resina is a platform for research based in Ferrara. Resina's work is invested in developing slow-paced alternative education experiments and residencies, with a particular focus on themes related to ecology and  the need to rethink the relationship between people, ecosystems, and the stories of the surrounding territories. Through the organisation and programming of slow-paced artistic and research residencies, as well as non-formal educational projects, resina supports emerging practitioners working across various forms of art, research and writing.  Since 2023, resina is part of Wunderkammer Consortium: a center for research, education and cultural, social and environmental production on the Ferrara river docks.


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Residency Program 2018



With Ferrara Residency 2018 resina invited five artists of interdisciplinary visual and sonic practices who have explored various facets of Ferrara’s history through their own work, as well as through events and convivial activities.

Ruth Angel Edwards
Emilia Beatriz
Henry Bradley
Joe Campbell
Callum Hill
Blue Maignien

The residency program is grounded in collaborative practices of learning such as reading groups, feedback sessions, collective meals and other convivial activities, as forms o deceleration and care-taking within the context of art making.

Through a series of events entitled Convivium, we have discussed various political, economic and emotional structures which support or limit artistic work in today’ neoliberal societies. These sessions have been moments in which the artists have reflected on various alternative modalities of cohabitation, through the prism of the Etruscan heritage at the National Archaeological Museum in Ferrara, as well as with Carola Peverati, a feminist activist who was part of the 1970s social movement Wages for Housework.

The residency culminated with an exhibition at Porta degli Angeli, a sharing of the artistss’ work-in-progress, titled A Fluid Haze: thought-forms from  Ferrara Residency.



01: Ferrara Residency 2018, Convivium, Ferrara, Italy.

02: Ferrara Residency 2018, Exhibition opening, Gate/Porta, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Flavia Franceschini

03: Ferrara Residency 2018, group shot, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Flavia Franceschini

04: Ferrara Residency 2018, Gate/Porta, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Flavia Franceschini

05: Ferrara Residency 2018, Convivium, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Angelica Bollettinari

06: Ferrara Residency 2018, Convivium with Carola Peverati, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Joe Campbell

07: Ferrara Residency 2018, Convivium with Carola Peverati, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Joe Campbell

08: Ferrara Residency 2018, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Joe Campbell

09: Ferrara Residency 2018, Convivium, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Angelica Bollettinari

10: Ferrara Residency 2018, Convivium, Ferrara, Italy. Photo: Joe Campbell

11: Ferrara Residency 2018, Catalogues 2018. Photo: Flavia Franceschini