Bringing the most radical and influential forms of multidisciplinary artistic research to Romagna: this is what will happen in Forlì from 25 to 28 September (with the opening of the prologue exhibition on 1 September) thanks to the Ibrida International Festival of Intermedia Arts, whose tenth edition is entitled – and declares its intentions and poetics – Moltitudine (Multitude).
Among the names on the programme, the American artist Gary Hill stands out. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and pioneer of video art worldwide, he is one of the great masters of visual research and will be present in Forlì with a masterclass, an installation and a meeting.
‘The title Moltitudine is an invitation to embrace plurality as a value and as a creative force,’ explain Artistic Directors Francesca Leoni and Davide Mastrangelo of Vertov Project. “We live in an age in which identities, languages and visual forms multiply, overlap and stratify. Multitude is not only the theme, but the very form of the Festival: a living, composite organism where the intimacy of the artistic gesture coexists with the power of shared experience.”
The prologue will take place on Monday 1 September with the inauguration, in the spaces of the Dino Zoli Foundation in Forlì, of the intermedia Anatomie Digitali collective exhibition. The exhibition, which can be visited free of charge until 12 October, features creations by Gary Hill, Robert Cahen, Elena Bellantoni, Regina José Galindo, Filippo Berta, Donato Piccolo, Sara Bonaventura and many other international protagonists of video art, experimental animation and interactive installations.
From 25 to 28 September, the Festival will come to life at the Fabbrica delle Candele in Forlì with a packed programme of workshops, performances, video projections, interactive installations, music and live cinema.
Five national and international awards (one of which in collaboration with the prestigious Fabrica in Treviso) will be presented by a jury composed of leading experts in the field of contemporary criticism and curatorship: Silvia Grandi (University of Bologna / Videoart Yearbook), Lorenzo Balbi (Director of MAMbo and President of AMACI) and Laura Leuzzi (art historian and curator specialising in media art).
(from the press release)
Ibrida Festival 2025. Moltitudine, Forlì, 25 – 28.09.2025
The Festival is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Forlì and the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì.
images: (cover 1) Debora Vrizzi, « Family Portrait», 2012 (2) Gary Hill, portrait (3) Regina José Galindo. «Tierra», 2013 (3) Rita Casdia, «Stangliro», 2013
