international artist residency programmes

Dolomiti Contemporanee (DC) is a cultural project born in 2011, right after the Dolomites became an UNESCO World Heritage.
DC works through art residencies (hundreds of Italian and International artists were hosted in our “project sites”), exhibitions, art contests, public conferences and educational programs for schools, to reactivate abandoned sites in the Dolomites.

DC’s cultural programme focuses on mountain culture and its renewal, art, landscape, architecture and contemporary culture and is getting more and more interdisciplinary and open to an international level.
Among DC’s Projects-partners there are many important Italian Museums as the Mart (Museum of Modern and Contemporary art of Rovereto), the CCC Strozzina (Firenze), the Fondazione Merz (Torino), the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, and some International institutions as the Institut français, the d.c.a. (association des centers d’arts françaises), the real academia de españa en Roma.

The project is active now in two main project sites: the Nuovo Spazio di Casso (Pordenone), and the former Eni Village in Borca di Cadore (Belluno).

The Nuovo Spazio di Casso is the former elementary school of Casso’s hamlet (Vajont area) damaged by the Vajont Tragedy. 
DC reopened it in 2012, after 50 years of closing, as an exhibitive space and, in general, as a center of outreach for a cultural activity of territorial regeneration. From there in June 2014 the International Public Art Contest Two calls for Vajont was launched, promoting a responsible reflection on the Vajont area, refusing to accept that its identity should forever coincide with that of the Trajedy (the Contest will run until April 2015).

The former Eni Village in Borca di Cadore is a complex of 100.000 m2 built at the foot of Mt. Antelao between the ’50 and the ’60 by the willing of the entrepreneur and politician Enrico Mattei (head of Eni, Italian oil and gas company). This one of a kind site was designed by architect Edoardo Gellner and counts 300 cottages, 2 hotels, a church, a camping and a summer camp. The site is now property of Minoter, an Italian private company, that is interested in working with Dolomiti Contemporanee, local administrations and public stakeholders to rethink this site and regenerate it. This special project is called Progettoborca (Borca project).

If you’re interested in joining Dolomiti Contemporanee‘s art residencies or to the Twocalls Contest, please send us an email with your portfolio or an introduction to your artistic work and, if you already have one, a project idea for your residency in the Dolomites. Here’s the email address: info@dolomiticontemporanee.net

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