Since 1972 the ERCOLA buildings host a diverse collective of artists, couturiers, jewelry designers, comic artists, illustrators, graphic designers, film makers and set designers.
Over the decades, the building has functioned as a living artistic ecosystem: a shared working space, meeting point, archive and experimental environment where generations of artists developed practices rooted in collaboration and collective infrastructure. The present collective wishes to create a final tribute to this community, its layered history, and its role as a long-standing autonomous space for artistic production.
During ERCOLA 2026 will be the staging ground of a cluster of exhibitions. The event will take place in rooms on the ground floor and the extensive basements of this historic building complex.