The Art Sea Festival

from 4th to 12th July 2025

Milano Marittima

Milano Marittima turns into an open-air cultural hub with Mare d'Arte Festival 2025, which this year explores the theme Sogni Condivisi (Shared Dreams). Art, photography, music, and talks will be staged in Milano Marittima to narrate the value of hospitality.

Mare d'Arte Festival intends to unite artistic and cultural disciplines, interweaving different languages capable of transforming Milano Marittima into an epicentre of emotions, to stimulate reflection and different points of view. Mare d'Arte Festival is also a path towards a more spiritual quest, in contact with the elements of nature - light, sand, air, water - through a series of initiatives on the beach.

From 4th to 12th July, concerts, meetings, conversations, and performances will tell the value of welcoming, as the starting point of an artistic and human journey that finds a perfect synthesis in the title of the first edition, Sogni Condivisi (Shared Dreams).

Human Race - Razza Umana by Oliviero Toscani Studio 

Milano Marittima Promenade

OPEN-AIR EXHIBITION

Choral project conceived by the great master of photography, realised thanks to the shots taken by Toscani, his students and collaborators.

A series of maxi-format photographs, installed on totems, are positioned along a stretch of the seafront throughout the summer, becoming part of a visual dialogue with the sea and celebrating the beauty of diversity.

Razza Umana by Oliviero Toscani Studio is a socio-political, cultural and anthropological study that captures the morphology of people to observe their peculiarities and characteristics, capturing differences and similarities. Oliviero Toscani, together with his students and collaborators, has travelled the world portraying human beings in the squares and streets, setting up an itinerant photographic studio each time and collecting, to date, an archive of about 100,000 images. A corpus that expresses the meaning of Toscani's photography: ‘I am moved by the uniqueness of each individual and for this reason I photograph human beings in their multiple expressions’.

The concept also includes a set where visitors can have their photograph taken to become part of the project itself.

• Web site of Razza Umana by Oliviero Toscani Studio
  www.razzaumana.com

Friday 4th July

Razza Umana

Photo Session

• 9 a.m. to midday and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. - Zefiro Spiaggia 268

A photo session, curated by the team led by Rocco Toscani, with a set where visitors can have their portraits taken and become part of the project.

Lectio magistralis by Vito Mancuso

• 9.30 p.m. - Rotonda Primo Maggio

The well-known theologian offers the public his personal interpretation of the festival theme, Shared Dreams, between welcome and humanity. This event is in italian.

Saturday 5th July

Yoga Mirage

• 9.30 a.m. - Milano Marittima Free Beach

Yoga on the Beach with Marianne Mirage, singer-songwriter, artist and holistic arts teacher, between music, breath and nature

Stella Mirage

• 6.00 p.m. - Mare Pineta Beach Club

Stella Mirage is the title of the meeting between Marianne Mirage and Paolo Stella, actor, influencer and writer, during which, amidst words and music, the sunset will be awaited in the splendid atmosphere of the Mare Pineta Beach Club. This event is in italian.

Levante

• 9.45 p.m. - Rotonda Primo Maggio

starring the Sicilian singer-songwriter known for her unique style and the authentic energy of her performances. This event is in italian.

Sunday 6th July

Yoga Mirage

• 9.30 a.m. - Milano Marittima Free Beach

Yoga on the beach with Marianne Mirage, singer-songwriter, artist and holistic arts teacher, between music, breath and nature

Francesco Montanari

• 9.30 p.m. - Rotonda Primo Maggio

performance by actor Francesco Montanari, an invitation to consider life as a moment of theatre: through word, gesture, action, the actor shows us the value of the moment in the instant in which it occurs, regardless of what will remain of it. This event is in italian.

Monday 7th July

Ariane Diakite

• dawn - Milano Marittima, Public Beach

From balck music to gospel through soul, the soul power of the vocalist performer, backing vocalist of Laura Pausini and Irama, accompanies spectators at sunrise to the notes of maestro Davide Lavia.

Tuesday 8th July

Paola Minaccioni

• 9.30 p.m. - Rotonda Primo Maggio

Irreverent irony is the star of the evening. A monologue entitled "Is life beautiful? No, it's a type", in which the Roman actress, comedian and radio presenter will recount her interpretation of life, between stumbles and courageous comebacks. This event is in italian.

Wednesday 9th July

Yvonne Sciò

• 9.30 p.m. - Rotonda Primo Maggio

Meeting with the actress and director, who presents her docu-film Womeness, a tale of five extraordinary women of our time, from Dacia Maraini to Emma Bonino. This event is in italian.

Thursday 10 July

Ariane Diakite

• dawn - Milano Marittima, Public Beach

From balck music to gospel through soul, the soul power of the vocalist-performer, backing vocalist of Laura Pausini and Irama, accompanies spectators at sunrise to the notes of maestro Davide Lavia.

Stefano Massini

• 9.30 p.m. - Rotonda Primo Maggio

Offered by Zanichelli

The appointment is with the magic of the words of Stefano Massini, writer, playwright and television personality, the first Italian author to have been nominated for the Tony Awards, the Oscar of American theatre. This event is in italian.

Friday 11th July

Nicolas Ballario

• 9.00 p.m. - Rotonda Primo Maggio

The meeting with Nicolas Ballario, Italian art critic, journalist and curator, who began his career in Oliviero Toscani's factory, "La Sterpaia", becoming its cultural manager, will celebrate the great photographer between art and narration. This event is in italian.

Saturday 12th July

Motta

• 9.30 p.m. - Rotonda Primo Maggio

Motta, a multi-instrumentalist, refined singer-songwriter, a Tenco Prize winner to his credit, and author also of soundtracks for documentaries and films, will come for a meeting in which he will tell his story in words and music. This event is in italian.

FROM 8th AUGUST 

The beating heart of the event becomes the imposing work Non basta il canto delle sirene by Valerio Berruti, a six-meter-high sculpture whose patinated bronze profile will stand out permanently above the sea at the point where it meets the harbor and which, when darkness falls, will light up as if emerging from the water.

A mermaid-child to invite reflection on the fundamentals that animate the Mare d'Arte Festival project: the mermaid as a symbol of the sea and the little girl understood as a metaphor for hope and the future return an idea of hospitality that not only receives, but welcomes and transforms, without judging.

The unveiling of the statue is scheduled for Friday, August 8th, at the Mosquito Beach

For further information

M+C SAATCHI GROUP: info@mcsaatchipr.it

www.maredarte.it

@mare.darte_festival

Mare d'Arte Festival 2025, conceived and directed by Gianluca Orazi, is realised in collaboration with Sky Arte and also made possible thanks to the support of the Emilia Romagna Region.