Corniolo art platform involves artists, researchers, international and local collectives, interested in holistic-performative practices, socially engaged art, activism and community building.

We aim practice conviviality as an art form.

NEWS 2025

Date
 19 > 21 August 2025

Bologna for Palestine

The curatorial collective (formed by artists Agnese Banti, Elena Mattioli, Flavia Zaganelli, and Laura Agnusdei) will be in residence in Corniolo from August 19 to 21, 2025, to reflect on the experience of the past two years and imagine its future.

Agnese Banti

Elena Mattioli

Flavia Zaganelli

Laura Agnusdei

Bologna for Palestine is both a stance and a fundraising project through the arts, born in December 2023 as a spontaneous reaction to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and in response to Western indifference. By creating dialogue between different artistic communities to rebuild a sense of collective solidarity, BfP aims to raise funds for the Palestinian population and spread knowledge of the Palestinian cultural and artistic heritage that is being systematically erased and destroyed, through meetings and exchanges with Palestinian and Middle Eastern artists, as well as Italian and Bologna-based artists.
BfP was initiated through the collaboration of artists Laura Agnusdei, Agnese Banti, Elena Mattioli, and Flavia Zaganelli, with the participation of numerous members of the local community, and is open to the commitment of all. Its main venue has been DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali, working in a network with Grabinski Point and Arci Bologna, along with many others: Artists Against Apartheid, Atlantico Festival, Collettivo Le Rosole, Festival Del Confine – Teatrino dell’Abc, Fango Radio, Foglie d’Ulivo, Giovani Palestinesi Bologna, Il campo innocente, Immòto Recordings, Libreria Modo Infoshop, Love Boat Records, Maple Death Records, Memento Mori Atelier, no glucose collective, Radio Alhara, Titivil, Watermelon Friends Italia.
Fino ad oggi BfP ha donato alle seguenti realtà: Medical Aid for Palestinians, la comunità di Khan Younis grazie al reporter Mansour Shouman, il progetto Connecting Gaza tramite la donazione di e-sims, la fondazione del Dott. Ghassan Abu Sittah per bambinз palestinesi, il Freedom Theatre di Jenin, la rete Women with Gaza, la raccolta fondi di Mohammed Timraz tramite la mostra “HeArt of Gaza” e il Beirut Physical Lab (estendendo la solidarietà alla popolazione libanese) e a Bologna per Gaza, la rete di volontari attiva in città che si occupa dell’accoglienza delle persone arrivate da Gaza in questi mesi.

To date, BfP has donated to the following initiatives: Medical Aid for Palestinians; the community of Khan Younis through reporter Mansour Shouman; the Connecting Gaza project via e-SIM donations; Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah’s foundation for Palestinian children; the Freedom Theatre in Jenin; the Women with Gaza network; Mohammed Timraz’s fundraising through the “HeArt of Gaza” exhibition; the Beirut Physical Lab (extending solidarity to the Lebanese population); and Bologna per Gaza, a volunteer network in the city providing support for people arriving from Gaza in recent months.

BfP has hosted a wide range of events and initiatives: the Palestinian Sound Archive by Majazz Project; concerts by Julmud جُلْمود and Dakn داكنْ; the installations PAST-inuous by Farah Saleh and Karakoz by Mai Mai Mai; the performance Eternal and a Dabke workshop by Bassam Abou Diab; screenings of 200 Meters by Ameen Nayfeh and Off Frame aka Revolution until victory by Subversive Films; the dissemination of ITALIAN ARTS UNITED FOR PALESTINE: Open letter for a stance on the genocide in Palestine (AWI – Art Workers Italia, December 8, 2023) with Sara Leghissa and Marzia Dalfini; the HeArt of Gaza exhibition; a DJ set curated by Maple Death Records; a non-stop electroacoustic relay; and two collective A/V improvisations from the Bologna scene (and beyond) featuring: Laura Agnusdei, Gaio Ariani, Francesca Baccolini, Agnese Banti, Ali Belazi, Alberto Brutti, Stefania Carbonara, Daniele Carcassi (Minus Collettivo), Massimo Carozzi, CIRCA Studio (Laura Accardo, Eleonora Mattozzi, Maria Giovanna Sodero), Ciuli, James Jonathan Clancy, Eleal, Charlie G. Fennel, Andrea Geremia, Fera (Undicesima Casa), Giuseppe Franchellucci, Simone Grande, Ich Bin Bob, Kat (So Beast), Lele Marcojanni, Valerio Maiolo, Ludovica Manzo, Edoardo Marraffa, Carlo Marrone, Leonardo Melchionda, Dario Moroldo, Odia, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, Tommaso Paris, Stefano Pilia, Milena Punzi, Francesco Salmaso, Umberto Saraceni, Carlo Sgarzi, Sly (So Beast), Giulio Stermieri, Ceci Stuck, Andrea Trona, Leonardo Vita, Vipera, Reda Zine.

Event graphics have been created with contributions from illustrators Omar Cheikh, Mariagloria Posani, and Liz Vandernull.

The January 2024 concert Bologna for Palestine / Non-stop Electroacoustic Improv was released on cassette and digitally by Maple Death Records, which maintains an ongoing fundraising initiative and sparked a twin event in Turin in February 2025 curated by Andrea Pomini and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo.

NEWS  2024

We are happy to announce the next Production Residency program season 2024

DATE 25 AUGUST 31 AUGUST 2024

RAMPANTE

Rampante’s experience is linked to a vegetative time, a slow and diffuse being in the practice of listening and solitude: can one get lost in a tree? What becomes language and memory in relation to the tree?

 

Concept Daria Greco

Performance Ondina Quadri

Video direction Margherita Panizon

Texts Sara Petraglia and Margherita Panizon

Production Chiasma with the support of Fondazione Lac O Le Mon and Corniolo Art Platform

NEWS  2023

We are happy to announce that the performance show “La Vaga Grazia” by Eva Geatti and of which Corniolo Art Platform is co-producer
it was hosted 2022/23 in festivals and events such as:
Crisalide Forlì festival, Spazio Kor, Santarcangelo dei teatri, Short Theater, Palazzo Grassi, Invisible city festival, SuperNova Rimini

In October for Fareout Festival at BASE Milan Dario Moroldo presents the Vinile album of LA VAGA GRAZIA
This album and this live show are the sound hemisphere of the show.

La Vaga Grazia by Eva Geatti and with Adriana Bardi, Andrea Beghetto, Carolina Bisioli, Roberto Leandro Pau, Patrick Platolino. Music by Dario Moroldo. Care and promotion Irene Rossini. Cosmetics Production with Corniolo Art Platform and Masque Teatro – Teatro Felix Guattari. With the support of Spazio Kor, Centrale Fies, Hummus-Ekodanza Paleotto11 residences, Damatrà, Fivizzano 27, Murate Art District-Muse.

SEASON 2023

This year Corniolo Art Platform has slowed down the pace a little
hosting the youngest resident of these 11 years, Vanni and her new mother Francesca Sarteanesi actress and playwright
the shortest but certainly intense residency of the last 12 years.

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SEASON 2022
TALE OF GRACE

Performing Residence with Eva Geatti (Cosmesi) week 13/19 June 2022

The new 2022 season at Corniolo hosts in residence the research of Eva Geatti, who with a group of young performers investigates space in the open context of the park and the forest. The cue is developed around the novel “Il Monte Analogo” by René Daumal.
The research is accompanied by daily training by the performer Flavia Zaganelli, already resident in Corniolo in the 2021 season.
Eva Geatti’s research journey began in April 2021 and has passed through various stages: Centrale Fies (Dro), Paleotto11 (Bologna), Fivizzano26 (Rome) and will make its debut in Forlì at the Festival Crisalide in September.

The residency practices Roberto Leandro Pau, Adriana Bardi, Martina Magini, and the artists Natalia Lázaro Prevost, Júlia Zapata Llargués selected in collaboration with Sala d’Art Jove, Barcelona.