SubTiziano
Università Ca' Foscari, Dipartimento di Americanistica, Ibericanistica e Slavistica, Ca' Bernardo, Dorsoduro 3199
from June 1 to October 22
In the deep we lose natural light, day versus night, fresh air in the lungs and the sounds of the world distinct from the monotonous sound of radio waves. Surfacing provides an opportunity to restore our phenomenal links with the world. Landscape kinetic installation of a peaceful submarine, Alexander Ponomarev's SubTiziano has surfaced in the Grand Canal. The event is curated by Victoria Ionina-Golembiovskaya.
Connected event:
Inside of SubTiziano, exhibitions of drawings, photography and objects
from June 3 to August 7 and from August 17 to August 28
Organization: Stella Art Foundation, RNA Foundation
www.safmuseum.org
www.rnafoundation.com
www.subtiziano.com
Temple of Sublime Beauty
Sala San Tomaso, Castello (Campo San Giovanni e Paolo)
from June 7 to August 23
A pantheon of iconic pop-culture superheroes transformed into tantric Buddhas and deities will temporarily inhabit the Sala San Tomaso in Campo San Giovanni e Paolo. Taiwanese artist Yang Mao-lin will transform their world of beauty and justice into an exploration of the proliferation of religious elements in contemporary risk society.
Organization: MoCA Taipei - Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
That Obscure Object of Art
Ca' Rezzonico, Dorsoduro 3136 (Fondamenta Rezzonico)
from June 4 to October 5
Recent contemporary Russian art, a product of the cultural underground, has been exhibited in an oversimplified way: during the Soviet period, as an impulse towards creative freedom; after the perestroika, as a symbol of democratization. This project offers an alternative: it shows Russian art of the 1970s-2000s as an "obscure object" with a complex inner structure, as a practice of producing a never-ending story.
Organization: Stella Art Foundation
The DANCE of the BEES
Campo Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro
from June 4 to July 25
Life is pure sensorial perception, aesthetics, skene bios: moving signs that create new life. For Analogical Inference with the bees' world the multi-media work by Antonio Infantino & Santina Nocerino is articulated in three parts interconnected through the life cycle: A) The Beehive; B) The Swarming; C) The New Home
The Life Cycle / Living Pictures, performance on June 4-5-6
Organization: Fondazione FABBRICAEUROPA per le Arti Contemporanee, Associazione Culturale Polyritmia
www.fabbricaeuropa.net
The Fear Society. Pabellón de la Urgencia. A project from the region of Murcia
Arsenale Novissimo, Tese di San Cristoforo, Tesa 92
from June 4 to October 4
Our society could be defined as a “Fear Society“. The fundamental idea of this project is to show an art that could mirror the frightening times we are living in. Artists belonging to different generations take part in this exhibition. They share the wish to show what the Fear Society means.
Organization: Región Autonómica de Murcia, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, Murcia Cultural
www.murciacultural.org/mcultural
Unconditional Love
Arsenale Novissimo, Tese di San Cristoforo, Tesa 89
from June 4 to November 5
Unconditional Love will feature “The Feast of Trimalchio”, the new video of AES+F, as well as works by Marina Abramovic, Samuel Adams, Artists Anonymous, Angelo Bucarelli, Aristrakh Chernyshov, Wim Delvoye, Dasha Fursey, Miltos Manetas, Almagul Menlibayeva, Angelo Musco, Youssef Nabil, Velena Nikova, Jaume Plensa, Olympia Scarry, Olga Soldatova & Vadim Zakharov.
Organization: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, National Centre for Contemporary Arts
Venezia, Catalunya. The Unavowable Community
Magazzino del Sale n. 3, Zattere - Dorsoduro
from June 7 to November 22
Inspired by the book of the same name by Maurice Blanchot, La comunidad inconfesable (The Unavowable Community) is a project that includes Archivo F.X./Pedro G. Romero, Archivo Postcapital/Daniel G. Andújar and Sitesize. It explores the forms of social intervention adopted by certain contemporary artistic practices that are performed under the label of communitarian.
Organization: Institut Ramon Llull
VENEZIA SALVA. OMAGGIO A SIMONE WEIL
Magazzino del Sale n. 4, Zattere - Dorsoduro
from June 4 to July 31
The Italian women artists C. Accardi, I. Barbarigo, G. Benedini, M. Bentivoglio, V. Berardinone, M. Bernardone, I. Blank, R. Boero, M. Bonvicini, S. Campesan, L. Catania, A. Del Ponte, C. Diamantini, L. Favaretto, G. Fioroni, P. Gandolfi , M. Lai, L. Marcucci, E. Montessori, L. Moro, L. Puglioli, C. Rama, C. Ricciardi, S. Rossi, M. Sassi, F. Squatriti, and A.Torelli exhibit works inspired by Venezia salva.
Organization: Associazione Culturale Cicero Eventi, Associazione Culturale Eidos
Venice
San Servolo Island
from June 3 to July 2
Nine prominent Chinese contemporary artists - Zhang Xiaogang, Zhou Chunya, He Duoling, Wang Guangyi, Fang Lijun, Yue Minjun, Zhang Peili, Wu Shanzhuan and Ye Fang - participate in the exhibition. As a tribute to Marco Polo, the participating artists combine elements from the East and West in their interpretations of Italian art, European culture and western civilization. Their work reflects what makes modern China and the modern Oriental.
Organization: VIU (Venice International University), Institutions of Chinart, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai