Curated by Agustín Sánchez.

Inauguration: Sunday, July 20, 7:00 PM

Opening: July 21 – August 1, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Mon-Fri)

c/o Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara (Academy), P.zza G. Carrara 82/D, Bergamo

As part of Interscape, an internationalization project funded by PNRR funds, which includes a Summer School and a subsequent festival in February 2026, the international exhibition Culture Beat 3 will be held in Bergamo. This third edition follows the previous ones: the first in Poznań, Poland, between April and May 2024, as part of Poznań Art Week and curated by Joanna Marcinkowska with the support of the Spanish and Italian embassies in Poland; the second, however, was inaugurated in Granada on November 15, 2024, as part of BAG 7, the International Art Festival organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada, curated by Jesús Osorio and María Dolores Gallego. The Culture Beat 3 exhibition will open concurrently with the Interscape Summer School, on Sunday, July 20, at 7:00 PM, at the Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara (Academy), P.zza G. Carrara 82/D.

This third edition of Culture Beat, in connection with the thematic of Interscape and the investigation into the identity of places, is configured as a layered exploration of cultural geographies, collective memories, and local roots in the seven countries involved: Spain, Chile, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Serbia, and Uruguay. Far from a documentary approach, the project takes on the character of a fluid map of belongings and differences, where each region contributes its own narrative fabric.

The exhibition is composed as a chorus of visions, an intertwining of perspectives under the curatorship of Agustín Sánchez, professor and coordinator of the Department of Design and Applied Arts at the Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo. 22 artist-lecturers give voice to eighteen projects that do not merely represent, but whisper questions, evoke memories, stir silences.

Through heterogeneous artistic gestures, each work becomes a passage, revealing the invisible tensions that inhabit places and the lives that cross them. It is a journey through identity as a transforming landscape, where sharing becomes form, and form becomes the possibility of recognition.

Culture Beat is thus configured as a transnational dialogic space, a platform for exchange that celebrates the complexity of cultural identity and its resonances between local and global. In an era marked by accelerations and homogenizations, the exhibition values the unrepeatable and the particular as active resources for rethinking contemporaneity through the gaze of art.

Participating Artists: Natalia Brzezińska, Poland; Anita Catricura, Chile; Ana Cremades, Spain;  Martin Dokoupil, Czech Republic; Studenti u blokadi, Serbia; Jorge Ferrada Sullivan, Chile; José Gracia, Spain; Reyes González Vida, Spain; José Manuel Jiménez Muñoz, Poland; Tomasz Kalitko, Poland; Magdalena Kasprzak, Poland; Petr Kovář, Czech Republic; Federico Lagomarsino, Uruguay; Joanna Marcinkowska, Poland; Fernando Miranda, Uruguay; Ondřej Navrátil, Czech Republic; Jesús Osorio, Spain; Francesco Pedrini, Italy; Olga C. Rodríguez Pomares, Spain; Agustín Sánchez, Italy; Gonzalo Vicci, Uruguay.

Participating Institutions: Academy of Arts, University Novi Sad (Serbia); Department of Art, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University (Czech Republic); Facultad de Artes, Universidad de la República (Uruguay); Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Granada (Spain); Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts (Poland); Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo (Italy); Universidad de los Lagos (Chile).