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Typing BirdFrom:
23/09/2026 – 18:30
To:15/11/2026
At:Panorama
Opening Event, Wednesday 23rd September, 6:30 – 8:30PM Panorama is pleased to present Typing Bird, by Pietro Vedovato and Federico Zeltman, a new exhibition exploring the city of Venice in unexpected ways, through spaces, how they are experienced and reinterpreted. Inside an office, a seagull takes advantage of the technology available to recount some of the things he has observed in the lagoon, moving between perspectives from inside and outside the city, human and non-human. But which office did the seagull actually fly into? What details was it able to catch from above? -
Festa della FraìmaFrom:
07/11/2026 – 11:00
To:07/11/2026 – 23:00
At:Campo della Pescheria, Burano
Il 7 novembre 2026 dalle 11, presso l'ex pescheria di Burano si terrà la terza edizione della Festa della Fraima, da un'idea di Davide Tagliapietra detto Tysbe. Una celebrazione per salutare il pesce che partirà dalla laguna per raggiungere lontani mari ed oceani. Durante tutta la giornata potremo partecipare a laboratori di cianotipia, ascoltare poesie e racconti dedicati alla fraima, ascoltare musica e degustare per cena un piatto fraimoso! Ecco il programma! 👇 link: https://www.instagram.com/festa_fraima/ 🐟 TUTTO IL GIORNO 🎶 Rassegna Canzoni Live – Il Canto Libero Burano 🐠 11:00–13:00 🎨 Cianotipia – Jordan Carraro 🐡 11:00–16:00 🐟 Mercatino solidale – ODV Krama Friends ETS 🪁 Aquiloni – Gruppo Contea 🎨 La Fraìma dei pesci free – Installazione dei bambini, a cura di Gloria Molin e Monica Memo, Biblioteca di Burano 🐙 14:00–16:00 🎲 Gioco dell’oca lagunare – CNR-ISMAR 🧵 Esplorazioni merlettanti – @oltreformaa 🐟 15:00–18:00 🐊 Quando vedi un coccodrillo – @viggydascenzio e Federico Trimeri 🐠 15:00 🌊 Carta dei diritti lagunare – @piestr0 @olivspi , @barenabianca @dirittidellalaguna @olivspi @amovenezia_projectlab 🐡 16:00 📖 Racconti Torcellani – @centro_studi_torcellani 🐟 16:30 ❤️ I volontari di @kramafriends 🐠 17:00 🚣 Sfilata delle schie e maciarelle – Remiera Voga e Para 🐡 17:30 🎶 Città d’acqua – @sa_mangini , a cura di BAC 🐟 18:30 🎬 Cortometraggio – “Le isole non si sentono mai sole” di @andreadefusco a cura di @rete.cinemainlaguna 🐙 19:00–23:00 🎸 Disco Zenith Laguna – Live 🪩 Novamerica – DJ set funky disco 🍽️ Cibo a cura di Tocia! Il ricavato sarà devoluto in beneficenza. Con il sostegno di Coop Alleanza 3.0, D.H. office e Casa Editrice SquiLibri. Con la partecipazione di BAC e il patrocinio della Città di Venezia. Nuotate con noi! 🐟🐠🐡 (image: file://5qwjalksdi65aiiz)
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One photo each, two colors, one zineFrom:
30/10/2026 – 10:00
To:30/10/2026 – 17:00
At:Via Vettor Pisani, 10, Lido, Veneto, Italy
Il 30 ottobre No Stress Press apre il laboratorio al Centro Vettor Pisani per un workshop dedicato alla fotografia e alla stampa risograph. Ogni partecipante partirà da una propria fotografia e lavorerà alla sua trasformazione in una stampa a due colori. Durante la giornata vedremo insieme come preparare l’immagine in Photoshop, separare i colori, creare le matrici e stampare in risograph. Ogni fotografia diventerà una pagina, tutti i contributi verranno raccolti in un’unica fanzine collettiva, stampata e assemblata insieme. Porta una piccola selezione di fotografie e sceglieremo insieme quale immagine utilizzare e come tradurla attraverso due inchiostri. Alla fine della giornata ogni partecipante riceverà una copia della fanzine collettiva realizzata durante il workshop. Posti limitati, massimo 10 partecipanti. Compila questo modulo per richiedere l’iscrizione. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qv23qHseYApFLhb-5VxFoHCnfdSb-v9fV4rdSw5nkes/edit -
LAURANA NAPOLI EOLIE | Book launchDate:
18/09/2026 – 19:00
At:Panorama
On Friday, 18 September at 7 PM, Panorama will host the launch of LAURANA NAPOLI EOLIE published by Humboldt Books, with Andrea De Fusco, Giacomo De Fusco and Lorenzo Mason. Refreshments by OZIO. Anyone who has travelled from Naples to the Aeolian Islands by sea retains a vivid, almost cinematic memory of the crossing. The sun sinks below the horizon, gulls trail the ship’s wake, darkness gathers, and every point of reference gradually disappears until there is nothing left but the experience of being at sea. Then, at first light, the outside world slowly returns. Out of the blue emerge the silhouettes of Stromboli, followed by the other Aeolian islands, revealing themselves one by one. The book is available on Humboldt Books website. -
Therapy speak - Estremi di psicologizzazioneDate:
12/09/2026 – 19:30
At:Deposito2235, Calle Del Rosa 2235, 30135, Venezia
How do we talk about our emotions? Who has the authority to talk about them? Clinical vocabulary has migrated from the therapeutic setting to workplace and digital contexts, transforming relationships and emotions into areas for optimizing personal performance. While the spread of psychological language contributes to the validation of one’s subjectivity, it also risks reducing our emotional experiences to a discourse that obscures their political implications. The event aims to explore the theme of the psychologization of everyday life through presentations by Luca Negrogno, a professor of sociology at the University of Bologna, and Enea Lombardi, a doctoral candidate in political philosophy at the University of Milan. The event was organized with the assistance of Eleonora Laura Pasqualetto as part of the exhibition E il mio caro cuore rise by Stefano Stoppa, curated by Federica Arcoraci and Pietro Sabelli. Event open to the public. -
VAT A LÈTFrom:
12/09/2026 – 18:30
To:04/10/2026 – 21:30
At:Imagoars, Venezia
Una ninna nanna per i nostri tempi, una mostra sul sonno come gesto di cura in una società che non dorme mai Venezia, settembre 2026 — Il 12 settembre Imagoars apre le porte a (link: https://www.fondazionemalutta.com/VAT-A-LET-2026 text: Vat a lèt), mostra collettiva degli artisti di Fondazione Malutta a cura di Gemma Turroni, che indaga il sonno come esperienza sempre più rara da custodire. Il progetto nasce nell'ambito della tesi di laurea triennale in Arti Multimediali allo IUAV, con relatore Luca Trevisani. Il titolo della mostra, Vat a lèt, che in romagnolo signifi ca «vattene a letto», introduce la domanda al centro del progetto: è ancora possibile il gesto della ninna nanna, quell'atto di cura che promette riposo e protezione, in una società che non si spegne mai? A suggerirla è stato il sonno, tema tornato più volte nel corso degli studio visit fatti con gli artisti della Fondazione senza che nessuno lo stesse cercando, diventato poi il paradigma da cui la mostra prende forma. Attorno a questa domanda si muovono opere pittoriche, tessili, sonore, video e installazioni collettive. Il progetto dialoga con il pensiero di Byung-Chul Han, Jean-Luc Nancy, Donald Winnicott e Guy Debord sul sonno come rifugio minacciato, restituendolo in una forma visiva e condivisa. Lo spazio di Imagoars accoglie la mostra trasformandosi in un ambiente da attraversare più che da osservare, pensato per essere scoperto a poco a poco. Non prova a mostrare il sonno, che per sua natura si sottrae allo sguardo, costruisce piuttosto le condizioni che lo precedono, la soglia da cui lo si intravede. La mostra rappresenta anche un'occasione di incontro tra due scuole veneziane, lo IUAV, che si muove dal pensiero alla materia, e l’Accademia di Belle Arti, che fa il percorso inverso. Qui si scoprono complementari. (image: file://pvzpdbd8hugwrdem) (link: https://www.fondazionemalutta.com/ABOUT text: Fondazione Malutta) Fondazione Malutta nasce nel 2013, quasi per caso, nell'Atelier F di Carlo Di Raco, all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, da un gruppo di studenti che sentiva il bisogno di lavorare insieme. Tredici anni dopo il collettivo conta una cinquantina di artiste e artisti sparsi per il mondo ma con base ancora a Venezia. Multidisciplinare e aperto alla sperimentazione, continua a funzionare senza gerarchie, con ogni progetto pensato e realizzato in modo collettivo. Artisti in mostra: Ariele Bacchetti, Luisa Badino, Giulia Maria Belli, Thomas Braida, Nina Ćeranić, Veronica De Giovanelli, Bruno Fantelli, Anna Furlan, Enej Gala, Riccardo Giacomini, Andrea Grotto, Manuela Kokanović, Anna Marzuttini, Sebastiano Pallavisini, Anastasiya Parvanova, Bianca Francesca Serafin, Aleksander Velišček, Nežka Zamar, Maria Giovanna Zanella INFORMAZIONI Orari: da giovedì a sabato dalle 16:30 alle 19:30 o su appuntamento (email: gemmaturroni@gmail.com text: gemmaturroni@gmail.com) -
e il mio caro cuore rise - Solo Exhibition by Stefano StoppaFrom:
10/09/2026 – 18:00
To:20/09/2026 – 21:00
At:Deposito2235, Calle Del Rosa 2235, 30135, Venezia
The so-called “manosphere”—a vast network of online self-help communities for men—has grossly misinterpreted the Stoic philosophy of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. By exaggerating, in a camp style, the reverence these circles hold for a romanticized version of antiquity, the exhibition attempts to overturn their disheartening interpretation and open the door to a new possibility: that even the emperor might have a heart. Open by appointment. -
Mistranslation | Conversation and reading sessionDate:
02/09/2026 – 19:00
At:Panorama
On September 2 at 7PM, Panorama hosted a special event marking the final days of Mistranslation by Natalia Mejía Murillo. The event was conceived as an open conversation and reading session, moderated by curator Matheew Carrillo M. and Giovanni Giacomo Paolin. Participants were invited to share excerpts of texts to be re-read together, fostering a dialogue around the themes of the exhibition. Mistranslation explored what occurs across different geographies through the accumulation, translation, and reorganization of materials, memories, and forms of knowledge, challenging the classification systems through which we order and understand the material world. -
Risograph workshop program_3rd appointmentFrom:
28/06/2026 – 10:00
To:28/06/2026 – 21:00
At:Via Vettor Pisani 10, 30126 Lido (VE)
One Sunday per month, No Stress Press opens its studio at Centro Vettor Pisani for a risograph workshop program. After a short introduction, we will create an A3 poster together using provided patterns and materials, working with two masters. Month after month, the prints will help build a collective visual identity for the Centre. At the end of the workshop, each participant will receive 5 copies of their poster. Workshop starts at 10AM and finishes at 5PM then from 5PM to 9 PM, the day continues with a small exhibition of the works realized, music, and bar, in collaboration with Opificio, No Stress Radio, and CVP. Limited spots, max 10 participants. Subscriptions: (link: https://forms.gle/q7rWYXzrwxxtnVQaA text: Google Form) -
STAZIONE MALUTTA - Qualcosa era successoDate:
18/06/2026 – 18:00
At:Stazione delle Arti - Marano Vicentino.
Nel racconto Qualcosa era successo di Dino Buzzati all’interno della raccolta La boutique del mistero i protagonisti sono dei passeggeri di un treno in corsa che, guardando dal finestrino, si accorgono di gente ferma sui marciapiedi, nei campi, alle finestre immobili, rivolti verso la stessa direzione. Nessuno sa o sa spiegarsi. Eppure qualcosa era successo. C’è un momento in cui qualcosa cambia senza che nessuno sappia dire cosa. È da questa visione sospesa, tra il vedere e il capire, tra il presagio e la sua decifrazione che prende forma la mostra di Fondazione Malutta per Bàrnabo - Piccolo festival sul Paesaggio. Non è la prima volta che Fondazione Malutta incontra una stazione ferroviaria lungo il proprio percorso. Questo progetto rappresenta infatti la seconda tappa di una traiettoria che attraversa luoghi di transito e di attesa. La prima esperienza si era svolta nell’ex stazione di Borca di Cadore, dove il paesaggio montano dialogava con le pratiche degli artisti. Se quella era una prima fermata, Marano Vicentino diventa oggi una nuova sosta lungo un itinerario ancora aperto. Come una comunità nomade, Fondazione Malutta sembra muoversi di stazione in stazione. Vogliamo immaginarci gli artisti di Fondazione Malutta come quei passeggeri che però decidono di scendere da quel convoglio e fermarsi. È un gesto semplice e radicale insieme: scegliere di fermarsi, tirare il freno che i passeggeri di Buzzati non hanno osato toccare, per affrontare la discesa ed entrare nella stazione di Marano Vicentino. Luisa Badino | Ariele Bacchetti | Giulia Maria Belli | Giovanna Bonenti | Nina Ceranic | Veronica de Giovanelli | Fabio De Meo | Daria Dmytrenko | Enej Gala | Riccardo Giacomini | Andrea Grotto | Bogdan Koshevoy | Anna Furlan | Anna Marzuttini | Sebastiano Pallavisini | Anastasiya Parvanova | Bianca Francesca Serafin | Francesco Zanatta | Aleksander Velišček (link: https://www.fondazionemalutta.com/STAZIONE-MALUTTA-Qualcosa-era-successo-2026 text: STAZIONE MALUTTA - Qualcosa era successo 2026) -
MistranslationFrom:
18/06/2026 – 18:00
To:06/09/2026 – 18:00
At:Panorama
Panorama and EXCLAMA Proyectos are pleased to present Mistranslation, the first outcome of their residency and exhibition program dedicated to fostering dialogue between Colombian contemporary artistic practices and the cultural and ecological context of Venice. Mistranslation presents the work developed in Venice by Colombian artist Natalia Mejía Murillo, and curated by Matheew Carrillo M. Until the opening, Panorama remains open as a working studio, inviting visitors to encounter the artist’s research and process in progress. A constellation of materials, observations, and displacements. Mistranslation explores what remains, what shifts, and what resists translation. -
amareacque x Isola432From:
16/05/2026 – 18:00
To:16/05/2026 – 00:00
At:Isola 432 - Fondamenta della Misericordia 2618 Ve
⊹ ﹏𓊝﹏𓂁﹏⊹ Mudflats, flooded salt marshes, murky water. The lagoon reclaims, reshapes, returns. It never stands still. This is where we begin. (link: https://www.instagram.com/isola.432.cannaregio/ text: Isola 432) is the first sandbank, a temporary foothold. From here, events will begin to move, take different shapes, occupy other spaces. The goal is set: to build a self-made soundsystem. That’s why every event leaves something concrete behind. Piece by piece. Like the lagoon, we open passages, follow currents, take back space. We are glad to host and hand over the helm to (link: https://www.instagram.com/_le.zo/ text: Lezo) and (link: https://www.instagram.com/gregwoodenblack/ text: gregwoodenblack) And our local djs (link: https://www.instagram.com/micoritza/ text: micoritza) & Giovanni Bassista from below deck. Tune in. Dive deep. Let the tide carry you. Gfx (link: https://www.instagram.com/sole999999999/ text: sole999999999) (image: file://5cs3cnd3vujz2h0l) -
Lama Farfalla e PanopticonFrom:
10/05/2026 – 11:00
To:10/05/2026 – 21:00
At:Lama Farfalla, San Pietro di Castello 73b
l 10 maggio a Venezia: Lama Farfalla e Panopticon insieme dalle ore 11 - fino a dopo il tramonto. 🏓 Ping Pong w/ Irene Fenara, Valentina Goretti, Leonardo Furlan, Alessandro Manfrin, Andrea Martinucci, Valentina Parati, Eleonora Luccarini, Giuliana Rosso, Marco Pio Mucci, Gianluca Tramonti, Giovanna Repetto, Paolo Pretolani, Federico Lupo, Marco Laudadio, Valentina De Zanche, Lorenzo Montinaro, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, Federico Arani. 🪸Cibo, Bere, Musica: LamaFarfalla 🏆 dalle 16:30 torneo di Ping Pong con il palio una scultura (image: file://idibykg6k5wtwlnk) -
Apnea mostra personale di Martina BioloFrom:
07/05/2026 – 18:00
To:07/05/2026 – 20:00
At:Deposito 2235
“Apnea” is a suspension of breath, a moment of stillness, accumulation, and waiting. Metaphorically, it encompasses a set of gestures, pauses, and silent processes in which life and work overlap, and where the inner rhythm becomes a measure of time. The exhibition unfolds as a three-act score, staging the atomization of an everyday object that is part of the artist’s studio furnishings. The works function as holograms of reality, which is transposed into another dimension through a ritualistic gesture. Within these suspended atmospheres, the absent object is altered and dissected in a performative interplay, until it dissolves into a breath. -
Superfici LagunariFrom:
07/05/2026 – 19:00
To:06/06/2026 – 21:00
At:Doppiofondo, Lista vecchia dei bari 1256
Exhibition of graphic works by Tiziano Ciao, created using the printing techniques of #intaglio and #screenprinting. Lagoon Surfaces is an artistic research project that began after the high water of 2019. Tiziano Ciao’s works arise from the observation of water and its effects on surfaces; the pieces capture the marks of time and the tides. Venice, nestled between the sea and the lagoon, is perhaps the most compelling example of the relationship between humans and water. The lagoon landscape of the salt marshes is shaped by the constant flow of tides and currents, and the entire city exists by designing with and incorporating the element of water. Solid, liquid, and gaseous—in all its forms—every surface in contact with it changes and transforms. The sound waves accompanying Lagoon Surfaces are dedicated to the element of water and its musical and sonic interpretations. Performance starting at 7:30 PM May 8 – Sound Garden Nicola Lucchese & Omero Vanin They work at the intersection of electroacoustic music, sound ecology, and site-specific performance. May 10 – Miyan ki Malhar Dilruba recital Renata Frana -
Organized Rest in Times of UprisingFrom:
05/05/2026 – 11:00
To:15/06/2026 – 16:00
At:terzospazio zolforosso
After literally setting the table and breaking bread with art workers across Turin, Bologna, and Milano, OMTU arrives in Venice, hosted by terzospazio. During the Biennial preview, it becomes a room to breathe in: a place to slow down, step out of the art-networking current, and sit with the experience of art. Through a month-long program of conversations, workshops, and activations, we reflect together about counter-institutionality, making space for workers, and a culture of labor where rest is not a reward, but a foundation. Opening 5.05.26 (11am - 4pm) with Malomodo (in collaboration w/ Umberto Zanette). -
Restanze by ExtragarboFrom:
04/05/2026 – 15:00
To:04/05/2026 – 18:00
At:IUAV University of Venice
What guides walking are the relics of meaning — and sometimes their waste, their inverted remains Restanze is a workshop conceived as a situated experience that activates bodies in relation to the landscape and its negative. Through urban drifting, an imaginative reconnaissance of ghost-sites in public space, it produces affective cartographies of the city. The workshop unfolds as a performative exercise, proposing an exploration score that invites participants to move through space while attuning their gaze to the fields of force that traverse and haunt it. The work consists in identifying a circumscribed element—an architecture, an object, an urban threshold—capable of materializing this tension within a speculative rewriting of the environment. (link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWqzK60DH6e/?img_index=1 text: instagram/extragarbo ) (image: file://avyrovbvgnnwbukl) -
Gioco poetico ibrido by collettivo scafandraFrom:
03/05/2026 – 18:00
To:03/05/2026 – 21:00
At:Spazio Levante, Campo Bandiera e Moro 3811
𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖔 è 𝖚𝖓 𝖑𝖚𝖔𝖌𝖔 𝖈𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖒𝖇𝖎𝖆 𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖒𝖆 𝖆 𝖘𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖆 𝖉𝖎 𝖈𝖍𝖎 𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖆. 𝖑𝖆 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖆 𝖈𝖍𝖊 𝖓𝖔𝖓 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖔𝖘𝖈𝖊𝖙𝖊 𝖘𝖎 𝖆𝖕𝖗𝖊 𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖔 𝖘𝖊 𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖆𝖙𝖆. 𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖈𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖎 𝖉𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖒𝖎, 𝖘𝖎 𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖎, 𝖘𝖎 𝖆𝖕𝖗𝖆. 𝖆 𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖔 𝖑𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖔 𝖑’𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝖓𝖔𝖓 è 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖔 𝖎𝖓𝖛𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖔. ♞ 𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝘀𝘂 (link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OkcLIWwExeMKUbFMuWNjdHSPPyAJ4VoooBrvuFZTHsc/edit text: 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺) 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 ♤ (link: https://www.instagram.com/scafandra_collettivo/ text: ig) -
SKUNK by amareacque & Bassi Gradassi Sound SystemFrom:
02/05/2026 – 21:00
To:03/05/2026 – 04:00
At:CS Rivolta - via Fratelli Bandiera 45, Marghera (VE)
𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 Last Skunk act of the season this week at (link: https://www.instagram.com/csrivolta/ text: CS Rivolta). On May 2nd we’re bringing the ghost in the machine: (link: https://www.instagram.com/ghost.dubs/ text: Ghost Dubs) (Pressure) lands in Venice for the first time with an immense live set, ready to caress your skull and bones with sublime frequencies. Opening and closing duties by the Skunk family and local djs, (link: https://www.instagram.com/stefanotrombetta/ text: DJ Trombetta), (link: https://www.instagram.com/btt.flv/ text: btt.flv), (link: https://www.instagram.com/_briggg/ text: Briggg), behind the decks. Come celebrate a year of love and pressure together. 𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 Gfx (link: https://www.instagram.com/leoxdema/ text: leoxdema) Run come feel it (link: https://www.instagram.com/bassigradassi/ text: Instagram Bassi Gradassi Sound System) (link: https://www.instagram.com/amareacque/ text: Instagram amareacque) (image: file://isq4gnn0xz37rffw) -
L'Assemblea delle paroleDate:
26/04/2026 – 15:00
At:Panorama
Domenica 26 aprile, Panorama attiva Campiello San Zulian con “L’Assemblea delle parole”, restituzione pubblica del progetto “Lettere al futuro sindaco, lettere alla futura sindaca” insieme a Edoardo Lazzari e al collettivo Oltreforma. Un momento di ascolto e co-presenza, in cui la scrittura diventa voce e attraversa la città. -
Chain of LoveFrom:
06/04/2026 – 15:00
To:30/07/2026 – 18:00
At:Joystick
In a shadowed corner of a 1960s home office, a woman known only as Florence staged an intimate photographic ritual. Bound in vintage cuffs, posed amid a filing cabinet and bare desk, Florence created over three hundred annotated images spanning decades—a systematic documentation where cataloging itself became the artistic act. For “Chain of Love” in Venice, Paul Graves transforms Joystick into Florence’s power stage, examining her archive through the procedural lens of vernacular photography. In the installation, industrial filing cabinets elevate Florence, allowing her to fully emerge, leaving the viewer caught between voyeur and witness. - Tess Gruenberg ABOUT THE ARTIST Paul Graves is a multidisciplinary artist and collector whose work spans photography, film, and creative direction. He began his career studying under Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Known for blending high and low culture, Graves has created striking imagery for brands like Nike, Hermès, and Absolut Vodka, and has contributed to Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, Elle, and GQ. Graves’ practice explores the intersection of archival obsession, personal memory, and cultural storytelling. In projects like Chain of Love, he curates overlooked visual histories—transforming forgotten archives into evocative public narratives. -
Lettere Unite! L’assemblea delle parole | LaboratorioDate:
28/03/2026 – 10:00
At:Panorama, Versatile
Lettere Unite! L’assemblea delle parole – Laboratorio con Edoardo Lazzari 28 marzo. Il laboratorio è aperto a tutte le persone interessate, senza competenze performative specifiche. Più che produrre una rappresentazione, il workshop mira a costruire una situazione temporanea di assemblea, in cui le parole rivolte al futuro sindaco o alla futura sindaca vengano rimesse in circolazione come esercizio collettivo di immaginazione politica. -
CRIT SESSION #1Date:
25/03/2026 – 18:30
At:Panorama
Panorama e Deposito 2235 presentano con Giovanni Chiamenti e Alessandro Pugno il primo appuntamento per il rilancio del formato del CRIT in laguna. Dopo un primo test nello spazio di Panorama insieme a Michele Azzalini e Antonio Avi, ecco la prima sessione ufficiale insieme a due artisti le cui ricerche indagano la postura umana nell’Antropocene. Dopo una breve introduzione, sarà lasciato ai partecipanti un lungo tempo di osservazione delle opere per un confronto attivo. CRIT SESSION è un invito a condividere letture critiche e il tempo di fruizione di alcune opere in un ambiente sicuro e rilassato. Si ringrazia Castro Projects per la guida nella costruzione del formato CRIT SESSION e per la condivisione della propria esperienza. -
More Than Any BodyFrom:
11/02/2026 – 18:30
To:19/04/2026
At:Panorama
Opening event Wednesday 11nd February, 6:30 – 8:30PM Panorama is pleased to present More Than Any Body, an exhibition featuring installations by Chiara Cecconello and Nadezda Golysheva. Working in dialogue with the Church of San Zulian, the two artists reinterpret elements that shape the church and its daily life, translating them into sculptural and sound-based interventions across Panorama and the adiacent campiello. From Golysheva’s reflection on eremitism and contemporary isolation, to Cecconello’s sound installation - activated daily in sync with the church bells - the exhibition unfolds as a temporal and spatial experience, where voices, bodies, and rituals resonate between sacred and everyday space. -
JOURNÉE DE JEUXFrom:
08/02/2026 – 10:00
To:08/02/2026
At:CASTELLO, Venezia
Journée de Jeux è stata la parata di maschere d’artista che domenica 8 febbraio ha attraversato il sestiere di Castello, Venezia, per attivare un gesto poetico e necessario: invitare a giocare, immaginare, trasformare lo spazio urbano e far partecipare a una festa cittadina la comunità artistica che vive quotidianamente lo spazio urbano veneziano. Ispirandosi al tema principale del Carnevale 2026, le artiste e gli artisti coinvolti, che abitano e lavorano in città, sono invitati a creare maschere ispirate al tema del gioco, inteso come atto di libertà, invenzione e resistenza alle dinamiche che riducono Venezia a mera scenografia e i suoi abitanti a comparse. Queste diventano corpi in cammino, opere vive che si muovono nello spazio pubblico, riscrivendone temporaneamente le regole. -
Lettere al futuro sindaco, lettere alla futura sindacaFrom:
06/02/2026 – 15:00
To:22/05/2026
At:Panorama, Versatile
INVIA LA TUA LETTERA A PANORAMA.VENEZIA@GMAIL.COM O LASCIALA SOTTO LA PORTA DI PANORAMA In vista delle prossime elezioni comunali, Panorama presenta, in collaborazione con Versatile, il progetto Lettere al futuro sindaco, lettere alla futura sindaca. Cittadini e persone che vivono e frequentano il territorio comunale veneziano sono invitate a scrivere una lettera, firmata o anonima, al futuro sindaco o alla futura sindaca di Venezia prima della sua elezione. L’obbiettivo principale è promuovere una ricerca di desideri e aspirazioni della propria comunità, creando una piattaforma di espressione apartitica aperta e un’occasione di confronto su temi che attraversano l’ambiente cittadino, includendo anche coloro che pur non essendo residenti, vivono attivamente il contesto veneziano. Panorama e Versatile vogliono costruire un canale diretto tra cittadini, abitanti e amministratori, per condividere necessità e desideri per il futuro. Il progetto è liberamente ispirato a Letters to the Mayor, a cura di Eva Franch i Gilabert e promosso da Storefront for Art and Architecture nel 2014 a New York. -
Episode 19From:
13/12/2025 – 00:00
To:24/01/2025
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
A vast plain welcomes humans and non-humans alike into a world that belongs to no century. Night’s dawn is nearly over, and everything is visible as part of the moon’s glow. A cavern breaks the expanse. It is the doorway through which all have entered, and those who once were outside have been called in; now they bear the mark of the cavern on their bodies. All these figures have risen from the bowels of the world. During a winter solstice, time was marked by the birth of a dragon. It undoubtedly brought a generous gift for everyone: the lie of harmony. A curious caravan witnesses the event, watching the scene in wonder. Melania Fusco (Naples, 1987) is a visual artist living and working in Venice. Her research explores the dissonances of everyday life, moving through liminal spaces where error, misunderstanding, and misinterpretation become generative forces of alternative imaginaries populated by hybrid entities and phantasmagorical visions drawn from a sentimental iconographic archive. Her work weaves together memory, biography, and interior landscapes, creating images suspended between latent frustrations, unstable emotional states, and altered perceptions of recollection. She graduated in Visual Arts at IUAV, she has been co-founder since 2022 of the network comecome.info, dedicated to artist-run spaces in the Venetian area, and since 2025 she has been active in the studio Lama Farfalla. She has collaborated on performative projects including Ostensione #1 (GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, 2024), created together with artist Maria Morganti, and the performance They Come to Us without a Word by Joan Jonas, presented at the United States Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2015). She has exhibited, among others, at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice), Spazio Su (Lecce), and Arte Fiera Polis (Bologna). MELANIA FUSCO SI MORMORA CHE IL SOLSTIZIO ABBIA VISTO VENIRE AL MONDO UN DRAGO a cura di / curated by: Mario Ciaramitaro e Alberto Restucci assistente di produzione: Sofia Castellini -
L’erba che cresce dove passa il mondoFrom:
22/11/2025 – 19:00
To:25/01/2026
At:Panorama
Opening Event Saturday 22nd November, 3 – 7PM Panorama is pleased to host “L’erba che cresce dove passa il mondo”, a solo exhibition by Marina Caneve that brings the lagoon, plant life, and the living forms shaping Venice’s ecosystem to the centre. Through different visual devices, the works follow vegetal presences across the city - tracing their signs, mapping their movements, and revealing subtle networks of relations that invite us to rethink the urban landscape. The exhibition hosts the outcomes of the artistic residency project coordinated by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as part of the iNEST programme - Spoke 6, CC3 Citizen Engagement. -
Tomorrow, yesterday and tomorrow | Conversation and closing eventDate:
16/11/2025 – 18:30
At:Panorama
Maurizio Segato’s exhibition is nearing its end. On Sunday, 16th November, join us at 18.30 for an informal conversation with the artist about his research and the ideas behind the exhibition. -
Episode 18From:
09/10/2025 – 00:00
To:29/10/2025
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
Mario: “It's you, B., it's definitely you”; Yoann: “It was you, B., it was definitely you”; Alberto: “It's you, B., without a shadow of a doubt"; Sofia: ”It must be you, B., I'm absolutely convinced". Yoann Van Parys I guarantee that Yoann Van Parys is a Belgian artist and art critic whose ancestors lived in Bruges in the 16th century, undoubtedly working as merchants. It is very likely that they traded textiles with Paris, to the point that they were called “those from Paris.” I assure you that the aforementioned Yoann of Paris has held exhibitions in Belgium, Holland, France, and Italy in our century. Moreover, evidence is mounting to show that he has a recurring relationship not only with Italy, but even more so with Venice. A city from which—and I could prove it to you—he occasionally works, not as a merchant, but as a very fashionable digital nomad, devoting himself to an evidently unchristian life, oscillating between Spritz and laptop. Thus, from his lagoon, I can say with certainty that he also produces some writings for magazines that are sometimes obscure (Flux News) and sometimes in vogue (Artforum). Since my dossier on him is well-stocked, I will spare you the latest details about him, but not without certifying once again the veracity of the facts I am presenting to you. Vi Giuro - Yoann Van Parys a cura di / curated by: Mario Ciaramitaro e Alberto Restucci assistente di produzione: Sofia Castellini -
Tomorrow, yesterday and tomorrowFrom:
06/09/2025 – 16:00
To:16/11/2025
At:Panorama
Opening Event Saturday 6th September, 4 – 8PM This September, Panorama enters its third year with “Tomorrow, yesterday and tomorrow”, a solo exhibition by Maurizio Segato. In a recursive play between memory and fiction, Segato reimagines one of the past lives of our space in Campiello San Zulian: a souvenir shop. Through sculptures that echo traditions and objects already lost – or on the verge of disappearing – the exhibition transforms the shop window into a living archive. Remembering becomes a process of rewriting, raising questions about private and public life in Venice, and about the city itself. -
Dialectics of Chaos, Echelons of TimeFrom:
20/06/2025 – 17:30
To:17/08/2025
At:Panorama
Public program followed by opening event, Friday 20th June, 5:30 – 9pm “Dialectics of Chaos, Echelons of Time” presents the first Italian solo exhibition by Andrea Knezović, curated by Giulia Menegale. Precariousness, insecurity, and exhaustion are at the core of Andrea Knezović’s work – traced as signs of capitalism’s extraction from our emotional and cognitive lives. In her first solo show in Italy, Panorama invites the artist to reflect on urban extractivism and its impact on daily rhythms, imagining a poetic parallel between the city and the human body. The exhibition introduces a playful engagement with time: through diagrams and gestures of roaming, Knezović proposes a reappropriation of time – its pauses, expansions, and the emotional landscapes it holds. The exhibition is supported by Mondriaan Fund -
Episode 17From:
07/05/2025 – 00:00
To:14/06/2025
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
POST-OFFICE: A GROUND ACTION ANTHOLOGY Improvisation and observing the context are the two pivots of the practice of a collective that has carried out over 60 interventions in a decade of activity. The exhibition Post Office A Ground Action Anthology is a manifestation of the desire to recount this time spent modifying elements and places. The story that emerges is still raw, not rigidified by classification or chronology: all the projects are presented as linked to one another in an exhibition that explores how places can be transformed through actions initiated in the field, actions that could be interpreted, adapted and carried forward by others, guided by a shared desire for change. Above all, it aims to raise awareness of the everyday gestures we often overlook, the small and constant practices that shape our environments. The images documenting the various interventions offer a radical and critical reflection on an alternative idea of design, based on gestures and forms of collaborative action to question architecture through collective and performative formats. Ground Action combines two key ideas: the act of starting from the ground, from the bottom up, being rooted in what already exists; and “action”, as a reference to art as an event, to being active among things, to direct political action, to working within and across territories. The collective perspective is based on simple but powerful principles: reducing resource consumption, working with what is available, promoting shared awareness and encouraging collective participation. The collective's perspective is based on simple but powerful principles: reducing resource consumption, working with what is available, promoting shared awareness and encouraging collective participation. This attitude often leads to chance encounters with places, objects, participants and ideas for actions. The architectures of Ground Action create spaces for sharing, places created by the reordering of nature that remain natural and non-invasive gestures in open space. At the centre is the concept of “performing landscape”, which frames every act of maintenance, care and intervention, involving organic or inorganic matter, as akin to artistic, choreographic or theatrical performance. This approach challenges a persistent gap in architectural discourse, a tendency to overlook long-term processes of use, management and transformation. Post-office celebrates a form of intelligence that is too often underestimated: one that understands time, embraces constraints and cultivates through maintenance. Ground Action Ground Action (Venice and Palermo) creates site-specific projects and actions in the fields of art, landscape and architecture. It is inspired by collective and participatory practices of spatial modification. It promotes maintenance as a form of project, recovery and reuse as actions of transformation. Its goal is the direct and concrete execution of installations, performative interventions and virtuous behaviour. Ground Action is Matteo D'Ambros, Sergio Sanna, Stefano Tornieri, Roberto Zancan, Carlalberto Amadori (until 2019) and Francesco Cucchiara (until 2018). -
Episode 16From:
28/03/2025 – 00:00
To:26/04/2025
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
PUNTI DI FUGA ‘In the beginning of days on Earth, sounds and noises were not communication between beings, no, no necessary transmission to each other. A cacophony of roars, thunder, wind, sea. Then, sounds of bacteria and cells, construction of bodies. An eternal metamorphosis where the only certainty is change.’ Matilde Sambo, generates composite narratives through her artistic research and the use of different languages such as sculpture, video, sound and performance. The body, whether human or animal-non-human, is always the hinge around which her practice develops. Her process is always on the threshold between instinct and rationality with continuous references to human evolution and the relationship established between living beings and the environment. Punti di Fuga leads to a fascination of suspended time in which we are transported into a perpetual connection between bodies, sounds and life forms. Time, the slow mechanism of this world, regulates bodies and their perceptive sensitivities in an extremely sensorial imaginative tale. The moving images recorded by Matilde Sambo are composed in a symphonic discourse of voice, music, perspective and observation. As she allows herself to be traversed by what she films, she takes us by the hand and accompanies us into a continuous space of skies, animals, languages and skins. A flight, a journey, a visual expedition dedicated to those who observe every day with eyes and ears wide open, suggesting to live with the happiness of perceiving everything as part of an ancient time. Matilde Sambo Matilde Sambo (Venice 1993) graduated in Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venice. Solo exhibitions 2025-2022:‘Presentimento’, Renata Fabbri (Milan), ‘Fulgur’ and ‘Falsity in Good Conscience’, aA29 Project Room (Milan); ‘Dormiveglia’, Associazione Barriera (Turin). He has participated in national and international artistic projects and residencies including: (Milan); Atelier Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice); Forci Art Foundation (Lucca); In-ruins Residency (Sibari); Radio3 Battiti (Rome); ‘After Reminiscence’, Cassina Projects (Milan); ‘Flussi’, artist's book with Miniera Roma (Rome); VIR, Via Farini in Residence (Milan); Open Studio Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Milan ); Museo Campano (Capua); BoCs Art (Cosenza); Collective signatures (Balearic Islands); Tagli (Stromboli); Art Colony, Bronze Symposium (Hungary); Art Meetings ‘Six Steps forward one step back’, Volvo Studio (Milan); Angelica Festival (Bologna); Pasinger Fabrik (Munich); Argo 16 (Venice); Radio Raheem (Milan); ‘New Echo System’ Palazzo degli Ulivi, Pro Helvetia (Venice). -
Episode 15From:
15/02/2025 – 00:00
To:15/03/2025
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
GIACINTO We have recently received a letter from Giacinto in which he tells us that he has finished his work and that he thinks we can share with everyone what he is leaving us in the rooms of aarduork. But who is Giacinto? The name of a flower that signifies hope, renewal and prosperity, but which conceals a careful and patient person. Giacinto is a philologist studying the epistolary exchange between Marta Magini and Nicola Di Croce. They approached him and entrusted him with everything they had shared in recent years - texts, songs, books, places and things. Through his gaze, the norms and customs of a rich exchange appear. Giacinto is rigorous in his analysis: he does not report the content of any text exchanged, because what interests him are the norms that govern the whole exchange. He only shares his notes with us, leaving it to everyone's imagination to project themselves beyond the mirror of these implicit rules he has found. Episode 15 is the playground of a philologist who is a devotee of epistolary letters and a lover of experimental music. The analysed words are thrown into the white cube of aarduork, transforming it into a cosy place to listen and wait for a collective narrative and relational experiment to unfold. Lying, sitting and relaxing on the floor, we can only ask ourselves: what canons are implicitly adopted in an interpersonal exchange? What intentions? What multiple negotiations? What mutual seductions? Is it possible to make an exhibition about a bond of friendship, trust and affinity? Giacinto has informed us that he will not be able to attend the opening in person. However, he has left us a room to decipher, decode and address with curiosity Marta Magini and Nicola Di Croce. The words, notes and mixtape he has left us are for all of us to enjoy a moment of encounter with each other. Marta Magini e Nicola Di Croce The collaboration between Magini and Di Croce explores the potential of epistolary exchange for artistic, sound and performance creation. They worked on the performance ‘Swinging is like saying no no’ (2023) and the performance-concert ‘Richiamo’ (2024) presented at numerous festivals nationwide. Nicola Di Croce is a sound artist and researcher. Marta Magini is an artist and performer. They live and work in Venice. -
Amuse-bouche 2025Date:
17/01/2025 – 18:30
At:Bea Vita, Fondamenta de le Capuzine, Cannaregio 3082, Venice, Italy 30121
Siamo lieti di annunciare una collaborazione con 𝓑𝓮𝓪-𝓥𝓲𝓽𝓪, Venezia. Vi aspettiamo venerdì 17 gennaio per l'opening insieme ai primi artisti che presentano le loro opere site-specific: Nina Ćeranić, Bruno Fantelli, Manuela Kokanović, Bogdan Koshevoy, Aleksander Velišček e Maria Giovanna Zanella. Bea Vita inaugura una nuova mostra, a cura di Fondazione Malutta. "Amuse-Bouche". Un’esposizione work in progress in cui le opere aumentano periodicamente e si trasforma nel tempo. Al display iniziale infatti si aggiungeranno nuove opere e artisti che collaborano alla creazione di un banchetto visivo in continua espansione. ‘Amuse-Bouche’ è un’esplorazione del desiderio, dell’accumulo e del piacere, che invita a riflettere sul rapporto tra sazietà e fame, tra l’appagamento e il desiderio di aggiungere e accumulare. https://www.fondazionemalutta.com/2025 (image: file://j7twnion9cpzxrm8) -
Episode 14From:
07/12/2024 – 00:00
To:01/02/2025
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
WHEN SEEDS BECOME TORPEDOES Episode 14 has its origin in a specific place of Venice: Calle de la Cereria, 734. This is the former Botanical Garden of Venice, converted and transformed over time and finally abandoned. Perhaps it is one of those last corners of the historic city that is now wild, uncultivated and basically in ruins. In the urban fabric, it is an invisible place, forgotten, but one that Simone Scardino gives us access to through a layered research process that combines archival sources, images and material recovered through nocturnal expeditions. The exhibition includes several reference points, that are concrete, solid and political to comment on the intertwining of nature and technology that this place has hosted. Simone Scardino began developing the research during the In-Edita 3 residency in 2023, funded and supported by the Venetian galleries Marina Bastianello Gallery, Gallerie Alberta Pane, and Ikona Gallery. AARDUORK intercepted Simone Scardino's process and proposed a second chapter of research to give space to a practice that takes the form of images, seed bombs and video installations. Simone Scardino frames his research with the words: ‘the botanical garden is like a nature factory where there is no “authentic nature” to protect, but a living system that also includes human activities. It can show the intricate web of relationships, including conflicts and grey areas between conservation and human intervention.’ The botanical garden in Venice, destroyed at the end of the 19th century and replaced by a torpedo factory, bears witness to the sharp and ruthless transition from the production of plant life for scientific purposes to the production of instruments of aggression and destruction. The tale of this past brings us back to the current ecological and social crisis of our time through a new narrative that remixes the different pasts of the Botanical Garden of Venice and realises a workshop for the production of seed torpedoes within AARDUORK. The exhibition explores these tensions, telling a new story of place that invites us to imagine the botanical garden as an object for ecological and critical reflection, where nature is neither abstract nor passive, but a living and active factory, capable of redefining relations between human and non-human. Simone Scardino was born in 1995 in Venaria Reale in the province of Turin, where he graduated with a thesis entitled Spazio Profondo - Fondamenti per una Coesistenza Gentile (Deep Space - Foundations for a Gentle Coexistence), at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts. His research is deeply linked to the relationship between the new anthropology and the understanding of the ecologies of different ecosystems, which merge into artistic practices inspired by his experience as an activist and farmer. Over the years, he has developed an experimental and transdisciplinary practice, including through workshops and hybrid participatory art laboratories. He participated in ‘Transtopia Luogo dell'Oltre’ - Artistic Practices of Urban Resistance, in collaboration with VERSO at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (2022), Micro - Geographies of Engagement, Città dell'Arte, Fondazione Pistoletto Biella (2022), and ‘Urbi, Erbe et Orbi’ in collaboration with UNIDEE Academy and ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, NL (2022). He took part in a series of artistic residencies including Bivacco Urbano Progetto Diogene in Turin (2021) and during the school year 2021/2022 he was invited to hold a workshop/seminar entitled ‘6 m² - Unit of measurement against de-forestation’ in collaboration with PAV - Parco Arte Vivente for the public art course of the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin. -
Episode 13From:
20/04/2024 – 00:00
To:01/06/2024
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
MICRO - WATERS Micro-Waters is an exhibition with at its centre a scientific-imaginative investigation of an unexplored world, known but entirely to be investigated through a microscopy of the gaze. Looking inside matter, into the osteoporic pertuosities of corals, is something that not only activates sight, it is a tactile and sensitive investigation of the configuration of an underwater world. When one immerses oneself in the marine environment, the relationship with all the materials and elements that compose it suddenly becomes osmotic. The underwater world is liminal, layered with life and matter: it amplifies our tactile and visual boundaries. Caterina Morigi, who always explores it in apnea, searches the seabed for traces of the alliance between living matter and rocks. Fascinated by how rough surfaces become welcoming zones for corals and molluscs, she combines the images she creates with scientific images of numerous elements analysed by research laboratories. In her work, eidetic rhymes appear between minerals and shells, both composed of calcium carbonate and phosphate. It is an invisible, material and imaginative alliance, evoked by the works on display, impossible to know otherwise. While we can feel and taste the surface of each object with our fingers, this microscopic alliance eludes us. What is hidden in the depths of matter? How can we even imagine a contact zone? Caterina Morigi In her research, Caterina Morigi brings attention to matter, teeming with life, the physical and metaphorical territory of union and exchange. To address the substance of things she uses a close, timeless gaze, bringing to light elements that are apparently distant and not perceptible with our senses in their normal state. The work becomes a changeable and iridescent device that serves to effect reversals between subject and frame, centre and margin, and initiate a multitude of different and subjective fluid images.Caterina Morigi (Ravenna, 1991) graduated in visual arts at the IUAV in Venice. Her practice, mainly installation-based, focuses on the changes in matter and the substantial relationship between human and natural. He has participated in art residencies including Et in Arcadia Ego at the Quadriennale di Roma and Atelier 2015 at the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa. Her work has been exhibited at Museo MAMbo, Bologna; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Archivio Casa Morra, Naples; Villa Della Regina, Turin; Musée des Merveilles de Tende, FR; Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia; Art Rotterdam, NL; Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin; Video Sound Art festival, Milan; Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Stockholm, SV. She is represented by Studio G7 Gallery. -
The Darkest CornersFrom:
06/10/2023 – 00:00
To:04/11/2023
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
The Darkest Corners began by meandering through the maze that Venice can be, focusing on the architecture the lagoon is gifting to the curious eye. These manifolds are merged in a physical exhibition and book. Through drifting, it is also the streets, its spirit and the architecture that are the focus of artworks that consist of sculptures in both exhibition-, as well as public space. The Darkest Corners works with Italian humps called Pissabraga, Pissotte or Gobbe Antibandito. It uses their almost invisible existence in the city space to interpret it anew. -
Episode 12From:
02/09/2023 – 00:00
To:14/10/2023
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
L'EAU L'Eau is omnipresent, or rather, omni-necessary. It is a homogeneous evaporated and dispersed body that passes through us and in which we continue to immerse ourselves with sweat, thirst, blood, rain, snow, clouds. This is a recurring element for everyone and which Romane Bourgeois' images recount by transforming it into a fluid of intimacy between people, objects, presences and memories. Through the flow of the selected images we pass through a liquid that amplifies the reminiscence of encounters and life lived in constant movement. Romane Bourgeois Romane Bourgeois is an Italian-French artist who lives by travelling. She photographs everything she encounters, collects and crosses. She currently lives and works between Bassano del Grappa, Athens and Passenans. She says of her: 'I do not have much to tell you, perhaps more to show you. I don't particularly want to tell you where I come from, what I do and why I do it. You just have to know that what I do, I don't just do it for me. I do it especially for you. I invite you to spend a moment with what I've seen, hoping it won't leave you indifferent. Or maybe it does and that's OK." -
Episode 11From:
29/06/2023 – 00:00
To:31/08/2023
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
Blueprints: a workshop, a collective poem, an exhibition. AARDUORK is happy to host the exhibition BLUEPRINTS, a space to imagine politics, how we are governed, and our participation in representation. Alessio Mazzaro, artist and researcher, has carved out for himself the role of catalyst for critical thinking fuelled by the desire to promote complexity, with its opacity, as a political choice. Passing through the two rooms that make up the exhibition, one cannot help but stop and contemplate the scenic space constructed by installations, words, images, voices and texts that invite us to participate or perhaps simply to relax and listen. We are like on a theatre stage where we become performers and witnesses. We are immersed in an expanded choreography, where elements and bodies are positioned in space to induce a precise dynamic and aesthetic. Unhinging the everyday narrative of the political stage, however, requires us to focus our thoughts on the value we place on political representation, on the possibility of participating in society, on our desire for change. "The exhibition is a series of chickens that for me come home to roost, returning elements that I wanted to reflect on through practice and by sharing them with others. The few drops that come out of a process of distillation and percolation orbit around the question of desires and taking the floor." Finally, BLUEPRINTS is also made up of all the rehearsals, events and actions done and not presented, which as an endless series of exchanges of witnesses have constituted one of the most intense and fruitful discussion processes between artist and AARDUORK, for which we feel we have to thank them for being able to be part of. Alessio Mazzaro Artist, engineer and performer who grew up near the Riviera del Brenta, Alessio Mazzaro (1985) uses his practice as a laboratory for investigating our ability to act on the reality we experience and how we can narrate it together. He composing and experimenting with relationships between visual, sound and textual elements, and proposing listening sessions and setting up spaces for conversations, Mazzaro choreographs forms of hospitality where different experiences and points of view can coexist. Winner of the Italian Council (2021), his recent exhibitions include Urbanismo Imaginário (Brazilian Embassy in Rome, 2023), Campo Aberto (Pivô Pesquisa, São Paulo 2022) and Eruv: quando a rua vira casa! (Casa do Povo, São Paulo, 2022). -
Episode 10From:
19/05/2023 – 00:00
To:16/06/2023
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
ERBARIO 900 Prima ancora di essere una mostra, Erbario 900 è una chiara dichiarazione d'intenti nel ripensare anacronisticamente il secolo XX come un luogo dove convivono ancora erbe che crescono e si intrufolano nel nostro presente come le radici che rigonfiano gli asfalti e le carreggiate delle strade di campagna. La raccolta di queste erbe si intreccia in modo invisibile ma concreto con la biografia di Mario Lupano, storico e critico dell'architettura, che, nato nel Monferrato, ha vissuto tra il Piemonte, Firenze, Reggio Calabria, Bologna fino ad approdare a Venezia. In tutti i suoi spostamenti e le sue ricerche Lupano ha raccolto tracce ed immagini in un corpus che rivela tanto del suo istinto rabdomantico quanto dell'esigenza poetica di rifiutare la nozione per abbracciare una felice narrazione del secolo scorso che destabilizzi l'orientamento. Del resto, la Storia è una forma che non può che essere raccontata, e quindi tradotta, trasformata, liquefatta per annaffiare il nostro tempo. Mario Lupano si definisce come mentore indipendente, nonché bibliofilo, collezionista di immagini, iconofilo e iconauta. Senza ormeggiarsi in sicuri porti semiotici o di teoria delle immagini, ama, come tutti gli artisti, l’ambiguità delle tracce visive e la ricchezza che da essa si genera. Ha dedicato studi soprattutto alla situazione italiana nella prima metà del Novecento, approfondendo le relazioni tra modernismo, architettura, fascismo e dopoguerra del boom economico. Storico e critico dell’architettura contemporanea, è stato professore ordinario all’Università Iuav di Venezia, dove ha curato le attività culturali ed espositive della Biblioteca di Ateneo, ed è stato Direttore della didattica. Nello stesso Ateneo ha insegnato nei corsi di laurea in arti visive, teatro e arti performative, design della moda, continuando la sua pratica di formare persone multi- e trans-disciplinari. Indaga la circolarità tra procedure progettuali, artistiche, curatoriali; e ha contribuito all'invenzione di nuovi percorsi formativi e di ricerca all’Università. Ha curato mostre, intese come discorso critico-spaziale e dispositivo visionario, e ha sviluppato progetti editoriali in cui si indagano le potenzialità del display, del montaggio e del morphing. Ringraziamenti speciali: Marco Bianchini Letevé, Raffaele Geronazzo, Alessandro Gori -
Episode 9From:
18/03/2023 – 00:00
To:29/04/2023
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
Index presents Tommaso Pandolfi's drawings for the first time as a set of complex references and relationships and, through a collecting and sorting process, a range of traces were made observable in their ambiguous presence. The space where we immerse ourselves gives shape to the substance of a practice in constant motion and a restless flow of investigation of marks, forms, colors and gestures. From the continuity of series and explorations, where Pandolfi pursues and accumulates traces and visual harmonies, we enter an exhibition that interrupts the continuity and flow of an incessant daily exercise. The sudden flashes of marks and meaning are collected in a spatial index that outlines, through a geometric pattern, a world of signs from a place where everything is different but everything can be drawn. Tommaso Pandolfi, was born in 1995 in Ancona, grew up in Perugia, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino in New Art Technologies. He currently lives in Venice where he is attending the Master of Visual Arts program at the Iuav University of Venice. He is a visual artist and electronic music composer seeking in both practices how to capture and highlight the tension that originates and runs through them while standing on the borderline between expression and strict formality. In drawing, marked by a research around figurative canons, he elects iteration of techniques and forms as the expressive foundation of his body of works. Free scribbles and geometric constructions are the two poles he works within, making them alternate, combine and permeate. -
ARCHIVE: FIREFrom:
26/11/2022 – 00:00
To:15/01/2023
At:Salizada Zorzi, Castello 4931, Venezia
ARCHIVE: FIRE è una ricerca in corso che inquadra il fuoco come elemento in cui si articolano tutte le vertigini del presente, dalla distruzione alla rigenerazione, dalla creazione di comunità al desiderio di tecnologia. Due sale di ricerca sono dedicate all’eco azione di una forza primitiva e alla restituzione di un immaginario denso. Desideriamo ampliare questo primo nucleo parlandone con voi per alimentarlo, incendiarlo, contemplarlo. -
Episode 8From:
18/06/2022 – 00:00
To:10/07/2022
At:SALIZADA ZORZI 4931, CASTELLO, VENICE, ITALY
wet is the title of the new exhibition by the artistic duo -ness (Rooy Charlie Lana and Giulia Zulian). Between installations and performances, the duo turns their research toward the first visible and invisible traces of sexual desire through the identity Transghost (Transghost Manifesto). wet reasons about the biopolitical and poetic meanings of the secretion and management of bodily fluids, focusing on the initial phase of production of sexual humors. With an adult gaze, we return to the dormitory of adolescence: a place of memories, secrets and ghosts; a place of discovery of the body to desire, sexual pleasure, arousal, and pornography. We return above and below the nets of a single bed that has been (and perhaps forever will be) a refuge of dreams, monsters, vices, porn images, poetry and virtue. In this concealed space of desire, Transghost questions the cultural limits as well as the visual codes that establish the normality or pathology of a body or practice. -ness thus draws attention to how the secretion and production of bodily fluids is not a private affair, but one of public interest as it is regulated by political, cultural, and medical instances for commercial purposes. Saliva, tears, sweat, uterine secretions, and sperm flows (etc..) are instead produced by Transghost as a unit of fluid that measures expressed or unexpressed emotional states in relation to sexuality or its spectacular representation, i.e., pornography. -
Episode 7From:
21/05/2022 – 00:00
To:12/06/2022
At:SALIZADA ZORZI 4931, CASTELLO, VENICE, ITALY
With texts by Ludwig Gosewitz, slides by Hans-Jürgen Oebbeke, a photo by Claude Chiarini (Gideon Bachmann Collection), and other materials whose authors could not be identified. With the title "Portare i Gufi ad Atene", Baldischwyler uses an idiomatic phrase from the German language (“Eulen nach Athen tragen”), analogous to the Italian "Selling Ice Cream to the Eskimos," to introduce an installation, composed of intentional transcription errors and misunderstandings, feeding new ones. The collected equivocal elements are linked together in a fluid and evocative mesh of meaning, becoming constituent elements without being planned or designed: listening to the nostalgic hiss of an old Kodak projector diffused by a small Casio loudspeaker, the visitor wonders what the gondolas photographed by the artist's father in 1977 have to do with Gosewitz's Berlin raids and the image of the last Venetian rat trying to leave Agamben's graffiti. -
Episode 6From:
16/04/2022 – 00:00
To:15/05/2022
At:SALIZADA ZORZI 4931, CASTELLO, VENEZIA, ITALY
ON THE BRINK OF BLINDNESS By PEDRO TORRES On the Brink of Blindness is a white hole that attracts and repels, that expels light and causes retinal persistence. A space without time or a time warped. A fluctuation of matter. An installation that entangles light, sound, space and matter in the visual and corporal perception. -
Episode 5From:
05/03/2022 – 00:00
To:05/04/2022
At:CASTELLO 4931, VENEZIA, ITALY
SOMEWHERE WAS A FOREST UNDER A BLUE SUN... One winter day I was walking through the park. Amongst the misty landscape a thorn bush caught my attention. Its spikes were bright yellow, and they were throbbing according to my confused breath. At a closer look, behind the entangled branches, I glimpsed an undisclosed path. After I followed it, there it was, radiating an unknown intangible tension which drew me to it. I went closer and I held my hand towards it. Immediately, I felt its unstable yet powerful force. The rowdy sound of the forest went silent abruptly. Is this what I was striving for? Sacrificing myself to the darkest burst of desire? All those ancestral images and objects that I have been dreaming, that were haunting me as echoing a 7,000 year old turmoil, became clearer now that I was standing here. In front of the portal, time was passing so slowly. Its unnatural brightness along with the uncanny shadows it was creating, showed me how to finally decipher the sigils of the gate. I looked around, I closed my eyes, and step by step I let my body and mind cross the portal. In the blink of an eye the light, the mist, the park, and myself were all gone. Disappeared. Now, I'm completely lost in the geography of Perverse City. It's 8 am on a beautiful spring day. Shades of blue are caressing the facades of the buildings. Erin and Drew are visiting their family in this desolate land, dragged around by Boredom, their delicate but dangerous bull terrier. They already had breakfast and are heading to the Zone park. As they enter the Zone, Boredom begins to pull, like he never did before. Stop it, says Erin as he tries to calm the dog. But Boredom was unleashed, and ran away. They can't find him anymore. They are worried as they keep yelling their dog's name. Sometimes the Zone looks deeply unwelcoming. They heard lots of dark rumors about this place, and have been warned about the wild areas surrounded by heavy thorn bushes where pail dodgy figures have been sighted. Nobody knows who these figures are, or why they appear and disappear, like flashing lights. They are walking back and forth, trying to follow different paths each time, but mapping the Zone is impossible. They feel like waiting is lasting endlessly, and the feeble sunlight filtered by the dense trees canopy is making it difficult for them to distinguish the passing of time. In front of a giant deadly oak, Drew heard something. It sounded like distant voices coming out of a sink full of water. As he stopped he felt like an energetic flux of desire was asking them to cross the spiky bushes. Drew and Erin hoid hands, take a deep breath, and they start to hesitantly walk towards the thorn bushes barricade. They cross the first row, and then the second, and a third one, until a field of dried burnt yellowish grass opens in front of them. As they walk around, disoriented by this landscape change, they see something in the center of this empty field. They get closer, and start to dig a little bit deeper until a muddy backpack and a pair of pants surface. The pants are covered by spikes looking like stonefish darts while the backpack has unknown objects attached to it. They wonder who they belong to. Drew looks up, 'Hey Erin, look at the thorn bushes! The spikes are turning yellow! -Gabriele Longega Gabriele Longega vive a Venezia ed è tra gli artisti in studio a zolforosso. Si è laureato in Arti visive e Studi curatoriali a NABA (Milano) e nel 2020 è stato parte di School of the Damned (UK). Ha recentemente collaborato con Léann Herlihy per il progetto the middle of nowhere, supportato da Project Arts Centre, Dublino. Precedentemente il suo lavoro è stato presentato a Viafarini (IT), CREATurE Live Art (LT), Celine Gallery (UK), Embassy Gallery (UK), Iperformancespace[ (UK), Dfbr18r (US) e al Centre for Contemporary Arts di Glasgow. -
Episode 4From:
20/11/2021 – 00:00
To:18/12/2021
At:CASTELLO 4931, VENEZIA, ITALY
VORTEX By GIULIO TESTI Whirling is an energetic movement, almost an overwhelming motion, which shakes the matter it passes through. And yet, in Giulio Testi's practice, the vortex leaves no trace. It is said that in the eye of a cyclone there is no wind. -
Episode 3From:
22/06/2021 – 00:00
To:06/07/2021
At:CASTELLO 4931, VENEZIA, ITALY
aarduork presenta la prima personale di Maria Vittoria Cavazzana. Lo spazio di Castello 4931 ospita due serie di lavori appartenenti a un tempo che non è facilmente inscrivibile negli archi temporali di passato, presente o futuro. Il tempo infatti sembra una specie di ectoplasma che non ci spiega nulla dell'origine dei lavori nello spazio, ma che infesta sia le immagini che i materiali diversi di cui sono composti. See you on a Dark Night, Sorella dove sei, "Everything in its right place" sono tre stampe di collage digitali elaborati a partire da frammenti di vita familiare. Le raffigurazioni, che si riescono a malapena ad intravedere sulle stampe, sono fatte a pezzi, quasi scarnificate, ferite. Le immagini di vita familiare e domestica sono trasformate in un drappeggio instabile, stratificate da frammenti di testi e parole che le tagliano e le nascondono tra brandelli di corpi, di sorrisi e candeline di compleanno. Non esiste possibilità di risanare le immagini ed il panorama di tenerezza e dolcezza nostalgica si tramuta in un territorio instabile, infestato da fantasmi di cui non possiamo conoscere l'origine. I pugnali, che compongono la seconda serie di lavori, sono realizzati in cera, fiori e peli, mostrandosi in un aspetto ibrido tra armi bianche e carcasse, ossa, residui organici, frammenti di reperti archeologici la cui origine temporale non è conosciuta. Accanto a questa origine pseudo-archeologica, ci troviamo davanti ad oggetti che presentano quasi un dna modificato, composti di materiali che si ibridano con fiori secchi, capelli e peli, come se si potesse intervenire sulla materia inanimata con le stesse modifiche genetiche del corpo biologico. La cera di cui sono composte le lame, rivela la loro fragilità: nell'atto di ferire le lame si sono spezzate, e ora, nella loro composizione ibrida tra biologico e inanimato, rimangono in una deteriorazione immobile. Alcune delle armi sembrano fatte di viscere o masse muscolari come se fossero ibridate con la stessa carne che potrebbero penetrare e ferire, una mescolanza genetica da contatto. Viene evocato un mondo utopico nuovo e sostenibile, che offre, da un punto di vista fantascientifico (tuttavia possibile) uno sguardo su una civiltà post-umana, ibridata con la natura, in cui gli elementi tecnologici, elettrici, meccanici e industriali vengono sostituiti da strutture organiche. Un futuro sostenibile in cui le biotecnologie sono perfettamente in grado di realizzare organismi capaci di eliminare gli agenti inquinanti, e addirittura di sostituire i tessuti organici partendo da analoghi dell'acido nucleico. Maria Vittoria Cavazzana (1993) BA in Arti Multimediali Arts (2017), IUAV, Venice; MA in Fine Art (2020), Chelsea College of Arts, Londra. Maria Vittoria Cavazzana pratica processi trasformativi della materia e della mente attraversando il passato personale e collettivo. La ricerca, formale e teorica, è incentrata sul senso di identità e sulla memoria (intesa come esperienza culturale, religiosa, sociale), allenando alla flessibilità i limiti che separano le singolarità dall'Altro. Eliminate le divisioni tipicamente binarie e antitetiche, la sua pratica manipola oggetti del passato originando forme evanescenti e mutabili di materiali organici e di recupero, collage digitali, sculture in cera e installazioni di carta velina. La sua ricerca più recente si è concentrata sull'ideazione di mondi alternativi, appartenenti ad altre dimensioni o futuri, in cui è possibile immaginare la coesistenza di tutte le specie, siano esse autoctone o aliene. Mondi in cui oggetti d'uso appaiono come resti, carcasse a metà via tra l'organico e l'artificiale. -
Episode 1Date:
01/09/2020 – 00:00
At:Online
aarduork begins by showing you some images snatched from Alessio Mazzaro's hard drives. The operation is the result of a propitious common understanding. We were looking for a collaboration, we wanted to edit images and work only through images and here Alessio had an old note: to entrust someone with his hard disks. So went down through all those folders that everybody keep full of raw material, almost symbolic material, connections and memories. For those who haven’t met Alessio, he could be addressed as multiform and multi energetic. He is an experiential artist, and to get to know him is also to meet his practice. His ability to transform the environment around him into a place attentive to all the dynamics of sociality emerges strongly from all his practice, even where solitary experience is the key. His narratives always lead us into an heteropia where everyone has the right to equality with the others: he analyzes the present to tell a possible collective future. The practice is acted. The forms of expression are multiple. One of us knows his mutations very well, the other has never seen him perform live and has never had the opportunity to witness how he changes skin and body in his exploration of movement. Perhaps this coincides a bit with what you can feel when you see his images for the first time: the images reveal him as an explosive body, where instead, at least when we meet him at the bar he’s calm, methodical and structured. We always try to corrupt him, to be able to witness some of his explosions. Our current strategy is to bribe him at night, with beers and barbecue by the sea. (image: file://xif1u8ibxp7x5qit) -
Episode 2Date:
28/07/2020 – 00:00
At:By the sea
Aarduork opens at night. At night we think, at night we act. Once in the dark, we have to wait. On Tuesday 28 July 2020, we spent a night by the sea with Alessio. He was looking for suggestions, a starting point. We didn't know what to expect, so we started cycling with him towards the beach. It was a special moment for all of us, coming from months spent in solitude, closed in our rooms and connected only by a webcam. We felt a human need for interaction, a moment to be together and share even the simplest experience. A bonfire is always one of the greatest places for sharing a strong bond. The fire marks a meeting point, a place for being together, whatever activity is done around it. Perhaps unconsciously, we felt the need to start from this. A way to find ourselves and start a journey. We ignited one. It all started when Alessio, in the dark of the night, lit up: what if we organized a night session of hide-and-seek? We joked a little about it, but then, with time, we became aware of what was emerging and what it could mean for us, because what has been put in place is a real research in the dark in uncertain times. But was it just research? And what was being looked for? These questions remain unanswered and perhaps each of us has a different answer, but we all had a common playing field: the darkness. Darkness is not something definite, it affects everything and sooner or later it affects each one of us, you find yourself immersed in it and the only way you can get out of it is to look for it, by carrying out an action that makes you move around the edges of the darkness. However, the more we search and the more we move, the more we become aware that the darkness is moving with us: the unexplored is not a defined zone, it walks besides us. What we have just known, a moment later becomes unknown again, ready to be explored all over again. It’s a journey with no end, except the one dictated by the limits of our game. In the dark we don’t feel safe, even though it creates greater complicity and encourages clandestine encounters. We are both afraid of and protected by darkness. What happens in the dark has always an odd feeling because it is there that illicit acts can take place safely. Our clandestine community continues the exploration and research, inside a game where an individual does not know anything, but instead the darkness is known by everybody. In this way more portions of the darkness are known, which in its vastness will seem smaller. Once in the dark, we have to wait. We have crossed the darkness as a physical place, a space in which we can enter and begin to seek: it is not only an inner quest, it is also a physical quest, a quest that exposes us to the fragility of our bodies.