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...

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...