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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, and Matteo Thun.

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.

OCA presents a selection of works created by Art Factory, Dynamo Camp’s special project that has been combining contemporary art and Dynamo Recreational Therapy® for over fifteen years.

The collection, which today includes over 2,000 works, is the result of artistic residencies involving more than 170 internationally renowned artists. During their stay at the Camp, the artists freely offer their time and practice, working side by side with children and teenagers suffering from serious or chronic diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders or disabilities, and their families with the aim of creating real works of art together.
In a context of play and fun, art thus becomes a space for discovery, relationship, and
authentic sharing. The works on display are the living result of these extraordinary encounters: traces of a
collective and profoundly human process, in which each creation is unique because it arises from an unrepeatable moment – the encounter between artist and guest – where the creative act becomes a transformative experience, a profound exchange, and shared wonder.

The works on display are the living result of these extraordinary encounters: traces of a collective and profoundly human process, in which each creation is unique because it stems from an unrepeatable moment-the encounter between artist and guest-where the creative act becomes a transformative experience, a profound exchange and a shared wonder.

OCA opens its season with Love Letter, a major exhibition by cameroonian artist Pascale Marthine Tayou, whose research has always focused on the environment, organized in collaboration with Galleria Continua and curated by Marco Bazzini and Emanuele Montibeller.

Percorso il sentiero nel bosco, OCA vi accoglie in quella che sino a poco tempo fa era un’immensa stalla per le mucche oggi riconvertita in spazio espositivo, con la mostra fotografica di Massimo Vitali intitolata “La Grande Oasi. The way we live, now”, a cura di Giovanna Calvenzi. Il progetto realizzato per Oasy Contemporary Art ha come protagonisti gli uomini ed il territorio, in un dialogo nel quale la presenza umana è misura stessa del paesaggio.