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The Art Explora Festival is an itinerant festival that travels the seas and oceans of the world thanks to its museum boat to offer innovative artistic and cultural experiences accessible free of charge. From spring 2024 to autumn 2026, the festival will travel for its first tour of 15 countries in the Mediterranean. On the occasion of the 60th International Art Biennial, the museum ship will drop anchor in Venice from 17 to 22 April, at Riva Sette Martiri, a stone's throw from the Giardini. Adorned with its large quay sails designed by Laure Prouvost, the museum boat resonates with "Foreigners Everywhere", the theme of this 60th Biennial, as well as with the universal message that the foundation carries through its cultural odyssey in the Mediterranean: art goes beyond borders.
Venice
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The museum boat
Discover the works of Laure Prouvost, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Akram Zaatari, the sound experience created by IRCAM, films by artists from 15 of the countries on the Mediterranean Festival tour, and a live programme (talks, concerts, performances...)
Films on Loop Programme
Underwater Painting by Yannis Maniatakos, 2012 Fragments by Ghassen Chraifa, 2020, No More Front Tears, by Laure Prouvost, 2022
Concert by Gulay Hacer Toruk and Spyridon Halaris
"Sacred and unholy songs, from the East to the West, from Turkey to Greece" Concert by Gulay Hacer Toruk and Spyridon Halaris, programmed by Alain Weber (head of world music at the Philharmonie de Paris).
Voile, You Would Sea Where To Go by Laure Prouvost
Discover Laure Prouvost's new commission, IDEALLY YOU WOULD SEA WHERE TO GO - HERE WE DREAM OF NO MORE FRONT TEARS. These phrases written on the sails of the museum boat, produced in a specialized workshop in Brittany, are based on a hybrid play on words between English and French.
Love Difference - Mar Mediterraneo by Michelangelo Pistoletto
Discover the emblematic work Love Difference - Mar Mediterraneo by international artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, taking the form of a table of mirrors assembled according to the contours of the Mediterranean Sea, presented more than twenty years after its first iteration at the Venice Biennale (2003).
Mass Struggle by Akram Zaatari
Discover Mass Struggle by artist Akram Zaatari, created especially for the Art Explora Festival. Invited by Amanda Abi Khalil and Danielle Makhoul - curators associated with the tour - the artist presents a work that takes the form of the Mediterranean Sea.
Mediterranean Carte Blanche
On the upper deck of the boat, every day between 5pm and 7pm, the festival’s curators and a collaboration with the national pavilions of the Biennale offer concerts, performances, screenings, talks, panels... on a ‘carte blanche’ principle, echoing their unique way of understanding the major themes of the Festival throughout its itinerancy, embodying the purpose of the project through cultural cooperation on a regional scale.
Practical information
Every day from April 17 to 22, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Riva dei Sette Martiri 13, Venice
