• Aarduork
  Run by:
  Alberto Restucci
  Mario Ciaramitaro
  

  Bio:
  aarduork was born in the storm. It’s an artists' space for radical procedures and hard works, whatever that means. It is curated by Mario Ciaramitaro and Alberto Restucci.
  
  

  Events:
  2022-04-16 EPISODE 6 - PEDRO TORRES - On the Brink of Blindness
  

  
  

  Hours:
  Open by appointment
  
  Address:
  Salizada Zorzi 4931 Castello 30122 Venezia
  
  Contacts:
  info@aarduork.com
  
• Barena Bianca
  Run by:
  Fabio Cavallari
  Pietro Consolandi
  

  Bio:
  The Barena Bianca Collective was born in the summer of 2018, founded by Fabio Cavallari and Pietro Consolandi as an ecologist activism group in the Venetian lagoon: its aim is to resurface issues that are simultaneously ecological and sociological by adopting the Barena - local saltmarsh - as an emblem of resistance.
  
  

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  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  Planet Earth
  
  Contacts:
  barenabianca.earth
  
• Kadabra
  Run by:
  Beatrice Gelmetti
  Chiara Calore
  Damiano Colombi
  Fabiano Vicentini
  Federica Zanlucchi
  Federico Bordin
  Flavia Dal Grande
  Jingge Dong
  Silvia Giordani
  Francesco Casati
  

  Bio:
  Kadabra is a collective studio which aims at sharing individual researches, thus keeping the critical exchange of daily artistic practice alive and active.
  
  

  Events:
  2022-04-29 Open Studio I
  2022-04-30 Open Studio II
  

  
  

  Hours:
  Open by appointment
  
  Address:
  Via Giuseppe Verdi 57, 30171 Mestre (VE)
  
  Contacts:
  @kadabra_studio
  
• Venice Luggage Deposit
  Run by:
  Giacomo Giannantonio
  Giulia Wetter
  Viola Morini
  

  Bio:
  (2022-2023) Venice Luggage Deposit is the new Venetian studio of Giacomo Giannantonio, Giulia Wetter and Viola Morini. Inside a former luggage deposit there is now a working space where a public program of performances and lectures will be presented.
  
  

  Events:
  2022-05-27 Drowning Pescatora, performance di Francesco Bonizzoni
  

  
  

  Hours:
  Open by appointment
  
  Address:
  Calle de la Malvasia 5496 Castello 30122, Venezia
  
  Contacts:
  @veniceluggagestorage
  
• Bardadino
  Run by:
  Cosimo Ferrigolo
  Cristiano Focacci Menchini
  Edoardo Aruta
  Edoardo Lazzari
  Elena Della Corna
  Giulio Polloniato
  Margherita Mezzetti
  Melania Fusco
  Nicola Bertolo
  Silvia Faresin
  Tommaso Pandolfi
  

  Bio:
  (2020-2023) Bardadino is a shared studio and an artist-run space active in Venice since November 2020. It hosts a group of artists and art professionals who consider their decision to remain in the city a practice of resistance to contribute to the reconstruction of an active community in the lagoon. On a daily basis the space is a multidisciplinary studio and irregularly a cultural space open to the community.
  
  

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  Hours:
  Open Sometimes for Chat and Coffee
  
  Address:
  al Bar
  
  Contacts:
  @bardadino
  
• Zolforosso
  Run by:
  Filippo Rizzonelli
  Gabriele Longega
  Hetty Laycock
  Luisa Badino
  Manuela Kokanovic
  Nicolas Magnant
  Riccardo Vicentini
  rob van den berg
  Runo B
  Greta Maria Gerosa
  Martina Mura
  Lorenzo De Luigi
  Valeria Pin
  Rovers Malaj
  Giulia Maria Belli
  Caterina Casellato
  Shengyi Chao
  Guido Ravanelli
  Alessandra Luisa Cozzi
  Alessandro Miotti
  Francesca Vanoli
  Giulia Mariachiara Galiano
  

  Bio:
  Zolforosso is an artist run studio born in 2017. It currently hosts 14 artists across two labs. Zolforosso aims not only to explore contemporary art production and personal research, but to instigate - through active dialogue, collective participation and shared practices - new ways of making art
  
  

  Events:
  2023-03-05 POST MESSA - Open Studio - zolforosso Mestre
  

  
  

  Hours:
  Open by appointment
  
  Address:
  Santa Croce 1894, Venezia; Viale San Marco 96/I, Mestre; Santa Croce 1996, Venezia
  
  Contacts:
  @zolforossovenezia
  
• Cazzo Spazio
  Run by:
  Ariele Bacchetti
  Francesco Onda
  Gino Blanc
  Maria Giovanna Zanella
  Mariana “Mel” Marcondes
  Mattia Sinigaglia
  Nicola Facchini
  

  Bio:
  "CazzoSpazio (SpaceDick) “Cazzo spazio cazzo spazio cazzo spazio… Jim Carrey, where is my sherry? Not sure whether you know what a cucco is…. You really are a Pan-head.” Cazzo because dick we all are: perforated protrusions with everything inside. CazzoSpazio sits between some sort of tridimensional donut and a big splat (collision between membranes that would give birth to a completely new universe). The world of membranes shows a correspondence among subatomic forces, suggesting the existence of other membranes, parallel to ours. Let´s bang on those pans. Ciao"
  
  

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  Hours:
  Open by appointment
  
  Address:
  Cannaregio 6262, Venezia
  
  Contacts:
  c4zzo.sp4zzio
  
• Friche
  Run by:
  Agnese Garbari
  Alice Pini
  Gemma Bruni
  Giuseppe Di Liberto
  Isabella Santomauro
  Lorenzo Montinaro
  

  Bio:
  FRICHE is an artistic and curatorial collective born in Venice in October 2020. Friche works in the exhibition set up and project planning field using a variety of media. The group creates the podcast series Quel pomeriggio and later in December 2021 it publishes the book Isolario. The french term friche outlines an uncultivated and abandoned area which represents a metaphorical space where the group works and recognizes itself.
  
  

  Events:
  2022-05-07 Frichenne & Mangianne "Tortellini in brodo senza brodo ma con tanto formaggio" at Bardadino
  

  
  

  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  Planet Earth
  
  Contacts:
  @spaziofriche
  
• Casa Punto Croce
  Run by:
  

  Bio:
  Casa Punto Croce is an experimental cultural program in Venice. Now in its 10th year, the program take place in an inhabited apartment. Born from the need to generate informal events, spontaneous exhibitions, and instinctive performances, its impetuous projects have created long waves and underwater micro-earthquakes in the Venetian cultural ecosystem.
  
  

  Events:
  2022-10-16 Punto Froce | Diana J. Torres | Benvenuta + Lab + Presentazione |15+16+18 Ottobre
  

  
  

  Hours:
  Open by appointment
  
  Address:
  tra via del Progresso e viale del Tramonto, dietro a San Giacomo
  
  Contacts:
  www.casapuntocroce.org
  
• Doppio Fondo
  Run by:
  Chiara Angolani
  Costanza Gianquinto
  Jacopo Calafati
  Michela Zalunardo
  Petra Filagrana
  Tiziano Ciao
  Umberto Zani
  

  Bio:
  The DoppioFondo arts and culture association was founded in Venice in 2014. As a fine art print studio and independent publishing house, we specialise in workshops, artist-in-residence programmes and art projects. We also open up our studio to other artists to share our space and equipment. Edizioni DoppioFondo, is a project to promote books in a contemporary context, highlighting the importance of tradition-inspired printmaking techniques.
  
  

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  Hours:
  Open everyday by appointment
  
  Address:
  Lista Vecchia dei Bari 1256, Santa Croce 30135, Venezia
  
  Contacts:
  www.doppiofondo.org
  
• Gli Impresari
  Run by:
  Edoardo Aruta
  Marco Di Giuseppe
  Rosario Sorbello
  

  Bio:
  Gli Impresari is an artistic collective actively researching those forms of artistic production resulting from intellectual speculation and technical innovations, which have guided and determined the development of our visual culture since the age of modernity. The collective practice consists mainly of sculptures and installations - often activated by performances - inspired by a complex and varied imaginary, ranging from the marvelous effects obtained through theatrical machines, to the mediatic power of the first cinematic projections.
  
  

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  Hours:
  Open by appointment / gliimpresari@gmail.com _ +39 3332701226 _
  
  Address:
  Santa Croce 1121, 30135 Venice, IT / Via Francesco Cigna 77, 10152 Turin, IT
  
  Contacts:
  Instagram_
  website_
  
• Casablanca
  Run by:
  Federico Polloni
  Francesca Vacca
  Giulio Malinverni
  

  Bio:
  Casablanca_studio is a space for research and experimentation in the visual arts. born in 2020 in Venice out of the need of six young artists to find a shared and dynamic work space. In the same year, the collective of young artists founded the cultural association Acromo, establishing relations with the city's community through the organisation of cultural events of various kinds with the aim of promoting the local artistic scene.
  
  

  Events:
  2022-05-05 Solo Latte 1 / Gaia Gasparetto / curated by Federico Polloni / at Latteria2465
  

  
  

  Hours:
  Open everyday by appointment
  
  Address:
  Via Roma 55, 30172 Mestre (VE)
  
  Contacts:
  @casablanca_studio_
  
• Studio Distilleria
  Run by:
  Alessandro Bevilacqua
  Francesco Zanatta
  Nina Ćeranić
  Nicola Fraticelli
  

  Bio:
  Studio Distilleria has been active since 2013, welcoming artists that are active on Venetian territory. It is propelled by the daily practice of sharing knowledge and space. Since its first iteration in 2013 it has had more that 20 artists.
  
  

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  Hours:
  Open by appointments
  
  Address:
  Giudecca 796, 30133 Venezia
  
  Contacts:
  @studio.distilleria
  Nina +393492457843
  
• Telespazio
  Run by:
  Joe Sartorius
  Luca Coppola
  Matteo Primiterra
  Matteo Stocco
  Tommaso Lodi
  

  Bio:
  TELESPAZIO is a multidisciplinary project made up of a group of professionals working in visual communication, from video production to graphic design. Through research in the artistic and cultural space, our aim is to stimulate and make the most of the workspace through various activities, such as workshops, collaboration with other artists and professionals, and events.
  
  

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  Hours:
  Mon-Fri, 9.00 – 18.00
  
  Address:
  Via Giovanni Felisati 12, 30171 Mestre (VE)
  
  Contacts:
  Aut Design
  Nerone Design
  Kinonauts
  Joe Sartorius
  
• Cosmo
  Run by:
  

  Bio:
  Multidisciplinary production and creation workspace on the Island of Giudecca
  
  

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  Hours:
  Open by appointment
  
  Address:
  Campo San Cosmo 624, Giudecca 30133, Venezia
  
  Contacts:
  www.c-o-s-m-o.com
  
• Extragarbo
  Run by:
  Cosimo Ferrigolo
  Edoardo Lazzari
  Est Coulon
  Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
  Giusy Guadagno
  Leonardo Schifino
  Theresa Maria Schlichtherle
  

  Bio:
  Extragarbo is a collective and platform for artistic and curatorial production born in 2019 in Venice. It is a hybrid subject, a support and promotion system for the projects conceived by its members and their collaborators. It operates in the field of performing arts, questioning relevant issues not only on an aesthetic-artistic level but also on a socio-cultural level, such as the status of art workers, the local dimension in the relationship with public space, and self-education as a political practice of sharing the specific needs of different communities.
  
  

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  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  Planet Earth
  
  Contacts:
  extragarbo
  
• Fondazione Malutta
  Run by:
  All the members of Fondazione Malutta
  

  Bio:
  Fondazione Malutta counts more than thirty artists. Age, native languages and creative tools, often very different ones, are boundaries that the group constantly challenges: a confluence of cultures, genres and heterogeneous sensibilities apt to enrich the quality and foster collective research. The geographies of the artists of Fondazione Malutta reach many countries to land finally in Venice, a city that - like art - is allergic to every border, and that in movement, as trade, finds its deepest nature.
  
  

  Events:
  2024-02-18 Luglio, agosto, settembre, ottobre
  

  
  

  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  www.fondazionemalutta.com
  
  Contacts:
  fondazione.malutta@gmail.com
  @fondazionemalutta
  
• MetaForte
  Run by:
  Emanuela Ficotto
  Oscar Valenzin
  Cosimo Ferrigolo
  Andrea Tagliapietra
  Mariarosa Vio
  Antonella Ficotto
  Renata Larentis
  Luca Valenzin
  Laura Gagliardi
  Tony Brunello
  and many others
  

  Bio:
  MetaForte Association was originally formed inside the "Ex Forte Vecchio" in the municipality of Cavallino-Treporti (VE), dedicating itself to the recovery of the structure's degraded spaces for cultural purposes. This work began in 1996 and then consolidated in associative form in 2012 and moved to its current location in 2018. The MetaForte project proposes a vision of collective preservation according to which each individual is encouraged to offer his or her own creative contribution to the development of a common good, without limiting themselves to the preservation of property, but investing in the creation of a common cultural pole active in the territory through contemporary artistic research.
  
  

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  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  Via Fausta, 42, 30013 Cavallino-Treporti VE
  
  Contacts:
  metaforte112@gmail.com
  
• Microclima
  Run by:
  different for any project
  

  Bio:
  Founded in Venice in 2011, Microclima is a research-driven programme that focuses on the natural world, cultural heritage and the public sphere. Through experimental synergies and actions generated by professionals and amateurs of all kinds, Microclima seeks to stimulate the interest of the discovery, or rediscovery, of a delimited area and its social, symbolic and cultural aspects that characterize it as such. In addition to the projects proposed in the lagoon area (such as the Floating Cinema festival), the project has also expanded beyond the Venetian and national borders, starting the research project Guwahati Research Program in Assam, in India, the Los Caminos del Cafè artistic residence, in Santiago de Cuba, and the RedHero project, based in Ulaanbaatar. Our mission is therefore to create a welcoming and welcoming microclimate triggering cultural actions in different contexts.
  
  

  Events:
  Cinema Galleggiante (con Edoardo Aruta)
  

  
  

  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  Venezia Isola
  
  Contacts:
  Info@microclima.net
  
• Panorama
  Run by:
  Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
  May Events
  Ozio
  

  Bio:
  Panorama is a versatile space located in the Sestiere of San Marco in Venice. The name is closely related to its particular conformation: about 20 square meters of triangular shape overlooking Campiello San Zulian thanks to three large windows that suggest a strong relationship between inside and outside. Long rented as a shop, from the summer of 2023 it will seek a new identity as a place of vision and awareness of the dynamics of extraction that are poisoning the city. The characteristics of Panorama make it suitable both to host exhibitions or presentations of various kinds, and to open itself as a point of meeting and reflection through workshops, discussions and the promotion of common projects. With the aim of promoting moments of collaboration and rediscovery, Panorama wants to look at local, national and international practices that always manage to be declined with sensitivity to the context in which they are found.
  
  

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  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  San Marco 602A, 30124 Venezia VE
  
  Contacts:
  panorama.venezia@gmail.com
  
• Terzospazio
  Run by:
  zolforosso
  

  Bio:
  Terzospazio is a branch of Zolforosso, whose name, besides being tautological in indicating that it is the third space managed by the association, refers to the Manifeste du Tiers paysage (2005) by Gilles Clément. The third landscape is the interstice, the fold, the margin, the fragment, a place of crossings. It is here that it is possible to generate new relationships, alliances, ecosystems that grow outside and beyond existing dynamics. It is a place of collective research and production, where the work of art and artistic practice are open to comparison, exchange and dialectic thinking.
  
  

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  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  Santa Croce 1996
  
  Contacts:
  https://www.instagram.com/terzospazio_zolforosso/
  
• Tocia! Cucina e comunità
  Run by:
  Marco Bravetti
  Enrico Sambo
  Lorenzo Mattei
  Fulvia Larena
  Patrizia Canziani
  Chiara Spadaro
  

  Bio:
  Tocia! Cucina e comunità is an experimental project, operating in the Venetian lagoon area, that aims to investigate the relationship between food and community, opening reflecting windows on an anthropological, social and environmental level. Founded by chef Marco Bravetti, Tocia! proposes to demolish the short-circuits that are structured around contemporary dichotomies, such as tourist - citizen, human - non-human, industrial - natural, starting from the device of food and the conviviality that is created around it.
  
  

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  Hours:
  By appointment
  
  Address:
  Venezia Laguna
  
  Contacts:
  https://www.instagram.com/tociavenezia/
  
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