The city's first permanent art district opens in Venice, the Giudecca Art District

Venice will see the birth of the city’s first permanent art district on the island of Giudecca: the Giudecca Art District will be officially opened on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale and will consist of eleven galleries and a new exhibition space, the Giudecca Art District Gallery.

Venice’s only year-round art district will include twenty temporary exhibitions showcasing the works of more than sixty artists from over thirty countries. Also planned are ten major collaborations with galleries and art spaces scattered throughout the island of Giudecca, with partners such as the Zitelle Church, Sant’Eufemia Gallery, Oficine 800, Sant’Eufemia Church, and Spazio Raunich. Founders and artistic directors of the Giudecca Art District Venetian are Venetian Pier Paolo Scelsi and curator Valentina Gioia Levy.

The installation Body as Home, created by artist Aleksandra Karpowicz, and theOctober! Collective, one of the main projects of the new art district, will be on the program to launch the Giudecca Art District internationally. Curated by Miguel Mallol, Body as Home will be a triptych video installation presented on three screens, chronicling a journey of discovery, search for identity, migration, and exploration of the idea of home. Set in four cities (Cape Town, London, New York, Warsaw), Body as Home will present 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 personal identity. The video will analyze the overlap between physical individuality and the feeling of being “at home.” Body as Home will analyze the relationship between physicality, sexuality and identity in a collective invitation to feel “at home” in one’s body.

The October! Collective instead takes its name from the women’s march on Versailles in October 1789, a significant episode in the history of the French Revolution in which seven thousand women demonstrated against theancien régime. TheOctober! Collective was founded by artists Aleksandra Karpowicz (POL), Fayann Smith (UK) and Isabella Steinsdotter (NOR), and the goal of the project is to create through art a platform that reinforces the positive influence women can have on each other and the world in order to change the cultural paradigms of the times in which we live.

It will also officially open Take Care of Your Garden, a rich series of curatorial projects, performances, talks, video projections and installations, in collaboration with the spaces and partners that are part of the GAD network. In addition to Body as Home, Tu vs Everybody, a project that will feature interventions by Italian artists curated by the VILLAM network; Time Machine, an installation by artist Pia MYrvoLD (NOR); We are Humanity by Lilli Muller (USA) and Randi Matushevitz (USA) will be part of the program; There Are No Titans by artists Waseem Marzouki (SIR), Gip Depio (USA) and Tanner Goldbeck (USA); as well as Biomatter Unfixed, presented by Unbore, a nonprofit organization that will examine the intersection of art, science, and technology; Asia Meets Europe, a group exhibition organized by Kunsthalle Hannover (GER) and Poznan Biennal (POL).

Other independent projects include Te Veo, Me Veo at the Zitelle Church, by artist Lidia Lèon (DOM); 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.

The city's first permanent art district opens in Venice, the Giudecca Art District

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