Italian Council 5th Edition Winners Announced, 6th Edition Opens with €1.7M
Italy's DGAAP, part of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, has revealed the six recipients of the fifth edition of the Italian Council: Francesco Arena, Riccardo Benassi, Filippo Berta, Armin Linke, Antonio Rovaldi, and Anita Sieff. This initiative supports projects from museums, cultural associations, and non-profits aimed at fostering contemporary Italian art. The sixth edition has commenced with a budget of €1,700,000, which now includes provisions for talent development and international outreach. Minister Alberto Bonisoli remarked, "Italian Council is renewing itself." Applications for this edition will be accepted starting April 5, 2019, until the deadline of May 27, 2019. The winning projects feature Arena's "Anello," Berta's "One by One," Benassi's "Morestalgia," Rovaldi's "End," Linke's "Immagini e testi," and Sieff's "Simposio sull'amore 2019."
Key facts
- Six winners of the fifth Italian Council edition: Francesco Arena, Riccardo Benassi, Filippo Berta, Armin Linke, Antonio Rovaldi, Anita Sieff.
- Sixth edition launched with €1,700,000 in funding.
- Italian Council is run by DGAAP under Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
- First two years funded 34 projects with €3 million.
- Applications for sixth edition open April 5, 2019, deadline May 27, 2019.
- Projects must involve international collaboration and cannot exceed 80% of total costs.
- Francesco Arena's 'Anello' at Parco Archeologico del Colosseo includes a bronze ring with Virginia Woolf quote.
- Filippo Berta's 'One by One' at GAMeC Bergamo involves counting barbed wire spines at borders.
- Riccardo Benassi's 'Morestalgia' at Museion Bolzano is a multimedia work on nostalgia.
- Antonio Rovaldi's 'End. Words from the margins, New York City' at GAMeC Bergamo explores New York's edges.
- Armin Linke's project at Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea uses his photographic archive.
- Anita Sieff's 'Simposio sull'amore 2019' at MADRE Naples reinterprets Plato's Symposium.
Entities
Artists
- Francesco Arena
- Riccardo Benassi
- Filippo Berta
- Armin Linke
- Antonio Rovaldi
- Anita Sieff
- Alberto Bonisoli
- Virginia Woolf
- John Berger
- Plato
- Francesca Benedetto
Institutions
- DGAAP – Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura Contemporanee e Periferie Urbane
- Ministero dei Beni Culturali
- Parco Archeologico del Colosseo
- IIC Barcellona
- Nomas Foundation Onlus
- Dipartimento Scienze Sociali – Sapienza Università di Roma
- GAMeC di Bergamo
- Associazione Culturale Xing
- ZKM | Zentrum fur Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
- CAC | Centre d’Art Contemporain Genéve
- IIC Melbourne
- Kunstlerhaus Bethanien
- Museion Bolzano
- Associazione per la Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo Onlus
- Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
- Magazzino Italian Art
- Harvard University Graduate School of Design
- Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea
- Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz
- Centre de la Photographie Geneve
- Museo Nazionale di Fotografia Marubi di Scutari
- Fondazione Volume!
- IIC Mosca
- MADRE di Napoli
- Artribune
Locations
- Italy
- Rome
- Palatino
- Barcelona
- Bergamo
- Bolzano
- Karlsruhe
- Geneva
- Melbourne
- Berlin
- St. Gallen
- Switzerland
- New York City
- USA
- Cinisello Balsamo
- Florence
- Scutari
- Algeria
- Naples
- Moscow
- Serbia
- Croatia
- Hungary
- Macedonia
- Turkey
- Greece
- Bulgaria
- South Korea
- North Korea
- Mexico
- United States