Travel around the world with Countless Cities

The Biennial of the Cities of the world.

We believe necessary for artists and exhibitions to become nomads and to cross frontiers both physically and mentally. Overcoming national borders, allow languages and cultures to spread in all directions, to widen the horizon of translation skills.

During its three editions, the Biennale has touched on protest movements in the London suburbs about gentrification-related problems, but also those of students in Hong Kong, and farmers of New Delhi. We have talked about complex places like the “Garbage City” of Cairo, the “Villas Miseria” favelas in Buenos Aires, or “Guapira II” in São Paulo, and we have proposed redeeming places such as “Fuerte Cultural Park” in Caracas or “Burj El Murr” in Beirut. We have been nourished by the cultural activism of Lyra Aoko and Michael Soi in Nairobi, Nana Zaalishvili in Tbilisi, Ali Matay in Izmir, Erika Linenfelser in Detroit, and Corben Mudjandi in Jabiru, together with numerous other artists, curators, and creatives from all over the world.

“Countless Cities” has also become a great event that brings hundreds of artists, architects, and curators to Sicily every two years, as well as a few hundred thousand visitors. This splendid opportunity promotes intercultural understanding and dialogue between different urban communities, breaking down barriers and prejudices, promotes greater interaction and connection between people from different backgrounds, and strengthens networks and collaborations between municipalities, diplomatic missions, cultural institutions, artists, organizations and research institutes on a global level. These partnerships often last over time and lead to further shared projects and initiatives. Moreover, the Biennale has become a great attraction for tourists and visitors interested in culture and the future of cities, generating important economic benefits for Favara and, today, also Mazzarino, contributing to an increase in their prestige and international visibility.

Main Partner

La terza edizione di Countless Cities si arricchisce dell’importante collaborazione di Averna, l'amaro siciliano che affonda le sue radici nell'isola, nella meravigliosa terra di Caltanissetta.
third edition

Pleasure and Cities

June 24, 2023 - January 28, 2024 (pre-opening June 23, 2023)

What do you like about a city? What makes a city pleasant? What are the different areas of pleasure that can affect the urban dimension? Charles Landry in "The Sensory Landscape of Cities" sees cities as a 360-degree, enveloping, immersive experience that has emotional and psychological impacts. Pleasure and Cities is the name of the third edition of Countless Cities, the Biennial of the Cities of the World which, without hypocrisy and moralism, aims to explore the different aspects related to the dimension of "pleasure" that can lead us to prefer one city over another.

Three main themes:

Laboratories of new worlds

 Does an ideal city exist? This is the question that has prompted urban planners, intellectuals, architects and philosophers to design new realities over the centuries that respond to the needs of citizens by combining beauty and function. Around the world, small utopian, artistic, spiritual, and environmental communities have proposed different models of "city" through their every day practices.

Nature in Cities

 The Covid-19 pandemic has completely upset our relationship with nature. There is a new, widespread and growing need for plants, trees, gardens, vegetable gardens, parks, forests, and outdoor activities in public spaces. Equally, a new sensitivity for generative agriculture is spreading, which improves everything, which does not destroy resources but creates them, which builds bonds of trust and friendship and hybridization between those who produce, process, and market.

Youth Power in our Cities

 Around the world, there is a new generation of young men and, even more so, young women who are questioning the "status quo" and are challenging rules and customs by proposing new lifestyles and new values for cities and the states in which they live and to which they belong.

Padiglioni a Favara

Ecco la mappa per orientarti tra i tanti Padiglioni ospitati a Favara per la terza edizione di Countless Cities, la Biennale delle Città del Mondo.

Padiglioni a Mazzarino

Ecco la mappa per orientarti tra i tanti Padiglioni ospitati a Mazzarino per la terza edizione di Countless Cities, la Biennale delle Città del Mondo.

Past editions

2019

2021

We have hosted hundreds of artists and creatives, installations and exhibitions that were able to question our most important values, that led us to take a position, that inspired us to become agents of change.

 

Winner

Human Design City Award

 
Yazd - Iran courtesy Giulio Di Meo

“Countless Cities” has been and continues to be a great challenge for Farm Cultural Park. We are confronted with a complex and ambitious project that is, at the same time, cohesive with our mission: to improve not only ourselves but the cities we live in. We felt the need for a broader view, to have a large cultural container that, every two years, would allow us to understand what makes a city unique, how it works, and why we feel fascinated by some cities more than others.