Contemporary art en plein air

An open-air art installation project

Arte Sella was born in an experimental form in 1986, when a group of friends living in Borgo Valsugana met in Val di Sella, in the garden of Villa Strobele, to imagine combining contemporary art and nature.

It is a programme composed of educational initiatives to foster and support learning for the future. A unique creative process between different artistic languages, sensitivities and inspirations through a dialogue between creativity and the natural world.

A place where art, nature and ethics meet

Horti is a 35,000 square metre park that the Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia has redeveloped as a public space where natural habitat, contemporary art and social inclusion intertwine. This area, once dedicated to cultivation for the Collegio's students, is now a place for sociality, creativity and the interweaving of knowledge.

The open-air museum in the Peccioli landfill

The Peccioli landfill handles more than 1,000 tonnes of waste every day, mainly from Pisa, Lucca, Massa and Livorno, but often also from the rest of Tuscany. The plant, managed by the company Belvedere Spa, uses its revenues to finance artistic projects, such as shows, concerts, congresses, as well as the realisation of 2 amphitheatres and the artwork ‘I giganti’; an open-air museum is thus created in the landfill of a small Tuscan village.

A contemporary art festival in the heart of the Dolomites

Biennale Gherdëina is a contemporary art festival in Val Gardena, based on the exchange between people, plants, minerals, stories, languages and traditions. Nature and local culture meet the international art community to imagine and build a sustainable future.

Artistic renovation of rural artefacts 

Barch Art aims at the artistic renovation of rural artefacts related to haymaking (barch) in the plain of Fonzaso (BL) emphasising their historical roots, histories and biographies of the owners.

The creation of a pedestrian-cycling route will emphasise the artistic itinerary by enhancing the community, accommodation and commercial activities, and building a network of links with nearby land art realities such as Arte Sella. The Barch become the visual goal of an artistic composition that will be executed along the observation axis between the cycle-pedestrian road and the traditional agricultural artefact, transforming the landscape into a land art installation.

The artist poet ivan (Ivan Tresoldi), through the technique of anamorphosis, will transform the Barch into artistic installations, inspired by the power of collective memory and the comparison with the people of Fonzaso thanks to the documentation collected by Dr Daniela Perco (anthropologist).

Located at the foot of Aspromonte, the MuSaBa in Mammola is a former monastery in the municipality of Mammola, in the province of Reggio Calabria. Since 1969 it has housed the Musaba contemporary art park-museum created by artists Nik Spatari and Hiske Maas. 

‘Landandart’ - going for art, between tradition and contemporaneity - proposes a series of nature trails designed to introduce visitors to the evocative landscapes of the Piedmontese hills of the “other Langa”, the more hidden and wilder Langa, where Mondovì and Vicoforte stand out, discovering historical places and chapels, embellished by site-specific interventions by artists active on the international scene.

A park inhabited by fantastical creatures

A work by artist Niki de Saint Phalle in Capalbio. The garden is located within an olive grove and is accessed through an entrance pavilion designed by Mario Botta. It is a spectacular space populated by figures inspired by tarot cards.