RAMDOM is an APS (social promotion association) that deals with cultural and artistic production, with a particular focus on territorial regeneration processes in marginal areas. Since July 2021, it has been managing KORA, in Castrignano de’ Greci (LE), a former baronial palace of 1600 square metres converted into a multidisciplinary production and contemporary research centre. KORA houses a museum, a library and a bookshop, and its main activities include exhibitions, residencies, conferences, workshops, performances and live shows.
Ramdom curates, produces and coordinates projects on a national and international scale in synergy with important museums, universities and public and private institutions. Recent collaborations include: PSA in Shanghai, FRAC Loran, Institut Français, Goldsmiths University in London, École Supérieure d’Art et Design in Grenoble, South London Gallery in London, Artlife Matters (Ghana), Ca’ Pesaro in Venice, MAMbo in Bologna, MACRO in Rome, Polo Bibliomuseale in Lecce, and Homesession (Barcelona).
Over the years, he has published with leading publishers in the sector, including Mousse, Marsilio, Viaindustriae, Archive Books, Kunstverein and Silvana Editoriale, and has produced several publications and artist’s editions with Ramdom Editions.
He is also involved in promoting libraries and reading, with extensive experience in management, cataloguing and archiving projects and activities. He owns and manages a media library and runs the public library in Castrignano de’ Greci. The Ramdom media library is officially recognised as a small library.
It has also carried out the Titolo Collettivo project, for the study of the library project and the development of the network of libraries in Grecìa Salentina, which has given rise to several projects to promote reading with the broad local partnership that has signed the reading pact.
Cultural institute pursuant to Article 8 of the Law of 17/10/1996. Since 2022, Ramdom has been recognised by the FUS triennial, reconfirmed for the three-year period 2025-2027, in the field of contemporary music, with the project Ogni Altro Suono (Every Other Sound).
Ramdom is one of the founding members of STARE, the Italian network of artist residencies
