Istituto Di Cultura - Sydney

HEAD ON Photo Festival The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is Sydney is pleased to renew once again in 2019 its collaboration with the Head On Photo Festival by showcasing the exhibition Hands by photographer Monia Merlo. The Institute will also present the exhibition The Valley of Shadows by photographer Camillo Pasquarelli,...

2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival, and as every year the Festival will present in all the major Australian cities the best of contemporary Italian cinema as well as some classics. In Sydney the Festival will be held between the 17th of September and the 16th of October in all the Palace...

Curated by Paolo Stracchi, University of Sydney Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979) was a structural engineer but also a revolutionary Italian master builder, architect and artist, who forged, through the invention of the Sistema Nervi – Nervi System - a new structural aesthetic for modern architecture. In Austra...

As part of the celebration of the 18th European Day of Languages, EUNIC in Australia Sydney (Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Alliance Française, British Council, Goethe Institut, Instituto Cervantes) will offer a unique approach to European languages and cultures. Instituto Cervantes Sydney will be for a day the h...

Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019 On the occasion of the 20th Lavazza Italian Film Festival, which will start on the 17th of September in Sydney, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Sydney, in collaboration with Palace Cinemas, wishes to commemorate the recent departure, in November 2018, of one of the undisputed masters...

Of Love and Friendship The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is reniewing in 2019 its fruitful collaboration with the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, proposing a new cycle of screenings called Of Love and Friendship, which will include movies produced in the last years which will touch upon themes that are certainly very familiar...

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present a project based an exchange of experiences between Sicily and Australia. In particular, the presentation will illustrate an exchange of art residencies which took place in July this year between Sicily (at the Fondazione Brodbeck in Catania and at the Museo Palazzo...

Contemporary Art Exhibition by artist Mauro De Giorgi, curated by Prof Paolo Diego Bubbio When Gods Walked the Earth is a project developed through a series of artworks inspired by René Girard’s mimetic theory, and developed through an intellectual dialogue between artist Mauro De Giorgi and philosopher Di...

SUMI-E is the Japanese word for Black Ink Painting. Emphasis lays on the beauty of each individual stroke of the brush and the ability to capture the spirit (Ch’i) of nature rather than a photographic likeness. During the workshop, led by Italian artist Mauro De Giorgi, students will be introduced to the “Four Trea...

Cinema Italia Life in a Time of Crisis – An Italian Perspective The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is proud to announce the launch of a collaboration with Palace Cinemas which will present a series of screenings as well as retrospectives dedicated to some of the most significant cultural and social aspects of Ita...

Antenna Documentary Film Festival The 9th edition of the Antenna Documentary Film Festival, with whom the Institute has been actively collaborating for a number of years, will take place in Sydney between the 17th and the 27th of October. During eleven days the Festival will present the very best in non-fiction films and...

Lecture by Prof. Rodney Lokaj, Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore” 19th Week of the Italian Language in the World: Italian Language on the Stage On the occasion of the 19th Week of the Italian Language in the World, whose 2019 theme is the Italian Language on the Stage, the Istituto Italiano di C...

Lecture by Elisabetta Peruzzi, University of Sydney 19th Week of the Italian Language in the World: Italian and the network, networks for Italian On the occasion of the 19th Week of the Italian Language in the World, whose 2019 theme is the Italian Language on the Stage, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Sydney and...

FILTER by Italian sculptor Maurizio Perron A sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Perron has been once again selected for the international art exhibition Sculpture the Sea, which will begin on the 24th of October in Sydney. Sculpture by the Sea, founded in 1997, can be considered one of the largest exhibitions in the...