The Landscape Festival returns to Anacapri: starting September 7th, two months of events centered on memory and the search for a new identity.

From September 7th to November 3rd, the Landscape Festival returns to Villa San Michele and the historic center of Anacapri with its new edition curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio. With an exhibition project divided into two sections—Travelogue. Landscapes with Ruins and Ruina. Searching for an Identity in the Ancient and the Present—the Festival offers a single, unified narrative that intertwines landscape and memory, contemporary art and ruins, travel and identity. Travelogue and Ruina, though born from different foundations, present themselves as two sides of a single visual discourse: the former as a contemporary Grand Tour discovering traces of the past in current artistic research; the latter as an investigation of ruins no longer seen as relics, but as creative matrixes, living and active objects 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 by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Angelo Mosca, Masbedo, Katarina Löfström, Alessio de Girolamo, Sislej Xhafa, and Luca Pancrazzi contribute to giving new meanings and forms to ruins, moving them away from a nostalgic aesthetic and reinterpreting them as living traces of a historical, artistic, social, and personal landscape. From September 7 to November 8, 2025, the Festival program also includes Ruina. Searching for an Identity in the Ancient and the Present. Produced with the support of the Ministry of Culture and SIAE as part of the "Per Chi Crea" program, in collaboration with Villa San Michele, Ruina presents the works of five young Italian artists—Clarissa Baldassarri, Morena Cannizzaro, Maria Cavinato, Carmela De Falco, and Irene Macalli—who, through diverse media, from sculpture to environmental installations, from analog photography to digital imaging, frame the theme of ruins as active presences, capable of regenerating memory, restoring relationships, and initiating new forms of narrative. In a discourse poised between the ancient and the modern, the works of the five artists address themes ranging from the fragility of public and personal memory to the relationship between intimate and collective history, between artistic creation and the social dimension.