Bogliasco Foundation

10/09/2026

Join Bogliasco alumnus and composer Lembit Beecher (BF '24) and cellist Karen Ouzounian for the New York debut of Mayrig on October 27 at 7:30 PM at Merkin Hall in NYC!

Blending Armenian folk music, original compositions, family recordings, and artwork by acclaimed comic artist Charles Berberian, Mayrig tells the story of one family’s experience in Beirut during the 1960s and 70s. This intimate, immersive performance explores memory, family, and cultural identity through music and visual storytelling.

October 27, 2026 | 7:30 PM
Merkin Hall, New York City

🎟️ Tickets and more information:

https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/lembit-beecher-karen-ouzounian-mayrig/

10/09/2026

FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE 2026

AQUA COSMOS

Science and Art Exploring the Hudson Canyon

Friday, October 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Bogliasco Center, Via Aurelia 2 & 4, Bogliasco (GE)

Join us for a presentation of “Aqua Cosmos,” a project bringing together science and art by contemporary artist Anita Glesta

The event will feature a screening of Glesta’s short film, which, 100 years after the first exploration of the Hudson Canyon, weaves together archival footage with her animations and drawings.

The program will also include a screening of an interview recorded on September 27, 2025, between Anita Glesta and members of the crew of The Nancy, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel that carried out the most recent exploration of the submerged canyon, located approximately 100 miles off the coast of New York.

Free admission. Advance registration required.
[email protected]
010 3472376

More here - https://www.artartworks.com/exhibitions/anita-glesta-to-present-aqua-cosmos-in-brooklyn-and-genoa-35381/

09/30/2026

09/21/2026

BOGLIASCO CENTER SPRING 2027 FELLOWSHIPS

We are pleased to announce Bogliasco's Spring 2027 Fellowship awardees – a group of 35 artists and scholars representing 13 disciplines, 14 countries, and ranging in age from 29 to 84.
These exceptional individuals were selected from the most competitive application pool Bogliasco has witnessed in 30 years, with an acceptance rate of 5%. Each 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.

SPRING 2027

Camila Mancilla Vera, Architecture
Toni Griffin, Architecture
Chip Colwell, Archeology
Lucy Guerin, Dance
Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Dance
Anthony Matsena, Dance
Moussa Samaké, Dance
Yuliana Brutti, Film/Video
Nathalie Mansoux, Film/Video
Iva Radivojević, Film/Video
Adam James Smith, Film/Video
Rebecca Chace, Literature
Peter Filkins, Literature
Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Literature
Bessie Flores Zaldívar, Literature
Utku Asuroglu, Music
Elif Karlidag, Music
Desmond Oliver, Music
Micha Seidenberg, Music
Jens Michael Baumgarten, Visual Arts - Scholarship
Rachel Cockerell, History
Simone Drake, Literature - Scholarship
Hamid Ekbia, Public Humanities
Nancy Jecker, Philosophy
Terri Ochiagha, Literature - Scholarship
Edson Burton, Theater
Bolun Shen, Theater
Evan Silver aka Tiresias, Theater
Juan Edilberto Sosa Torres, Theater
Antonio Vega, Theater
Monika Grabuschnigg, Visual Arts
Hilary Harkness, Visual Arts
Kirsten Hoving, Visual Arts
Rosario López, Visual Arts
Kunié Sugiura, Visual Arts

Click the link below for more!

https://www.bfny.org/en/news-and-events

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