Lecture Performance

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 7:30 pm

What role can art play in political activism?

Free admission, no booking required, in English


Alessandra Pomarico, curator and author, and Nikolai Oleynikov, artist, talk about artists’ engagement in the struggle against Porsche’s track expansion in Apulia. They will share insights from Free Home University, their artistic-pedagogical initiative in Salento.


Oliver Ressler. Scenes from the Invention of Democracy
24 September 2025 - 1 March 2026

Oliver Ressler. Scenes from the Invention of Democracy

‘What is Democracy?’ This is the question at the centre of Oliver Ressler's eponymous video installation from 2009, for which he interviewed activists and analysts around the world. In view of climate change and the rise of the right in Europe, the question of political participation is as urgent as ever. Ressler’s new work, presented here for the first time, also deals with protest, in this case against the planned expansion of a car testing track that threatens a forest in Apulia, a drought-stricken region in Italy.


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