Ramdom is an association for social development focused on cultural and artistic production, based in KORA Contemporary Arts Center. It aims to design and create contemporary art projects on a global scale. Its activities are built up of exhibitions, public art productions, residencies, workshops and live performances.
Winner of the 6th, 8th and 10th edition of the Italian Council with the projects rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me) by the artist Emilio Vavarella (2019), Tools for Imagination by the artist Céline Condorelli (2020) and Ex Situ by the artist Luigi Coppola of the 7th edition of the Lubumbashi Biennale (Congo) entitled Toxicity (2021). Ramdom is also a partner of Fluxo, a project by the artist Alessandro Sciarroni produced by Arthub and winner of the 9th edition (2020) of the Italian Council.
From July 2021 the association deals with KORA, a space for contemporary art production and research, located in approximately 1600 square meters within the historic walls of Palazzo De Gualtieriis in Castrignano de’ Greci. It hosts a museum with both permanent and temporary exhibitions, a library, creative and educational workshops and artistic residences.
It also gives place to conferences, events, performances and live shows. From 2022 Ramdom has been admitted to the public fund FUS 2022-24 in the field of music with the project Ogni Altro Suono. It consists in a Cultural Institution recognized by the Ministry of Culture pursuant to Article 8 of the law no. 534, October 17, 1996.
Ramdom is one of the founders of STARE, the association for Italian artistic residencies, and the European Network of Cultural Centres.
OPERATIVE OFFICE

Paolo Mele
Director and Founder

Annapaola Presta
Project Manager and administration office

Claudio Zecchi
Artistic Director

Ada Facchini
Librarian
She has collaborated in the planning and organisation of cultural activities in the institutional and association spheres, questioning what happens around books: from writing to promotion, from reading education for children and young people to the creation of territorial networks between schools and cultural operators to introduce books as a social practice.

Simona Casarano
Education
Between 2005 and 2010 she worked on the reorganisation of the P.Sassu Ethnomusical Archive in Spongano. In the same years he had brief work experiences in the restoration of photographs between Palermo and Florence.
She cultivates a personal interest in pedagogy and since 2018 has been in charge of the Education part of the Observatory on Extreme Lands for Ramdom.

Veronica Centonze
Production Manager
Since 2016, she has dedicated herself completely and to production, using different media and different forms of language pertaining to the visual arts, moving between Lecce, Naples and Venice. her research and artist practice range from illustration to painting to the performing arts, researching the relationship between body, form and space.
In 2019 he joined ‘Peninsula’, an interdisciplinary platform presenting exhibitions and projects in collaboration with the international art scene in Berlin. Since 2021 he has been working with Ramdom as production manager at Kora Contemporary Arts Center.

Lara Gigante
Communication Office
WORK WITH US
You can view current open positions in the WORK WITH US section.
Ramdom is constantly evolving: we welcome new collaborations with organisations and individuals motivated to engage in cultural and artistic production, international mobility, research and development of new communication languages.
If you would like to join us or submit a project, please contact us at: info@ramdom.net
If you would like to collaborate with us, please send us an e-mail, specifying ‘collaboration’ in the subject line and attaching your CV.
We will get back to you as soon as possible.