Lateral Roma is an art space located in the Appio Latino district of Rome.

Lateral Roma was founded in October 2020 and is run by a team of artists and curators: Marta Federici, Jazmina Figueroa, Tobias Koch, and Geraldine Tedder. We are a self-organized project broadening our program beyond exhibition formats into a wider field of exchange, production, and research.

Lateral Roma’s programming is based on lateral thinking that is rooted in the erotic; it is fantastical, and even irrational that does not allow for any one distinct train of thought. Our approach is playful, sometimes strange and surreal, and embraces mistake/accident/humor: “You can park anywhere you like, as long as you like, so long as you leave your headlights full on.” 

From exhibitions to participatory formats such as listening sessions, performative dinners, workshops, readings, film screenings, and talks, we are focused maintaining a diversity in formats and topics and in so doing understanding Lateral Roma more as stage than as script.