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1 August 2016
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 […]

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1 August 2016
Portugal – “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 […]

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1 August 2016
Athens – 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 […]

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Press Releases
29 July 2016
Minister Paolo Gentiloni meets with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, Yun Byung-Se. Korea will open a Cultural Institute in Italy next October​

This morning at Villa Madama, Paolo Gentiloni, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, received YUN Byung-se, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. Mr Gentiloni and Mr YUN Byung-se took stock of the excellence of the current bilateral relations between Italy and the Republic of Kore in every sector of […]

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29 July 2016
Dublin – 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 […]

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29 July 2016
Poland – 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. […]

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28 July 2016
Malta – 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 […]

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28 July 2016
Athens – 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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28 July 2016
Lithuania – Tonino Guerra’s work on show in Vilnius Museum

‎The Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Film Museum in Vilnius will host an exhibition on Tonino Guerra entitled “La bellezza e’ gia’ una preghiera” (“Beauty is Already a Prayer”). The exhibition will be open till Sep. 30 and will feature watercolours, illustrations, hand-printed ancient tapestries, and works on other supports. Footage on Guerra’s life will also […]

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27 July 2016
Bansko – Alfina Scorza’s Mediterranean music arrives in Bulgaria

Salerno-born song-writer Alfina Scorza will soon travel abroad in the name of her love for music. Next 12 August she will hold a concert in Bansko, Bulgaria, near the city’s Nikola Vaptsarov Square. The concert is sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia. Since she was a teenager, the song-writer has explored various aspects […]

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