Saturday, October 4, 2025 will mark the 21st edition of Giornata del Contemporaneo, the major annual event promoted by AMACI, with the support of the Ministry of Culture’s Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity and in collaboration with the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
For the 21st consecutive year, the 26 museums that are part of AMACI, along with more than a thousand public and private entities spread throughout Italy, will welcome visitors free of charge , offering a special program that includes exhibitions, workshops, events and initiatives both in-person and online. The goal is to bring an increasingly wide and transversal audience closer tocontemporary art.
As has been the case in recent editions, this year the event will also cross national borders, continuing until October 10, 2025 with the project Giornata del Contemporaneo | Italian Contemporary Art. Thanks to the collaboration with MAECI ’s diplomatic-consular network - Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes - the initiative will allow the promotion of Italian contemporary art in the world.
The common thread of the 2025 edition will be education, understood as a complex and shared path that includes education, research, comparison and experience. A reflection born in continuity with the study day organized by AMACI last March and shared by the directors of AMACI member museums.
It also continues the tradition, inaugurated in 2006, of entrusting an artist or a collective with the creation of the initiative’s guiding image. That of the 2025 edition will be by the collective Atelier dell’Errore (AdE). Founded in 2015 by Luca Santiago Mora, Atelier dell’Errore is now a collective of twelve young neurodivergent artists based at the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia. Born as a laboratory of child neuropsychiatry, the project has transformed into an experience of collective creation, recognized nationally and internationally for the originality of its visual and performative research. AdE’s practice is not only a creative act, but also a space for growth and confrontation, in which art becomes a tool to deal with social, relational complexities and the sense of isolation that often accompanies neurodivergence. In recent years, the collective has explored the theme ofsentimental education with particular intensity.
To represent the 2025 edition, the work Unknown Pleasures - The Shelter was chosen, which stems from a poetic reworking of the large sail Ade Vela Rapido, made from 50 rescue blankets for the boat that belonged to Pier Paolo Pasolini and was used in the play Oedipus Rex. During a phase of restoration of the sail, two artists from the collective transformed it into a temporary refuge: a fragile and intense architecture, an intimate and protected space, capable of giving visibility to often denied desires, in which to imagine - even if only by play or dream - one’s own affective freedom.
As usual, the Day of the Contemporary will include several strands of initiatives with free admission: the activities of AMACI member museums, the events promoted abroad with the support of MAECI, the initiatives of the Places of the Contemporary mapped by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity and the proposals of cultural realities distributed throughout the country.
The event has the support of the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, the collaboration of the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of MAECI, and the patronage of Representation in Italy of the European Commission, Chamber of Deputies, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces, UPI - Union of Italian Provinces, ANCI - National Association of Italian Municipalities, ICOM Italy. The Day of the Contemporary also benefits from the Partnership with Alfasigma and the Technical Sponsorship of Artshell.
Also for the 2025 edition it will be possible to register and discover the entire programming through the website www.amaci.org, thanks to the partnership with Artshell.
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