Atelier dell’Errore (AdE) [Atelier of Mistakes] is an artist 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 within the pediatric healthcare system in Reggio Emilia and Bergamo.

In 2018, after more than a generation of working together, numerous exhibitions and performances in art institutions and theaters, the close-knit group entered adulthood. No longer eligible for the workshop, the artists developed a pressing necessity to continue their work together professionally. In close collaboration with their families, AdE transformed into a non-profit cooperative art studio, where each artist is an equal partner. AdE finances itself through the sale of its works and professional collaborations.

In an artistic practice spanning drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and performance, AdE is guided by two core rules: animals are the only subject matter, and during the creative phase nothing is ever erased, preserving the transformative potential of every so-called mistake or error.

Today, AdE is composed of 12 neurodivergent artists. They approach their most ambitious projects much like a Renaissance atelier, with each artist specializing in a specific aspect of the work’s execution. Luca Santiago Mora often compares AdE’s creative process to the functioning of an “organism”, where each part plays a vital, essential role. Here, works are not only collective creative endeavors, but also part of a larger relational process.

Since the collective’s establishment in 2015, the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia has hosted AdE as an ongoing project.

In the Fall of 2025, the collective will present a retrospective solo exhibition at GAMeC – Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bergamo.  Recent performances and exhibitions include: ITALICS – Panorama, Monferrato (2024); Nottilucente, Piazza Duomo and Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (2024); Biennale Gherdëina 9, Ortisei; Vela d’Artista –  Edipo Re, Venezia (concurrent with the 60th International Venice Biennale);  Laboratorio degli Angeli, Bologna (2024); Richard Saltoun Gallery, Roma (2024); Palazzo Nuñez-Torlonia, Roma (2024); GAM – Civic Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art , Torino (2022); THSN Generali Foundation, Venezia (2021); Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venezia (2021); MASSIMODECARLO, Milano (2021); Moretti Gallery, London (2016).