Since 2006 Radio Papesse embraces radio as a medium and as a language. It works together with cultural institutions to talk about art making and art practices today, it hosts and commissions experimental sound and radiophonic works, inviting artists, producers and makers to renew the rules of audio storytelling. In 2019 Radio Papesse initiated LUCIA, a festival that celebrates the art of telling stories in sound and, one year later, as part of LUCIA came YASS!, an ongoing international masterclass and mentorship program.
Radio Papesse was ‘officially’ founded in 2006 by Carola Haupt and Ilaria Gadenz, it is an association of many and since June 2024 it is curated by Carola Haupt and Luisa Santacesaria. Since 2011 it is part of the Villa Romana Family.
