International artists in very atmospheric locations in the town centre - enchanting and inspiring! From August to November.
PhEST is photography, cinema, music, art, contaminations from the Mediterranean. PhEST is born out of the need to give back a voice to the thousand identities that form the “sea within the lands”, the need to redefine a new, original imagery.
PhEST 2025: Monopoli, August 8 - November 16.
In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes into interstellar space, carrying with them the Golden Record: a disc filled with sounds, images and music from Earth — a testimony of life and human culture, meant for some form of alien existence that might one day come across it.
Now, on its 10th anniversary, PhEST creates and launches its own capsule: a visual message sent toward an unknown elsewhere.
Inside, a portrait of life on our planet. A capsule that, as an archive of the present, suspended between memory and future, holds everything we are: desires, contradictions, relationships, identities.
Our message to those who might one day find it: “This is us.”
More than 30 exhibitions spread across the historic centre of Monopoli
Artists from all over the world bring photography, contemporary art and music to the heart of Apulia
The Festival takes place both outdoors and indoors and in locations that generally are not accessible to the public (e.g. the beautiful Palazzo Palmieri)
Held every year from August to November
Single ticket for access to all indoor exhibitions
