Bogliasco Foundation

07/01/2026

Don’t miss the final performance of “Delerium.” Created during Igor Golyak’s Spring 2026 fellowship at Bogliasco.

Be sure to check out the recent conversation between Igor and fellow Bogliasco Fellow Jennie Kassanoff, where they discuss the making of the production.

Congratulations to Igor on this remarkable achievement. We’re proud to have supported this work in Bogliasco and can’t wait to see what comes next.

Arlekin is a company of immigrants, rooted in traditions of classical and contemporary Russian theater.

06/30/2026

Today marks the final day of our fiscal year. Every gift received by midnight will help us nurture the vision of next year’s Bogliasco Fellows!

Thank you to all who continue to support our program.

"We were inspired by the work of the other fellows: their fearless adventurousness encouraged us to stretch beyond comfortable formats and to take creative risks.”

Jeffrey Friedman & Rob Epstein, Spring 2026, Film/Video, USA

Link below to donate!

https://www.bfny.org/donate?__cf_chl_f_tk=tvELvH8j_yo6J_queZYiHVZSW7IkaTMU45pAofHlOIQ-1782829209-1.0.1.1-UgKZnxUbYYp0WBgrzA9LT8K.nusf1UXzqcwBaqoaJsk

06/25/2026

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT BOGLIASCO HAS TURNED 30?
“To say Bogliasco is a magical place of creation and discovery would be a vast understatement. I will just say that the sunsets are forever seared in my memory, the conversations are ongoing and fertile, and I will be forever grateful to the Foundation for opening my intellectual and artistic horizons in such a lasting way.”

Carey Perlhoff, Fall 2025, Theater, USA
Since 1996, Bogliasco’s residential Fellowship program has changed lives: providing transformative opportunities for exceptional artists and scholars, and enriching the lives of the global communities to which they return. The world is a better place with more Bogliasco alumni in it - at last count, nearly 1500 from 75 countries around the world!

We are deeply grateful to everyone who has helped make all of this possible. Tuesday June 30th is the last day to donate to Bogliasco before we close the books on our fiscal year, and close the Center for the summer.

A $100 gift nourishes our organic vegetable garden, which provides fresh produce for our Fellows throughout the year; a "buon appetito" gift of $300 sponsors a special, festive dinner for a group in residence; and a gift of $1000 and above is an entry to our core group of supporters, the Società di Amici.

But gifts of any size make a difference, and will directly support the Fellows who will join us next season in September!

Link below to donate

https://www.bfny.org/donate

06/05/2026

Katharina Gruzei

NOW ON VIEW IN THE BOGLIASCO ONLINE GALLERY

For Bogliasco's 30th anniversary year, we are pleased to present Austrian visual artist Katharina Gruzei, who was in residence during the spring 2025 semester.

Katharina Gruzei is an independent artist working across photography, video, film, sound, and installation. Her practice explores societal tendencies and socio-cultural issues, ranging from gender-related themes to questions shaped by urban environments. A central focus of her work lies in feminist concerns and projects in public space, often realized in site-specific contexts. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she is the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships. She lives and works in Vienna and Linz, Austria.

Through site-specific interventions, Katharina Gruzei explores how we experience public space, often revealing its hidden histories. In Transformation, she reanimates the forgotten architecture of a Victorian steam-train station by setting a fabric installation ablaze, while in OPEN, she uses a solar-powered LED sign to draw attention to an inaccessible traffic island cut off by highways. Her work often relinks collective memory and local legends through surreal disruptions of the everyday—from the mythical unicorn that appears at a lake in “As a Matter of Desire” to the submerged light of “Sub Lumina”, which suggests a haunting presence beneath a lake's surface. Finally, through large-scale installations like “Portraits of the Unknown (SPACE LADIES)”, the artist utilizes urban facades to grant visibility to forgotten histories, such as the overlooked legacy of female space pioneers.

Katharina Gruzei is an independent artist working across photography, video, film, sound, and installation. Her practice explores societal tendencies and socio-cultural issues, ranging from gender-related themes to questions shaped by urban environments. A central focus of her work lies in feminist....

06/03/2026

Congratulations to Bogliasco alumni Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento (BF ’25) on being the recipient of Dance Camera North International Dance Film Festival's Change Maker Award for her film 88 Flesh Red.

Screening Saturday, June 6 at 3pm as part of the Capri Arts Festival.

Europe’s colonial project engaged racist premises to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the occupation and economic exploitation of Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Its supremacist ideology found greater validation in the 18th century, when medicine first used of the term “race” to classify human beings and the fine arts set whiteness as the definition of beauty. 88. Flesh Red resists colonial discourse and deconstructs its view of “high art” by signaling how ancestral movement vocabularies manifest in the contemporary artform KRUMP.

Festival director Danielle Ricci Cheng writes, "Your film brought us on a stunning journey through innovative dance and filmmaking. Your work speaks to the people in our society and presents a statement in a meaningful, raw, thought-provoking way. Thank you to you and your beautiful dancer for creating this film."

06/01/2026

PAROLE SPALANCATE
International Poetry Festival of Genoa
Preview at the Bogliasco Center

Via Aurelia 2 and 4, Bogliasco (GE)
Saturday, June 6, 2026
8:30 PM

An evening of music and poetry in the garden, where voices, sound, and landscape come together.

Featuring Catherine Ann Cullen (BF 2025), Irish poet and singer-songwriter, and the performance
A SUN UNBOUND – a tribute to Emily Dickinson
theatrical text by Daniela Fargione (BF 2018)
with Luana Doni and Elisabetta Mazzullo

Musical interventions by the ensemble Malecorde
Site-specific installation by Matilde Domestico
Directed by Alessandra Vannucci

Free admission with mandatory reservation

05/20/2026

Congratulations to Bogliasco alumni Walter Byongsok Chon and Anne M. Hamilton (BF ’24) on the publication of The Plays of Myung-Wha Kim, the first translated play collection by a female Korean playwright to appear in English.

Featuring four powerful works by acclaimed playwright, critic, and director Myung-Wha Kim, this landmark collection brings Kim’s singular voice to a wider international audience through the thoughtful translations of Walter Byongsok Chon, in collaboration with English language consultant Anne M. Hamilton.

Spanning historical drama, political critique, romance, and contemporary life, these plays explore questions of art, love, family, power, and society that resonate far beyond national borders. From reimagined classical tragedy to intimate modern storytelling, the collection highlights the enduring global relevance of Korean theatre.

Myung-Wha Kim is an acclaimed Korean playwright, critic, and director. This book marks the first translated play collection by a female Korean playwright and ca…

05/18/2026

BOGLIASCO CENTER FALL 2026 FELLOWSHIPS

We are pleased to announce Bogliasco's Fall 2026 Fellowship awardees – a group of 28 artists and scholars representing 14 disciplines, 14 countries, and ranging in age from 26 to 78.
These exceptional individuals will spend a month at the Bogliasco Center, one of the world's leading programs for the arts and humanities, developing innovative projects across disciplines.

FALL 2026

Jennifer Newsom - Architecture
Han Zhang - Landscape Architecture
Hilary Brown-Istrefi - Dance
K.J. Holmes - Dance
Kathryn Westwater – Dance
John Haptas - Film/Video
More Raça - Film/Video
Kristine Samuelson - Film/Video
Shuchi Talati - Film/Video
Inderpal Grewal - Visual Arts Scholarship
Justin Crumbaugh - History
Lester Tomé - Dance Scholarship
Nadia Harhash - Philosophy
Ramzi Fawaz - Public Humanities
Solange Ashby – History
Darius Atefat-Peckham - Literature
Diane Mehta - Literature
Miha Mazzini – Literature
Annachiara Gedda - Music
Pierre Jalbert - Music
Snezana Nesic – Music
Paul Guzzardo - Theater
Shayan Lotfi - Theater
Ana Zamora – Theater
Luz María Bedoya - Visual Arts
Mónica Millán - Visual Arts
Wen Liu - Visual Arts

05/15/2026

Congratulations to Bogliasco (BF ’19) alumni Kimi Takesue and her new The Criterion Collection retrospective, Directed by Kimi Takesue: Crossings and Encounters, now streaming through May 2026.

“The visually mesmerizing and deeply reflective films of Kimi Takesue traverse genres—including documentary, fiction, and experimental forms—to explore the charged spaces between observer and observed.” — Criterion Channel

The retrospective includes Onlookers (2023), Where Are You Taking Me? (2010), 95 and 6 to Go (2016), and more, tracing Takesue’s singular exploration of travel, observation, intimacy, and cross-cultural encounter.

“As artists we all have our private markers for true success. For me, it is immensely meaningful to be recognized by Criterion. The Criterion collection is the home of the masters of cinema... To screen my films amongst my cinema heroes is such an honor and a dream come true.” — Kimi Takesue

The visually mesmerizing and deeply reflective films of Kimi Takesue traverse genres—including documentary, fiction, and experimental forms—to explore the charged spaces between observer and observed. Often centered on the act of travel, Takesue’s work follows tourists and locals as they navig...

05/05/2026

We’re excited to help share new work from Bogliasco alum Eric Chasalow (BF ’22)

His latest album, “…arching, reaching, breathless” (New Focus Recordings, released April 17, 2026), brings together over 30 years of music for strings, showcasing the full range of his compositional voice, from meditative and spacious to dense and electrifying.

The album includes The Wings That Bear the Night Away, a piece Chasalow composed during his time at the Bogliasco Foundation, performed by acclaimed violinist Mari Kimura.
A powerful reflection of a wide-ranging career, this release spans works for live electronics, fixed media, and traditional chamber ensembles.

Composer Eric Chasalow releases ...arching, reaching, breathless featuring several pieces for strings in chamber and electroacoustic settings. Featuring performances by the Lydian String Quartet along with several leading freelancers, Chasalow's music is rich in timbral invention, cohesive structu...