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UROBÒRI
20-22 march
Fondazione Elpis, Milan
In-ruins curates 3 days of talks, performances and workshops exploring the interdisciplinary field emerging from the encounter between contemporary art and archaeology.
UROBÒRI emerges as an extension of rasotèrra, the theme of the public presentation of the In-ruins 2025 residency in Canosa di Puglia, which concluded last October and was organized in collaboration with Fondazione Elpis. Rasotèrra explored the threshold between what surfaces and what remains hidden, approaching the landscape through practices of excavation and producing site-specific interventions alongside narrative, filmic and sonic works. From this condition emerges the image of the ouroboros: a crawling animal, a body that moves close to the ground, listening to the terrain. The serpent biting its own tail – both cosmic and telluric figure – holds together what returns, what survives and what transforms. Within the ouroboros coexist ancient time and imminent future, organic matter and symbolic trace: a figure that allows us to read contemporaneity as a field of overlaps, frictions and returns. Hence the plural form, because this image cracks, doubles and multiplies. The three-day program unfolds through practices of storytelling, listening and exchange. The first day focuses on the In-ruins residency, with screenings and collective listening sessions with Nabil Aniss, Benedetta Fioravanti and Giuseppe Di Liberto, followed by a conversation between Savannah Sather Marquardt and Steffi Stouri on the relationship between curating, research and archaeological context. The day concludes with the live sound performance Promenade – Reverse by Ramona Ponzini. The following sessions bring together theoretical contributions by Nastassja Simensky, Giuliano De Felice, Massimo Maiorino and Vincenzo Estremo, addressing themes such as the archaeology of the contemporary, the artist as archaeologist and the role of the museum and the copy. The program concludes with the performance L’assente by Miranda Secondari and the Prophetic Writing Workshop led by Bartolomeo Cafarella, curated by Esposizione Sud-Est.
PIA school:
Capriola art week 2026
In-ruins joins PIA school for the 2026 edition of their yearly art week in Lecce.
Capriola | an art week in Lecce is a contemporary art festival curated by PIA School that brings together independent art spaces, curators, and artists from Italy and abroad. The 2025 edition (6–9 December), the sixth of the festival, took place between the Museo Castromediano and the former Convento degli Agostiniani, transforming the city into an open laboratory of talks, workshops, screenings, and exhibitions. The program hosted ten independent organizations – including Locales (Rome), Arteco and Mucho Mas (Turin), Unpae (Pescara), Post Disaster (Taranto), Closing Soon (Greece), Marea Art Project (Praiano), In-Ruins (Soverato), Queer Market and Le Cummari (Lecce) – engaging with themes such as ecology, education, landscape, sustainability, and mobility.
Disseminazioni
"Intersezioni: arte contemporanea e archeologia"
In-ruins share its stories and methodologies in the context of the ongoing series "Disseminazioni" held at Museo Archeologico di Pontecagnano (SA) and coordinated by Fondazione Menna.
On 13 November 2025 the Museo archeologico nazionale di Pontecagnano hosted a new appointment of the public programme Coltivare idee, organised within the project Disseminazioni. Indagini artistiche e archeologiche del vivente nel paesaggio degli Etruschi di frontiera, promoted by the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Campania and supported by Il Museo Rigenera, an initiative of the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of the Ministero della Cultura. The seminar, titled Intersezioni: archeologia e arte contemporanea, explored the encounter between archaeological research and contemporary artistic practice through the experience of In-ruins, our nomadic residency and research programme. Introduced by museum director Serena De Caro and coordinated by Stefania Zuliani of the Fondazione Filiberto e Bianca Menna, the event brought together In-ruins director Nicola Guastamacchia and curator Nicola Nitido in dialogue with scholars Gianpaolo Cacciottolo and Michele Scafuro of the Università degli Studi di Salerno, reflecting on how artistic research can intersect with archaeological inquiry to generate new forms of knowledge and territorial engagement.
Restare/Abitare: pratiche generative nel Centro-Sud Italia
In-ruins is part of a symposium at MACTE Museum, dedicated to curatorial art practices from the South of Italy.
Curated by Irene Angenica, this two-day program (October 10–11, 2025) at the MACTE Museum in Termoli brings together six collective initiatives from Central and Southern Italy - Collettivo damp, In-ruins, Le Fonticelle, TAM – Tower Art Museum, Unpae, and VOGA Art Project - founded around 2020 and active within their local communities. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s call to “stay with the trouble,” the project promotes dialogue and reflection through two sessions. By hosting these groups, MACTE positions itself as an active, listening institution that supports and amplifies community-based artistic practices across the territories.
Italia Land of Beauty
Archeofuturo APS, the no-profit organization behind In-ruins, received the patronage of Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza.
The association Archeofuturo APS is honored to have received the patronage of the Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza ETS, an institution dedicated to promoting projects across Italy that valorize beauty - including cultural-artistic activities, landscape care, education, territorial development, musealization and craft or agro-food initiatives. By aligning with the Foundation’s mission and criteria - such as coherence with the theme of beauty, cultural value, community engagement, continuity and a readiness for communication strategy - Archeofuturo evidences its rootedness in territory and capacity for generative practice. Through this patronage (which, while symbolic, allows use of the Foundation’s logo and inclusion in its initiatives) Archeofuturo APS both gains institutional acknowledgement and is further empowered to enact its mission of transforming heritage into living creative spaces.
If you move something happens
In-ruins is partner of the project by Giulia Currà \ Italian Council 13th edition
Friday, May 16th, 7:30 PM AFFETTATO Disaffection on the terrace with Maria Luigia Gioffrè at Casacicca Museum. "We must inhabit absence with Christmas lights, find ourselves in the constant advent of desire.
I fell in love with someone who isn’t there, so my heart quivers at every nonsense before I fall asleep.”
Pakkiane
Workshop by Alice Minervini \
Magica Mistica Musica festival
The workshop will play around the imaginary of ‘pakkiana’ typical costume of calabrian women, by creating an archive of materials and sentiments that will be activated during the workshop. Starting from a narration of stories and photographs of participants, the workshop will propose a collective moment of setting up accessories, make-up and costume outfits inspired by the ‘pakkiana’, deconstructing patriarchal femininity and politics of taste. How to rewrite these disappearing traditions and reclaim a ‘pakkiana’ realm as part of transfeminist and intersectional agenda? Alice Minervini aka pakkiana is an artist and writer based between Italy and London.
39° Nord 16°30’ Est
Fondazione Elpis, Milan
From 2 to 24 March 2024 Fondazione Elpis presents the exhibition project 39° North 16°3' Est, a narration that, starting from the geographical coordinates of Calabria, unfolds through two exhibitions: Symposium, a group exhibition of the outcomes of the In-ruins artistic residency held in 2023 at the Archaeological Park of Sibari and the National Archaeological Museum of Amendolara, featuring the works of Arie Amaya-Akkermans, Simon DeReyer Bellouard, Cañadas & Murua, Beatrice Celli, Akshay Mahajan, Matilde Sambo and Traslochi Emotivi, and the solo exhibition 'Nziembru, which presents a series of previously unseen works by artist Fabrizio Bellomo. The project will be inaugurated on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 March with a programme of talks, performances and workshops aimed at introducing and deepening the contents of the exhibition starting from the works and testimonies of the participating artists.
Selected residency hosts!
Culture Moves Europe
In-ruins was selected as a recipient of the European Union and Goethe-Institut’s grant for residency hosts, as part of a prestigious initiative supporting emerging models of cultural production across Europe. This recognition enabled In-ruins to further develop its research-based residency program, fostering dialogue between contemporary artistic practices and archaeological heritage. The grant supported the expansion of international collaborations, the deepening of interdisciplinary approaches, and the creation of new site-specific works engaging critically with Mediterranean histories and landscapes.
On Saturday, August 31, and Sunday, September 1, at 11:00 AM, the sixth edition of Supercondominio will take place in the halls of the Centro Polifunzionale in Rittana (CN). This assembly of European spaces dedicated to the production and promotion of contemporary art originated at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, which hosted the first five editions. For the first time, it is supported by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, marking a new and expanded European dimension for the event.
Supercondominio 5, 2023
Castello di Rivoli
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art hosts Supercondominio 5 — this year under the title "Beyond the Absolute Threshold" — inviting some of the most significant Italian organizations dedicated to artistic production and curatorial practice. Taking its name from a type of building in which multiple structures share common assets, Supercondominio is envisioned as a model of coexistence rooted in interpersonal relationships and mutual understanding.
La residenza come ponte tra antico e contemporaneo
Istituto di Archeologia, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia
Presentation of the project to the students of the Institute of Archaeology, Department of Humanities.
Coordination: Prof. Cristina Tonghini.
Book presentation: Archivalia
Casa degli Artisti, Milan
Presentation tour of the Archivalia book series.
Book presentation: Archivalia
Paint it Black, Turin
Presentation tour of the Archivalia book series.
Talk series \ 2022
The series is focused on artists and researchers looking at the relation of contemporary art and archaeology in the context of the Mediterranean landscape and its traditions
Talk series \ 2021
Julia Wolf, Célia Hay, Davide Meneghello, Andrea Giomi, Filippo Lorenzin and Guildor
The series introduces artists and researchers who reframe archaeology with their work, unveiling new perspectives to look at the term and its meanings
Open fields
Online exhibition
Curated by Dobroslawa Nowak and Nicola Nitido, with Harley Price, Lidia Bianchi and Sarah Roberts.
