OUR EXHIBITIONS CONSIDER HOW ART CAN INSPIRE CHANGE ABOUT SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES, GENDER RACIAL AND ETHNIC JUSTICE, CREATIVITY AND FREE EXPRESSION, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT, URBAN REGENERATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE, FUTURE AND SOCIETY.

Andrea Bartoli

CURRENT

2023 third edition

Countless Cities

The Biennial of the Cities of the world.

June 24, 2023 - May 28, 2024 (pre-opening June 23, 2023)

What do you like about a city? What makes a city pleasant? What are the different areas of pleasure that can affect the urban dimension? Charles Landry in "The Sensory Landscape of Cities" sees cities as a 360-degree, enveloping, immersive experience that has emotional and psychological impacts. Pleasure and Cities is the name of the third edition of Countless Cities, the Biennial of the Cities of the World which, without hypocrisy and moralism, aims to explore the different aspects related to the dimension of "pleasure" that can lead us to prefer one city over another.

Utopia

Dreaming the Impossible by Carlo Bevilacqua

Farm Cultural Park Favara , Apr 26, 2023 - May 28, 2024

A visual journey which explores - from India and Singapore to Vancouver Island, Canada, across Europe and the United States - the world of utopian communities, ( alternative, spiritual, artistic, hippie, environmental) together with individual initiatives which embody the utopian spirit. Auroville, Sadhana Forest, Can Masdeu, Christiania, Damanhur, Marinaleda, Earthship, Elves,Vieille Valette, Freedom Cove, Yogaville, Twin Oaks. These are some of "Utopias" described in this long terms work and in the book. The project documents and try to understand how these communities, born decades ago, have evolved and how they managed to survive to the pressure of our dominant culture .

UPCOMING

2024 first edition

Abbiamo tutto, manca il resto!

June 21, 2024 - June 22, 2025 Farm Cultural Park presents "We have everything, we lack the rest!" the first edition of a transdisciplinary four-year event dedicated to Sicily "to its everything" and "to what is not there", an exhibition that with different pavilions will also read the territory and the local art scene "with external eyes".

2025 fourth edition

Countless Cities

The Biennial of the Cities of the world -

June 21, 2025 - January 25, 2025 (pre-opening June 20, 2025) The Superpowers of Culture and Good Relationships. The great challenge of our time, is the ability to know how to mediate, conciliate, compose, build a more robust culture of peace, collaboration and respect. The great antidote to conflict, the real super power is the ability to build and maintain good relationships. Scientists from around the world confirm that good relationships help people live longer, cope better with stress, have healthier habits and greater resistance to disease.

PAST

2022

Radical SHE

Women Quadriennial of Art and Society

Six months of exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, lectures to talk about gender equality, empowerment and female leadership through art and creativity. The Quadriennale will take place in Sicily at Farm Cultural Park, in Favara and at the new headquarters in Mazzarino between 24 June 2022 and 29 January 2023.

2021 second edition

Countless Cities

The Biennial of the Cities of the world.

June 26, 2021 - January 30, 2022 (pre-opening June 25, 2021) In The second edition, was about the themes of living, working and the quality of life of citizens; explored with particular regard to the issue of urban forestation. These themes are central to the challenge of rethinking the future of Favara but also for any other city in the world.

2020

The Art of Creative City Making by Charles Landry

September 18, 2020- January 31, 2021 (pre-opening Sept 18, 2020) “The Art of Creative City Making” a retrospective exhibition on Charles Landry's forty-year research work curated by Marco Rainò, which has obtained the support of the British Council, the prestigious British institution for the promotion of international cultural relations.

2020

City Rebels Storie di Ribellione Urbana

September 18, 2020- January 31, 2021 (pre-opening Sept 18, 2020) “Vision, freedom, ambition, courage, a desire for a challenge are some common traits of all urban rebels; most of the time they act individually, sometimes with a few, loyal followers. In some cases, they do everything with their own hands. They rarely mediate with power, they often trick or subvert it, sometimes mock it, or sometimes simply ignore it. They create impossible and unimaginable works that become iconic and everlasting, even when they are destroyed, because their intuitions are delivered to history, or at least to the collective memory. The Rebels are charismatic and fascinating. The Rebels are winners, even when they are defeated. Rebels are born, scientists say; non-conformism is written in our brain. But we can study them, be inspired by them, and maybe even become a little like them.

2019 first edition

Countless Cities

The Biennial of the Cities of the world.

June 29, 2019 - January 26, 2020 (pre-opening June 28 2021) At the end of June 2019 we inagurated the first edition of Countless Cities, dedicated to African Cities; the main exhibition, named “ADJAYE AFRICA ARCHITECTURE”, was a panorama of the architecture of 54 african cities, whose curator was the famous Architect David Adjaye. Moreover, all the spaces in Farm jointly with some others in Favara and inside Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples hosted numerous pavilions dedicated to Addis Abeba, Asmara, Nairobi, Meknes, Tunis, Sidi Bou Said, Luxor, Cairo, Douala; and even some more dedicated to London, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Tbilisi, Birmingham, Koniakow. We also hosted a pavillion dedicated to some american cities including New York, Chicago, Boston and another one dedicated to chinese cities such as Beijing, Suzhou, Zhu Hai.

2018

Detroit Syndrome

June 29, 2019 - January 26, 2020 (pre-opening June 28 2021) "I immediately thought of having caught the Stendhal syndrome, a psychosomatic condition that causes tachycardia, dizziness, vertigo, confusion and hallucinations in people exposed in the presence of extraordinarily beautiful art works". Andrea Bartoli

2017

What is Co-Dividuality?

June 24, 2017 - January 28, 2018 (pre-opening June 23, 2017) “What is Co-Dividuality? Japanese Architecture and the Shared House of Farm Cultural Park “ is an exhibition curated by the architects Salvator-John A. Liotta and Fabienne Louyot of LAPS Architec-ture studio in Paris, the exhibition explores the concept of shared houses. It delves into the redefinition of public and private spaces in Japan and it transforms the art gallery of Farm Cultural Park into a co-dividual space.

2016

The Commonality of Strangers by Mahtab Hussain

June 25, 2016 - January 29, 2017 (pre-opening June 24, 2016) Mahtab Hussain uses photography to investigate the relationships between identity, heritage and movements, with a visual language that challenges the concepts of multiculturalism.

2015

Sponsor della gente comune by Stefano Ginestroni

March 14, 2015 - January 31, 2015 Stefano Ginestroni art director, illustrator and free thinker, as well as creative director of Diaframma adv. For years he has been fighting against the infinite scope of human stupidity, stubbornly treating consumers as people with intellect and trying to give advertising a social and ethical role.

2014

Melodrama of Mood by Akif Hakan

June 28, 2014 - December 31, 2015 “Melodrama of Mood” is the title of the photographic exhibition by Akif Hakan, an American photographer of Turkish origin. His photographs tell Hong Kong and its atmospheres, suspended between sentiment and eroticism.