Mamma(che)Roma! – Street Art Festival in Casal Bertone

Casal Bertone and street art

Even before becoming a festival, Casal Bertone was a neighborhood with a natural bond with urban art. Born from early 20th-century urban planning and grown through public housing, the district in Rome's Municipio IV preserves the memory of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema — he filmed Mamma Roma with Anna Magnani here — and offers walls, underpasses, and courtyards that lend themselves to becoming open-air canvases.

It is in this context that VenUS Urban Art, a Roman association active at the intersection of feminism and urban art, built the Mamma(che)Roma! project: a street art festival designed to enhance the neighborhood through new murals, workshops, and participatory paths, with a particular focus on public art created by women. A community effort that restores new spaces of beauty and social life to Casal Bertone, in the Lazio region.