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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
Workshop - Postcard
Un atelier de création de cartes postales autour de la mer pour les familles, inspiré des œuvres du Musée d'art moderne André Malraux - MuMa. À partir de chutes de voiles, les participants créent leurs propres petits bateaux sur fond de carte postale bleue.
Guided Tour of the Artworks from “Un Été Au Havre” along the water
A guided tour of the artworks of Un Été Au Havre for all publics. Let yourself be guided along the quays, discovering artworks from Un Été Au Havre inspired by Le Havre’s landscape and its maritime identity.
Lecture - From the Shores of Australia to the Collections in Le Havre: The Transformation of Ghost Nets
Led by anthropologist Géraldine Le Roux, this talk traces the metamorphosis of these "ghost nets": from lethal waste to memorial sculpture, woven with marine myths and the sacred bond that ties coastal peoples to the living world. Echoing the Muséum du Havre, home to Europe's first public collection of its kind, it reveals how contemporary Australian art transforms a global pollution into an ecological plea.
Performance - Bouffées, Leïla Ka
Five women stand motionless, faces streaked with tears. What grief do they carry — and does it truly belong to them? With Bouffées, Leïla Ka imagines how to heal the "incurable": not to erase it, but to transform it into collective strength and renewal. Created in 2022 for the Danse Élargie competition at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris — where it won 1st prize — this striking 15-minute piece has since toured internationally, entered the repertoire of the Wiesbaden Ballet in Germany, and amassed over 15 million views on social media.
DJ Set - Fateleku ki ma doon / Remembering Who I Am, Ibaaku
The proposed DJ set is not conceived merely as musical entertainment, but as a sonic extension of the event - a performance piece that engages in a dialogue with the featured artworks and artists, as well as the space hosting them.
Performance - Level Up (Excerpt from DUB), Amala Dianor
“Level Up” is an excerpt from DUB, which Amala Dianor sees as an open, joyful, and utopian space for exploration, where diversity is a source of richness and people are beings seeking to share.
Past events
Films on Loop Programme
The lifting by Louisa Babari, 2009 Bird watching by Stelios Kallinikou, 2023 Video Study (I WILL FOLLOW THE SHIP) Matthew Attard
Breathings of the moon traveling performance by Leonor Serrano Rivas and Diego Delas
Breathings of the moon', touring performance by Leonor Serrano Rivas and Diego Delas (artists), commissioned by TBA21-Academy.
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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