k.i.n. – keep in network
Museo disperso. Foreigners in Their Homeland
May 30, 2025 – June 8, 2025

k.i.n. – keep in network was established in 2021 as a space for sharing, alliance, and support among independent artistic realities in the city of Bologna. At the heart of the project lies the urgency to activate contexts of dialogue and relationship, capable of generating spaces for collective reflection within the city’s cultural landscape. It seemed important and urgent to us, especially in this moment, to join the project The Dispersed Museum. Foreigners in Their Homeland in Bologna, embracing the proposal of the Palestine Museum and curators Faisal Saleh, Massimiliano Nicola Mollona, Daria Passaponti, Giulia Rho, and Ruba Salih, making our spaces and energies available.

The ongoing genocide in the Palestinian territories – rooted in a long and tragic history of colonial violence and military repression – challenges us both as individuals and as workers in the arts, as producers of cultural and political meaning. At a time when the dominant media narrative tends to simplify, polarize, or suppress, we feel the responsibility to support and amplify voices that inhabit the complexity of the present, with awareness and critical positioning. A chorus of voices demanding social and political justice that we feel compelled to sustain and uphold through our resources.

With The Dispersed Museum, we open a space in the city for listening to and giving visibility to the practices of Palestinian artists, who speak to us from a condition of laceration and resistance, dense with imagination, anger and desire. The works on display – previously exhibited at Palazzo Mora in Venice during the 2024 Biennale – are hosted across five spaces within the network (Adiacenze, ASAP, Əkodanza | Centro Culturale Paleotto11, Nelumbo, and Parsec), forming a geography that is both fragmented and interconnected,
much like many diasporic experiences and non-hegemonic forms of knowledge today. The fragmented nature of the artistic proposal, the variety of media and visual languages, and the semantic thread connecting the works, together create a contemporary panorama of people and culture. These themes will be explored at Checkpoint Charly through a roundtable designed specifically to further delve into the project and the urgency of carrying it forward, here and now.
In shaping this collaboration, we encountered with the curators the concept of al-masha, a Palestinian term and way of life that expresses an equitable distribution of land, and at the same time, ownership conceived as common use. We have therefore chosen to embrace this principle as both a practice and a generative image, imagining the exhibition not as a single event, but as a territory to be shared: a common space that grows through relationship and the multiplication of perspectives.

k.i.n. supports and animates this project as both a political and cultural actor. We believe that art, as a generator of spaces for reflection, can serve as an instrument of active solidarity, radical critique, and the rejection of binary logics and dominant aesthetics. With The Dispersed Museum, we affirm our commitment to a culture that takes a stand, that provokes, and that builds connections from within rupture.

Museo disperso. Foreigners in Their Homeland
May 30, 2025 – June 8, 2025

Hours
4 to 8 p.m. Monday through Sunday
Friday, May 30 from 4 to 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 1 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Spaces:
Adiacenze (vicolo Santo Spirito, 1); ASAP (former Casa del Custode della Montagnola, via Irnerio); Əkodanza | Centro Culturale Paleotto11 (via del Paleotto, 11); Nelumbo (via Arienti, 10); Parsec (via del Porto, 48 C/D)

Curatorial team:
Faisal Saleh, Massimiliano Nicola Mollona, Daria Passaponti, Giulia Rho and Ruba Salih

Public Program
Sunday, June 1, 7 p.m.
Roundtable Dispersed territories, shared imaginaries: the dispersed museum in Bologna at Checkpoint Charly, via del Rosaspina 7/a
Curators and curators will be welcomed by the Bologna network to inaugurate the review. We will present the Scattered Museum project and talk about how these artistic languages can express and deal with the Palestinian issue.

Thursday, June 5 – 7 pm
Talk with Rana Anani Palestine as a laboratory of solidarity and co-participation in the cultural and artistic sector at Əkodanza | Centro Culturale Paleotto11, via del Paleotto, 11

At the DAMSLab:
Piazzetta Pasolini 5/b, University of Bologna, Bologna

Tuesday, June 3
Cinema as a Space of Political Prefiguration
Sara Cherif and Massimiliano Mollona introduce.

2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Cruel Images
Lorenzo Pezzani, Tareq Tamimi and Oraib Toukan

4:45 p.m. – 6 p.m. Palestinian Short Film Program
Introduced by Salim Abu Jabal

18 – 19 The Life of Images: a Reflection on the media narrative of war
conversation with Lorenzo Tugnoli

Wednesday, June 4 / 3 – 6 pm
Art and Genocide. Artistic solidarity as a mode of struggle
Rana Anani, Bayan Abu Nahla, Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Ruba Salih
Introduced by Massimiliano Mollona

May 30-June 28
Until we became fire and fire us
Video installation by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abu-Rahme
at Adiacenze, Vicolo Spirito Santo 1/b