What is "containerart"

ContainerArt is an itinerant public art event. The event uses shipping containers to display works of contemporary art. To date, the events took place in Italy and in some international cities. In Italy events have been held in Bergamo (2005) with 21 containers, Varese (2005) with 21 containers, Genova (2007) with 24 containers, Rome (2007) with 14 containers, Milano (2008) 6 containers, Torino(2008) 2 containers, Casale Monferrato (2008) 4 containers, Genova (2008) in co-production with the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. The event, named "Ecosystems" included 26 containers spread around the port city, 14 of which part of the Kaohsiung Container Arts biennale and shipped to Genova directly from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In the fall of 2008 a simultaneous ContainerArt event in 4 cities was held under the name: "Beauty Inside Will Save the World": 4 containers in Milano, 4 in Torino, 4 in Venice (Mestre) and 1 container in Tirana in Albania. Internationally, ContainerArt has also held events in New York (2006) with 8 containers in co-production with DIVA fair, and in Jerusalem (2007) with 3 containers and in Sao Paulo, Brazil under the leadership of Daniel Roesler and the curatorship of Lucas Bambozzi and Cao Guimares. The Sao Paolo event consisted of a temporary container museum structure assembled by the architectural firm of Bernardes & Jacobson and open to the public in Parque Villa Lobos between Nov 18 and 28, 2008. The temporary museum hosted exclusively contemporary video-art. In 2009, 2010, 2011 the event was also featured at the Pacific National Exhibit through a temporary container museum structure designed and managed by Peter Male. ContainerArt is now involved in artist exchanges among its international partners.