The Blank ArtDate

ArtDate, a weekend totally dedicated to Contemporary Art, takes place every year in Bergamo since 2010. Exhibition openings, studio visits, extraordinary openings of historical houses and private collections, concerts, talks and performances take place during the festival. The program involves different targets: from artists to collectors, from young people to a mature public, from Art insiders to curious people, all of them with the common desire to discover and exchange views about Contemporary Art.

The Gift is the theme of the 10th edition of the Contemporary Festival ArtDate developing the concept of gift in different ways, starting from the studies of anthropologist Marcel Mauss. Among the higlights there is the exibition "The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes" curated by Ed Atkins with works by Stan Brakhage and David Kamp, "The Gift. One life and death" curated by Stefano Raimondi, "Art, Signs, Languages: the sign as toll of visual-gestural communication" talk organized by educational services department of The Blank.