The ninth edition, entitled The World’s Library, features nine artists who, although they belong to different generations and have dissimilar working methods, use the book as a sort of “construction material” for creating their artworks. The artists invited are: Yael Bartana (b. 1970, Israel. Rome Prize Winner, German Academy Rome Villa Massimo 2023/24); Nicolò Degiorgis (b. 1985, Bolzano); Bruna Esposito (b. 1960, Rome), Claire Fontaine (a feminist conceptual artist founded in Paris in 2004 by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill); Paolo Icaro (b. 1936, Turin); Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978, Hamilton, Canada. Scholarship recipient at the French Academy – Villa Medici); Marcello Maloberti (b. 1966, Codogno); Francis Offman (b. 1987, Butare, Rwanda); Ekaterina Panikanova (b. 1975, St. Petersburg).