Lo schermo dell’arte presents the fifteenth edition of the VISIO - European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, a research, residency, and production programme dedicated to artists who use moving images in their artistic practice.
The project, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, will be held in Florence as part of the 19th Lo schermo dell’arte - Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival (November 11 - 15, 2026). The 8 participants will be young European-based artists who work with moving images; they will be selected through an open call promoted in collaboration with some of Europe’s leading art academies and artist residencies.
The deadline to apply is Friday, May 15th, 2026
VISIO includes the VISIO Production Fund, a €35,000 production fund conceived in partnership with Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato), Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome), MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and with the contribution of Human Company, a historic enterprise and reference point in Italy for openair hospitality, which also provides a reimbursement of participating artists’ travel expenses. Eight artists will be selected and invited to Florence and will have the opportunity to develop their own original project in dialogue with international curators and producers. Sharing and exchange between participants and professionals are facilitated by an intensive programme of mentoring sessions, round tables, and individual meetings. Funds will eventually be awarded to three artists who will work with Leonardo Bigazzi, and Lo schermo dell’arte team, to produce the works and premiere them at the Festival in 2027. An artist's edition of each of the works produced will become part of the permanent collection of the project's partner institutions, which are committed to promote and exhibit them in the following years.
The artists honoured in the previous editions of the VISIO Production Fund are: Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Abdessamad El Montassir, Andro Eradze, Rafik Greiss, Gala Hernàndez Lòpez, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Olukemi Lijadu, Simon Liu, Valentin Noujaïm, Gerard Ortiìn Castellviì, Peng Zuqiang, Maryam Tafakory, and Yuyan Wang. The works produced with the fund have been presented in institutions such as Tate (London), MoMA and MoMA PS1 (New York), Kunsthalle Basel (Basel), Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), among other institutions, as well as in competition in festivals including the Berlin International Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel (Nyon), and CPH:DOX (Copenhagen), among others.
Founded in Florence in 2008, Lo schermo dell’arte is dedicated to exploring and fostering the links between contemporary art and cinema. The many international artists and curators who have attended the festival include: Dimitris Athiridis, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Garrett Bradley, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Omer Fast, Peter Greenaway, Runa Islam, Alfredo Jaar, Isaac Julien, Kahlil Joseph, Salvatore Lacagnina, Oliver Laric, Diego Marcon, Randa Maroufi, John Menick, Sarah Morris, Shirin Neshat, Melik Ohanian, The Otolith Group, Adrian Paci, Julian Rosefeldt, Hito Steyerl, Simon Starling, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Adam Szymczyk.
VISIO - European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (15th edition) is promoted and produced by Lo schermo dell’arte in collaboration with Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato), Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome), MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and thanks to additional support from Human Company.
The participants are selected in partnership with Cité internationale des arts (Paris), De Ateliers (Amsterdam), Delfina Foundation (London), Gasworks (London), Hangar (Barcelona), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing), Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam), Spike Island (Bristol), Städelschule (Frankfurt), Villa Romana (Florence), WIELS Contemporary Art Centre (Brussels).
VISIO - European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images has a four-part structure:
- Mentoring Sessions: critical sessions and one-to-one meetings will be organised with the aim of developing the projects presented by the participating artists. The invited curators will have the opportunity to study the proposals in depth before the start of the programme and then discuss the various aspects of the productions with the artists. The mentors for this edition are: Liberty Adrien, Curator and Head of the Curatorial Department at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and Valentine Umansky, Curator at Tate (London).
In these sessions the artists will also meet representatives of the project partner institutions with which the winning films will be co-produced: Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato); Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome); Claudia Segura, Head of Collection at the MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. - Conversation Room: In this space participants will be able to meet artists, curators, critics, producers and directors of international institutions during round tables and individual 40-minute meetings. Whether used as an opportunity to present portfolios or simply have a conversation, these are meant to be moments of dialogue that will foster the participants' professional growth and extend their network of international contacts. Confirmed guests include filmmakers and artists Carlos Casas and Saodat Ismailova, among others.
- Festival: the participating artists are invited to attend the screenings, meetings and lectures included in the programme of the 19th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte - Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival. This year’s edition will feature works and live events by Carlos Casas, Saodat Ismailova, Lamia Joreige, and Julian Rosefeldt, among others. The programme also includes the world premieres of the works produced through the VISIO Production Fund 2025 by the artists Rafik Greiss, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, and Olukemi Lijadu, as well as by Abdessamad El Montassir and Gala Hernández López, winners of the VISIO Production Fund 2024.
- Streaming: a work by each of the VISIO participants will be presented online, from 11 to 22 November 2026, on Lo Schermo dell’Arte’s digital channel with MYmovies ONE.
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