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About RE-MARK
RE-MARK – Art and Culture Revitalizing Rural Farmers’ Markets and Communities is a European cooperation project that explores how artistic and cultural practices can contribute to the regeneration of rural territories.
Across Europe, many rural communities are facing significant demographic and social change. As populations shrink and age, local services disappear and opportunities for cultural participation become increasingly limited. Farmers’ markets, historically at the heart of rural life, are also struggling to maintain their role as places of exchange, encounter and community identity.
Yet rural territories also offer unique opportunities. Their strong local identities, cultural traditions and community networks provide an ideal environment for testing innovative approaches that combine culture, creativity and local participation to strengthen social cohesion and rural resilience.
RE-MARK builds on this potential by reimagining traditional farmers’ markets as Rural Creative Markets—hybrid spaces where local production, culture, creativity and community participation come together. More than places of economic exchange, these markets become platforms for artistic expression, storytelling, social interaction and collective experiences that strengthen local identity and community life.
The project is implemented across four rural pilot territories in Italy, Spain, Hungary and Bulgaria. In each location, artists, cultural practitioners and local communities will collaborate through participatory workshops, artistic residencies and site-specific cultural interventions. Together, these activities will transform local markets into vibrant spaces of encounter, creativity, inclusion and rural regeneration.
Beyond the local interventions, RE-MARK promotes transnational collaboration between artists, institutions and rural communities. The project will culminate in a collective exhibition and a series of cultural events that connect the experiences of the four territories.
Through these actions, RE-MARK seeks to demonstrate how culture can play a strategic role in rural regeneration — supporting social inclusion, strengthening local economies and creating new opportunities for artists and communities across Europe.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.