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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
Guided tour of the exhibition Song of Water onboard the museum boat
A guided tour of the “Chant de l’eau” exhibition, suitable for all ages. An exploration of the mysteries of the marine world through a selection of contemporary artworks, historical artifacts, and archival documents. Specially adapted tours are also available for people with visual or hearing impairments.
Workshop - Pop-up Ocean
A creative art workshop exploring the sea and the oceans, for families with children aged 6 and over. Dive into a creative workshop where children will create joyful, colourful pop-ups on the theme of the sea and the oceans. By cutting, folding and assembling paper, they will bring to life a marine world full of surprises and imagination. Free drop-in access, subject to availability.
Workshop - Making the Invisible Marine World Visible, Émilie Gaïd
A creative workshop exploring microscopic marine worlds, for families and children aged 10 and over. With artist Émilie Gaïd, set off to discover the forms and landscapes invisible to the naked eye, where art and science meet.
Storytelling - A Journey into *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea*
A storytelling session exploring the oceans and the marine depths, for families and children aged 6 and over.
Workshop - Making the Invisible Marine World Visible, Émilie Gaïd
A creative workshop exploring microscopic marine worlds, for families and children aged 10 and over. With artist Émilie Gaïd, set off to discover the forms and landscapes invisible to the naked eye, where art and science meet.
Workshop - Led by Aquacaux
A fun and educational activity by Aquacaux focused on the ocean and its environmental challenges, designed for families and children.
Past events
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. Mass Struggle highlights the region's exhaustion in the face of constant human and commercial flows.
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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