Art and territory
37 places in the atlas
Art and culture as tools for territorial regeneration and community cohesion, from rural triennials to neighbourhood sociocultural projects.
Japan7
Beppu Projectベップ・プロジェクト
Beppu, Oita · Kyushu
An arts NGO regenerating the hot spring city through contemporary art: permanent works (ALTERNATIVE-STATE), an Art Fair and Beppu Art Month, so that…
Echigo-Tsumari Art Field越後妻有
Tokamachi, Niigata · Chubu
The pioneering territorial art festival across 760 square kilometres of satoyama landscape, with over 100 permanent works in villages, houses and aba…
Hajimari Art Centerはじまりの美術館
Inawashiro, Fukushima · Tohoku
A 130-year-old former sake distillery renovated as a small art brut museum with a vocation for social inclusion and community ties.
Inujima Art House Project犬島
Isla Inujima, Okayama · Chugoku
Low-rise art pavilions woven into the hamlet and a museum in a former copper refinery.
Kitakagaya Creative Village北加賀屋
Osaka · Kansai
A former shipbuilding area on the Kizu river regenerated through art: empty factories and warehouses converted into some 50 studios, galleries and re…
Kumamoto Artpolisくまもとアートポリス
Prefectura de Kumamoto · Kyushu
A programme commissioning signature public architecture (Ando, Ito, Sejima) with independent curatorship and workshops between architects and residen…
Spain3
Ateneu Popular 9 Barris
Nou Barris, Barcelona · Cataluña
An asphalt plant occupied by neighbours in 1977 and turned into a community cultural centre devoted to social circus.
Barrios Orquestados
Las Palmas y Tenerife · Canarias
String orchestras in peripheral neighbourhoods of the Canary Islands, with families as part of the project: music as a tool for cohesion and neighbou…
Harinera ZGZ
San José, Zaragoza · Aragón
An abandoned industrial flour mill turned into a community culture space governed three ways by the administration, a collective of cultural agents a…
France12
Ateliers Médicis
Clichy-sous-Bois · Île-de-France
A public cultural institution created in 2015 in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, the municipalities that symbolised the 2005 riots, to host artist…
Base 11/19
Loos-en-Gohelle · Hauts-de-France
A former mine pit closed in 1986 in the town of Loos-en-Gohelle, converted into a reference hub for sustainable development with intensive resident p…
Estuaire Nantes<>Saint-Nazaire
Nantes · Pays de la Loire
An artistic route born as a biennial in 2007 along 120 kilometres of the Loire estuary between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.
La Condition Publique
Roubaix · Hauts-de-France
A former 1904 textile conditioning warehouse, in the heart of a city that lived off cotton and wool, refurbished in 2004 by architect Patrick Bouchai…
La Friche la Belle de Mai
Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
A former tobacco factory converted since 1990 by a collective of artists into a large independent cultural complex.
La Halle Tropisme
Montpellier · Occitanie
A former barracks of the Montpellier Infantry School converted in 2019 into a 10,000-square-metre cultural and business park.
Italy15
Arte Sella
Borgo Valsugana (Trento) · Trentino-Alto Adige
Three friends from Borgo Valsugana created an open-air contemporary art trail in 1986 in the meadows and woods of the Val di Sella, where more than t…
BASE Milano
Milán · Lombardia
BASE Milano occupies 12,000 square metres of the former Ansaldo factory, in the Tortona district, following a public competition run by the city coun…
CAOS, Centro Arti Opificio SiriCAOS - Centro per le Arti Opificio Siri
Terni · Umbria
The former Siri chemical factory in Terni, acquired by the city council between 1997 and 2002 and converted since 2009 into a 5,600-square-metre cont…
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Biella · Piemonte
The artist Michelangelo Pistoletto founded Cittadellarte in 1998 in the former Lanificio Trombetta in Biella, a refurbished textile factory, to posit…
Cvtà Street Fest
Civitacampomarano (Campobasso) · Molise
An international urban art festival that since 2016 has brought murals by artists from around the world to the façades of a medieval Molise village e…
Ex Asilo FilangieriL'Asilo
Nápoles · Campania
A former 16th-century convent and asylum occupied in 2012 by cultural workers during the Naples theatre festival.
What they share: Art works as an excuse and as a method to look again at territories that are emptying out.