Cremona Contemporanea, the 2025 edition arrives: here are the participating artists

From May 24 to June 2, 2025 Cremona will host the third edition of Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week, an event dedicated to the visual arts that involves the urban fabric with installations, exhibitions, performances and meetings. The initiative, directed by Rossella Farinotti, is promoted by theTourism and Events Department of the City of Cremona with the support of theCremona Industrial Association, the Chamber of Commerce of Cremona-Mantova-Pavia, Confcommercio Province of Cremona and the Community Foundation of the Province of Cremona. The aim of the event is to foster dialogue between contemporary art and the city’s historical-artistic heritage, transforming Cremona into a center of reference for artistic experimentation on a national and international level. The format, already experimented in the two previous editions, is confirmed to be effective in the enhancement of urban spaces, even the less known ones, through an articulated map of diffuse artistic interventions.

Twenty artists have been selected for the 2025 edition: Ludovica Anversa, Trisha Baga, Michaël Borremans, Arianna Carossa, Daniele Costa, Roberto Cuoghi, Olivia Erlanger, Irene Fenara, Stina Fors, Maximo Gonzalez, Emilia Kina, Giulia Maiorano, Edoardo Manzoni, Eva & Franco Mattes, Luca Monterastelli, Giovanni Oberti, Marta Pierobon, Andrea Romano, Vedovamazzei and Angharad Williams. Coming from backgrounds heterogeneous in generation and language, the artists will bring to life a set of exhibition projects ranging from painting to sculpture, video to performance, site-specific installation to participatory art.

The entire city center opens up to art: nineteen venues are involved, including historic palaces, museums, squares, theaters, churches, disused spaces, workshops and lesser-known views. Well-established venues include the City Hall, the Baptistery of St. John the Baptist, the San Lorenzo Archaeological Museum, Palazzo Zaccaria Pallavicino (FasArchitetti), Palazzo Fodri, the Foppone Church, the Cinema Teatro Filo, Palazzo Vidoni, RobolottiSei, Palazzo Affaitati and Palazzo Raimondi. These are joined by new spaces selected for their architectural and symbolic value. Among the main new additions is the reopening of the Church of San Francesco, a former major hospital decommissioned in the 1970s, now part of the municipal urban regeneration project Giovani in centro. Another debut is that of the Crypt of the Canons’ Cemetery, an important city site that preserves mosaics dating back to the 11th century. Also part of the expansion are the Bastioni di Porta Mosa Park, the frescoed rooms of Palazzo Schinchinelli Martini, the Palazzo della Carità, now the headquarters of the City of Cremona Foundation, and the historic Pasticceria Lanfranchi.

This year’s program also includes the activation of alternative exhibition spaces, including the display cases of the porticoes of Galleria XXV Aprile and the large billboard on Via Mantova, transformed into artistic intervention surfaces, testifying to how the event intends to transcend conventional boundaries to bring art into the urban everyday. Parallel to the exhibition route, Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week offers a series of collateral events open to the public, including talks, performances, film and literary presentations. Prominent among the special projects is Faville, an initiative created last year and confirmed for the 2025 edition with a series of events curated by art and cultural enterprise professionals. Within Faville, the group exhibition of young artists curated by VENERDISABATO, a duo formed by artists who graduated from the Brera Academy in Milan, will take place at the PQV Fine Art gallery, under the supervision of Simeone Crispino. Also under the auspices of Faville, Pasticceria Lanfranchi will host “Bar Cremona,” a talk conceived and curated by Giorgio Galotti. In parallel, the Brigantia project , conceived by curator and artist Annika Pettini, expands its sphere of action with an intervention dedicated to the research of artist Simona Pavoni: an unpublished text and a series of works will activate one of the places involved in the event.

Also of particular importance is Herenzia, a participatory art project signed by Maximo Gonzalez and Iván Buenader, which will see the direct involvement of the public in the creation of a site-specific collective installation. The work will be composed of a collection of plates donated by visitors, in a process that questions the concept of heritage and cultural transmission. The set of initiatives planned for the third edition reinforces the identity of Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week as an inclusive platform open to citizenship, capable of combining artistic research, enhancement of the territory and public participation. With the extension of collaborations beyond the city borders, the festival aims to consolidate its role in the national scene, promoting an approach to contemporary art that integrates context and community.

The detailed program of events and venues is available on the event’s official website: www.cremona-artweek.com.

Cremona Contemporanea, the 2025 edition arrives: here are the participating artists

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