The itinerant European art biennial Manifesta has revealed the concept for its upcoming edition, opening in Palermo, Sicily in the summer of 2018. Naming ‘creative mediators’ rather than curators (pushing for an interdisciplinary collective with expertise beyond the contemporary art world) these include architects Pestellini Laparelli and Andrés Jaque, journalist and filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak and curator Mirjam Varadinis.

'The Planetary Garden: Cultivating Coexistence’ explores unseen connections, new intelligences and inequality (Sicily is one of Italy's poorest regions) through the prism of its host city, with the exhibition using Palermo ‘as a laboratory to investigate the challenges of our time and look for traces of possible futures'.