From today until 18 June 2026, Cittadellarte is present at Art Basel 2026: the event that every year transforms Basel into the main international meeting point for the contemporary art world. Founded in 1970, the event brings together galleries, artists and curators from all over the world, offering a privileged space to observe the most recent artistic practices.

Within this context, Fondazione Pistoletto renews its commitment through Visible, the research and support project dedicated to socially engaged cultural projects, founded in 2010 together with the Fondazione Zegna. Born within the UNIDEE Residency Programs, Visible has indeed supported over the years artists, collectives and organisations operating at the intersection of art, ecology and social responsibility. Following the experience of the Visible Award, the programme has evolved into a series of Situated Fellowships: long-term accompaniment and support pathways aimed at initiatives rooted in territories and capable of generating cultural, environmental and social impact.

The central moment of Visible's presence at Art Basel will therefore be dedicated to the Visible Situated Fellowship 2026, awarded to GOODLand, an artistic and community platform founded on the island of Bantayan, in the Philippine Visayas, by the artist Martha Atienza. The announcement and the meetings linked to the fellowship are taking place at the Reithalle Wenkenhof in Basel, where a first event dedicated to the international art community took place on 15 June, followed today by the opening to the public of the installation, visible until this Thursday.

Representing Cittadellarte will be the curators of Visible, Judith Wielander, Matteo Lucchetti and Carolina Lio, along with Paolo Naldini, director of Cittadellarte, who will take part in the appointments and moments of debate scheduled during the Art Basel week.

Founded in 2020, GOODLand was born from the collaboration between fishermen, farmers, local communities and institutions of the Philippine archipelago. The project develops a model of care that connects ecological protection, coastal community rights and territorial self-sufficiency. Through research activities, educational programmes, participatory initiatives and advocacy practices, the platform promotes sustainable relationships with the territory, valorising environmental, agricultural and medicinal knowledge rooted in local traditions.

At the heart of GOODLand's research is the protection of the seabed, considered as real underwater forests to be preserved. A commitment that is particularly urgent and deeply felt, especially in the Philippines, one of the areas of the planet most exposed to the effects of the climate crisis, where the increasing intensity of typhoons, coastal erosion and the fragility of ecosystems are profoundly altering the relationship between communities and their environment.

Martha Atienza's artistic practice develops in close continuity with this experience. Through video, sound and participatory methodologies, the artist documents the social and ecological transformations of the territory where she lives and operates, building together with local communities a shared imaginary based on care, resilience and coexistence.

The fellowship will support the further development of some of the initiatives already active within GOODLand, including the distribution of rechargeable lighting systems to reduce the pollution generated by underwater compressor fishing and the organisation of periodic coastal and seabed clean-up programmes. Participation in Art Basel represents for Cittadellarte an important opportunity to bring to the centre of the international debate a vision of art that goes beyond the dimension of representation to become an instrument of responsibility and concrete transformation.

Martha Atienza (born 1981 in Manila, Philippines) is a Dutch-Philippine contemporary artist working at the intersection of video, sound and installation. Raised by a Dutch mother and a Philippine sea captain father, she grew up between two cultures and two countries, an experience that profoundly influenced her artistic practice. She lives and works on the island of Bantayan, in the Philippines, a small coastal community in the Visayan Sea that is at the heart of most of her works. Her art investigates urgent themes such as climate change, migration, labour, identity and the cultural and environmental transformation of island life. Through long-duration videos and immersive installations, she documents the lives of fishermen and local communities, whose way of life is increasingly threatened by rising sea levels and ecological degradation. Her process is collaborative by nature: she co-creates with the people she films, transforming art into a form of collective testimony. Internationally recognised, she won the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel in 2017 and has exhibited in major venues, including the Istanbul Biennial, the Honolulu Biennial and Times Square in New York. In addition to her artistic career, she is co-founder of GOODLand, a community platform on the island of Bantayan that uses creative methodologies to tackle social and environmental challenges at a local level.