From Saturday, April 25 to Sunday, November 1, 2026, OCA – Oasy Contemporary Art and Architecture reopens, a space dedicated to art and architecture located at 900 meters above sea level in the Pistoia Apennines, within the Oasi Dynamo nature reserve.
OCA offers an artistic journey immersed in nature, featuring installations by international artists alongside an exhibition space devoted to art and photography shows. Under the direction of Emanuele Montibeller, the project has grown over the years, offering a unique experience in which artworks and landscape engage in dialogue with forests, clearings, and ridgelines, inviting visitors to discover nature not merely as a backdrop, but as an active interlocutor.
In this ever-changing landscape, the permanent route within the oasis is not conceived as a simple open-air museum or a sculpture park, but as a unified curatorial project in which each intervention emerges from a dialogue with the site and contributes to redefining its perception.
Season 2026 – Arne Quinze
For the 2026 season, OCA welcomes the international presence of Belgian artist Arne Quinze, presenting Ceramorphia, an installation set within the natural path, and the solo exhibition I’m a Gardener, hosted in the exhibition space.
Ceramorphia establishes a profound dialogue with the landscape of the Pistoia Apennines, acting as a device for thought that generates a dynamic relationship with the environment without imposing itself or passively adapting to it. The ceramic forms evoke an “other nature” — not a reproduction of the natural world, but a reconfiguration of it. The work does not represent nature; rather, it stages its transformation, inviting reflection on the contemporary relationship between humans and natural systems.
The solo exhibition I’m a Gardener, the artist’s first major show in Italy, features a selection of paintings and works on canvas exploring the relationship between humans and nature. Marked by chromatic tensions and dynamic layering, the pictorial surfaces do not depict the landscape but convey its vital energy — shaped by growth, collision, and metamorphosis.
Painting and installation thus become two expressions of the same creative core: an exploration of life’s generative force and the need to restore balance and diversity within human-inhabited spaces.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Metilene.
The Path within the Reserve
With the addition of Ceramorphia by Arne Quinze, OCA’s route is further enriched, confirming the project’s dynamic and ever-evolving nature.
Under the artistic direction of Emanuele Montibeller, the forest path unfolds as an ongoing dialogue between art, architecture, and landscape, featuring interventions by some of the most important contemporary architects and artists, including Alejandro Aravena, Mariangela Gualtieri and Michele De Lucchi, Kengo Kuma, Davide Quayola, David Svensson, Pascale Marthine Tayou, and Matteo Thun.
Over the summer, the project will expand with new works: Vanishing Horizon by the collective fuse*, a corten steel installation exploring the boundary between the visible and the invisible, and Deus Sive Natura – What I Believe by Stefano Boeri, a ten-meter-long Carrara marble kneeler inviting contemplation of the landscape as a form of secular spirituality.
Details
OCA will be open from April 25 to November 1, 2026, from Thursday to Sunday, 10 AM to 5 PM.
In August, it will also be open on Wednesdays, with the same hours.
Admission to the exhibition is free, while the guided park route costs €20 (free for children up to 10 years old) and is available by reservation only, at times listed on the website.
At the reserve’s Visitor Center, the Casa Luigi bistro restaurant will be open by reservation, offering high-quality cuisine. Visitors are also welcome to relax freely in the outdoor areas and on the lawn.
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OCA – Oasy Contemporary Art and Architecture
