Locarno – International Art Film Festival kicks off in Switzerland
Through its 69-year-long history the Locarno International Film Festival (3-13 August) has conquered a unique place among the world’s major film festivals. Every year the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno becomes the highlight of arthouse films: art film lovers and professionals all meet there to share their passion for the cinema, in all its expressions. For […]
Read morePortugal – “Quasi tutto”, anthology of Giorgio Griffa in Porto
Italian painter Giorgio Griffa’s artworks are on display in Portugal for the first time in Porto’s Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves. The anthology, entitled “Quasi tutto” (Almost everything), was organised by the museum in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. The exhibition consists of a vast selection of more than 40 paintings […]
Read moreAthens – The Italian Embassy hosts the Garden of Sculptures
The Italian Embassy in Athens is hosting the exhibition “Forme, Colori, Materiali: il Giardino delle Sculture” (Forms, Colours, Materials: The Garden of Sculptures) until September 15. The exhibition displays the work of a group of students from Athens’ Academy of Fine Arts. It will be open to the public on Thursdays. The initiative aims to […]
Read moreItaly, the United States and innovation. The Foreign Ministry participates in the Innovation Forum – Driving changes for US an Italian Innovation Systems: finding better ways to learn from each other, Trieste, 28 July 2016
Juxtaposing the economic and industrial scenario in the U.S. with the one of Friuli Venezia Giulia, which features dynamic and innovative SMEs, with a view to relaunching scientific, technological and industrial cooperation across the Atlantic. This is the central theme of the Innovation Forum – Driving changes for US and Italian Innovation Systems: finding better […]
Read moreDublin – The “Aquileia: the Crossroads of the Empire” exhibition stops in Ireland
Aquileia was founded in 181 BC in the North-East of the Italian Peninsula and was vested with military, economic and commercial functions. Its excellent location, a well-equipped river port and commercial and cultural relations with both the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Europe, turned it into Italy’s fourth-largest and most important city and in the ninth-largest […]
Read moreItaly and Brazil strengthen bilateral cooperation
Italy’s Ambassador to Brazil, Antonio Bernardini, and the President of Banco do Brasil, Paulo Rogério Caffarelli, discussed future strategies for the Working Group recently launched by the embassy in support of Italian businesses that have taken an interest in Brazil’s logistics, infrastructure, and energy programme. Ambassador Bernardini and President Caffarelli talked on the sidelines of […]
Read morePoland – The Renaissance in Northern Italy on show in Warsaw
The National Museum in Warsaw is hosting a selection of Renaissance paintings from the Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery in Brescia. The section includes works by Moretto, Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, Giovan Battista Moroni, Raphael, Titian, and Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition “Brescia. Il Rinascimento nell’Italia del nord” (Brescia: the Renaissance in Northern Italy) will run until Aug. […]
Read moreMalta – Italian Cultural Institute confers the “Culture and Fashion Award 2016” to three fashion designers
On 23 July, Salvatore Schirmo, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in La Valletta, conferred the “Culture and Fashion Award 2016” to Italian fashion designers Gianni Molaro and Carlo Alberto Terranova and to Maltese designer Luke Azzopardi. The award ceremony was the highlight of the ”Gran Gala of Fashion”, an event held in […]
Read moreStockholm – Claudio Magris presents the Swedish version of “Non luogo a procedere”
The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm will host an evening dedicated to literature with an exceptional guest of honour: at 6 p.m. on 23 August Claudio Magris will present his latest book “Non luogo a procedere”. Claudio Magris, the winner of the Strega Prize in 1997 and the Kafka Prize in 2016, will have a […]
Read moreAthens – The Italian Short Film Festival hosted in Greece
Ten Italian short films will be screened over two days on the Greek island of Leros to promote Italian cinema within the Italian Short Film Festival hosted by the Artemis Association. The event was organised by the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Association (AIAL) in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Athens, and promoted by the […]
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