Project

Our Activities

We organise educational activities, events and initiatives on contemporary art, collaborations with artists and scholars, education and training bodies, seminars and conferences in several Italian cities.

pollino

With its 180,000 hectares of land, the Pollino National Park is the largest protected area in Italy.

artwork

Art, artworks and artists are interpreted from a different conceptual perspective, starting from the direct comparison with the environment.

itineraries

Discover our tourist itineraries

Val Sarmento

The Valley of Frido
The Valley of Sinni and Mercure

Eco-tourism itineraries

association

ArtePollino

ArtePollino association was established in February 2008 in order to promote cultural growth in the Pollino National Park, fostering every kind of artistic expression, mostly contemporary. 

ArtePollino 2022

Art and nature

April - June 2022

ANTONIO ROVALDI and FRANCESCO PEDRINI
On the move 

CITTADELLARTE – PISTOLETTO FOUNDATION
Third Paradise
Secondo Rebirth Forum nel Pollino

CELESTE RIGHI RICCO with IRENE GHALEB
Advocacy for the Future

CESVI FOUNDATION and BORA MUSEUM
We can’t change the wind, but we can try

LUCY + JORGE ORTA with director DAVID BICKERSTAFF
A walk across Pollino

CHIARA RIZZI, SILVANA KUHTZ, SAVERIO MASSARO and SILVIA PARENTINI
ABC. Workshops of Living Beauty Together

 

Presentation of audiovisual works and activities in Matera

drawing the collective map of Basilicata

KA ART

The passion and determination we have shown, in every single phase of our work, were recognised and rewarded, enabling ArtePollino to be selected as one of the 27 project leaders, which will implement 50% of the cultural programme of Matera 2019 European Capital of Culture.
Ka art is our proposal and programme aimed at drawing the collective map of Basilicata.

Anish Kapoor, Carsten Höller, Giuseppe Penone and, for the local communities’ project, Claudia Losi, Anni Rapinoja, Nils-Udo and Mario Brunello are artists who express, each with their own perception, a new way of looking at the territory, out of the traditional modes of representation and portrayal.

Art, artworks and artists are interpreted from a different conceptual perspective, starting from the direct comparison with the environment, which goes beyond the physical and natural dimension of a territory and become something to be reinterpreted and given new meanings using the terms of the language of art.

The association, established by the “ArtePollino Un Altro Sud” (Artepollino, Another South) project, has as its main goal the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art and, in particular, the relationship between art and nature, in the hinterland.

We organise educational activities, events and initiatives on contemporary art, collaborations with artists and scholars, education and training bodies, seminars and conferences in several Italian cities.

press

Pubblications

The two books – “Ka art, drawing the collective map of Basilicata” (edited by Katia Anguelova) and ‘Portraits of Humanity’ (written by Elvira Dones and illustrated by Marco Cazzato) – are now available.

Activities carried out after project’s end

After the end of the “ArtePollino Another South” project, the association had many opportunities to keep talking about it during workshops and conferences in several Italian cities, as well as festivals, radio and TV programmes, and at Academies of Fine Arts.

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