EPISODE 1• CONIGLIO 20 IN 25

24.01.2025 - GELITIN/GELATIN

An unprecedented performance by the Viennese collective celebrating their legendary sculpture Hase / Rabbit / Rabbit (2005).

TEAM

10.10.2023

Here and Everywhere. Il tema dell’evento del 10 ottobre è un ponte tra reale e virtuale grazie all’esperienza del Premio sul Metaverso, quest’anno ancora più interessante, sia per l’ambiente realizzato che per l’esposizione in esclusiva di un’opera fuori concorso realizzata con l’intelligenza artificiale. Il tema dell’evento è “Here and Everywhere”. 

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CCC - LIBERTA´

06.10.2024 - Emilio Fabio Torsello e Mara Sabia de La Setta dei Poeti Estinti

Aggregazione, condivisione, confronto intellettuale 

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EPISODE 5 • Farewell to known skies

19.06.2024 Wednesday Hours 20:00 (2 Hours) Foro Traiano, 1 - Rome

The fifth episode is an unprecedented performance by Gaia Fugazza, in collaboration with Isabelle Woodhouse, reflecting on how climate and its memories are ultimately part of the narrative of an environment shared with a community to which one belongs, even after many years and with different life experiences

EPISODE 4 • Festa con Piccola Tragedia

16.04.2024 Thursday Hours 19:00 (2 hours) Foro Traiano, 1 - Rome

Festa con Piccola Tragedia, presented for the first time in Rome by the artist in residence at the Instituto Svizzero, represents a moment of reflection on the idea of "party" understood as a transitory event where a community gathers ritually, exchanging information, desires, emotions, through gestures and sounds.

EPISODE 3 • DOPO IL DILUVIO

25.03.2024 Monday Hour 19:00 (2 hours) Foro Traiano, 1 - Rome

In the previous episodes: following a workshop with Augustas Serapinas and a concert with the Vilnius University Folk Ensemble "Ratilio", for the Third Episode FOROF presents Dopo il diluvio, a performance by the theater company Muta Imago designed in dialogue with the site specific and FOROF archaeological spaces.

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EPISODE 5 • LOTIC

20.07.2022 - LOTIC

For Episode 5 of LOVOTIC-X, Soundwalk Collective invites musician, producer and singer Lotic to present a live performance inspired by her latest album Water.

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CHAMPAGNE BREAKFAST

25.11.2023

Art Talk with Giovanna Caruso Fendi, Carolina Conforti & Fabien Vallerian. On a bright morning on Nov. 25, 2023, at FOROF, we celebrated art, culture and conviviality with our exclusive "Champagne Breakfast." The event was a moment of meeting and exchange between art lovers, important collectors and personalities from the cultural world, in an elegant and refined setting. 

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MAK VIENNA

12.11.2023

This week, FOROF welcomed senior representatives of the MAK, Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. The visit provided an opportunity to highlight our unique approach to linking Rome´s ancient history with contemporary art.

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TERNA

10.10.2023

Here and Everywhere. The theme of the Oct. 10 event is a bridge between real and virtual thanks to the Prize on the Metaverse experience, which is even more interesting this year, both because of the environment created and the exclusive display of an out-of-competition work made with artificial intelligence. The theme of the event is "Here and Everywhere." 

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DAY OF THE CONTEMPORARY

07.10.2023

Nineteenth Day of the Contemporary. On Saturday 7 October 2023, FOROF opened its doors to the public who participated in the Nineteenth Day of the Contemporary, promoted by AMACI with the support of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and with the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

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BOCCONI ALUMNI

02.10.2023

On Monday 2 October 2023, Bocconi Alumni had the exclusive opportunity to visit FOROF and enjoy a preview of the site-specific exhibition Baltic Adventure by Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas. After a brief introduction of the FOROF project by Giovanna Caruso Fendi, the artist himself led the tour of the exhibition. During the event, it was also possible to admire in the FOROF spaces the permanent project FOROF ESSENZA realised by Giovanna Caruso Fendi in collaboration with Laura Bosetti Tonatto and Andrea Purgatori for the last Special Season.

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Exibart

14.07.2023

Exibart journalist Chiara Cianni dedicated an article to the "FOROF ESSENZA" special season, interviewing Silvia Giambrone, the protagonist of the episode that took place on 15 June, in which the artist read and interpreted extracts from the book "Il libro dell´Incontro. Vittime e responsabili della lotta armata a confronto" (curated by G. Bertagna, A. Ceretti, C. Mazzucato, Il Saggiatore, 2015), linked with the theme chosen for the special season: freedom.  

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TERNA

07.06.2023

On Wednesday, June 7, 2023, FOROF hosted in its spaces the presentation of the "Driving Energy Award - Contemporary Photography 2023", the competition of Terna, the largest independent grid operator for electricity transmission in Europe.

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ANGIETUTORIALS

29.05.2023

On 29 May 2023, influencer and creator Angelica Siciliani Fendi presented her book ´Created To Create. We can all be creators, with the right tools" published by Fabbri Editori in 2023, during the FOROF Essenza Special Season. A manual that provides readers, in a clear and immediate way, with lots of practical tutorials, with the tools to communicate, to give space to one´s creativity and an opportunity to one´s business.

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OPEN HOUSE

27.05.2023

On the weekend of May 27/28, 2023 FOROF took part in the Open House Roma initiative, the brainchild of a group of architects and communicators oriented toward socio-cultural innovation.

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TG Rai 3

24.05.2023

On 24 May 2023, Donatalle Ansovini´s report about the FOROF ESSENZA Special Season was shown on Rai 13. The journalist interviewed FOROF founder Giovanna Caruso Fendi and perfume creator Laura Bosetti Tonatto.

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MUSEUMS NIGHT

13.05.2023

On May 13, 2023, FOROF took part in the "Night of Museums," an event held simultaneously throughout Europe. 

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ART VERONA

04.05.2023

On 4 May 2023, FOROF welcomed some guests of ArtVerona, the modern and contemporary art fair in Verona, who were able to exclusively visit the preview of the FOROF ESSENZA Special Season.

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EPISODE 1 • ALEX CECCHETTI

10.03.2023 Tuesday Ore 19:00 (2 ore) Foro Traiano, 1 - Roma

For Episode 5 of LOVOTIC-X, Soundwalk Collective invites musician, producer and singer Lotic to present a live performance inspired by her latest album Water.

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The Art Talk Magazine

01.03.2023

The creator of ´The Art Talk Magazine´, Carolina Conforti, interviewed Giovanna Caruso Fendi for her magazine, devoting wide space to FOROF, discussing the link between contemporary art and archaeology, and then going on to talk about the "Episodes", collecting and the goals of the cultural start-up.

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AFRON

04.02.2023

On the 4th of February 2023, FOROF held a charity event in favour of AFRON - a non-profit organisation dedicated to the prevention and treatment of cancer in African countries, on the occasion of World Cancer Day and in conjunction with the exhibition ´Sortilegio´ by Alex Cecchetti. Giovanna Caruso Fendi, founder of FOROF, demonstrated FOROF´s openness as an artistic and cultural start-up to combine history, art and archaeology with solidarity. Titti Andriani, as president of AFRON, spoke about the non-profit organisation´s mission. 

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MADE IN CLOISTER

19.01.2023

The enhancement of ancient spaces through contemporary art identifies and unites two realities such as FOROF and Made in Cloister, which inhabit two cities as beautiful as they are ancient: Rome and Naples. 

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ARTE IN NUVOLA

18.11.2022

On 18 November 2022, just a few days after the opening of Alex Cecchetti´s exhibition ´Sortilegio´, FOROF hosted 50 international collectors who were in Rome on the occasion of ´Arte in Nuvola´, the capital´s modern and contemporary art fair hosted in the important venue of Massimiliano Fuksas´ La Nuvola.

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NATHLIE PROVOSTY

19.09.2022

On September 19, 2022, FOROF hosted the book launch of American visual artist Nathlie Provosty, interviewed by Charity Coleman, writer and editor of Artforum International.

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ANCOS

08.07.2022

On 8 July 2022, a charity event was held at FOROF in support of the Paediatric Palliative Care Centre of the Bambino Gesù Hospital, during the exhibition ´LOVOTIC´ by Soundwalk Collective.

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ARTISSIMA

04.05.2022

On 4 May 2022, FOROF hosted a special event in collaboration with Artissima, the first contemporary art fair in Italy. Exactly six months after the opening to the public of its 29th edition, Artissima chose FOROF as a place for gathering and exchange, to meet the protagonists of the Roman contemporary art scene. During the event, FOROF founder Giovanna Caruso Fendi and Artissima´s new director Luigi Fassi discussed the theme of transformative experience in the European cultural scene.

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EPISODE 2 • SUTARTINE

25.01.2024 Thursday Hours 19:00 (2 hours) Foro Traiano, 1 - Rome

The l Second Episode features a performance of Sutartinė, ancient Lithuanian traditional songs since 2010 inscribed on UNESCO´s intangible cultural heritage list.

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EPISODE 4 • INVERNOMUTO

28.02.2024 - Invernomuto

Invernomuto presents *Black Med, Chapter III*: a listening session and live performance centered around an imagined and expanded Mediterranean Sea as a timeless, spaceless reflection of human geography.

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EPISODE 1 • MUDBALLS

05.12.2023 Tuesday Hours 19:00 (2 hours) Foro Traiano, 1 - Rome

FOROF presents a limited series of Mudballs Editions created by Augustas Serapinas, the featured artist in the now ongoing exhibition "BALTIC ADVENTURE" curated by Ilaria Gianni.

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EPISODE 3 • LOVOTIC-Y

23.04.2022 - Charlotte Gainsbourg in conversation with Massimo Torrigiani

...A statistical analysis of this nonexistent word "LOVOTIC" results in a combination of English language words such as love, lover, loved, lovability, lovages, lovebug, lovesick, loveless, lovelocks, loveliest, lovemaking, or lovelornnesses; and asymptotic, antibiotic, enzootic, erotic, exotic, idiotic, neurotic, hypnotic, monozygotic, narcotic, patriotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, semiotic, symbiotic, or zygotic... from a text by Paul B Preciado.

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EPISODE 2 • SILVIA GIAMBRONE

15.06.2023 Tuesday Hour 19:00 (2 hours) Foro Traiano, 1 - Rome

FOROF - a space dedicated to the dialogue between archaeology and contemporary art founded in Rome by Giovanna Caruso Fendi - presents L´incontro a reading by Silvia Giambrone (Agrigento, 1981) second Episode of FOROF ESSENCE, a Season that puts the art of perfume creation in dialogue with the history of Rome and contemporary art.

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EPISODE 2 • FANTASIES OF THE SEA

26.03.2022 - Agnes Questionmark

*Fantasies of the Sea* is an immersive journey that invites the viewer to explore their existence on Earth and their relationship with the Sea.

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EPISODE 1 • THOMAS DOXIADIS

22.02.2022 Tuesday Hour 19:00 (2 hours) Foro Traiano, 1 - Rome

A lecture by Thomas Doxiadis - doxiadis outlining a study of fungi, starting with the project Entangled Kingdoms shown at the Venice Biennale up to their research on the evolution of life and sexuality in fungi, and vice versa.

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