ABOUT | Spazio Nour

OUR STORY

We started Spazio Nour with one goal in mind: to create beauty and share this with the community. Over the years we’ve gathered a group of unique and free souls from all over the world: artists, art-lovers, designers, professionals, passionate amateurs who inspire and are inspired by others.

Spazio Nour is an artistic and cultural project born in Milan in 2014 with the goal to create a place of mediation between the language of contemporary art and the context in which it was being used. We are then talking about not just an atelier d’artiste nor an isolated center with an abstract and vague idea of art. Spazio Nour is an ever-evolving relationship, an experience that places in the heart of the battle the most urgent questions of modern society – immigration, integration, equal dialogue and bridge between cultures.

During the last years, Spazio Nour adopted a synergic model, based on participatory art, site-specificity and community building. The model has as its final goal the promotion of new forms of cultural integration through the organization of workshops, expositions, art residency projects, meetings and collaborations with an international background. Through this work process, Spazio Nour created a fertile ground for mutual trust and sense of belonging, with care and respect, actively and positively affecting everyday life of the local community.

ITALY: BLIGNY 42

Spazio Nour’s journey started in the internal courtyard of Viale Bligny 42, the building located in the city center, between Porta Romana and via Bocconi, in that stretch of road that reveals a parallel world, the one known to the Milanese chronicle as a theater of dealing and petty crime. Before Spazio Nour, Bligny 42 was known as "El Camerùn"; a drug fort, a black hole. Now, its courtyard has become the beating heart of a microcosm, it is not just a common transit space, but a real square, where the encounter and clash between different cultures and lives take place. Contemporary art is a means to stimulate and create new social dynamics. Thanks to Spazio Nour, at Bligny 42 it breaks two barriers: the one between different cultures and the one between art and audience. The audience is now called to reject their passive position and participate in the different forms of the artwork itself.

BELGIUM: HOF D'INTERE

After seven years in Milan, Spazio Nour expanded internationally as a nomadic art space to Antwerp (Belgium), a city which houses more than 166 different nationalities. With its synergic model created over the years in Milan, Spazio Nour tackles difficulties in a completely different context in Antwerpen by bringing these various cultures together in moments of (public) encounter. In 2025, a decade after the founding of Spazio Nour, we are opening another exciting chapter with a second location in the historic castle Hof d'Intere in Wechelderzande, Belgium. To read more about this beautiful castle, take a look under the ‘Castle’ tab.