CLOSER– Becoming the city

CLOSER - Becoming the city, Bologna Estate 2025's exhibition that, through different artistic forms, explores the dynamics of contemporary relationships, starts on Wednesday, May 21. Venue of the review will be the Pavilion and in the green area of Piazza della Costituzione.

The program, articulated between May and July, is curated by Amerigo Mariotti and Giorgia Tronconi, artistic directors of Adiacenze.

After an inaugural edition focused on the themes of communication and information, with a tribute to the scientific legacy of Guglielmo Marconi, this year the festival shifts focus to urban space as a place of encounter and interaction. On the bill are exhibitions, meetings, DJ sets, performances and workshops that will involve artists, scholars and collectives from local, national and international circles.

The Pavilion, originally built for the Paris International Exposition in 1925 and rebuilt in Bologna in 1977, thanks to the project promoted by Adiacenze, is transformed into a focal point for reflection on the present and future of cities, on the modes of living, coexistence and the transformations taking place in the urban fabric.

Program for the month of May

• May 21 from 6:30 p.m. with Asymmetric Visions, a workshop-presentation on investigative architecture led by Tareq Tamimi of LIMINAL, a research group of the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna, with a video-installation that can be visited until May 27. On the same evening will be the first event of the musical review Libere frequenze, curated by Leonardo Vita, with two live concerts from 9:30 pm.
• May 23 is dedicated to Giochi Preziosi, talk and presentation with Beatrice Citterio part of the review Terrapolis - Transversal Worlds, Posthuman Futures, curated by the Parsec collective, which will also return in July with a performance.
• May 30 and 31 takes shape BLACK NOUVEAU, an exhibition curated by the fortnightly bilingual contemporary art magazine art-frame in collaboration with the Venetian exhibition space Circuit, which weaves together four talks on the relationship between urban space, art and technology, with multimedia installations and DJ sets. Also on the 31st, the Rosole Collective offers a first date with the Crochet club, a relational experience based on collective textile practices.

Download the full program on the Bologna Estate website.