Lo schermo dell’arte – About Us

Lo schermo dell’arte is a no-profit organization dedicated to explore, analyze and promote the relationships between contemporary art, moving images and cinema through a festival, research and training projects, exhibitions, residencies program for artists, production, distribution and educational programs.
It was born in Florence in 2008 and it has collaborated with numerous contemporary art centers, institutions, museums, academies and universities in Italy and abroad, confirming its international role in the scouting of new talents and in deepening new expressive languages.

The project is divided into:

LO SCHERMO DELL’ARTE CINEMA AND CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL an international event that presents a selection of the best recent production of artist films and documentaries on contemporary art, meetings with artists, authors and curators. Since 2012 the Festival presents a Focus, a monographic programme dedicated to artists who work with moving images in an innovative way. The previous editions of the Focus have been: Isaac Julien, Deimantas Narkevicius, Hito Steyerl, Harun Farocki, Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi, Hassan Khan, Rä di Martino, Jeremy Deller, Oliver Laric, Rosa Barba, Guido van der Werve, Garrett Bradley and Randa Maroufi.

VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images a research and residency project dedicated to artists under 35 who use moving images in their artistic practice. Participants are selected with an open call and in collaboration with some of the most important European art academies, art schools and residencies for artists. It includes seminars, round tables, meetings and since 2022, the VISIO Production Fund.

EXHIBITIONS by participants in the VISIO program which since 2015 have been held in city institutions: Palazzo Strozzi, Cinema La Compagnia, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Manifattura Tabacchi.

PROJECTS screening programs organized with Italian and foreign institutions, and publications.

PRODUCTION of artists’ films.

EDUCATION a department that develops and produces educational projects on cinema and moving images for schools (kindergarten, primary and secondary), universities, academies, and higher education institutions. The department is also responsible for the festival promotion campaign targeting under-30 audiences and new public segments.

ARCHIVE available on the website, consisting of over 1000 titles including artist films and documentaries.

Among the numerous artists who took part in the Festival:
Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Yuri Ancarani, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Ivàn Argote, Sven Augustijnen, Sammy Baloji, Rosa Barba, Gabriele Basilico, Éric Baudelaire, Riccardo Benassi, Pierre Bismuth, Libia Castro, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Rä di Martino, Mitra Farahani, Roberto Fassone, Omer Fast, Beatrice Favaretto, Anna Franceschini, Dani Gal, Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi, Riccardo Giacconi, Peter Greenaway, Assaf Gruber, Joana Hadjithomas e Khalil Joreige, Juul Hondius, Marine Hugonnier, Runa Islam, Kahlil Joseph, Alfredo Jaar, Isaac Julien, Hassan Khan, Oliver Laric, Simon Liu, Mark Lewis, M+M, Jumana Manna, Diego Marcon, Masbedo, Elena Mazzi, John Menick, Sarah Morris, Rabih Mroué, Deimantas Narkevicius, Shirin Neshat, Valentin Noujaïm, Melik Ohanian, Gerard Ortín Castellví, Adrian Paci, Philippe Parreno, Martial Raysse, Julian Rosefeldt, Roee Rosen, Anjalika Sagar/The Otolith Group, Maurizio Sazio, Andres Serrano, Firas Shehadeh, Caterina Erica Shanta, Amie Siegel, Simon Starling, Hito Steyerl, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Robert Trafford/Forensic Architecture, Fiona Tan, Luca Trevisani, Mila Turajlić, Luca Vitone, Guido Van der Werve, Yuyan Wang, Phillip Warnell, Jane e Louise Wilson, Peng Zuqiang, Zapruder.