OCA Oasy Contemporary Art and Architecture offers an immersive experience in the heart of the Pistoia Apennines, within the Oasi Dynamo nature reserve, featuring a circular route rich with works created by leading figures of the contemporary scene such as Alejandro Aravena, Mariangela Gualtieri with Michele De Lucchi, Kengo Kuma, Quayola, David Svensson, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Matteo Thun and Arne Quinze.
The route, developed under the artistic direction of Emanuele Montibeller, responds to the question “How will we inhabit the world?” and unfolds across many dimensions—urbanistic, philosophical, cultural, and environmental. World-renowned architects and urban planners were invited to bring the exhibitions to life, designing works exclusively in situ, not only adapting to local characteristics but entering into a deep symbiosis with the place itself.
The route presents itself as the stages of a narrative: each installation, each work, dialogues with the others, echoing the central theme while expressing it through the sensitivity, geographic origin, cultural background, and human and professional experience of each artist and architect involved in the project. There are no predetermined answers: all installations provoke more questions than answers, offering examples or prototypes of a possible reorganization of our “way of being in the world” and ultimately representing the stages or pieces of an open, dialogic, co-creative narrative.
At OCA, there are no “installations” but “works,” no “visitors” but “people,” and the “exhibition route” here becomes a Path.
