contemporary locus opens a new exhibition project inside the Carmine, one of the oldest and most secret monasteries in the city of Bergamo, founded in the XVth century and then abandoned at the beginnings of the XXth century. For the first time, the monastery is a hub for art, theatre and music events, under the management of the Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (TTB). In the last few years contemporary locus has opened to the public several hidden and forgotten sites in the city of Bergamo, a task accomplished when contemporary artists accepted to work in, with and for these sites.
contemporary locus 8, curated by Paola Tognon, invites three international artists – Evgeny Antufiev (1986), Etienne Chambaud (1980), and Berlinde De Bruyckere (1964) – along with the Atelier dell’Errore, a so-called ‘social sculpture’, a relational art project at the service of child neuro-psychiatry, devoted for the last thirteen years to the drawing of animals.