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Parma Welcome FEBRUARY 14, 2026 - by Staff Writers

BRIAN ENO'S IMAGINATION ARRIVES IN PARMA

With SEED and My Light Years, from April 30 to August 2, the icon of contemporary culture creates a widespread artistic project in Italy.

Brian Eno returns to Italy and brings to Parma one of the most significant artistic interventions of his career, focusing on light, sound, space, and perception.

Four years after his last Italian creation and following the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement awarded to him by the Venice Biennale in 2023, the artist returns to Italy to inhabit and reinvent the spaces of two of the city's most iconic cultural complexes: the Complesso Monumentale di San Paolo and the Ospedale Vecchio, which are thus being reopened to the public.

The first will unfold with SEED, an artistic project structured and developed in two phases: the first involves the public presentation, for a period of approximately three months, of the site-specific audio installation Installation for Giardini di San Paolo, created by Brian Eno and Turkish journalist and writer Ece Temelkuran. Upon completion - in the second phase - the work will find a new lease of life and a permanent home at the Casa del Suono. The audience's listening experience in the Giardini di San Paolo will be field-recorded and released on vinyl - a single copy, curated by Eno himself - and integrated into the Casa del Suono's permanent collection, a testament to the collaboration between the British artist and the City of Parma.

The imposing spaces of the Crociera dell'Ospedale Vecchio will host My Light Years, the most comprehensive collection ever assembled of Brian Eno's installations and audiovisual works, exhibited together in a single location, a vast and monumental architectural complex finally restored to its public and collective purpose.