Gibellina Photoroad / open air & site-specific festival

Gibellina Photoroad is the first open air festival and site-specific in Italy, dedicated to photography and the visual arts, and one of the few in the world. Since 2016, it has transformed the city into an open-air museum, creating a dialogue between contemporary art and urban space.
The 2026 special edition features the monumental new installation “Ruins of Renewal” by Dutch artist Erik Kessels (produced with the support of the Embassy and Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Mondriaan Fund), which will showcase photographs by residents of Gibellina’s reconstruction, transforming a square into a space of memory and participation; a new outdoor installation “Alphabet” by Teresa Giannico, based on photographic collages and reconstructions of portraits and environments; the traveling project “Roundtrip” by Alice Grassi, on the windows of houses, which speaks of migration from the South; the video installation “Between” by Jacopo Di Cera at the Orestiadi Foundation, created at Burri’s Cretto; and the open-air installation “Redemption of Nature” by Stefano Cerio, in collaboration with mudaC – Museo delle Arti Carrara (winner of the DGCC’s “Strategia Fotografia 2025” public notice). A catalogue dedicated to the festival's tenth anniversary will be produced.

July 4th

MAC – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Ludovico Corrao
12:00–1:00 PM: "Redemption of Nature" meeting with Stefano Cerio, Angela Madesani, and Enzo Fiammetta
Event supported by the Photography Strategy 2025, promoted by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture

3:15–4:00 PM: Incontro “Anima” con Alisa Martynova e Arianna Catania
Event supported by the Photography Strategy 2025, promoted by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture

Piazza Beuys
6:00-7:00 PM: Visita guidata alla mostra “Ruins of renewal” con Erik Kessels
10:30 PM-1:30 AM: Party in the "new square" with music

July 5th

Fondazione Orestiadi
11:30–12:30: Presentation of the book "The Double and the Aterno. The Archive of Giovanna Brogna/Sonnino, Director and Visual Artist" with the author and Cristina Costanzo, Arianna Catania,
Giulia D’Oro
12:30–13:15: Guided tour of the exhibition "Between" with Jacopo Di Cera

Moma Cafè (traveling)
17:00–18:00: visita guidata alla mostra “Roundtrip” con Alice Grassi

July 30th

Fondazione Orestiadi
11:00–12:00: Presentazione libro d’artista “Ctonio” con Alessandra Calò, Marilena Renda,
Serena Ribaudo
12:00–1:00 PM: Presentazione del catalogo dei 10 anni del festival con Arianna Catania,
Francesca Corrao, Enzo Fiammetta