Arshake reports on the MarteLive festival, which this year features a special edition entitled MArteLive Connect. On 14 and 15 October, the festival will take place on 10 stages between the Lanificio (Via di Pietralata, 159A), the beating heart of the festival, the Atelier Montez (Via di Pietralata, 147/A-B) and the MONK (Via Giuseppe Mirri, 35) in Rome, where artists from all over Europe, including England, Australia and even Iran, will perform. The festival celebrates its first 25 years, awaiting the MArteLive Biennale 2026.
The beating heart of the festival, the historic MArteLive Competition directed by Nadia Di Mastropietro, has always been the greatest driving force for the discovery and promotion of new talent in Italy. Created to offer a showcase for young emerging artists, over the years it has given space to thousands of creatives who have been able to perform alongside established names on the national and international scene. The multidisciplinary formula – which encompasses 16 different artistic categories including music, theatre, dance, circus, visual arts, cinema, fashion, literature and much more – transforms each edition into a laboratory of experimentation and cross-pollination, offering winners the opportunity to access professional pathways, residencies and networks of collaborations. With over 25 years of history, the competition has established itself as a unique reference point in the European cultural landscape, capable of combining research, innovation and artistic growth.
“MArteLive Connect does not celebrate the past: it bends and transforms it, generating a present that opens up to the future…” explains Giuseppe Casa, the historic creator and artistic director of MArteLive, “because never again in history will those artists meet in the same spaces, on the same stages, create the same alchemy, under the same lights: what happens at MArteLive Connect is here and now, it is unrepeatable, a composed and lively scenario that goes beyond cultural and social conventions”.
The gaze towards the future is entrusted to the winners and finalists of the 2024 MArteLive Biennial: Rusty Brass (Music), Marta Bulgherini (Theatre), Collettivo Neo (Dance), Noemi Agosta (Fashion), Chiara Mastrangelo (Sculpture), Angela Norelli (Cinema), Jacqueline Lentini (Photography), Giovanni Mariani (Illustration), Flaminia Colella (Literature) and Claudio Dinicoli (Circus). These young talents represent the new creative lifeblood and confirm the festival’s vocation as a place of visibility and growth for emerging young artists.
As always, the programme is multidisciplinary: music and DJ sets, theatre and literature, dance, visual arts, photography, video art, graphics, painting, cinema, fashion and crafts, comics, contemporary circus, street art and site-specific installations.
MarteLive, Lanificio (Via di Pietralata, 159A), the beating heart of the Festival, Atelier Montez (Via di Pietralata, 147/A-B) and MONK (Via Giuseppe Mirri, 35), Rome, 14-14 October 2025.
The project, conceived and curated by Giuseppe Casa, is promoted by Roma Capitale – Department of Culture and is the winner of the Public Notice ‘Roma Creativa 365. Cultura tutto l’anno’ (Creative Rome 365. Culture all year round), in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura. Since 2022, the MArteLive Europe project has been co-funded by the European Commission through the Creative Europe Programme.
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PROGRAMME
Tuesday 14 October: LANIFICIO 159 – 8 p.m.
Neoprimitivi, MEMORIALS, Fujiya & Miyagi, Cecco e Cipo, Davide Cocozza (painting), Collettivo Ada (theatre)
MArteLive 2024 winners: Flaminia Colella, Claudio Dinicoli, Angela Morelli, William Rochira, Noemi Agosta
Chiara Mastrangelo, Jaqueline Lentini, Giovanni Mariani, Ludovica Cirillo
ATELIER MONTEZ – 8 p.m.
The Silent Beat, Damon ArabSolgar (Mombao), Antonio Raia, Laura Agnusdei, Plaid, IKE, Francesco Santalucia
Wednesday 15 October: LANIFICIO 159 – 8 p.m.
Orange Combutta, Fitness Forever, Frenetik, Pellegrino
MArteLive 2024 winners: Rusty Brass, Marta Bulgherini, Collettivo Neo, Angela Morelli, William Rochira, Noemi Agosta, Chiara Mastrangelo, Jaqueline Lentini, Giovanni Mariani, Ludovica Cirillo
ATELIER MONTEZ – 8 p.m.
Daniele Timpano, Francesco Santalucia, Concert in the dark with Valerio Vigliar, Angelo Trabace
The Delay in the Universal Loop, Kety Fusco
MONK
Hugo Race & Gianni Maroccolo, Jaqueline Lentini, Giovanni Mariani, Ludovica Cirillo
images: (COVER 1) Collettivo ADA, Mirage (2) Chiara Mastrangelo, winner, sculpture Inefficient self-portrait, sculpture, detail (3) Fujiya&Miyagi, ph.Olly Hearsay-hires (4) Marta Bulgherini, winner in the theatre section
