About us

The his­tory of MEDIMEX, today, makes it a point of ref­er­ence, both eco­nom­ic and cul­tur­al, for oper­at­ors and music­al com­pan­ies, for Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al artists and an annu­al event not to be missed for the Itali­an music mar­ket that finds, in each edi­tion, an oppor­tun­ity for dis­cus­sion and ana­lys­is but also for net­work­ing and pro­mo­tion.

An inter­na­tion­al fest­iv­al and a music con­fer­ence with an import­ant sec­tion of activ­it­ies aimed at music pro­fes­sion­als and mul­tiple events for the gen­er­al pub­lic.

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The 2017 edi­tion of MEDIMEX marked a change in the format that has con­sol­id­ated edi­tion after edi­tion since then. No longer a mar­ket fair, loc­ated in the spaces of the Fiera del Levante in Bari, as in the first five edi­tions, those of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, but a fest­iv­al and a music con­fer­ence spread across mul­tiple ven­ues, with­in the same city, each cap­able of enhan­cing the main com­pon­ents of MEDIMEX: the large spaces for live per­form­ances, the most import­ant theat­ers for meet­ings with authors, the uni­ver­sit­ies for train­ing events and those ded­ic­ated to pro­fes­sion­als.

In 2017, MEDIMEX invades Bari: with music and dozens of activ­it­ies designed for both pro­fes­sion­als and the gen­er­al pub­lic and, above all, with the great live per­form­ances of Iggy Pop, Solange, Tricky, Slow­dive and Salmo. Since 2018, MEDIMEX has become a trav­el­ing event. The first stop was Taranto with a busy cal­en­dar of activ­it­ies spread across the city’s most evoc­at­ive loc­a­tions, with live per­form­ances by Kraft­werk, Placebo and Nitro. In 2019, the event was pro­posed in a spring edi­tion in Fog­gia, with live per­form­ances by Renzo Arbore and Bri­an Ferry, and in June it con­firmed its part­ner­ship with the city of Taranto, reach­ing a grow­ing par­ti­cip­a­tion with live per­form­ances by Edit­ors, Liam Galla­gh­er and Patti Smith.

In 2020, MEDIMEX was the first music con­fer­ence to go entirely digit­al. MEDIMEX Digit­al closed with almost 100 hours of stream­ing activ­ity and 350 thou­sand people reached on social net­works, record­ing over 100 thou­sand total views, 1500 users who par­ti­cip­ated in work­shops and online webinars.

In 2021, MEDIMEX brings great music back to Taranto through the events that have made it mem­or­able: work­shop activ­it­ies, labor­at­or­ies, show­cases, author meet­ings, artist­ic cam­puses, exhib­i­tions. A unique oppor­tun­ity for meet­ing, learn­ing, train­ing, dis­cus­sion and growth. The pro­ject, as always, will be open to all cit­izens, becom­ing an import­ant oppor­tun­ity for ter­rit­ori­al anim­a­tion.

MEDIMEX 2022 marks the return of great live events with con­certs by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in Taranto (June 19) and The Chem­ic­al Broth­ers in Bari (July 14) and the return of the event to the cap­it­al of Puglia where it was born in 2011. A long edi­tion sched­uled from June 16 to 19 in Taranto and from July 13 to 15 in Bari. In addi­tion to the live events, meet­ings with the prot­ag­on­ists of Itali­an music, pro­fes­sion­al and net­work­ing activ­it­ies aimed at region­al and nation­al artists and music oper­at­ors who, as usu­al, hos­ted rep­res­ent­at­ives of the main Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al fest­ivals and cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions, and also music schools aimed at those who want to get closer to the world of music and pro­fes­sion­als, show­cases of Puglia artists and numer­ous col­lat­er­al activ­it­ies.