Image: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
GAMeC in Bergamo has outlined a summer programme built around guided visits, family activities, permanent workshops and a film screening, with events split between the museum and Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo Alta. The lineup, announced in the museum’s summer newsletter, also includes the exhibition ‘Eau’ by Ana Silva and a screening of ‘Futura’ by Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello and Francesco Munzi.
The programme brings together public-facing activities aimed at different audiences, from adults to families with very young children. At GAMeC, the museum is offering guided paths through current exhibitions and its collections, while at Palazzo della Ragione the focus is on permanent workshops conceived for ‘Tabula Plena’, the installation by Fosbury Architecture and Claire Fontaine that transforms the Sala delle Capriate into a place for encounter and shared knowledge production.
Among the hands-on activities is ‘36 Carte per Infinite Forme’, developed with the artist-research collective Numero Cromatico. The workshop invites participants to reshape perception by combining and rotating magnetic tiles based on a toroidal, circular and continuous formula, producing new images each time. According to the museum, the exercise frames algorithms not as fixed mysteries but as human constructions in which rules can spark imagination, with the finished compositions photographed and printed to contribute to a collective mosaic in constant transformation.
Another workshop, ‘Busillis’, was devised with the URPS (Ufficio Resurrezione Parole Smarrite) of Sabrina D’Alessandro. It asks participants to turn gaps in information about objects and words into an imaginative challenge, with the museum stressing that there are no wrong answers, only different perspectives. A further project, ‘Parliamo di educazione’, created with artist and pedagogue Adelita Husni Bey, begins from the question of what education means today and uses 30 terms — from “school” to “grade”, from “digital intelligence” to “meritocracy” — to map language around learning and institutional influence.
The newsletter also lists adult activities in the museum calendar. ‘Visita Comoda’ is scheduled for Wednesday 26 August at 4:30 pm at GAMeC and is described as a calm, reflective encounter with an artwork, with references spanning literature, cinema, music and poetry. ‘Derive Urbane’, on Saturday 29 August at 4:00 pm, proposes urban wandering as a creative practice inspired by Guy Debord’s psychogeographic experiments. The third session, centred on the theme ‘Frammenti’, asks participants to gather small abandoned objects, reflections and framing devices as part of what the museum calls a new archaeology of the present.
For families, the programme includes ‘Baby Art Tour’ on Sunday 30 August at 10:30 am, designed for children aged 18 to 24 months. The visit is set inside ‘Eau’, Ana Silva’s first solo exhibition in an Italian institution, now on view in GAMeC’s Spazio Zero until 6 September. The museum describes the exhibition as a sensory environment of floating transparencies, suspended landscapes and embroidered figures that encourages curiosity, discovery and motor coordination through tactile materials adapted to the works on display.
The film programme returns on Friday 28 August at 9:00 pm with ‘Futura’, presented in Sala dell’Orologio / Piazza della Libertà, Bergamo. The film, which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, is described by GAMeC as a collective inquiry by Rohrwacher, Marcello and Munzi into ideas of the future among young people aged 15 to 20, drawn from a long journey across the Italian peninsula. The screening is organised with Lab 80 film and the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Foreign Cultures of the University of Bergamo, and is part of the Sant’Alessandro 2026 programme curated by the city’s Department of Culture.
