Anacapri, the IX Landscape Festival is inspired by Goethe's Italian Journey

From 7 September to 3 November 2025, the Anacapri Landscape Festival returns to Villa San Michele and the historic centre of Anacapri with its new edition curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio. With an exhibition project divided into two movements – Travelogue. Landscapes with ruins and RUINA. Searching for an identity in the ancient and the present – ​​the Festival offers a single choral narrative that intertwines landscape and memory, contemporary art and ruin, travel and identity. Travelogue and RUINA (produced with the support of the Ministry of Culture and SIAE as part of the Per Chi Crea programme, in collaboration with Villa San Michele), although born from different assumptions, present themselves as two souls of a single visual discourse: the first as a contemporary Grand Tour to discover the traces of the past in current artistic research; the second as an investigation into the ruin no longer understood as a relic, but as a creative matrix, a living and active object of meaning. The ninth edition of the Festival thus reworks the theme of the Journey to Italy, reflecting on the cultural and iconographic value of ruins. The site-specific works and installations of the artists of “Travelogue. Landscapes with ruins” contribute to giving new meanings and forms to ruins, distancing them from a nostalgic aesthetic and reinterpreting them as living traces of a historical, artistic, social and personal landscape. Anacapri Landscape Festival 2025 IX Edition 7 September to 3 November 2025 Villa San Michele and historic center Anacapri (Naples) www.festivaldelpaesaggio.com Travelogue. Landscapes with ruins Curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio With the works of Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Alessio de Girolamo, Katarina Löfström, Masbedo, Angelo Mosca, Luca Pancrazzi and Sisley Xhafa. RUINA. Searching for an identity in the ancient and the present Edited by Giulia Imparato, Gianluca Riccio and Arianna Rosica With the works of Clarissa Baldassarri, Morena Cannizzaro, Maria Cavinato, Carmela De Falco and Irene Macalli.