Venice will have a district entirely dedicated to art: the Giudecca Art District, which opens in a few days

The 2019 edition of the Venice Biennale will bring a major novelty to the city: the opening of a permanent art district, the first in the lagoon capital. This is Giudecca Art District, a space that will be inaugurated right on the occasion of edition number 58 of the Biennale and will include eleven galleries (including GAD Project Rooms 1 and 2, Oficine 800, Spazio Raunich, Galleria Sant’Eufemia) and an exhibition space, the Giudecca Art District Gallery. There will be twenty temporary exhibitions bringing sixty artists from thirty countries around the world to the district.

Giudecca Art District was founded by Pier Paolo Scelsi and Valentina Gioia Levy, who planned to locate the centerpiece of the new art district in the former Giudecca shipyard, where artists’ and artisans’ studios are still in operation.In fact, the new space will collaborate with galleries and spaces that already find a home on the island of Giudecca, and partnerships and collaborations are already in place, while new projects will be announced soon. Giudecca has always had an artistic vocation, and in recent years it has been one of the nerve centers of contemporary art in Venice as a venue for exhibitions and projects not only as part of the Biennale (notably, Marina Abramović ’s first performance in 1976, an exhibition of hers at Zuecca Project Space in 2017, and Ai Weiwei ’s Disposition exhibition that was organized during the 2013 Biennale) .

The new art district begins its activities with the installation Body as home by Aleksandra Karpowicz and theOctober! Collective, which will be one of the main projects of the new art district. Curated by Miguel Mallol, Body as Home is a triptych video installation presented on three screens, narrating a journey of discovery, search for identity, migration, and exploration of the idea of home. Filmed in four cities (Cape Town, London, New York, Warsaw), Body as Home presents three protagonists for each: a resident, a visitor, and the filmmaker Karpowicz, in an investigation of the concept of “home,” understood as geographic location, a person’s role within the social fabric, and each person’s persnal identity. The video analyzes the overlap between physical indivduality and the feeling of being “at home.” Body as Home examines the relationship between physicality, sexuality, and identity in a collective invitation to feel “at home” in one’s body.

Another project that will open with the launch of Giudecca Art District will be Take Care of Your Garden, a series of curatorial projects, performances, talks, video projections and installations, in collaboration with spaces and partners that are part of the GAD network. In addition to Body as Home, also part of the program will be Tu vs Everybody, a project featuring interventions by Italian artists curated by the VILLAM network; Time Machine, an installation by Norwegian artist Pia MYrvoLD; and We are Humanity by Americans Lilli Muller and Randi Matushevitz; There Are No Titans by Syrian Waseem Marzouki and Americans Gip Depio and Tanner Goldbeck; Biomatter Unfixed presented by Unbore, a nonprofit organization that examines the intersection of art, science, and technology; Asia Meets Europe, a group exhibition organized by the Kunsthalle Hannover and the Poznan Biennial. Other independent projects include Te Veo, Me Veo at the Zitelle Church, by Dominican artist Lidia Léon; Force Field at Oficine 800, a group exhibition of emerging Polish artists; the exhibitions Recursions - Mutations and After J.M.W. Turner 1834 - 2019, organized by Verona-based Studio la Città Gallery. All information can be found on the Giudecca Art District website.

Venice will have a district entirely dedicated to art: the Giudecca Art District, which opens in a few days

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