Saturday, July 5, 10 AM-5 PM
Dossena and Roncobello
Open Studio
with artists Roberto Casti, Adele Dipasquale, Oscar Formacio and the Mozzarella Light collective
A unique opportunity to meet the artists protagonists of the 2025 edition of the residency project in the municipalities of Dossena and Roncobello in their work space and discover how the territory is representing a source of inspiration for their research.
Free admission
Roberto Casti and Adele Dipasquale
Dossena, Via Don Pietro Rigoli 3
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Oscar Formacio and Mozzarella Light
Roncobello, Via Barghetto 25
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Promoted as part of the project
“Na.tur.arte – The Valparina Wilderness Area between Hospitality, Art and Nature”
Saturday, July 5, 10:30 AM
DISCOVERING BERGAMO THROUGH THE ART OF MAURIZIO CATTELAN
Free guided tours for families with children aged 6 and up in the city along the exhibition route of Seasons
GAMeC and Brightstar offer a special guided tour for families, combining contemporary art and iconic landmarks of Bergamo, as part of exhibition Seasons by Maurizio Cattelan. An engaging journey through the exhibition venues and the city’s most representative neighborhoods, from Borgo Pignolo to Città Alta. Accompanied by museum educators, participants will share an experience that blends art, local discovery, and active participation, in the spirit of The Orobie Biennial – Thinking Like a Mountain.
Duration: 2h 30min
Stops: GAMeC → Former Oratory of San Lupo → Palazzo della Ragione → Rotonda dei Mille
Shuttle service provided
Meeting point and tour conclusion: GAMeC – Via San Tomaso 53, Bergamo
Free tours and transfers
Booking required: biglietteria@gamec.it
Sunday, July 6, 10:00 AM
Dossena
Experiential walk to the artwork Landscape Painting (Mine) by Julius von Bismarck
Activity open to everyone
A shared experience of landscape discovery, through the woods of Dossena and the artwork Landscape Painting (Mine) by Julius von Bismarck. Participants will explore new trails and restored ancient paths through sounds, scents, and local stories. With graphic, painting, and performance activities suitable for all, the exploration encourages recognition of the past, observation of the present, and imagination of the community’s future, deeply tied to its territory.
Free activity open to all
Booking required: visiteguidate@gamec.it
Meeting point: Dossena Mines Parking Area, Paglio Pignolino locality
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The itinerary lasts approximately 3 hours, including activity breaks along the way and a visit to Julius von Bismarck’s artwork, located in the first section of the mines. Inside temperature is about 13°C (55°F), with 90% humidity.
The actual walking time is about 1 hour and 30 minutes, with an elevation gain of 200 meters. The path is unpaved, without major difficulties, and suitable for families.
We recommend wearing weather-appropriate clothing and suitable footwear for walking.
Sunday, July 6, 4:00 PM
Roncobello
Workshop with artist Alessandro Quaranta and architect Francesca Gotti
Alessandro Quaranta will begin the session by sharing photographs of mountain places that have marked his personal journey: a small hamlet of crumbling houses on terraced slopes, a small lake sunken in a mountain depression and surrounded by rocky debris, a gentle grassy clearing found after a steep climb through dense woodland.
These images will become a pretext to involve participants in a collective narrative. Everyone will be invited to share their emotional connection to a place, contributing to a cartography made up of memories and personal connections.
A story suspended between fiction and reality will introduce Francesca Gotti’s contribution. It will serve as the starting point for a work-in-progress project that explores new forms of co-habitation and care for urban natural spaces.
The community is invited to participate with personal experiences related to caring for places and the reciprocity of our relationship with the natural environment.
The narrative invites us to reflect: when we stop cultivating, the forest reclaims the slopes; when we leave space for the uncultivated, the wild spreads; but the uncultivated and the forests are more at risk of being paved over, developed, expropriated. Commons, common goods, and civic uses remind us that land can be collectively inhabited and shared in a fair way.
Roncobello, Baresi area
Maurizio Gervasoni Mill
Free entrance
Monday, July 7, 4:30 PM
COMFORTABLE VISIT
Activity for adults
An event designed for adults of all ages, offering a break from daily routines. Drawing on poetry, literature, philosophy, music, film, radio, and television, participants will be invited to feel part of a small, temporary community through dialogue and attentive listening.
Duration: 75 min
Free activity and entrance
Booking required: biglietteria@gamec.it
Friday, July 11, 5:00 PM
DISCOVERING BERGAMO THROUGH THE ART OF MAURIZIO CATTELAN
Free guided tour for adults in the city along the exhibition route of Seasons
GAMeC and Brightstar present a special guided tour for an adult audience, exploring contemporary art and key landmarks of Bergamo, as part of the Seasons exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan. An engaging itinerary through exhibition venues and the city’s most iconic neighborhoods, from Borgo Pignolo to Città Alta. Accompanied by museum educators, participants will experience a rich and thought-provoking journey that intertwines art, urban landscape, and social reflection, in the spirit of The Orobie Biennial – Thinking Like a Mountain.
Duration: 2h30
Stops: GAMeC → Former Oratory of San Lupo → Palazzo della Ragione → Rotonda dei Mille
Shuttle service provided
Meeting point and conclusion: GAMeC – Via San Tomaso 53, Bergamo
Free tours and transfers
Booking required: biglietteria@gamec.it
Saturday, July 12, at Noon
Roncobello
Presentation of the work
Che sventoli per bacco!
by Francesco Ferrero
The event marks the conclusion of a path developed with the involvement of the community of Roncobello, and in particular the children of the municipality who have created, together with the artist, three large banners that will be placed near the Forcella Castle.
Free event
Promoted as part of the project
Sentieri Creativi / Ed. 2024 and
“Na.tur.arte – The Valparina Wilderness Area between Hospitality, Art and Nature”
The activity is confirmed even in case of bad weather.
It is recommended to bring umbrellas or wear capes for the trail to Bordogna Castle (about 10 minutes).
Saturday, July 12, 6 PM
Dossena
Presentation of the installation
Storie dal Becco
by Giammarco Cugusi and Roberto Picchi
The work Storie dal Becco is inspired by the processions of the Way of the Cross, reinterpreting them in a secular and contemporary key. The public will discover it during a walk that will start from the site of the old Dossena mines to reach the evocative Becco, a symbolic place conceived as a “contemplative cathedral.”
Each station is the result of the artists Giammarco Cugusi and Roberto Picchi’s dialogue with the inhabitants of Dossena, and research on the local cultural heritage: the installation interweaves traditions, myths, individual and collective memories, building a choral narrative that looks at the past, present and future of the community.
Free event
Promoted as part of the project
Creative Paths / Ed. 2024 and
“Na.tur.arte – The Valparina Wilderness Area between Hospitality, Art and Nature”
Duration of the trail: 1h 30 minutes
Height difference of about 200 mt
Meeting point:
Dossena Mine Parking
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Sunday, July 13, 10:30 AM
SUNDAY AT THE MUSEUM – SPECIAL EDITION: THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN
Activity for adults
GAMeC invites adult audiences to a special guided tour dedicated to the exhibitions of The Orobie Biennial – Thinking Like a Mountain. A unique opportunity to explore the new exhibitions in the program and delve into the themes that define the project: the relationship between contemporary art, mountain landscapes, and community. Accompanied by museum educators, participants will get to know the featured artworks and artists’ research, discovering new perspectives on the region and ongoing cultural and environmental transformations.
Free participation
Sunday, July 13, 5:30 p.m.
Roncobello, Passo del Vendulo
Sonorisation of the work Magnitudo by Francesco Pedrini
Sound artist Nicola Gualandris will perform a live quadraphonic sonorization of the three installations that make up Magnitudo, the work that transforms the forest into a poetic observatory of the sky.
A multisensory journey through art and nature, offering a unique and immersive auditory experience.
Free activity
