Episode 4: Vito Planeta on contemporary art, wine and Sicily

Season 3 Sicily

Episode 4: Vito Planeta on contemporary art, wine and Sicily

In this episode, we speak with Vito Planeta, who is shaping the cultural direction of Planeta Wineries by building on the vision of his late uncle, the winemaker and cultural advocate Vito Planeta (1966–2023). Together, they shared a belief in the connection between land, wine and contemporary art.

We discuss how the family’s estates across Sicily have become active sites for cultural engagement through the Culture for the Territory program, which commissions visual art, performance, music and literature. From a lakeside library dedicated to the late Vito to artworks embedded across five vineyard sites, Planeta Wineries is reframing the role of wine production in the cultural life of the island.

The conversation also explores the challenges of sustainability, the responsibilities of legacy, and how art can shift perceptions of Sicily from periphery to cultural centre.

In this episode we cover:

• How contemporary art is embedded across five Planeta winery sites in Sicily
• The creation of a lakeside library to honour the legacy of the late-Vito Planeta
• Wine and art as parallel languages of place and expression
• Reframing Sicily as a centre of contemporary culture, and
• A candid take on sustainability, legacy and loving the land you work with