Milano, 27 December (askanews) – Also in 2025 the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bergamo has chosen to build its programming around the widespread project “Thinking like a mountain”.
The director of GAMeC, Lorenzo Giusti, told us what will happen in the new year: “Thinking like a mountain is a two-year program that we decided on, after a year of projects spread across the territories of the province of Bergamoto rename the Orobie Biennale, trying to underline the duration and long term of this project, which for this reason also slightly revises the traditional biennial formats. It is not an event that happens every two years, but for two years and is linked to the local communities. Each project arises from the meeting between international artists and scattered communities, from Val Brembana, Val Seriana, the municipalities of the Bassa, the Bergamo island. The essence is precisely this: reflecting on the themes of sustainability and community through the languages of art.”
In this new way of thinking about the word “biennial” it is clear that what is crucial is precisely the way in which the museum looks at the territories. “What we are trying to do is not to have projects land on the territories from the sky as if they were alien spaceships, but to try to bring out ideas, projects and also to think about the sustainability of the different projects with the communities we encounter, which can be communities of various types, territorial bodies, associations, volunteers, ordinary citizens, students. Thus the format is transformed and becomes more local, it also becomes scaled, therefore a scale that is not the largest possible, but it is a scale that adapts to the needs and possibilities of the different contexts we live in”.
Among the artists who will be protagonists are Maurizio Cattelan, Cecilia Bengolea, Julius von Bismarck and Bianca Bondi.
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