The Clanz was originally built to welcome people — hospitality and openness are part of the DNA of this former trattoria. Still today, it operates as a free territory in which diversity is understood as a potential and belonging as something produced through presence and participation in the here and now. Under these conditions, the creation of encounters of varying scales, temporalities, and intentions has become an everyday practice — activating the spaces of Clanz while producing sustained resonances within the shifting communities that converge around it.
Post-opening dinner after Anna Jermolaewa’s exhibition „With a Little Help from My Friends“ at MLZ Art Dep / WAF, July 2024.Meeting of filmmakers, producers, and institutional agents of different generations and backgrounds, active in Trieste and the bordering regions of Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia, together with participants from Austria connected to the city through more recent biographical and professional trajectories. October 2025.Viennese sound curator network, 2023Website launch of our residency cooperation partner ABC – Adriatico Book Club, legally based in Venice and currently in the process of relocating a larger part of its activities to Trieste. In the absence of its own spatial infrastructure in the city, ABC regularly makes use of the Clanz premises for the development of some of its projects. December 2025.
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For documentation of event activities from 2026 onward, please refer to the news section on the intro page.
