Exhibitions and events at Lecce

A Modern Prometheus. Costas Varotsos on display in Lecce

From June 29, 2024 to January 15, 2025, the works of the great Greek artist Costas Varotsos (Athens, 1955) are on display in Puglia, and to be precise at the Sigismondo Castromediano Museum in Lecce, where the exhibition Elpís is being held. P...
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At the Biscozzi Rimbaud Foundation in Lecce, Yuval Avital's sacred forest

Yuval Avital's exhibition Lucus, curated by Massimo Guastella, opened at the Biscozzi | Rimbaud Foundation in Lecce. For the Foundation, the artist conceived and realized a site-specific project inspired by the sacred forest, the lucus, dear to the a...
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Castromediano Museum dedicates an exhibition to Paolo Emilio Stasi, painter and archaeologist in Terra d'Otranto

The Castromediano Museum in Lecce hosts from December 22, 2022 to January 31, 2023 the exhibition Paolo Emilio Stasi. Painter and Archaeologist in the Terra d'Otranto between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, promoted by the Lecce Biblio-museum...
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Lecce, a small exhibition to trace the entire career of Grazia Varisco

From October 9, 2022 to January 8, 2023, the Biscozzi Rimbaud Foundation in Lecce is organizing an exhibition dedicated to Grazia Varisco(Milan, Italy, 1937) entitled Grazia Varisco. Perceptual Sensitivities, the third temporary exhibition held sinc...
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Lecce, at the Biscozzi Rimbaud Foundation the solo exhibition of sculptor Salvatore Sava

Until September 25, 2022, the exhibition Salvatore Sava. The Other Sculpture, a solo exhibition by Salvatore Sava (Surbo, 1966), one of the most interesting sculptors of his generation in Italy. Surrounding two works by Sava that are part of the Foun...
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At the Castromediano Museum in Lecce, Alec von Bargen's installation dedicated to the homeless

From Aug. 20 to Sept. 14, the Castromediano Museum in Lecce will become an agora, a stage, a place of sociality by opening its indoor and outdoor spaces (including windows and walls!) to Tempora Contempora #2, the second edition of a Focus on the lan...
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Forty years after Lisetta Carmi moved to Puglia, Lecce dedicates an anthological exhibition to her

The rooms of the Carlo V Castle in Lecce will host from May 6 to September 5, 2021 the exhibition Lisetta Carmi. The Others, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Giovanni Battista Martini and Alessandro Zechini. The anthological exhibition of Lisetta Car...
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Lecce hosts exhibition on the Nativity by Nicola Ancona, a contemporary painter who draws on the great artists of art history

On December 23, 2019, the exhibition The Nativity, from Caravaggio to Tiepolo, opened at the Chiostro del Seminario in Lecce. The exhibition, open until Jan. 2, 2020, showcases the works of Nicola Ancona (1950), a restorer and lecturer from Puglia, w...
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