Atelier dell'Errore (AdE) [Atelier of Mistakes] is a collective dedicated to visual arts and performance based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Founded in 2002 by Luca Santiago Mora, who today leads the group as its artistic director, AdE began as a visual arts workshop for neurodivergent children under the care of the public pediatric health system in Reggio Emilia and Bergamo. In 2015, after almost a generation of work together, some of the participants turned 18 and, no longer permitted within the pediatric department, wanted to pursue their artistic practice professionally. From this urgent necessity, the AdE artistic collective was subsequently created, completely independent from the public health service. Since the collective’s foundation in 2015, the Collezione Maramotti has hosted AdE as an ongoing project. In 2018, in close collaboration with the artists' families, AdE was established as a non-profit, cooperative art studio in which each artist is a partner. AdE finances itself through the sale of its works and professional collaborations. The collective approaches its most recent complex projects much like a contemporary Renaissance workshop, with each artist specialized in a particular phase of the work's execution. Luca Santiago Mora often likens AdE’s creative process to the functioning of an “organism,” where each member has a vital, essential role, much like the organs of a body. Here, works are not only a creative endeavor, but also part of a larger relational process. The operating rules of AdE's artistic practice are few, but clear. “Beyond zoological” creatures are the only subject matter and nothing is erased during the creative phase, safeguarding and triggering the transformative and metamorphic potential inherent in every so-called “mistake.” Atelier dell’Errore's works and performances have been exhibited in international galleries and institutions. In February 2025 AdE will present its first solo exhibition in the United States at Kaufmann Repetto (New York). In the Fall of 2025, the collective will present a retrospective solo exhibition at the GAMeC (Bergamo). Other recent exhibitions include: Italics Panorama – Monferrato (2024); Nottilucente, Duomo + Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (2024); Laboratorio degli Angeli, Bologna (2024); Richard Saltoun Gallery, Roma (2024); Palazzo Nuñez-Torlonia, Roma (2024); Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea (GAM), Torino (2022); THSN Foundation, Venezia (2021); Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venezia (2021); MASSIMODECARLO, Milano (2021); Moretti Gallery, London (2016).