Chaos and order in the Mediterranean garden. Radicepura Garden Festival 2025.

The fifth edition of the Mediterranean Landscape Biennale explores the theme Chaos (and) Order in the Garden, transforming the garden into a place where art, nature, and design interact in dynamic balance.

The Mediterranean Landscape Festival

The Radicepura Garden Festival takes place within the homonymous botanical park of Giarre, between Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea. The First Biennial dedicated to the Mediterranean landscape, the event is organized by the Radicepura Foundation to promote a reflection on the garden as a cultural, social, and economic element. Each edition features projects by young landscape designers under 36 selected through a call for proposals, accompanied by international masters such as James Basson, Sarah Eberle, Michel Péna, Paolo Pejrone, Antonio Perazzi, and Andy Sturgeon, with artistic contributions from Emilio Isgrò, Adrian Paci, and other prominent names.

The theme 2025: chaos (and) order in the garden

The fifth edition, Chaos (and) Order in the Garden, addresses the challenges posed by climate change and global conflicts, proposing new perspectives for landscape design. In today's gardens, the wonder of creation merges with natural slowness, transcending the contrast between individual and collective dimensions. The garden becomes a place of belonging and common good, where apparent chaos is an artistic expression and ecological choice, the result of a balance between biological forces and design creativity.

Five editions of creativity and dialogue

From 2017 to 2025, the Festival has received over 4,000 applications from 62 countries, with 70% of participants coming from abroad. In five editions, 60 gardens and over 200 events have been created, with over 200,000 visitors and 25,000 students involved. Each edition has had a specific theme: Mediterranean Essence (2017), Productive Gardens (2019), Gardens for the Future (2021), The Garden of Plants (2023), and the current Chaos (and) Order in the Garden (2025).

A place where past and future meet

The Botanical Park is not only an oasis of biodiversity, but also a cultural laboratory where artistic installations and landscape architecture projects narrate the millennia-old history of Mediterranean gardens. Among works of art and lush landscapes, the Radicepura Garden Festival becomes a place where innovation and tradition intertwine, inviting to rethink the relationship between man and nature.

A living archive of biodiversity

The Radicepura Botanical Park houses over 3,000 species and 7,000 varieties of plants, including rare palms, medicinal and aromatic plants. Born from the experience of the Faro family, it is a reference point for botanical research and germplasm conservation. Since 2019, it has hosted a path dedicated to rare species and fossil cycads such as Encephalartos. The thematic terraces create a journey through different botanical families, combining science, art, and design in a constant dialogue with the Mediterranean nature.