Migrart: Gorizia and Nova Gorica become a single cross-border exhibition space.

17. 10. - 25. 10. 2025

The inauguration of the exhibition, part of the Migrart project, will be followed by a participatory walk between Italy and Slovenia.

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GORIZIA - Menti Libere celebrates its tenth anniversary with a symbolic event that will be hosted by the European Capital of Culture 2025. On Friday, October 17, the collective - which since 2015 has been collecting voices and signs of contemporary migration through rolls of paper laid out along routes around the world - will transform Gorizia and Nova Gorica into a single cross-border exhibition space thanks to “Unrolling the border,” an initiative carried out with the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, as part of the initiatives for GO!2025 and in collaboration with various local partners, including the Municipality of Romans d'Isonzo.
THE INAUGURATION - At 6 p.m. in Viale D'Annunzio 3 at Spazio Cluster  Multimedialità, in Gorizia, the nine historical scrolls of the project will be presented together for the first time:
almost 300 meters of drawings and testimonies collected from 2015 to today in Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Bosnia, and along the Balkan route. Alongside the meters of the Menti Libere collective will be four international artists met over the last ten years: Matteo Bompasso, Michele Cattani, Spartak Khachanov, and Raffaele Saviano.
THE JOURNEY - After the inauguration-meeting, the public will be invited to participate in a collective journey to Carinarnica, the former customs house, now a cultural center on the border, another venue for the exhibition (open until October 25, in both locations every day from 5 to 7 p.m.). This symbolic passage from Italy to Slovenia, on foot, will physically represent the idea of ‘unrolling’ borders, transforming the border from a line of separation to a space of encounter: 'With this inauguration, we want to reiterate that borders can be open cultural sites, not walls,' explained a spokesperson for the Menti Libere collective. Walking together from Gorizia to Carinarnica is a poetic and political gesture that perfectly embodies the spirit of Migrart." The evening will end with refreshments offered to all participants, a moment of conviviality to celebrate the ten years of a project that has always focused on human encounter and which will set off
on a new journey in the Balkans in November 2025.
THE MIGRART PROJECT
 - Born in 2015 from an idea by the Menti Libere collective, Migrart has documented the stories and drawings of thousands of
migrants encountered along routes around the world on 30-meter rolls of paper. The project combines participatory art,activism, and anthropological research, transforming creativity into a tool for encounter and
denunciation.