SITU Festival, a nomadic artistic residency project, took place in September 2025 in Ficarra (ME), bringing together 18 Italian and international artists for an intensive program of workshops, talks, and a final group exhibition.
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Valeria Meizles (Propaganda)
Valeria Meizles, is an artist who works under the pseudonym Propaganda, with a deep interest in collage.
She is currently working on a book that explores the medium as both an artistic and conceptual practice, tracing its relationship to memory and nostalgia.
Andrés Gleizer
An insighful interview with Andrés Gleizer, an artist who loves to explore, create, and naturally evolve.
Mario Balsamo
Italian figurative painter Mario Balsamo blends classical technique with surrealist vision, creating dreamlike explorations of memory, identity, and the human form.
Ivona Mitankina
Ivona Mitakina is an artist from Vratsa, Bulgaria. He main work explores the beauty of daily rituals, from sharing a meal to quiet moments of solitude. Things that we all do everyday, but propbably never experience.
Brooke Major: Sculpting With Paint
Brooke Major is an American artist who combines her childhood passions of art and horses, in her studio practice.
Il Tabù dell’amore – a photo project by Alessia Spina and Gio Blonde
“The Taboo of Love” is a protographic journey by Italian artist Alessia Spina that explores the representations and attitudes towards romantic relationships through a narrative that touches on the most intimate and complex aspects of the human experience.
Petra Baral
Petra Baral is a graphic artist based in Stuttgart, Germany. She draws inspiration from the stories of Greek mythology, which she explores to shed light on the timeless themes and challenges that are still relevant in our modern lives
Elena Samarsky
Despite completing her PhD degree in Sociology in 2018, Elena Samarsky decided to become a full-time artist.
She is talking to artCollective Magazine about her work, her influences and her artistic process.
“Saints Daemons” – photo project by Gio Blonde
Gio Blonde was featured a few months ago in artCollective with her collaborative project called “Wild Romagna”
This time she presents a very personal photo project called “Saints Daemons”.