Looking at our times through the prism of the moving image.
















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Introducing curator Daphne Dragona, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Daphne Dragona (@daphne_dragona) will join the symposium with a lecture titled “Blinded by It All: On Art, Agency, and Critical Distance”
Daphne Dragona is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, as well as an independent curator and writer. Her recent work examines the ambiguous role of technology in the climate crisis, taking into consideration planetary infrastructures, emerging aesthetics, and ecological practices. Her exhibitions and projects have been hosted by institutions such as Onassis Stegi, LABoral, Aksioma, EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens), and Akademie Schloss Solitude. She previously was a curator for the transmediale festival (Berlin, 2015–2019) and the European Media Art Festival (EMAF, Osnabrück, 2021–2023). Her writings have appeared in publications including Springerin, Sternberg Press, Diaphanes, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. She has been a fellow at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence
26-27 October 2026
09:30 - 18:30
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Free entry, all welcome
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia
Coordinators:
@chiara_nicolini__
Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners:
@abavenezia
Department of the Arts, @unibo
@dfbc.cafoscari
@curatorial.school
@iuav_venezia
Visual identity by @lorenzomasonstudio
Photo by Pinelopi Gerasimou
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Introducing scholar Xenia Manuela Chiaramonte, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Xenia Manuela Chiaramonte (@chloesflowersinthenight) will join the symposium with a lecture titled “Legal Imagination in a Time of Disasters”
Xenia Manuela Chiaramonte is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches Theory and Critique of Law and Law and Society. She is the author of “Governare il conflitto. La criminalizzazione del movimento No Tav” (Meltemi, Milan, 2019) and co-editor of the Italian critical criminology blog Studi sulla Questione Criminale, as well as a member of the journal’s editorial board. Since 2015, she has been teaching in the Master’s programme in Critical Criminology and Social Security at the Universities of Bologna and Padua. She also teaches the module “Law and Environment” in the Ecosocialism Advanced Course at the University of Milano-Bicocca, as well as, together with Federica Buongiorno, “Theories and Critical Gender Studies” at the University of Florence
26-27 October 2026
09:30 - 18:30
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Free entry, all welcome
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia
Coordinators:
@chiara_nicolini__
Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners:
@abavenezia
Department of the Arts, @unibo
@dfbc.cafoscari
@curatorial.school
@iuav_venezia
Visual identity by @lorenzomasonstudio
Photo by Claudia Peppel
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Introducing curator Enrico Camporesi, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Enrico Camporesi (@enrico_camporesi) will join Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti in a conversation discussing the film-makers’ video installation “24 Landscapes + A Vision” (2026) at CANICULA through the lens of the history of cinema
Enrico Camporesi is Head of Research and Documentation at the Film Collection of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris where, since 2018, he has curated and organized numerous screening programs and conferences. He is the author of a book on the restoration of artists’ films, “Futurs de l’obsolescence” (Éditions Mimésis, 2018). In 2025, together with Catherine de Smet and Philippe Millot, he published “Read Frame Type Film” (MUBI Editions), a volume exploring the presence of text on screen
26-27 October 2026
09:30 - 18:30
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Free entry, all welcome
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia
Coordinators:
@chiara_nicolini__
Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners:
@abavenezia
Department of the Arts, @unibo
@dfbc.cafoscari
@curatorial.school
@iuav_venezia
Visual identity by @lorenzomasonstudio
Introducing film-makers Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti will join Enrico Camporesi (@enrico_camporesi) in a conversation discussing the film-makers’ video installation “24 Landscapes + A Vision” (2026) at CANICULA through the lens of the history of cinema
Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti make use of film archive material, selected from within their wide-ranging documentary practice. In “24 Landscapes + A Vision” (2026), these fragments are recomposed into a symphonic score on the dimension of human existence as a cycle of destruction and renewal. The three-channel installation is a non-linear, encyclopaedic reflection on the interweav
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Introducing writer and curator Daniel Blanga Gubbay, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Daniel Blanga Gubbay (@blangagubbay) will join artist P. Staff (@p___staff) in a conversation discussing the artist’s video installation “Terminal Lucidity” (2026) at CANICULA through the idea of an inner cinema
Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a performing arts curator and writer. Between 2018-26, he was part of the artistic direction of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. He has worked as an educator and curator of public programmes, including at the 36th São Paulo Biennial (2025), Ashkal Alwan (Yogurt and Other Spaces of Labour, 2021, in collaboration with Zeynep Öz), and Manifesta Palermo (2018). He recently curated the exhibition Etel Adnan, Giorgio Morandi at MAMbo, Bologna. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and teaches at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. A founding member of Celador, a space for experimenting with words in Brussels, he writes between theory and fiction, exploring performance, language, and embodied forms of thought. Recent publications include Movement Research Performance Journal, Mousse Magazine, and MIZNA, alongside commissioned texts on the work of Tarek Atoui, Pélagie Gbaguidi, and Saodat Ismailova. His forthcoming book, “Notes on Spitting,” will be published in 2026
26-27 October 2026
09:30 - 18:30
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Free entry, all welcome
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia
Coordinators:
@chiara_nicolini__
Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners:
@abavenezia
Department of the Arts, @unibo
@dfbc.cafoscari
@curatorial.school
@iuav_venezia
Visual identity by @lorenzomasonstudio
Photo by Tom Selmon
Introducing artist P. Staff, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
P. Staff (@p___staff) will join Daniel Blanga Gubbay (@blangagubbay) in a conversation discussing the artist’s video installation “Terminal Lucidity” (2026) at C
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Introducing literary theorist Damir Arsenijević, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Damir Arsenijević will join Lawrence Abu Hamdan (@lawrenceabuhamdan) in a conversation discussing the artist’s video installation “450XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound” (2026) at CANICULA through the lens of sonic commons
Damir Arsenijević is a literary theorist who works psychoanalytically to build public settings for emancipatory witnessing after war and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He critiques the antisocial peace: a peace that ends the war only to govern by treating people and environments as waste. Through Zemlja-Voda-Zrak (Earth–Water–Air), the platform he founded, he defends the social against the peace that wastes it
26-27 October 2026
09:30 - 18:30
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Free entry, all welcome
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia
Coordinators:
@chiara_nicolini__
Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners:
@abavenezia
Department of the Arts, @unibo
@dfbc.cafoscari
@curatorial.school
@iuav_venezia
Visual identity by @lorenzomasonstudio
Photo by Davor Matošević
Introducing artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Lawrence Abu Hamdan (@lawrenceabuhamdan) will join Damir Arsenijević in a conversation discussing the artist’s video installation “450XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound” (2026) at CANICULA through the lens of the sonic commons
Through a choral approach of individual testimonies and reconstructions of the events that took place during a peaceful vigil in Belgrade on 15 March 2025, “450XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound” contemplates the political potential of silence and the use of sonic weapons designed to disperse forms of collective, non-violent resistance
Abu Hamdan is a Lebanese-British independent investigator or “Private Ear,” with a PhD from Goldsmiths - University of London on the role of sound in legal inv
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Karimah Ashadu’s solo exhibition “Tendered” is now open at The Renaissance Society in Chicago until November 1, 2026.
“Tendered” is the second project launched under UNISON, a biennial initiative promoted by Fondazione In Between Art Film to commission and produce moving image-based exhibitions in partnership with international public institutions
Curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi with Myriam Ben Salah and Karsten Lund for its iteration at the Renaissance Society, the exhibition marks the US debut of the video installation “MUSCLE” (2025) as well as a series of new sculptures that draw directly from the film’s environments
“MUSCLE” is an intimate portrait of body builders in the heart of Lagos’ slums striving to attain a hyper-masculine ideal, continuing the artist’s research into issues of socio-economic independence and patriarchy within the context of West African culture and society. “MUSCLE” is commissioned and produced by @camdenartcentre (where it was first presented in 2025), Fondazione In Between Art Film, and @rensoc
“Tendered,” the first reference monograph dedicated to the practice of Karimah Ashadu, is out now via @moussemagazine
“Karimah Ashadu: Tendered” is supported by Sadie Coles HQ, London
Images credit: “Karimah Ashadu: Tendered,” installation view, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2026. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman for Bob
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Sneak peak from the upcoming video documentation of CANICULA, where 2050+ architects Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli e Francesca Lantieri expand upon the concept of the exhibition’s scenography
Developed in close relation with the content of the works, as well as with the architecture and history of the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, the exhibition design becomes an additional perceptive and narrative element in the overall experience of the exhibition, starting from the use of materials that evoke and make manifest the erosive action of muggy weather and sunlight. The exhibition route comprises the environments that house the works, as well as rooms and spaces that appear isolated and protected, as if in an effort to stem the destructive potential of damaging external agents. And it is the staging of a hypothetical dialogue with a threatening outside world that guides the use of light throughout the exhibition – a light that hints, at different levels of intensity, at an intolerable climate bearing down on the space of the exhibition
CANICULA is open until November 22 at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice and features 8 new site-specific video installations commissioned from Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Janis Rafa, P. Staff, Wang Tuo, Yuyan Wang, and Maya Watanabe
Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi
Scenography by @2050.plus
Video credits:
Directed and edited by @daviderapp
Filmed by @_giorgiodemarco_
Editorial Supervision and Project Coordination by @anninacastelli
Graphic Design by @lorenzomasonstudio
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Sneak peak from the upcoming video documentation of CANICULA, where artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk speculate on fiction as a potential site for dialogue between victims and oppressors
In a sequence of five rooms within what was the former care home – prior to its closure in the early 2000s – Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk site a multichannel video installation titled Wishful Thinking (2026). The work consists in a series of speculative testimonies in which elderly Russian soldiers, close to death, recall their involvement in the war against Ukraine. Projecting their stories into the future and into the final moment of their individual existence, the work intertwines the banality of violence with regret or its absence, and collective history with individual memory
CANICULA is open until November 22 at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice and features 8 new site-specific video installations commissioned from Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Janis Rafa, P. Staff, Wang Tuo, Yuyan Wang, and Maya Watanabe
Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi
Scenography by @2050.plus
Video credits:
Directed and edited by @daviderapp
Filmed by @_giorgiodemarco_
Editorial Supervision and Project Coordination by @anninacastelli
Graphic Design by @lorenzomasonstudio