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The Art Explora Festival is a traveling festival that sails the world's seas and oceans aboard its museum ship, offering innovative and free artistic and cultural experiences. From spring 2024 to autumn 2026, the festival will embark on its first tour, visiting 15 countries in the Mediterranean. To coincide with the 60th International Art Biennale, the museum ship will be anchored in Venice from April 17 to 22, at Riva Sette Martiri, just steps from the Giardiniera. Adorned with its large dock sails designed by Laure Prouvost, the museum ship resonates with "Foreigners Everywhere," the theme of this 60th Biennale, as well as with the universal message that the foundation conveys through its cultural odyssey in the Mediterranean: art transcends borders.
Venice
What's On: Venice
Performance - °Up, Le Phare National Choreographic Center of Le Havre, Normandy
Fouad Boussouf's works sit at the meeting point of hip-hop, contemporary, and traditional practices. A teacher as much as a choreographer, he gives transmission a fundamental place. Each piece is conceived together with its accompanying set of practical workshops open to all audiences. These allow the works to be experienced differently, extending the spectator's experience and enriching it. °Up is no exception and can be adapted in many forms.
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DJ set - MAGMAXPLORA, MAGMA collective
Invited by the Art Explora Foundation, the MAGMA collective unveils magmaXplora, an immersive performance where DJ sets and VJing intertwine in a journey through the marine imagination. As the sounds and moving visuals unfold, the audience drifts into the ocean’s depths—among the abyss and bioluminescence, underwater eruptions and pillow lavas—until the boundaries between the living, the mineral, and the imaginary dissolve.
Creative Workshop: "A Summer in Le Havre" – Ice Reflections
A creative workshop based on a work from *Un Été Au Havre*, open to all ages. Using colored paper, create your own polar landscape inspired by a work from the 2026 season of *Un Été Au Havre*, *Icebergs*.
Workshop - Tattoos with Louise Ganot
A tattoo workshop using posca markers, exploring the themes of the sea and the ocean, led by artist Louise Ganot, for children and families.
Workshop - Mural on the theme of the sea and the oceans, with Louise Ganot
A paper mural workshop about the sea and the ocean, led by artist Louise Ganot. Using coloured paper, felt-tip pens and a little imagination, come and complete a beautiful paper mural!
Workshop - *Des Gens Qui Dansent*, *Plastic Affair* by Charlène Le Prêtre
A dance workshop exploring plastic and its impact on living beings, for all publics Inspired by images of marine animals trapped in plastic waste, this workshop was born from underwater observations in the Mediterranean and Red Sea, where plastic proliferates even in protected areas. In duet with a light plastic sheet, participants are invited to reflect on our habits and the way we inhabit our environment.
Past events
Films on Loop Programme
What things may come by Marianne Fahmy, 2019 Di queste Luci si Servira La Notte by Adrian Paci, 2017
Carte Blanche Méditerranéen
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
Opening hours
Every day from April 17th to 22nd, from 10am to 7pm
Address
Riva dei Sette Martiri 13, Venice
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