen, DK;
Rissa, Galleria Matta, Milan, IT;
Civic Servant Exhibition, Kozlat Studio, Berlin, DE;
Sensor, at GDL525, Amsterdam, NL;
2024 Fourth, at GDL525, Amsterdam, NL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 MiArt, SoloBooth, Galleria Des Bains, Milan, IT;
Les qualités serieus, Galleria Solito, Milan, IT;
2025 Collezione Nancy Delroi – Debùt at Collezione Nancy Delroi, Milan, IT;
From 2014 to 2024, the work of Nakouzi and Parenti was presented under the collective MRZB in the following contexts:
Solo exhibitions
2024 THIRST, Galerija Močvara, Zagreb, HR;
2023 Una Decade nella Tana, Baleno International, Rome, IT;
Kiki’s Fugue: Spleen at the Verge of Boredom 2, Sint An onienstraat, Amsterdam, NL;
STILI DRAMA XX-XXI, Nico Gallery, Bari, IT;
2022 Feral G, GDL 525, Amsterdam, NL;
2021 STILI DRAMA XVIII-XXI, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna, IT;
2020 Le Stanze di Mauve in ciò che è conosciuto come il Reame dell’Irreale, Associazione Barriera, Turin, IT;
2019 K_Night, Bastione San Maurizio, Turin, IT;
2018 Haptic rooms missing deeds, target="_blank">Bologna.cc, Amsterdam, NL;
Am I weeping? (DIP dripping floors), TRIPLA, Bologna, IT;
Group exhibitions
2024 CONSUMED, De ateliers, Amsterdam organized as part of Hound at Woonhui with further screenings by Stanya Kahn/Harry Dodge, Eduardo Williams, Amsterdam, NL;
Sculture nella Città 1971/2024, Saletta per L’Arte Pescheria, on an invitation by Cornelia Mattiacci, Pesaro, IT
2023 Iniziative di II, Another Studio, Rome; Circuit City Showroom, GDL 525, Amsterdam, NL;
Untitled (seduta in Ufficio Circondata da Teste e Corpi), Europalace Uffici,Turin, IT;
Systema, Conservatoire de Marseille Pierre Barbizet, Marseille, FR;
Subtle Fixations, Baleno International, Roma, IT;
Banana Split, slippery and hurt, BACO, Club Gamec Prize, Bergamo, IT; 2022 Nel paese delle ultime cose - SUPERBLAST II, Manifattura Tabacchi, Firenze, IT;
Baitball 2, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT;
2021 Ciak Collecting - Collezionismo Italiano Attivo, Palazzo Orti Manara, Verona, IT;
2020 G.O.D., Plague Pro, online;
Silent Machines, Hyperlink, Athens, GR;
2019 Pot of Mormorii, Bologna.cc, Amsterdam, NL;
Beneath the Beach - Rizome parking garage, The Wrong Biennale, online;
Lili’s diaries - SATURNALIA 2019, Macao, Milan, IT;
Snoozin’Gutsss, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL;
Tulpamacer, Underground Flowers, Kampung Ava Kayu;
2018 Streaming Realities, Grace, Athens, GR;
Communal Leaking, Macao, Milan, IT;
2017 Feedback #1 Marshall McLuhan and the Arts, West Gallery, The Hague, NL;
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS SELF ORGANISED AND CURATED
Collezione Nancy Delroi, Milan, IT
2024 HAUSE DER KUNST, with works by Achille Filipponi, Armature Globale, Caroline Drevait, Collezione Nancy Delroi;
GENETIC, with works by MRZB, Anastasia Kreslina, Jenna Marvin.
GDL 525, Amsterdam, NL
2024 HAUSE DER KUNST, with works by Achille Filipponi, Armature Globale, Caroline Drevait, Collezione Nancy Delroi;
GENETIC, with works by MRZB, Anastasia Kreslina, Jenna Marvin;
Sensor, a live performance by Golin and Ivan Cheng with works by MRZB.
2023 Circuit City Showroom, with works by Christiane Blattmann, Kira Scerbin, MRZB, Shade Théret, Temra Pavlovic.
2022 FERAL G, with works by Alexander Iezzi and MRZB.
LSL, Turin, IT
2022 STILI DRAMA, book launch, 200 pp., 100 copies, self-printed and produced.
2021 Ivan Cheng & GOLIN + Screening LA GIOSTRA DI LULU;
Languer, with Rada Koželj, Germana Frattini, Roberta Mansueto;
Due Pitture Seleniche: Paludi xx, Una Fontana per Lulu, with Alan Stefanato and a text by Treti Galaxie;
SHOOCK! L’estati di Sinto, Jacqueline e Mara, with works by Anna Bolina, Good & Bad (Marina M. Kolushiva, Victor Stuhlmann, Ossi Lehtonen), Junkie Foxx, Ivan Cheng, Rada Koželj, Kelman Duran, Golin, Trans Mon, Gigo8931, Moody Monday;
Black Tarantula, with Jante Alliage, Kiernan Francis, Aurélien Potier, Costanza Candeloro, Helena Velena.
2020 From Birth (1# Spleen), with Jordan Dawson.
RESIDENCIES, PRIZES & GRANTS
2024 Culture Moves Europe, Goethe-Institut’s Mobility Grant;
2023 Development Grant, AFK – Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst;
Finalist, Club GameC Prize 2023, Bergamo, IT;
2022 SUPERBLAST – NAM Not A Museum, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, IT;
2021 Torino Social Impact Art Award / Artissima 2021, Turin, IT;
Shortlisted for MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE, Rome, IT;
Shortlisted for Ducato Prize, Piacenza, IT;
CASTRO Projects with Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo Fellowship, Rome, IT;
2020 Studio Programme at Cripta747, Turin, IT;
2019 Development Grant, AFK – Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst;
2018 Residency at MACAO – Centro per le Arti, la Cultura e la Ricerca, Milan, IT.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Kiki’s Fugue: Spleen at the Verge of Boredom 5, performance and prototype for a publication, San Serriffe Bookshop, Amsterdam, NL;
Experience Journal, King Kong Magazine, Triennale Milano, Milan, IT;
2023 TRANSLIGHT, issue 0 | Undeath, visual and text-based contribution, Milan, IT;
Sleeper Cell Magazine, visual and text-based contribution, La Fayette Anticipations, Paris, FR;
MRZB, report by Alessandra Franetovich for Progetto Panorama by La Quadriennale Foundation, Rome, IT;
2022 Nel paese delle ultime cose – Superblast II, Aa. Vv., NERO Editions, Rome, IT;
As We Leave the Window Open, Rusty S. Pitty Blue o Le Sorelle I–IV, Liste Art Fair Expedition Programme, Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH;
Flash Art #358, Rusty S. Pitty Blue o Le Sorelle I–IV, visual project by MRZB with a text by Francesco Tenaglia;
InsideArt #125, Anno 18, Merzbau, visual project by MRZB with an interview by Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni;
X Magazine, issue 1 | Inside the Outlying Bodies, visual and text-based contribution;
STILI DRAMA – Stili Drama XIII–XXI / La Giostra di Lulu XLI–XLIV, self-publishing by MRZB, 100 copies produced by San Serriffe, Amsterdam, NL;
Montezpress Radio, radio-operetta Potti Potti by MRZB, produced by Montezpress Radio, New York, US;
ATP DIARY – I (never) explain #138, visual project and text by MRZB, selected by Zoe De Luca;
2021 NERO Editions, Guerrilla against the Unceasing Hostilities of the Living – Part #2 and #3, text by Michele Bertolino and visual project by MRZB.