Un step more, to overcome indifference and look at a better future, the guiding thread of the Festival Visions from the world. In Milan, from 11 to 14 September.
In addition to the documentary festival Visions from the worldwe point out two other appointments in Milan: Art in the parkat the Cave Park on 7 and 14 September e Back to the City Concertat the Bam park, on 11 September at 8 pm.
TorinoDanza Festival It continues until October 15 with a schedule that leaves, as always, space for international contemporary creation in its multiple expressions and voices.
More than 30 companies from all over the world and over 70 shows animate the billboard of Short Theater 2025dedicated to contemporary creation and artestrative arts. In Rome, until September 14th.
Continues until September 14th Islands that speakwith musical appointments in the most beautiful corners of the Gallura area. The Masi Lugano present Richard Paul Lohse A large retrospective dedicated to the Swiss artist. From 7 September 2025 to 11 January 2026.
Here is a short list of appointments to be marked on the agenda.
One more step, to overcome indifference and look at a better future, the guiding thread of Documentary Festival Visions from the world. Opens Luca: Seeing Red by Christopher M. Armstrong and Manish Pandey, dedicated to the relationship between Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and Ferrari. Not to be missed, Get the Land Back by Ellad Orenstein and Irmy Shik-Blum Black Comedy on the occupation of settlers in the West Bank; One hundred and beyond. Puccini and us by Angelo Bozzolini, “unpublished” portrait of the composer; Climate art. From protest to utopia by Mathias Frick on how contemporary art is facing the climatic crisis. Info: Milan, Litta theater and other locations, from 11 to 14 September 2025 (visionidalmondo.it).
“Art in the park” in Milan
Many ideas, also of culture and sport, proposed by Art in the park. The exhibition Suburban angels by Gabriele Poli at Casa Petrarca; Salvatore D’Anna’s paintings; the inauguration of the New murals of the Street Artist Gattonero; Marco Dotti’s sculptures. And the Music concert milanesi with the accordionist Riccardo dell’Orfano. In the morning, Yoga practice with the project Lenzuolisospese. Info: Milan, Cave Park, several locations, on 7 and 14 September (common.milano.it).
“Back to the City Concert” in Milan
Music in the green with Back to the City Concert. On stage the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the city of Piazzola on the Brenta and the tenor Stefano Secco with songs by Verdi and Beethoven. Free appointment open to all. Info: Milan, Bam park, on 11 September at 8 pm (bam.milano.it).
“TorinoDanza Festival”
After opening with the world premiere of Delay the Sadness (until 7 September), the new work of Sharon Eyal“Reflection on the many ways in which people sail in their inner and external world” TorinoDanza Festival It continues with a schedule that leaves, as always, space for international contemporary creation in its multiple expressions and voices. The new frontiers of urban dance with Témoin of the Fair-e and Saïdo Lehlouh Collectif (Breakdance genius). The Belgian Company Peeping Tom proposes Chroniques by Gabriela Carrizo, who plays on body metamorphosis. Among the Italians, the Yoy Performing Arts company with Futurechoreographed and interpreted by Emma Zani and Roberto Duties, a diptych inspired by the artist Valerio Berruti and the street poet Ivan Tresoldi; The young Sofia Nappi with Puppethis very personal journey in Pinocchio of Collodi; The talented Michela Lucenti (pictured) with Playerthe solo inspired by the Greek myth, and Francesca Pennini with Abracadabra, “who puts together a woman cut into small pieces”. Info: Turin, Tearo Carignano and other locations, until 15 October (TorinoDanzaFestival.it).
“Short Theater 2025” in Rome
More than 30 companies from all over the world and over 70 shows animate the billboard of Short Theater 2025dedicated to contemporary creation and artestrative arts. Le Repos by Clara Delorme reflects on the pain for the loss of loved ones. Darkness picnic of the Dom collective invites the public to participate in a Performance-Riscor of Peter Weir’s film Picnic to Hanging Rock (1975). Info: Rome, slaughterhouse and other locations, until September 14 (shorttheatre.org).
Richard Paul Lohse in Lugano
The Masi Lugano present Richard Paul Lohse A large retrospective dedicated to the Swiss artist. The exhibition brings together over fifty paintings, accompanied by drawings on papercoming from Richard Paul Lohse-Stiftung and important public and private collections. The ambitious exhibition project embraces the four fundamental decades of the artist’s careerfrom the forties of the twentieth century until his disappearance. Artist, graphic and theoretical, Richard Paul Lohse was One of the main protagonists of Swiss modernism. Active in the resistance to fascisms between the 1930s and forty and, subsequently, prominent personalities of the group of the Zürcher Konkrete, In his work he never stopped pursuing the utopia of social equality, considering it as a mission, together artistic and political. Systematic, rational and, at the same time, with a strong emotional impact, Lohse’s works have been capable of anticipating practices that come from the color field painting and the conceptual and minimalist trends come, proceeding for generative systems, to the more current computational and algorithmic art. Lohse’s geometric-abstract painting is rationally founded and therefore rationally explained. “The method represents itself, it is the image itself” writes the artist, who in his writings returns several times on the description of the compositional principles that regulate his paintings, clarifying the distinction between “modular orders” – based on constant modules – and “serial”, in which the elements develop according to progressive variations. However, despite the coherence and rigor of his method, at a rational reading his paintings are not resolved neither perceptively nor emotionally: to remain unsolved, beyond any analysis, it is the sensual charm that the chromatic combinations continue to exercise. In the photo, Symmetrische Gruppen Mit Gleicir Farbzahl by Richard Paul Lohse, (1955/61/3). Info: Lugano, Masi, from 7 September 2025 to 11 January 2026 (Masilugano.ch).
“Si Fest” in Savignano sul Rubicone (Forlì-Cesena)
Back to Savignano sul Rubicone, for three consecutive weekendsone of the longest and most significant events in the panorama of Italian photography: Si festscheduled for weekends from 12 to 28 September 2025. In an era marked by environmental fractures, geopolitical tensions, forced migrations and identity in transformation, the theme of the theme of the Visual geographieslike An invitation to rethink the way we live in the world not only in physical spacebut also in places of memory, perception, imagination. It is therefore proposed to map the visible and invisible territories of contemporary experience, through photographic languages which explore the natural, urban and inner landscape. Photography thus becomes a tool to decipher what changes, to recognize what persists, to give shape to what has not yet has a name. Through Visual geographies, Si fest He continues his work as a cultural investigation into the presentcollecting and intertwining looks from different places, stories and sensitivity, in a historical moment that requires listening, complexity and imagination. For over thirty years, Si fest It is a point of reference for photography as an instrument of critical exploration of realitybuilding an autonomous identity, rigorous and rooted in visual culture as a form of reading of the contemporary world. The 2025 edition also moves in the wake of this tradition, welcoming projects that embody a profound reflection on the world that we live – and how we live it with our gaze. Info: Savignano sul Rubicone (Forlì-Cesena), the weekends from 12 to 28 September 2025 (Sifest.it).
“Islands that speak” in Gallura
Back Islands that speak With appointments in the most beautiful corners of the Gallura area. To listen, at sunset, the jizz- rock of Descansate Niño And the melted one to the Latin tradition of the Fuensanta Mexican. On the bill the Matteo Carta who with King Shepherd and the Lost Sheep Explore Sardinian and North African sounds and Tunisian Farah Fersi and his Qanun (the Arab cetra, in the photo). Info: Gallura, Palau, La Maddalena, Luogosanto, Arzachena, until 14 September (Isolecheparlano.it).
“Open Horti” in Pavia
If The tulips in the gardens this year had already hatched in Marchas well as glycini, the lavender in the city blossomed in May. The sudden colds of cold must not deceive, because the planet is heating up and Italy is among the countries where the effects of this global process are felt more. Can we hypothesize climatic gardening? And how do you do better and good for us and for the planet even in moments of free time spent with our plants? The IV edition of Open horns. Green Festival in the citywhich will be held in the Horti Park of the Almo Collegio Borromeo di Pavia From 19 to 21 September 2025 aims to answer these questions, welcoming the new instances of sustainability in the field of gardening, nursery and environmental education with the theme Avant Garden. Cultivate the future. Tomorrow to be built together, starting with the awareness of the little ones, to which different initiatives will be dedicated. Every seed we take care of is an act of trust in tomorrow and serves to transform the city into a large habitat. Climate gardening tries to propose plants, solutions and gardens respectful of climate and biodiversity and resilient to the effects of global warming, reducing the carbon imprint of human actions, respecting the water cycle and soil and consuming less plastic. Info: Pavia, Horti Park of the Almo Collegio Borromeo, from 19 to 21 September 2025 (Hortiaperti.com).