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Manifesta is planning to return to Italy for its twelfth edition in 2018, ten years on from Manifesta 7’s stint in the South Tyrol. The director of Europe’s roving biennial, Hedwig Fijen, told The Art Newspaper that it is in the “last stage of laying the foundations for a collaboration with the city of Palermo in Sicily for Manifesta 12,” confirming numerous reports in the Italian media. Once the agreement with Palermo is finalised, hopefully “before the end of this year”, Manifesta wants to “start working on training and setting up a sustainable organisation for 2018,” Fijen said.

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