Events

In collaboration with Sfuso Diffuso, the Swap Party returns to the Horti. An afternoon of bartering, in the name of fun and sustainability. Everyone can participate: bring up to 10 items of clothing in good condition that you no longer want and take the ones you like best. You can start bringing clothes from 2 p.m. onwards.

Following the inauguration of the work Symbiosis of the Aracne Academy, Horti is organising a workshop open to all with Matilde Crea near the artpiece. A lesson introducing the basics of crochet.

Participation is free if you bring a crochet hook and yarn from home. The cost is 10€ to purchase the introductory kit (2 balls, 1 crochet hook, instruction kit). For info and registration write to promozione@horti.it.

Have you ever heard of Yarn Bombing?

We will inaugurate the work Symbiosis by Accademia di Aracne, which will wrap some of our most beautiful trees in a new coat of crocheted wool. The Accademia di Aracne is an association in Ortona founded by Shirley Rowlands, which carries out constant research into nature.

Horti Bistrot is almost ready to reopen its doors and welcome a training school for wait staff, dedicated to prisoners and people with disabilities. In the meantime, join us and meet the staff of Horti Bistrot. Support the project and lend a concrete hand to this new place of welcome and training.

Free offer from 15€. Offer from 20€ to also attend the Silent Wifi Concert on Saturday 17 May at 20:00.

On 17 May at 20:00, the Silent Wifi Concert in Horti returns for the second time, a unique and immersive experience to enjoy music and literary pieces, surrounded by greenery.

Attendees of the Silent Wifi Concert can participate for free in the event ‘Waiting for the bistro: solidarity aperitivo’ at 18:00.

After the Louvre, the Egyptian Museum and the Valley of the Temples, pianist Andrea Vizzini returns to Pavia, together with Antonio Gargiulo, reciting voice. Thanks to the silent piano technology, spectators will be able to listen to the music through headphones and at the same time explore the park and its contemporary works of art.

In collaboration with PianoLink, Yamaha e Silent System.

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On Saturday 17, in the Spazio Extra Art, Caterina Zaira Laskaris, head of the Library and Historical Archives of the Collegio Borromeo, traces an unusual path between workshop and kitchen.

What do mulberries and garlic heads, vinegar and whipped egg whites, cheese and candied sugar have in common with art? Not only has the world of food always been a source of creative inspiration - as the Custode dell'Orto demonstrates - but it is closely connected to many stages in the creation of artistic artefacts.

Free admission. Download the Horti in Primavera flyer

The Almo Collegio Borromeo alumni band, the Skizzoboys, perform live. Drums, bass, guitar, piano, violin, sax and vocals to kick off the Horti in Primavera programme.

Free admission. For the occasion, buying Horti beer will support the Horti Bistrot project, a school for room attendants for prisoners and people with disabilities. We have almost reached our crowdfunding goal.

Untitled by Jannis Kounellis, the great master of Arte Povera who died in 2017, is the newest artwork to make its entrance in the Horti park. The work, created for the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, will be inaugurated in the Extra Art space of the Almo Collegio Borromeo on Thursday 5 December at 6.30 pm. A toast will follow.

‘Untitled’ is composed of casts of classical heads and limestone elements hung from steel cables that hang from a height of 4 metres, the sculpture has a great scenographic presence, evoking a stage on whose dark backdrop the suspended volumes stand out.

We thank the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan, owner of the work, for the loan of use granted to the Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia. 

Download the flyer at the link.

The historical revisitations of collegiate traditions in a contemporary key continue. 

On 21 November at 6.30 p.m. we will host Michele De Lucchi, architect and designer, and Mariangela Gualtieri, poet and writer, in the Sala Affreschi of the Collegio Borromeo. This large space used to be the place where students' preparation was publicly tested. The examination and graduation ceremony of Borromeo students were held here, as well as academic disputes - forms of debate derived from the medieval practice of disputatio - considered indispensable to supplement the university course, allowing students to perfect their expository skills. 

De Lucchi and Gualtieri, recalling the dialectical practices implemented by Federico Borromeo, will discuss architecture and poetry today.  

On the 6th November at 6:00 p.m., Horti and the Collegio Borromeo will host Michelangelo Pistoletto, artist, painter and sculptor, in dialogue with Serena Bertolucci, Director M9 - Museo del ‘900. The 16th-century Refectory, a space of daily conviviality for pupils of all ages, opens its doors to the public for the first time to nourish minds with the culture of encounter and dialogue.

A vegetarian soup will be served at the end of the event.

Horti and the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation have inaugurated 'La Lunga Arte', an exhibition focusing on the fruitful intellectual relationship between the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro and the poet Francesco Leonetti.

We look forward to seeing you in the Extra Art space in Horti from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The exhibition will remain open until 30th October, while the sculpture 'Movimento di crollo' will be on display until February 2025.