From October 14th 2023 to January 14th 2024, Ravenna hosts the 8th edition of the BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY MOSAIC.
The whole city is involved in a rich programme of events, with its most charming places opening up to artists coming from all over the world.
Monuments, museums, cloisters and symbolic spaces become exceptional galleries, where ancient and contemporary art meet and create a continuous dialogue.
Many events and guided tours will lead visitors to the discovery of a city that has been and still is the undisputed Capital of Mosaic.
READ THE FULL PROGRAMME: www.ravennamosaico.it
DOWNLOAD THE MAP OF THE BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY MOSAIC (.PDF)
EXHIBITIONS
• BURRIRAVENNAORO
Where: MAR – Ravenna Art Museum
When: from 14th October 2023 to 14th January 2024
An important exhibition dedicated to Alberto Burri and to the intense relationship between him and the city of Ravenna from the end of the ’80s. Curated by Bruno Corà.
For more information, read HERE
• LA MEMORIA FISICA DELLA MATERIA
Where: MAR – Ravenna Art Museum
When: from 14th October 2023 to 14th January 2024
An exhibition aiming to highlight experimental practices of mosaic, where materials that have always characterised the technique in the antiquity are explored in their presence and concreteness, in search of shapes, spaces, balances and contrasts beyond any representative intention.
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• ETTORE SOTTSASS – LA CITTÀ MORTA
Where: MAR – Ravenna Art Museum
When:from 14th October 2023 to 14th January 2024
Project for the realisation of a mosaic work designed in January 2007 by Ettore Sottsass for the heliport of Villa Monaldina.
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• EPISODI DI MOSAICO CONTEMPORANEO
Where: Palazzo Rasponi dalle Teste
When: from 14th October 2023 to 14th January 2024
An exhibition where mosaic and design meet and give life to the production of new and special objects of interior design.
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• GAEM – GIOVANI ARTISTI E MOSAICO INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Where: Classense Library – Manica Lunga
When: from 14th October 2023 to 14th January 2024
The works participating to the contest organised by MAR and open to artists under 35 working with mosaic as a technique, language, aesthetics and metaphor.
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• PALIANYTSIA – ZHANNA KADYROVA
Where: Classense Library – Sala del Mosaico
When: from 14th October 2023 to 14th January 2024
A project inviting the public to reflect upon the tragic condition of war, giving the Ukraininan artist the opportunity to tell – apart from her own – the history of many of her compatriots in such a dramatic moment.
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• OPERE DAL MONDO – LA LUCE DEL NERO E DELL’ORO
Where: Old Franciscan Cloisters
When: from 14th October to 14th January 2024
Mosaic works by artists coming from 17 countries, for a homage to Alberto Burri on the occasion of the exhibition BurriRavennaOro.
For more information, read HERE
• RACCONTI DI CITTÀ INVISIBILI
Where: Contemporary History Library “Alfredo Oriani”
When: from 14th October 2023 to 14th January 2024
Ah exhibition displaying works from a selection of mosaic workshops from Ravenna and Amman, Jordan, which re-interpreted some significant paintings of the collection of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.
For more information, read HERE
• A COME ACCADEMIA, O COME OROBURRI
Where: National Museum of Ravenna
When: from 20th October 2023 to 7th January 2024
An exhibition of mosaic works realised by the young artists of the Mosaic Course of the Academy, around a work by Alberto Burri of private collection.
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• THE WAR ISN’T LOVE: ICONE DI GUERRA DI UN DIO INVISIBILE
Luogo: National Museum of Ravenna
Date: from 20th October 2023 to 7th January 2024
With her works, Emily Miller – artist from Ukrainian origin – reminds us that religious art has never stopped its journey, even in such a tragic period as the present one.
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• LE STAZIONI DELL’ARTE. LE OPERE IN MOSAICO DELLA LINEA 1 DELLA METROPOLITANA DI NAPOLI
Where: PR2
When: from 14th October 2023 to 14th January 2024
A photo exhibition dedicated to the mosaic works of the Line 1 metro stations of Naples, witnessing how mosaic dialogues with the urban spaces of our cities, today as in the past.
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• OMAGGIO AL MOSAICISTA ROMOLO PAPA
Where: NatuRa Museum – Sant’Alberto
When: from 24th September 2023 to 31st December 2023
A homage to Romolo Papa, mosaic artist from Sant’Alberto, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth (1923 – 2023).
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In addition to these events, the programme feature many other appointments involving public and private subjects, such as the National Museum of Ravenna, the Archdiocese and its important UNESCO World Heritage monuments, the Classense Library, the Academy of Fine Arts, Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “G. Verdi”, the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna – seat of Ravenna, Liceo Artistico Nervi-Severini, Fondazione RavennAntica, cultural associations, art galleries, mosaic workshops and studios.
