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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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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Poland: meeting of Sistema Italia to strengthen synergies
The Ambassador of Italy to Poland, Luca Franchetti Pardo, chaired a meeting of Sistema Italia involving the Italian Trade Agency (ICE), the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Poland, Confindustria Polonia, AICE Poland, and COMITES, which took place at the Embassy. The meeting represented a key step in the process of planning the promotional activities of […]
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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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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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First meeting of Sistema Italia in Switzerland
The first meeting of Sistema Italia in Switzerland was held in Bern with the participation of the organisations responsible for promoting the Italian presence in the Swiss Confederation. It was an important opportunity for discussion to share the overall strategy for the promotion of the Italian presence in Switzerland for 2024, a year that promises […]
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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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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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Italy pays homage to the three journalists killed in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Thirty years after the death in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the city of Mostar, of Marco Luchetta, Alessandro Saša Ota and Dario D’Angelo – three journalists from the Friuli Venezia Giulia branch of the Italian public broadcasting company RAI – killed by a mortar shell on 28 January 1994 while they were filming a report […]
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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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