Art Forum Würth Capena: an unespacted art and culture out of Rome

Art is a source of beauty and inspiration, it can also be transformed into a tool to understand territories and different cultures, making art awakens manual skills and the awareness that we can be creative, sharing art becomes a means for an inclusive space, for comparison, reflection and enrichment.

All this is the Art Forum Würth Capena, a magical and unusual place dedicated to art and culture, located in the Roman industrial countryside, just 30 minutes driving from the city of Rome. A dynamic and participative space where you will find contemporary art exhibitions, workshops aimed at various age groups, themed seminars, book presentations, meetings with artists, theatrical and musical performances. Here you will learn about art, how to make it and reinvent it. Incredibly, entry is free. Let's discover more about this unexpected place.

The Art Forum Würth Capena is a true rare pearl dedicated to art. Due to its somewhat secluded location, near the Rome North highway toll booth (Fiano Romano), it remains off the beaten track and for those who arrive it represents a pleasant surprise, a place of quiet and wonder, where art, with its mysteries and messages is the undisputed protagonist. The exterior presents itself as a large gray building surrounded by a well-kept garden, once you cross the sliding access doors you will immerse yourself in 560 square meters totally dedicated to art. The large and clean spaces periodically host contemporary art exhibitions, guided tours led by expert art historians will allow you to appreciate and understand the works. Over the years, works by Christo and Jeanne Claude, Mimmo Paladino, Markus Lüpertz, the almost untraceable artistic works of the great writer Günter Grass, Pablo Picasso and many others have passed through the Art Forum Wurth Capena.

The Art Forum Würth Capena regularly organizes educational workshops both in line with current exhibitions and linked to seasonal and current themes; the activities are aimed at children, teenagers and families, but also at adults interested in learning artistic techniques or discovering unusual artistic sides, such as painting workshops for adults. It should be noted that the educational activities for schools are free. The offer is enriched by a well-stocked bookshop that offers articles dedicated to the artists of the Würth Collection and more generally to twentieth-century art, also with curious and fun design objects. The cultural program of the Art Forum Würth Capena ranges well into the world of art and in this enchanted and truly out of the ordinary world you will also regularly find book presentations, meetings with artists, thematic seminars and theatrical and musical performances. The Art Forum is integrated into the Würth headquarters in Capena, which includes a large logistics center and customer service offices.

The Würth Group today represents the world leader in the distribution of professional products and systems for assembly and fastening. The initial small company was founded in Germany in 1945, immediately after the war, by Adolf Würth, a true pioneer of the sector who developed the concept of direct sales The customer is king and Würth is at his service, was his manifesto statement. Upon Adolf's premature death, Reinhold Würth, Adolf's son, took over the reins of the family business and thanks to a strong entrepreneurial mentality transformed the company to become a world leader in this sector. The Würth Group is now present in 80 countries around the world with over 400 companies. Reinhold Würth was a far-sighted entrepreneur and lover of the arts and structured the company on very specific values, founded on respect for customers and collaborators, sustainability, inclusion, commitment and optimism.

The Würth collection was born from Reinhold Würth’s strong passion and commitment to art and culture, who in the 1960s began to put together a large group of works. Today the Collection has 20,000 works, mainly contemporary art belonging to a wide variety of genres, styles and international movements. Since 1991 this heritage was made freely accessible to the public, thanks to the opening of 15 museums and exhibition spaces in ten European countries. The spaces dedicated to art are created in the vicinity of the operational headquarters and are designed to be included in the company context, thus creating a synergy between art and work and allowing Würth staff to benefit from special initiatives for their personal growth in the cultural field. The Würth Art Forum in Capena was inaugurated in 2006 and has presented 19 different exhibitions to date. It is a challenging reality that emanates from Wurth's vision and commitment to trying to make culture a good accessible to all and, through the many initiatives proposed, to allow individual growth and the opportunity for knowledge.

The Art Forum is located in the flat and green Tiber Valley, exactly in the countryside of the delightful and small village of Capena, a city of art just 30 km from Rome. If you want fertile fields and vineyards, head towards Capena, wrote Cicero in a letter addressed to his family, his words still describe well the beauty of the Roman countryside of this territory. We are also near the Nazzano Tevere-Farfa Nature Reserve, an area of seven hundred hectares that runs along the lower course of the Tiber River, rich in flora and fauna.

An area to explore, with nature and artistic beauty. Scattered in the surrounding area you will come across many charming villages and at just three minutes by car from the Art Forum Würth Capena you can also reach the site of Lucus Feroniae, an archaeological area of great importance dedicated to the goddess Feronia, associated with fertility and prosperity and rich in ancient mosaic floors. This is the area that hosts the splendid space of the Art Forum Würth Capena, a flagship for contemporary art and a possible starting point from which to begin discovering the entire area. The Art Forum Würth Capena is located in Viale della Buona Fortuna 2, very close to the Roma Nord – Fiano Romano motorway exit. It is an ideal cultural stop when leaving or entering Rome, in the event that Rome is just a stop on a longer trip, or as an opportunity for a day trip where you can combine a naturalistic exploration with a more artistic one in an area rich from many points of view. The location makes it ideal for those traveling by car, but it can also be reached by public transport.