Art City 2025 outside the city centre

The ART CITY Bologna 2025 programme in the metropolitan area is animated by many events taking place in the municipalities of Budrio, San Lazzaro di Savena, Pieve di Cento, Imola, Sasso Marconi, Valsamoggia, Rastignano, Calderara di Reno, and San Giovanni in Persiceto.

Find out which ART CITY 2025 events should not be missed outside the centre of Bologna

Before leaving the city walls, pay a visit to the eXtraBO information point in Piazza del Nettuno 1/ab where Andrea Baruffi's solo exhibition will be hosted from 7 to 8 February 2025.

An artist who has managed to combine creativity and depth in each of his works. The exhibition will consist of four works that will focus attention on the artist's home territory, where he still works, in Lizzano in Belvedere.

Here are some selected events in the province of Bologna that you cannot miss:

• Lama di Reno: Alek o. you can't go back even by a minute (8-9 February 2025)

In the spaces of the former Marzabotto paper mill building site in Lama di Reno, a site-specific installation, generated by the de-construction and re-modulation of some furnishing elements recovered in the spaces of the former offices during the first reconnaissance survey

• Grizzana Morandi: Lions club. art (6-9 February)

The group exhibition displays selected works by well-known painters and sculptors who are members of the Lions Club

• Sasso Marconi: The Great Parliament of Instincts (until 8 March 2025)

The exhibition revolves around the theme of rituality and is the result of multifaceted research, capturing various aspects that emerge in the contemporary world.

• Pianoro: Abra. transcendental - fire sculpture

At the Loggia della fornace, from 6 to 23 February, an exhibition of Abra's works. The exhibition revolves around the theme of intuition, the key that opens the door of the Great Mystery to the human being and the starting point of the transcendental art project.

• Valsamoggia: Roberto cerè. thoughts of visible nature (until 2 March)

Roberto Cerè recounts the course of the seasons through an exhibition of 16 images that do not allow themselves to be seen from a landscape view, but portray details and details caught in naturalistic contexts, during walks or strolls in the world around them, in nature.

• Bentivoglio: Prologis Urban Art Museum (until 22 February)

Prologis has decided to set up an Urban Art Museum at the Bologna Freight Village. It houses 22 works by some of the most renowned urban art artists working today.

• Pieve di Cento: Davide Peretti Poggi. the other face (until 23 February)

The works on display are a tribute to the artist's relationship with the figure of Graziano Campanini, a tireless promoter of culture in Pieve di Cento, to whom the Art Gallery is dedicated and with whom Peretti Poggi had a deep relationship of esteem.

• Budrio: Budrio in art (until 16 February)

On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna 2025, Budrio too is taking part with a week of events, exhibitions, guided tours and workshops to discover the artistic and cultural heritage kept within its walls.

• Calderara di Reno: Edo massa. we don't know what to do but we will do it anyway (until 18 April)

Solo exhibition of cartoonist and illustrator Edo Massa. Faced with potential scenarios, the artist author of the strips on the Generation Without a Future responds with a nihilism that merges with co-creation, leaving the public to complete his stories as they see fit.

• San Lazzaro di Savena: Radio design. the aesthetic evolution of radio sets (until 9 February)

The exhibition is an unprecedented journey into the world of radio design and technology. More than 50 models from the private collection of Davide Vercelli, curator of the exhibition, testify to the evolution of the radio, from the first valve models to the most modern devices.

• San Lazzaro di Savena: Fragments, with a text by Davide Ferri, until 25 March 2025, at Kappa Noun, Via Imelde Lambertini 5, San Lazzero di Savena 

First solo exhibition of German artist Ulrich Erben. The project, in collaboration with Galleria Studio G7, presents six new square canvases created in close relationship with the architecture of the space

• Casalecchio di Reno: Arthur Dove and jazz music (until 9 February)

At the House of Knowledge, an exhibition of Arthur Dove, an artist who created a series of works inspired by specific pieces from the jazz repertoire of Louis Armstrong or white big band composers such as: George Gershwin or Irving Berlin. Like many of his American colleagues, Dove was interested in the concept of synesthesia and the relationship between colour, sound and perception.

• Casalecchio di Reno and Cinema Modernissimo: Countercurrent. snapshot II: circus visions, futurist visions (until 9 February)

The events, spread throughout the territory, will have the Circus as a performing art and Futurist aesthetics as their leitmotif, presenting personalities who in their lives have studied and been active in both spheres.

• Bologna: Sandstone and Terracotta (until 16 February)

An exhibition project involving two exhibitions set up in the Letizia Gelli Gallery in the former Fornace Roncaglia, an industrial archaeology space located in Via Roncaglio 11/12 in Bologna.