“Questo (non) è un museo 2” opens on Friday 12 April 2024 at 7.00 pm. The opening will take place at Kora – Centro del Contemporaneo which is located in the baronial palace de Gualtieris in Castrignano de’ Greci, Via Vittorio Emanuele 19.

“Questo (non) è un museo 2” is an exhibition project that intends to continue a ten-year line of research on experimental, artistic and institutional practices and methodologies, trying to build new sensitivities and possible forms of narration and involvement of a territory.
It does so starting from an already existing collection, that of Ramdom, whose works were born, for the most part, from very specific processes, contexts and areas of research. Proposing them both in a new guise and in other geographical areas or places means trying to investigate and broaden their meanings. These will be joined by new productions that will populate Castrignano de’ Greci over the next few years.
The project, which will last until at least June 2026, is an attempt to measure and question the limits or potential of a cultural institution, the museum in this specific case, by questioning its function, its practice and its ability to act in a territory by creating new imaginaries.
This (is not) a museum is in this sense an attempt (although not entirely new) of a methodological nature to try to find, outside of KORA, until now the beating heart of our cultural proposal, new spaces for experimentation outside the control and questioning of the institution itself.

For this second chapter, edited by Claudio Zecchi and Paolo Mele, we have chosen works from the Ramdom collection that are based on a strong political and social dimension. As Carlos Basualdo says, the strength of art lies in developing «innovative representations that escape political interpretation» and the artists chosen, even if not always declared, consider theirs an active role in society and art a vector through which to regenerate a critical gaze that brings a broader awareness. An awareness that concerns highly topical issues such as the activation of institutional practices in small towns, ecology, migratory flows and feminism to name a few.

Artist in the exhibition: Elena Bellantoni, Carlos Casas, Lia Cecchin, Luigi Coppola, Romina De Novellis, Marcello Nitti, Matteo Pizzolante, Theodoulos Polyviou e Alfaith, (Grazia Amelia Bellitta, Paolo Bini, Alice Caracciolo, Alice Di Nanna, Elena Eugeni, Sara Fiorentino, Rebecca Fuso, Nicola Guastamacchia, Vincenzo Luchena, Mariantonietta Clotilde Palasciano, Rossana Viola, Apo Yaghmourian).