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2025

  • Nine Elephants Vol.2

    Fantastic Routes
    various locations in the city and swimming pool
    10–20 july 2025
    We’re delighted to announce the second edition of Nine Elephants and the continuation of a fantastic conversation between residents and artists, poets and gardeners, experts and observers, which will take place over exactly ten days in July at various venues across the city – and for the first time in nearby towns and villages.
  • Calendar

    JUMP! DON'T JUMP

    10 YEARS SWIMMING POOL EXHIBITION
    Swimming Pool
    10 July – 18 September 2025
    We will open this year’s Nine Elephants with an exhibition dedicated to the full and empty pools of the imagination, and Zhana Ivanova will warm us up in welcoming the ten-day programme of the festival.
  • Focus Ecologies

    ICELAND BANYA MATTINE

    with ideas factory and gullkistan
    28 april, 11:30 – 13:30
    conversation and screening
  • Welcome

    An empty pool full of art, talks, books, plants, city, love and imagination
    mondays and thursdays, 16:00-19:00
  • FOCUS SOCIAL

    WETLANDS AND PUBLIC SPACES

    cultural aperitivo with lungomare / conversation and presentation of upcoming open call
    april 5th, 18:00–20:00
  • FOCUS SOCIAL

    NINE ELEPHANTS FORUM

    December, January, February
    a series of lectures, discussions and talks to inspire new ways of working in the city over the upcoming weeks. FORUM is a continuation of t Nine Elephants Art in the City programme where we will dig deeper into the themes, build on partnerships and explore the possibilities for better and meaningful interaction between different actors in the cultural sphere seeking to contribute to the development of the city's potentials and urban communities through art.
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