Sculpture Symposium

ScoglieraViva, the International Open-Air Sculpture Symposium, is back from June 20th to July 1st 2023. Over the past thirty years, it has turned the cliff of Caorle into a veritable open-air museum.
Today, this unique art gallery by the sea is one of the most charming places in the ancient Venetian seaside village.
ScoglieraViva is an attraction for thousands of tourists from all over Europe, but it is also an asset for all citizens.

History

ScoglieraViva is the brainchild of the Treviso-based sculptor Sergio Longo who, in 1992, was the first to transform one of the Euganean trachyte boulders into a sculpture depicting the God of the Sea, Neptune. A year later, Longo returned to work in Caorle, flanking the mighty Sea God with a delicate nymph. The clamour and interest aroused by these first works convinced the tourist board and the municipal administration of those times to organise a true international sculpture symposium, initially on an annual basis and then biennial. Since then, it has attracted artists from all over the world to Caorle.
In 2018, the last edition before the pandemic, Italian Federico Ellade Peruzzotti, German Markus Wüste and Indian Sangam Vankhade were the three winners of the sculpture competition.
In 2021, for the 20th edition of the symposium, the jury of the award chose the Italian sculptors Cosimo Scotucci and Elena Saracino and the Russian Peter Zaytsev, who brought the total number of sculptures in the Caorle 'ScoglieraViva' to 106.
In 2023, the three protagonist artists of edition number twenty-one will work, as is traditional, in front of the audience who will be able to follow all the stages of the realisation of the works. The opening and the award ceremony of the new sculptures will be held on the evening of Saturday 1 July.