OPEN CALL
rit·m·i Art Residency at Alle Ortiche June 2025.
Alle Ortiche invita artist3 e collettivi a candidarsi a rit·m·i : la residenza artistica in programma dal 18 al 27 giugno, in vista della settima edizione di Alle Ortiche Festival. La residenza artistica rit·m·i avrà luogo all’interno del Centro Culturale Ambientale Alle Ortiche ed è curata da Alle Ortiche in collaborazione con Florìda e ife collective.

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MARCH - EXHIBITION
MARCH 27 h 6.30 pm
Thursday, 03/27, from h. 18.30, Florìda invites you to the return of TimeScape, a month-long artistic residency with Nabil Aniss and Cecilia Danesi, curated by Elettra Bottazzi.   Moving images and volumetric structures tell a subjective and porous time where emotion and logic collide. Nabil Aniss presents his video installation, “The Text Must Remain the Same,” while Cecilia Danesi returns her design part with the installation of “Unstable Geometries, in an Endless Time.”  We look forward to seeing the fruit of this month of research.

The art residency and its programming are realized with the support of the call for proposals “Guidelines for Projects in Contemporary Culture 2024.”

MEET THE ARTIST
MARCH 6, h 6 to 9 pm
On Thursday, March 6, from 6 to 9 p.m., artist Nabil Aniss and curator Elettra Bottazzi will present a series of video installations in Florida. This is an opportunity to explore Aniss's artistic practice and delve into the themes that will be covered during his TimeScape residency. 

1 - Don’t comment on existence - 18 min
2 - Excavation of Betrayal - 13 min
3 - الحال و المحال - ثلاثية -  The condition and the impossible - a trilogy - 17min

OPEN CALL
TimeScape Art Residency at FLORÌDA March 2025.
Florìda invites artists to apply for a residency during March 2025 in the fascinating cultural scene of Genoa, Italy, with the aim of carrying out artistic research. TimeScape is a research-based residency led by curator Elettra Bottazzi, and hosted at Florìda, an independent cultural space, dedicated to the promotion and creation of contemporary art.

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Picture: art by Daniela Corrias

REPORT - SMALL TALKS

SMALL TALK is a meeting program designed by Florìda to create a space for free expression, an unconventional opportunity for peer-to-peer discussion, in which each participant could express his or her opinion without fear of judgment, hierarchies or roles. The goal was to foster an authentic and direct dialogue. Guest artists introduced themes inspired by their research, offering insights and raising questions that stimulated free and spontaneous conversations.

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DECEMBER - SMALL TALKS

DECEMBER 17 h 7.30 pm
On Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 7:30 p.m., you are invited to the last event of SMALLTALK! of 2024: a dialogue dinner to the beat of a timer. Sitting at the table with us will be Luís Costa (PT), a Portuguese artist and cultural activist engaged in projects related to sound, water, and rural territories.

The dialogue will be mainly in Italian, but we do not disdain other idioms. It is realized with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo's “Participation at the Center” call for proposals. 

Admission is open to all up to a maximum of 25 people; reservations are welcome and recommended.

DECEMBER - EXHIBITION
DECEMBER 14 h 6.30 pm
Florìda invites you to discover what was created during Sue Kim and Alice Rissotto's month-long artistic residency. The artists have experimented in parallel with materials, findings, constructions and reworkings that develop in space and time, assisted by the curatorship of Federica Balletto. On Saturday, you can meet them and delve into their research through three installations made especially for Florìda.

NOVEMBER - OPENSTUDIO
NOVEMBER 28 h 6.30 pm
Florìda opens its doors and invites you to immerse yourself in the artistic practice of Sue Kim (KOR) and Alice Rissotto (IT). The two artists are waiting for a chat, a cup of tea or a glass of wine and introduce you to their work, artistic practice and projects in development during this residency. 

OCTOBER - SMALL TALKS

OCTOBER 29 h 7.30 pm
Florìda invites you to participate in SMALLTALK this time curated by @gerolamore and @gelatina_genova who will offer a convivial gastronomic experience on the mechanisms of approaching sexuality.

Following historical and sociological research, we will go to analyze the current residue of moral variables between modesty, religion, ritual and politics. Gerolamore's gastronomic research will be joined by Martina Francesconi's ice cream master skills through an evocative menu that will stimulate discussion around the theme of sexuality and what remains of its historical legacies.

Admission is free and open to all up to the maximum number of 25 people. Reservations are appreciated.

SEPTEMBER - EXHIBITION
SEPTEMBER 7,  h 6.30 pm
After the summer break, Florìda opens its doors and is proud to invite you to the presentation “Why would an astronomer one day pick a flower?” A collaborative research project by Chiara Bertin and Caterina Giansiracusa, cross-border artists and researchers, takes its life from the optical experiments carried out by Mary Somerville in 1845.
The return at Florìda delves into her research on the light spectrum and plant juices, transforming her discoveries into a choral and poetic visual narrative, where vision, printmaking and rewrites of minor stories are intertwined in an intentionally personal perspective. 

SEPTEMBER - SMALL TALKS

SEPTEMBER 5, h 7.30 pm
Florìda invites you to SMALLTALK! A dialogue dinner to the rhythm of the timer, curated by Chiara Bertin and Caterina Giansiracusa, our artists-in-residence.

Along with the food, some topics of conversation will be served, and an invitation will be made to discuss what it means to imprint a sign of one's own passage and how to recover some now blurred signals for the construction of new personal perspective visions.

The menu will be vegetarian and consistent with the research developed by the artists in residence at Florìda. The dialogue will be mainly in Italian, but we do not disdain other idioms. It is realized with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo's "Participation at the Center" call for proposals.

Admission is open to all, but reservations are appreciated.

JUNE - EXHIBITION
JUNE 25, h 7.30 pm
On Tuesday, June 25, at 6 p.m., Florìda will open its doors once again to show the work carried out this month by the three artists in residence, for the residency project LOOK OVER THE EDGE.  Anna Rotaenko, Valeria Moro e Nicolò Minisi will present their site-specific research projects and installations that speak of territory, urban landscapes, transformation & migrations.
We are waiting for you!

JUNE - SMALL TALKS

JUNE 5 h 7.30 pm
Florìda invites you to join a dinner in dialogue with artists-in-residence Valeria Moro and Anna Rotaenko. We will discuss narratives and identities in the territory. Participants are invited to dialogue as equals, comparing experiences and points of view, seated at the same table—food curated by Luca Conte, an artist and gastronomist. The event will be held in a mixed Italian and English dialogue. The event is realized with the support of the “Participation at the Center” call for proposals from Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

JUNE AiR_LOOK OVER THE EDGE
LOOK OVER THE EDGE AiR project, see guested in the program at Florìda the artist @rotaenko @valeriamoro__ @nicolominisi. The program is supported by Culture Moves Europe @culturemoveseurope, funded by @creative.eu and implemented by the Goethe-Institut @goetheinstitut

DIGGING IN TO THE SPACE - FLORÌDA 2023

A publication encompassing the summary of activities during Florìda's first year is now available.

You will find many images of works by the artists we had the opportunity to host, as well as some moments and reflections on the creation of the space and our mission. If you would be interested, write to us by email or drop by the studio.

MARCH - EXHIBITION
On Tuesday, March 26, at 6 p.m., Florìda will open its doors once again to show the work carried out this month by the two artists in residence.

Elisabetta Cameli and Francesca Migliorin will present Mappa del Sensibile and Pròteo, two site-specific research projects and installations that speak of encounters, transformations, and relationships with place.

We are waiting for you!

OPEN CALL - FLORÌDA AiR June 2024
Florìda is pleased to invite all artists over 18 to apply for a residency during June 2024 in the fascinating cultural scene of Genoa, Italy. With the aim of carrying out artistic production and research within an independent cultural space, dedicated to the promotion and creation of contemporary art.
DEADLINE 15 APRIL 2024
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MARCH - SMALL TALKS

MARCH 14 h 7.30 pm 

We propose an informal dialogue on contemporary issues supported by images and conviviality. Once again, we will sit around and set the table (as much as possible) to discuss cross-cutting themes across practices and professions with few hierarchies, if not a tyrant-timer! Elisabetta Cameli will introduce the topics of the dinner.

FEBRUARY - SMALL TALKS

FEBRUARY 4 h 7.30 pm
Divago has arrived in Florìda! ...and we take the opportunity to sit around a table -or something similar- and inaugurate the 2024 Small Talks. Same convivial formula: 3 courses and 3 topics of free discussion, we chat and discuss the topics of participation, revaluation and inclusion. The opening this timee is proposed by the curatorial duo @mixta_____ , founders and promoters of the Via del Campo contemporary art festival, while among the diners may be some of the artists who will participate in the third edition of @divagofestival__ , scheduled for September, currently in residence, committed to exploring the territory and deepening their research.

NEW OPEN CALL TO PARTICIPATE TO FLORÌDA AiR

The opportunity to apply for a one-month residency during March at Florìda is now open. Two calls are available, one for residents outside Genoa and one dedicated to young local artists. 

Call for applications deadline February 12 

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DECEMBER - EXHIBITION

DECEMBER 15, 5 pm -  10pm  

Luca Conte presents a hybrid collection investigating the depths of instincts. It is a contemporary story distinguished by holes in the water and embodied mythologies—a hospitable, warm, and public service followed by a stony first course. 

It's an inseparable end in the presence of a sweet monster, guardian of a collection of fountains.

NOVEMBER - MEETING WITH THE AUTHOR

NOVEMBER 26, 5 pm

Florìda is pleased to host the presentation of the volume "INDISTINCTION, Tre
movimenti dell’arte sulla guerra." 

Laura Lecce moderated a conversation between the author, Vincenzo Estremo, and Andrea Staid.

NOVEMBER - SMALL TALKS

NOVEMBER 16, 7.30 pm

It's small talk and dinner at Florìda this Thursday, November 16, at h.7.30 pm.

Taking advantage of the culinary art of Luca Conte, in residence at Florìda for this month, we will talk about the sea and food, sitting around a table, changing topics as the dishes on the table change. Everyone is welcome to join.

OCTOBER - XIX GIORNATA DEL CONTEMPORANEO

October 7, h 6-8 p.m.

For the 19th Day of the Contemporary, on Saturday, Oct. 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. Florìda opens the doors at Piazzetta dei Fregoso 2R to invite you to enter the workshop and see the site-specific installation created by Ivana Radovanovic during her residency period at the studio.

SEPTEMBER - EXHIBITION

September 13, h 6.30 p.m.

Join us on Wednesday for a double exhibition in the Florìda spaces. Ivana
Radovanović and Lorenzo Ramos will be presenting their site-specific installations titled "Roots Column" and "Fallacio's Grazing" in Piazzetta dei Fregoso 2r. The exhibition will also be open on September 14 and 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. We hope to see you there!

APRIL - POP_UP EXHIBITION

COSA FAI PONCHARLLO by UN TAL GARCIA

April 14, h. 6 p.m.

Acò Garcìa, an Argentine artist-traveler, finds inspiration and cultivates relationships around the world, which becomes his home and a pretext for exploring new languages. The traces of his travels are expressed by the movement of his brushes through large, sometimes monumental, automatic paintings.

Once rolled up, her canvases become carry-on luggage, full of emotions and meanings ready to be displayed on the next stop of her journey.

APRIL -  EXHIBITION

DI BESTIE UOMINI E DEI by NICCOLO MASINI

March 24, h. 6 p.m.

Acò Garcìa, an Argentine artist-traveler, finds inspiration and cultivates relationships around the world, which becomes his home and a pretext for exploring new languages. The traces of his travels are expressed by the movement of his brushes through large, sometimes monumental, automatic paintings.

Once rolled up, her canvases become carry-on luggage, full of emotions and meanings ready to be displayed on the next stop of her journey.