The 2025 programme of Conciliazione 5 – a space for contemporary art conceived by the Holy See's Dicastery for Culture and Education and inaugurated on the occasion of the 2025 Jubilee – was curated by Cristiana Perrella: it is a gateway to art and its ability to engage with the major issues of our time in a free and profound way, generating new questions and new thoughts and thus opening up the possibility of transformation, which is significant not only on a cultural and civil level but also on a spiritual level. Each artist had the opportunity to express their art in two spaces simultaneously, in Via della Conciliazione, inside a window gallery visible 24 hours a day, and in a location outside the Vatican, which varied according to the theme but was in dialogue with the works inside the gallery. The main themes addressed were prison, migrants, care for creation and poverty, in continuity with the Jubilee of Hope.
After Yan Pei-Ming, Adrian Paci (Shkodër, 1969) was the second artist in the project, from 11 June to 21 September 2025, focusing his research on the transformative power of travel, followed by Vivian Suter and Jonathas de Andrade.
