LEONARDO REGANO
ART CURATOR, CRITIC & ART HISTORIAN
PUBLIC & PARTECIPATORY ART
The relationship between art, territory, and memory is crucial to my research. Since 2012, I have been promoting public art projects that connect contemporary artistic practices with historical and sociological investigations of places. My approach fosters a dialogue between local communities and artistic interventions, emphasizing participatory and relational processes. This section presents the most significant projects I have followed as a curator and project manager, funded through public grants, with the aim of exploring how artistic practices can redefine public space, activate collective narratives, and foster new forms of cultural awareness.
UNDER THE SAME SKY
In the Under the Same Sky project, Eva Marisaldi explores how archaeology can serve as a bridge connecting the past and present. Her work is marked by a multidisciplinary approach, blending drawing, photography, video, sculpture, sound, and installation. Since the beginning, Marisaldi has focused on relational art, highlighting the often accidental connections between places, objects, and people, while exploring the links that shape human experience.
BEING THERE. OLTRE IL GIARDINO
Being There – Beyond the Garden is a project by Claudia Losi that explores the complex relationship between humans, the environment, and the language with which we communicate. Starting from the question "What is your idea of a natural place?", Losi engaged a diverse sample of around four hundred people through surveys, seminars, and international collaborations in Italy, Singapore, and Israel. The collected responses were transformed into a textile installation and an artist’s book, offering a poetic and theoretical reflection on the real and imagined journey that connects humans to landscape and memory.
MARE MAGNUM NOSTRUM
Mare Magnum Nostrum is a participatory project by artist Gea Casolaro, born after the tragic shipwreck on October 3, 2013, off the coast of Lampedusa, which claimed the lives of over 350 people. The project involved hundreds of participants from Italy, Slovenia, Lebanon, and across the entire Mediterranean basin, who were invited to share photographs representing Mediterranean shores, including landscapes, portraits, and significant moments. The collected images were used to create immersive environmental installations that recreate Mediterranean coastlines, encouraging reflections on identity, migration, and cultural connections. The project was acquired by the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ravenna, where it was displayed to the public.
ZERO... WEAK FIST
ZERO... Weak Fist by Patrick Tuttofuco is a transiting intervention: a mobile light sculpture designed to be relocated to a series of places in Rimini, Berlin and Bologna. The places chosen for exhibiting the piece in the three different cities are characterised by archaeological and fossil evidence, as if they had remained unchanged over time (formally or ideally): the Roman Augusto Arch of Rimini, the court of the Italian Embassy in Berlin (shared with the Italian Cultural Institute) which is literally the extroflexion of a national space in foreign territory open to hospitality, and the Porta Zamboni/San Donato, access point to the university district of Bologna which has been the place of irradiation of the medieval recovery of Roman law.
OSMOTIC PRESSURE.FORME ATIPICHE DI RELAZIONI URBANE
Osmotic Pressures is a public and relational art project born from the desire to explore former military areas in the Bologna region. These imposing and silent architectures have recently returned to public attention, often regarded as "uncertain" urban spaces—caught between unauthorized occupations and legitimate demands for civic and associative use—while awaiting a new purpose.
RENKONTIGO INCONTRI TRA ARTE E TERRITORIO
Renkontigo | incontri tra arte e territorio has been a path of site-specific artworks created within the city of Trani. It has been a project aimed at the promotion and the development of the territory through contemporary art. Starting from the 'Villa Comunale', among the oldest public garden of Puglia (1823), in close dialogue with the Adriatic sea, the path has taken place between some of the most important gardens present in the city. Four artists have been invited to give their own interpretation of these sites through their works.