Giornata del Contemporaneo a Verona

For the twenty-first consecutive year, the 26 museums associated with AMACI, including the Achille Forti Modern Art Gallery, along with over a thousand public and private entities across Italy, open their doors free of charge to bring contemporary art closer to an ever-widening and diverse audience.

Now in its 21st edition, the Day of Contemporary Art will feature the guiding image of the work Unknown Pleasures – The Shelter (2025) by Atelier dell'Errore, a collective of twelve young neurodivergent artists based at the Maramotti Collection in Reggio Emilia. 

The work conceived to represent the 2025 edition is a piece that poetically reinterprets the large sail Ade Vela Rapido, created with 50 rescue blankets for the boat that belonged to Pier Paolo Pasolini, the protagonist of the theatrical work King Oedipus. During a restoration phase of the sail, two artists from the collective transformed it into a temporary refuge space: an emotional, fragile, and intense architecture, where one can imagine – even just for fun or in dreams – their own emotional freedom. An intimate, protected space that gives visibility to often denied desires.

The guiding theme of the 2025 edition is that of education, understood as a wide and plural process that encompasses education, research, exchange of experiences and knowledge.

The event is supported by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of MAECI, and under the patronage of the Representation in Italy of the European Commission, UPI - Union of Provinces of Italy, ICOM Italy. The Day of Contemporary Art also benefits from a Partnership with Alfasigma and Technical Sponsorship from Artshell.