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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.

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

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(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.

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(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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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.

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"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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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Multidisciplinary production and creation workspace on the Island of Giudecca.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Scafandra is a poetry collective active in Venice since 2023. It works on language with a multidisciplinary approach to get in touch with the non-ornamental, the hybrid, and the weird. By developing site-specific practices, scafandra shares poetic experiences beyond the poet-public polarisation, and aims to bring together different ideas about research, observation, and presence.

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Opificio is a collective project born in Venice in 2019. Since four years now, it has been bringing together elements of the Venetian nightlife scene and other artistic and cultural events in the area. Thanks to an experimental, inclusive and research-oriented approach, it has been able over the years to cultivate in the local ecosystem a dense network of DJs, artists and inhabitants of the lagoon interested in reviving the cultural ferment that once animated the city. In addition to the rich winter programme of night events in clubs in the area - with a growing openness towards other provinces and regions of Northern Italy -, Opificio continues its ambitious musical research through monthly radio shows on established and emerging platforms. Always with an eye on the community and the urban dimension, Opificio collaborates in maintaining a physical space for sharing, contamination and cultural production. The Centro Vettor Pisani, on the Venice Lido, is a place where experimentation, radio collaborations, jam sessions, assemblies and workshops are always in the pipeline, where external participation is welcome and encouraged.

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Straight from the muddy depths of the Venetian lagoon, Amareacque is a fluid, multidisciplinary and independent collective that flows beyond and against borders. Attuned with our environment and local scene, we set up community gatherings that find in spontaneous celebration and collective sharing their deep meaning. Our values are rooted in seeking cooperation over competition as a force of growth, amplifying overlooked voices and defending a vision of sincere co-existence with Nature in a ecocentric perspective. Swampy fermentations, unfiltered expression, sound system culture and bassi istinti. No walls, just waves — because like the lagoon, we reclaim, remix, and reshape.

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The space takes shape as a multifaceted environment, traversed by diverse practices, where the individual dimension of artistic work organically intertwines with the collective one. In this context, work unfolds within a network of relationships that fosters exchange, co-production, and the emergence of situated artistic actions. Lama Farfalla also presents itself as a platform capable of hosting and activating heterogeneous initiatives: moments of conviviality, digital content production, residency programs, and informal public openings. These activities are grounded in an independent, self-funded perspective that embraces the contemporary condition of precarity as a generative element. Within this horizon, time assumes a fluid and contingent quality: the studio inhabits a dimension of the present understood as a space of possibility, where “living day by day” becomes an operative stance and a shared sensibility—a space in which encounters, urgency, and the unforeseen continuously nourish creative processes.

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Deposito 2235 is a non-profit space established in 2025 to bring together seven artists united by the interdisciplinary nature of their research and by shared visions and aims for contemporary art. The desire to operate in the heart of Venice, with all its complexities, prompted the group to create a production space that is periodically used as an exhibition centre. A place for dialogue and growth, it is open to cross-pollination between artists, curators and the public. The main objective of Deposito 2235 is to offer a high-quality artistic selection and a space for exchange that is in constant transformation. Free from constraints and conventions, it seeks a serious approach and a return to deeper, more conscious meanings.