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Cultural Diplomacy
12 February 2024
Sydney, Katthy Cavaliere’s Sedia Rossa exhibition

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney presents the exhibition Sedia Rossa (Red Chair) featuring artworks and archive videos by Italian-born Australian artist Katthy Cavaliere (1972-2012). Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, artist, curator, art critic and lecturer at the National Art School in Sydney, the exhibition includes three archive videos by the artist: 6 Years (1978; […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
12 February 2024
Madrid, exhibition “Mimetica- Riflessi e rifrazioni ceramiche” by Anastasio

On the occasion of the Madrid Design Festival 2024, the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid presents the exhibition “Mimetica– Riflessi e rifrazioni ceramiche” by Andrea Anastasio. The extraordinary work of Andrea Anastasio – an internationally renowned Italian philosopher, designer and artist – focuses on the relationship between tradition and modernity and on the exploration of […]

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Press Releases
10 February 2024
Mission to Odessa by the Foreign Ministry’s Special Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, Davide La Cecilia. The coordination mechanism for the reconstruction of the transfiguration Cathedral gets underway.

Odessa, 10 February – The Foreign Ministry’s Special Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, Davide La Cecilia – accompanied by a delegation from the Italian Embassy and by the Head of the AICS Kiev Regional Office, Pietro Pipi – visited Odessa together with the Director of UNESCO for Ukraine, Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi, with the aim […]

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Press Releases
8 February 2024
Farnesina. Presentation of the “chatbot” the virtual assistant for the diplomatic network websites. Launch event chaired by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Secretary General Riccardo Guariglia

The Secretary General of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Riccardo Guariglia, chaired the launch event of the new virtual assistant (“chatbot”) of the Farnesina, which will be activated on the Esteri.it website and on the websites of the diplomatic-consular network. “In addition to ensuring the definition, development and implementation of the country’s foreign policy […]

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Diplomatic Network
6 February 2024
Sweden, Cortellesi’s movie “C’è ancora domani” (‘There’s Still Tomorrow) wins at the Gothenburg Film Festival

Paola Cortellesi’s highly acclaimed movie won the Dragon Award  Best International Film at the 47th Göteborg Film Festival, the Scandinavian region’s leading film festival, which attracts more than 160,000 visitors each year to attend more than 1,000 screenings of 450 films. The award is the result of a vote by the public present at the […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
6 February 2024
First Albanian edition of Primo Levi’s book The Drowned and the Saved

The Albanian edition of Primo Levi’s book The Drowned and the Saved, translated by Aida Baro and published by Dukagjini, with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Kosovan Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, will soon be available for the first time in bookshops in Kosovo and […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
5 February 2024
Prague, Workshop on Cultural Heritage Observation from Space

What are the results of observing the world’s cultural heritage from space? What are the challenges and state-of-the-art methods for monitoring and preserving cultural heritage? This will be discussed in the Baroque Chapel of the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague at the workshop “Space meets Culture: Discovering and Preserving Cultural Heritage from Space”, organised by […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
5 February 2024
Brussels, exhibitions and concerts to remember Andrea Pazienza

The Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels presents “Ci vuole Pazienza”, a series of events centred on the Italian comics legend, Andrea Pazienza. One of the greatest representatives of the Italian artistic world of the 1970s and 1980s, who died prematurely at the age of 32, Andrea Pazienza recounted the contradictions of his generation through his […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
31 January 2024
First Italian language course inaugurated in a university in Jeddah

The University of Business and Technology (UBT) in Jeddah, one of Saudi Arabia’s leading universities, has inaugurated an Italian language course. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Consul General of Italy in Jeddah and promoter of the initiative, Leonardo Costa, the University’s Chairman and owner, Professor Abdullah S. Dahlan, and the highest academic institutions. […]

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Diplomatic Network
25 January 2024
Visit by Ambassador Giuseppina Zarra to Plovdiv, Bulgaria

The Italian Ambassador to Sofia Giuseppina Zarra recently visited Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city after the capital, to meet with the local authorities. During her visit, the Ambassador was accompanied by the Italian Honorary Consul in Plovdiv, Giuseppe De Francesco, and the President of Confindustria Bulgaria, Roberto Santorelli. Ambassador Zarra met with Regional Administrator Iliya […]

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Press Releases
25 January 2024
Tripodi: UNESCO is a key pillar of Italian cultural diplomacy

Italy’s Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maria Tripodi today opened the Assembly of the National Commission for UNESCO at the Farnesina. Reaffirming Italy’s unwavering adherence to the precious values embraced by UNESCO, Tripodi expressed her full appreciation for the work performed by the Italian National Commission under the leadership of President Franco Bernabè. […]

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