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9 December 2021

Pretoria, long-distance dialogue on video art

The Italian Cultural Institute in Pretoria and the Luigi Di Sarro Centre organised a webinar, a long-distance dialogue between Italy and South Africa with the protagonists of the Video Art Awards (VAA), which encourages and promotes the production of works using the moving image. It was the third edition of the Award, conceived and promoted […]

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7 December 2021

Moscow, Italian culinary traditions on Russian TV

On the occasion of the 6th edition of the Italian Cuisine Week, the Italian Embassy in Moscow, in collaboration with the television programme “The City”, created a special episode dedicated to our culinary tradition. In the programme, which aired on the public TV Moscow24 channel, the Italian Ambassador to Russia, Giorgio Starace, toured the centre […]

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7 December 2021

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. […]

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7 December 2021

Copenhagen, 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 For the first time, unpublished photographs taken by the artist, whose works are also in the Farnesina Collection, will be on display during the first lockdown in Rome, alongside pencil […]

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6 December 2021

Artist 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 […]

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6 December 2021

Tel 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 […]

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6 December 2021

Italian 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 […]

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6 December 2021

Cantica21, “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, […]

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6 December 2021

Tunis, 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 […]

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3 December 2021

TV mini-series in Vietnam on “Contemporary Italy”

On the occasion of the 17th Day of Contemporary Art, the Italian Embassy in Vietnam has launched a collaboration with Vietnam’s leading public television group, VTV, to screen the mini-series “Italia Contemporanea” (Contemporary Italy), dedicated to contemporary art sites in Italy. The series is produced by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation […]

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3 December 2021

Video series “Voyage in the Divine Comedy” in the Dutch language

The Italian Institute of Culture in Amsterdam celebrates the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death with a contemporary adaptation of the Divine Comedy: 18 episodes that can be viewed free of charge from December 6 on the Institute’s YouTube channel, where they will remain available indefinitely. Three actors (Edith Andriesse, Hans Daalder, Marcel Schouwstra) star […]

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3 December 2021

Cooking show di piatti italiani a Teheran

Un cooking show a Teheran è stato organizzato dall’Ambasciata d’Italia in Iran, in collaborazione con l’Ufficio di Teheran dell’Italian Trade Agency (ITA), in occasione della Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo. L’iniziativa, che si è svolta ieri, 2 dicembre, presso l’Espinas Palace Hotel, si inserisce in un contesto specifico, in cui il divieto all’importazione di […]

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