Gibellina is the first Italian capital of contemporary art

It is Gibellina, with the project Portami il futuro, the first Italian capital of contemporary art, the title introduced this year by the Ministry of Culture. The city prevailed over the other four finalists: Carrara (with the project Carrara - For 2,000 years contemporary), Gallarate(La Cultura del Fare. Il Fare della Cultura), Pescara(Pescara città contemporanea - Una porta aperta ai sogni), and Todi(Ponte contemporaneo). The finalists were selected from 23 cities that had applied.

The motivations of the jury for Gibellina’s victory: “The first Italian capital of contemporary art, with its candidacy, offers our country an organic and solid project, delivering to today’s Italy an exemplary model of cultural intervention based on values and actions that recognize to art a social function and to culture the status of common good. For its planning ability in reactivating its extraordinary heritage of works, combining the present, memory and future, preservation and enhancement, attention to the local and international ambition, for its involvement of the younger generations and of the entire citizenry, questioning the broader territory on the basis of a common civic awareness, forging alliances with public and private, national and transnational institutions, for being a city pioneer of what we now call urban regeneration, and for its ability to be both a city of work and a city to be lived in, for its project by which the city will become a great laboratory, where the practices and theenergy of contemporary art will be called upon to share thoughts and solutions on issues of public space, community, landscape, sustainability, and the capacious concept of legacy.”

The winner was announced this morning in Rome at the Ministry of Culture headquarters in Sala Spadolini this morning, in the presence of Minister Alessandro Giuli and Director General Contemporary Creativity Angelo Piero Cappello and Jury President Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. The finalists presented their dossiers in public hearings last October 25: the hearings were also held in Sala Spadolini at the ministry.

The winning city now gets one million euros funded by the Ministry of Culture with the aim of completing the projects indicated in the dossier by 2026.

Image: Gibellina, Burri’s cretto. Photo: Wikimedia/Boobax

Gibellina is the first Italian capital of contemporary art

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