2025

Seminaria Sogninterra 2025
Environmental Art Biennial Festival – 8th Edition
Maranola (Formia, LT), August 28–30, 2025

Introduction and General Overview

Seminaria Sogninterra is a biennial cultural project dedicated to site-specific environmental art. Since 2011, it has transformed the medieval village of Maranola, a hilly district of the Formia municipality, into an open-air laboratory where Italian and international artists are invited to interact with the landscape, memory, and local community. The resulting works – installations, sculptures, performances, videos – engage in a profound and poetic dialogue with the locations, evoking reflections on our relationship with nature, territory, and contemporary transformations.

The project is configured as a model of cultural and social regeneration based on participatory art and sustainability, with the aim of triggering new perspectives, connections, and processes of collective care and awareness. Its hybrid identity – blending contemporary art, community, environment, and tradition – has allowed Seminaria to establish itself over the years as one of the most recognized entities in the field of territorial artistic experimentation, receiving support from public and private organizations, as well as growing recognition from audiences and critics.

2025 Edition
Artistic Residencies – May 2025

In May 2025, Maranola hosted the artistic residencies planned through the international open call launched in the previous months, which received over 80 applications from Italy and abroad. The selected artists lived and worked in the village for several weeks, in close contact with the community and the natural and urban environment, developing original works inspired by the context.

The artists in residence were:

Eija Ranta (Finland): performer and multidisciplinary artist, whose practice focuses on the body as an instrument of knowledge, on the relationship between movement, space and time, and on “interaction with natural and urban elements.
Graziano Riccelli (Italy): young Italian sculptor who explores, through natural materials and transformative processes, the tensions between humans and nature, focusing on environmental imbalances and the” urgency of new forms of coexistence.
UCCI UCCI (Salvatore Crucitti and Gloria Zeppilli): collective that interweaves anthropological practices, archiving, visual arts, and theater to construct relational and performative works that actively involve people and the memory of places.

The created works will be presented to the public during the festival at the end of August.

Public Festival – August 28, 29, and 30, 2025

The second phase of the project will culminate in three festival days, scheduled from August 28 to 30, 2025, which will transform the village into a diffused artistic journey, open to visitors, inhabitants, scholars, and enthusiasts.

During the festival, it will be possible to:

Visit the environmental installations and site-specific works created during the residencies
Attend live performances, video projections, theatrical actions, and participatory interventions
Participate in workshops, talks, public meetings, guided tours, and interactive activities

In addition to the artists in residence, special guests will be present, invited to create new works or interact with the village’s public space. Among these:

Roxy in the Box
Collettivo Pessoa Luna Park
Paolo Bellipanni
Gina Disobey
Yumi Kori
Nova Media Studio
Nostalgia del Futuro
Alessandro Cocchia, also the author of the “visual identity for the” 2025 edition

Internationalization and Cultural Exchanges
The 2025 edition is enriched by collaboration with the SACO Biennial of Antofagasta (Chile) and the Italian Cultural Institute of Santiago, as part of a cultural exchange program between Italy and Latin America.

In this context
The “artist Carlo De Meo, previously involved in past editions of Seminaria, will participate in the SACO1.2 Biennial in June 2025
The” Chilean artist Catalina Huala will be in residence in Maranola for a month in August, offering her international perspective and enriching the artistic dialogue with the local community.

Currently supporting the 2025 edition project of Seminaria Sogninterra
Italian Cultural Institute of Santiago, Chile,
Slurp Design
Question Mark, E89

Participation, Inclusion, and Territorial Development
Seminaria is a participatory project: the Maranola community is actively involved in all phases, from “hosting artists to organizing collateral activities, to caring for the village as a ‘living exhibition space’. The festival is an opportunity to strengthen the link between culture and sustainable development, activating processes of integrated valorization of the landscape, history, and” local economy.

Parallel Actions and Promotion
Communication and promotion on digital channels, social media, press, and TV
Editorial activities, publications, and multimedia documentation
Strengthening the network of artistic and institutional collaborations