L’Europa è di Casa is a project of artistic-cultural co-design and participatory curatorship that places territories and citizens at the centre of designing Turin’s candidacy dossier for European Capital of Culture 2033.
Promoted by Rete delle Case del Quartiere di Torino, in collaboration with Fondazione per la Cultura within the framework of Turin’s Candidacy as European Capital of Culture 2033, BJCEM — Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, and Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, ‘Europa è di Casa’ engages Case del Quartiere (Neighbourhood Houses) of Turin as local hubs to activate eight parallel cultural co-design processes.
In each territory, an intergenerational and diverse working group made up of residents will be established. Facilitated by an artist and supported by the staff of each Casa del Quartiere, this group will develop an artistic project proposal.
The goal of ‘Europa è di Casa’ is to define eight large-scale artistic-cultural project proposals — one for each territory involved — to be included in Turin’s European Capital of Culture 2033 candidacy dossier.
The project is looking for eight artists with no restriction on discipline or primary artistic language, with proven experience and sensitivity in participatory processes, relational art, community art, and site-specific practices, to act as lead curator-facilitators of the co-design process with the citizen working groups.
The time commitment is from April to September 2026, with 4–6 meetings between May and July 2026 at the assigned local hub. The artists will draft of the project proposal, in coordination with their local hub, to be submitted by September 2026.
The artists will be offered 2,000 EUR inclusive of all applicable tax and social security contributions (withholding tax for non-residents in Italy, currently 30%). In addition to this, the Organisation will cover travel and accommodation expenses up to a maximum of 1,000 EUR per artist.
