Exhibitions: the incense route from Oman to Italy
An exhibition on the historical links between Italy and Oman thanks to the Incense Route, organised by the Italian Embassy and the National Museum of Oman, and curated by the Associazione Italiana Per Fumum of Turin, was inaugurated in Mascate, in the presence of the Italian Ambassador, Federica Favi, and Omani Prince Kamil Al Said. […]
Read moreCopenhagen, lockdown in Rome as seen by Donatella Spaziani
The Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen, on the occasion of the Giornata del Contemporaneo (Day of the Contemporary), is hosting Donatella Spaziani’s exhibition “Insieme concertante”. For the first time, unpublished photographs taken by the artist, whose works are also in the Farnesina Collection, will be on display during the first lockdown in Rome, alongside pencil […]
Read moreDakar, Ambassador De Vito visits the frigate Antonio Marceglia
The Italian Ambassador to Senegal, Giovanni Umberto De Vito, visited the Italian Navy’s frigate “Antonio Marceglia”, which made a stopover in Dakar on its return from a campaign of operations conducted in the Gulf of Guinea. In Dakar, the frigate Marceglia conducted an exercise with the Senegalese Navy before continuing its navigation. In greeting the […]
Read moreThe cutting-edge “Costa Toscana” cruise ship delivered in Finland
The Italian Ambassador to Finland, Sergio Pagano, attended the handover ceremony at the Meyer shipyard, in Turku, of the “Costa Toscana”, the new flagship of the Costa Crociere cruise fleet and sister ship of the “Costa Smeralda”, which was also launched in the port city in south-western Finland two years ago. Powered by liquefied natural […]
Read moreArtist Talk with Rosa Barba in Berlin
On 3ed December, the Italian Embassy in Berlin hosted an Artist Talk with Rosa Barba. The artist’s exhibition, “In a Perpetual Now”, was chosen by the Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Joachim Jäger, to reopen the museum after six years of restoration. The initiative is part of the 17th “Giornata del Contemporaneo” (Contemporary Day), dedicated […]
Read moreTel Aviv, meeting with the author Abraham Yehoshua
The Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv will host on 8 December (at 17:00 Italian time) a meeting, titled “Italy is my second home”, with Israeli author Abraham B. Yehoshua, on the occasion of the publication in Italy of his latest novel The Only Daughter. The meeting will be attended by the Italian Ambassador to […]
Read moreItalian anti-fascists in the Netherlands, a meeting in Amsterdam
“Vocie nascoste (Hidden Voices)”. Italian anti-fascists in the Netherlands: Angelo Agosti (1900-1985) and Luciana Rescia Bokma (1902-1995)” is the title of a meeting to be held on 10 December (2.30 pm) at the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam, organised together with the 1001 Italianen/Culturissma Foundation. For a long time, the role of Italians in the […]
Read moreCantica21, “Patrizio” a video-installation at Belgrade
On the occasion of the 17th edition of the Contemporary Art Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade will present the video-installation called “Patrizio”, by Massimo Ricciardo, the winning work of the over-35-year-old section within the project Cantica21-Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere, a joint project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture, […]
Read moreTunis, a documentary on the history of the Tabarchini
The documentary “Tabarchini, the story of the sea that unites”, by Tunisian-Italian director Habib Mestiri, premiered on 30 November at the Film Library of the Cité de la Culture in Tunis. Through a series of interviews with first-hand witnesses, the film reconstructs the history of Tabarka and the epic story of the population of Ligurian […]
Read moreAmbassador Sequi spoke at the Sky TG24 award ceremony in honor of the young diplomats, Attanasio and Claudi
The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, participated today in the third program of Sky TG24 “Live In”, a series of events consisting of meetings organized to create opportunities for discussions with Italian and international guests from the sectors of politics, economics, science, culture, industry, entertainment and sports. The theme of the […]
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