Animal Republic
From 29 November 2025 to 9 January 2026Valentina De Martini’s solo exhibition is the sixth project selected as part of the Bonocore Open Art open call.“Animal Republic” is a series of paintings created between 2021 and 2024 by Valentina De Martini, portraying a wide range of animals — elephants, deer, gorillas, donkeys, birds, and mythical creatures — through the artist’s unique lens.Using oil on canvas, De Martini explores the richness of nature and blends it with a touch of surrealism, bringing to life vivid hues and expressive forms that reflect the beauty and vulnerability of the animal world — a symbol of the planet’s suffering and the urgent need for its protection.INFOFree admission during the palace’s opening hours.
Rosalia beyond faith
Photography Exhibition by Giacomo Barone and Gianluca MarroneFrom July 7 to 21, 2025Second project selected through the Bonocore Open Art callA photographic project launched in 2022, exploring the most authentic moments of the popular celebrations dedicated to Santa Rosalia, the beloved patron saint of Palermo.The selected images – also featured in the book of the same name – sensitively document the rituals, altars, faces, and gestures that animate the city’s neighborhoods during the Festino, the festival that reaches its peak on the night between July 14 and 15.Through a visual narrative divided into five sections, the exhibition guides visitors on a journey between the sacred and the profane: from solemn processions to everyday street life, from scenes of devotion to joyous crowds, up to the symbolic moments of 2024, marking the 400th anniversary of the...
Kimochi”. Poster Art by Dario Parisi
June 7–24, 2025Bonocore OpenArt launches with the first project selected through the public call promoted by CoopCulture and Palazzo Bonocore.Kicking off the program is Dario Parisi, a Palermo-based visual artist and graphic designer born in 1995, with Kimochi—a poster art exhibition that explores emotions and memories through a powerful and immediate visual language.Kimochi—a Japanese word that refers to a feeling or inner vibration, often difficult to translate precisely—sets the tone for a two-part journey that unfolds across fifteen graphic works.The first section focuses on emotional discomfort, portraying themes such as depression, alienation, social anxiety, and a sense of disorientation—not as barriers, but as shared fragments of a contemporary condition.The second part of the exhibition offers a luminous response: a collection of positive images and memories that serve as tools of resistance—small, everyday epiphanies that help...
GUIDED TOUR FOR GROUPS AND SCHOOLS TO THE EXHIBITION “PALERMO FELICISSIMA”
CoopCulture offers guided tours conducted by specialized educational operators to discover Palazzo Bonocore and the "Palermo Felicissima" exhibition.The exhibition is a cross-media journey through the city of the Florios and the Belle Époque, set up in the evocative halls of Palazzo Bonocore, a jewel in the historic center of Palermo, recently reopened to the public. The exhibition, named after the nickname commonly associated with the city during the Belle Époque in the local imagination, showcases a period when Palermo enjoyed unprecedented cultural and economic prosperity, thanks to the emergence of a burgeoning bourgeoisie, and particularly due to families of entrepreneurs (among which the Florios, Whitakers, Scalias, and Ahrens stand out, to name a few).The exhibition project shines a spotlight on this historical period, with immersive installations, 360-degree projections, virtual reality, and multimedia works.INFO AND BOOKINGSFor...
