Creative Roads is an ongoing festival that anticipates the reopening of the Cavallerizza Reale with a programme of artistic and cultural activities spread across the area.
A journey designed to accompany the transformation of the complex and activate new connections between space, community and creativity.
Creative Roads
2025
Events
Creative Roads is the cultural activation project anticipating the reopening of Cavallerizza Reale, promoted by Graphic Days®, C2C Festival and Paratissima, as part of the larger regeneration intervention supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
A continuous festival that will activate the spaces of Cavallerizza for 18 months and spread throughout the city, transforming the complex into an open cultural laboratory.
Residencies, performances and participatory actions bring visual arts, music, design and photography into dialogue, generating new connections between public space, community and territory.
Find out more on the Creative Roads website.
A project of C2C Festival, Graphic Days® and Paratissima for Cavallerizza Reale.
With the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
The Cavallerizza Reale is at the center of a major regeneration project, promoted by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, in collaboration with the City of Turin, University of Turin, Fondazione Collegio Einaudi, Conservatorio Statale G. Verdi, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Cassa Depositi e prestiti, Fondazione 1563, SECAP S.p.A., Fantino Costruzioni, Politecnica Building for Humans and Cino Zucchi Architetti.
Creative Roads is a widespread cultural construction site that anticipates the reopening of Cavallerizza Reale, transforming the complex into a pole of experimentation and encounter open to the city. Performances, installations, workshops and artistic residencies activate the spaces with site-specific actions in dialogue with the urban and social context.
A path of cultural activation that uses culture as an engine of transformation and encounter, accompanying the physical regeneration of the Cavallerizza with a shared, accessible and participatory creative process.
Conceived as a continuous festival, Creative Roads develops over 18 months through a program of events that activate the space over time, keeping attention on the Cavallerizza alive and fostering new relationships between artistic languages, community and territory.
Find out more on the Creative Roads website.
Two new open calls are now online, each selecting two artists in the fields of photography and visual and social design, promoted by Graphic Days® and Paratissima.
Those selected will collaborate during a residency in Turin, working with a target audience identified by the organizers, and will be the protagonists of the upcoming Creative Roads events.
Applications are open until December 15, 2025.
Visit the website to find out more!
Exhibition, live performance and site-specific sonorization
26 October 2025
The second event of Creative Roads took place at the Manica del Mosca construction site, where an immersive experience was offered that intertwined three different artistic languages.
Visual artist Guido de Boer (curated by Graphic Days®) transformed the Manica del Mosca with a work that dialogued with the space undergoing transformation inside the Cavallerizza Reale. Visitors were also able to view Giulia Parlato‘s photography exhibition (curated by Paratissima), which explored the relationship between memory, fiction, and the history of the place, presenting the results of her artistic residency in Turin. The event was accompanied by a site-specific soundtrack by Kode9, Stefania Vos, and Gang of Ducks (curated by C2C Festival).
Guido de Boer
A Dutch visual artist who explores the boundary between text and image, creating works that can be read as words and perceived as shapes. Working freehand with brush and ink, he transforms gesture into language and writing into visual experience, investigating the power of the sign and its ability to generate new perceptions.
Giulia Parlato
An artist who explores the boundary between narrative and historical construction through photography, video and sound. Her research stages fake relics and imaginary environments that question the reliability of collective memory. Inspired by archaeology and mythology, she reflects on how knowledge is produced, archived and sometimes reinvented.
Kode9
Scottish DJ, producer, artist and writer, founder of the Hyperdub label and its sub-label Flatlines. His practice crosses genres and disciplines, combining Afro-futurist influences, speculative imagery and references to digital culture to explore sound as a language capable of transforming perception and reflecting on the present.
Stefania Vos
A Turin-based DJ who builds sets with unpredictable rhythms, where deep basslines and sharp sounds mix with irony. Her sound research stems from a visceral interest in percussion and syncopated rhythms, with which she shapes atmospheres that oscillate between energy and introspection.
Gang of Ducks
A multidisciplinary platform active for over ten years which, through records, events and sound installations, explores new possibilities for listening and perception. With its founders, XIII & Sabla, the project takes shape live in performances that reflect its approach to music and art.
Site-specific sonorization
17 September 2025
The first Creative Roads event took place in the Giardini Alti della Cavallerizza Reale with an immersive sound performance, the result of an artistic residency that brought together three voices from the contemporary music scene.
An evening open to the city, which activated new imaginations through sound and opened the Creative Roads journey with an invitation to listen, meet, and discover.
The first Creative Roads event featured Kelman Duran, Francesco Cavaliere, and Sara Berts.
Kelman Duran
Producer, composer and visual artist born in the Dominican Republic. His research crosses Afro-Caribbean languages such as dembow and reggaetón, reworked in an experimental and layered key. He collaborated on the production of Beyoncé’s Renaissance, receiving a 2023 Grammy Awards nomination.
Francesco Cavaliere
Visual artist, writer and musician, he builds imaginary acoustic universes populated by voices, objects and creatures on the border between dream and matter. His compositions evoke intimate and mysterious atmospheres that activate deep listening dimensions.
Sara Berts
Sound artist and composer from Turin, Italy, works on the encounter between field and artifice. Her hybrid acoustic landscapes combine field recording and analog synthesis, creating a sound geography suspended between natural and artificial.
Upcoming events
The cultural journey will continue with new events in spring, summer and fall 2026, expanding from the Cavallerizza complex to the rest of the city.
The goal is to activate new venues, engage diverse audiences, and build new cultural centralities, with a focus on new generations.
Altri progetti
