Mediterranean Program

Lecce is the emerging heart of the Mediterranean: a meeting point between Europe, the South and contemporary languages in transformation. Here the project finds its origin, curatorial vision and organizational structure. Lecce does not replicate the models of European capitals: it reworks them from a different geographic and cultural position — slower, deeper, more stratified.

Lecce, at the heart of the Mediterranean, is a living threshold between Europe and the global South, between baroque tradition and new forms of contemporary cultural production. Exhibiting in Lecce means entering an expanding context where Southern Italy is not the periphery but an active centre of a new cultural geography. Lecce and Puglia become strategic infrastructure of the European program.

Lecce is direct contact. Spaces have a strong architectural identity, often tied to baroque and to the city's historical dimension. The relationship with the public is close, human, continuous. In recent years it has become a connection point between Italian and international artists, with a growing and increasingly open scene.