Looking at our times through the prism of the moving image.
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Introducing theorist Doreen Mende, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Doreen Mende (@ree.mende) will join the symposium with a lecture titled “Measuring Distance. Scaling Intensity. Metabolic Realism”
Doreen Mende is co-founder of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. Her curatorial work engages the geopolitics of exhibiting, archival metabolism, and modernities of internationalism through visual cultures. Until 2025, she was Professor at HEAD Genève, with continuing research affiliations in Switzerland, alongside recent engagements in Ghana, Sweden, and Singapore. During her tenure as Director of Research at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, with a focus on the provenance of museum objects as witnesses, she initiated the multi-year consortium min(d)ing: the relational capital, launching in November 2026. Recent exhibitions are “Candida Höfer: Contexts” (2024) at the Kupferstich- Kabinett Dresden, a.o. and “The Missed Seminar” (2022/23) with Steve McQueen at the Albertinum and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Publications include the series “Entangled Internationalisms” (with vinit agarwal, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, a.o., 2024), “Stannaki Forum” (2024), and “Navigation Beyond Vision” (with Tom Holert, 2022). Mende holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London.
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 Armin Linke
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Introducing curator Alvin Li, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Alvin Li (@alvin.jiahuan.li) will join artist Wang Tuo (@buddhathugtuo) in a conversation discussing the artist’s video installation “The Experimental Paradigm of Ownership and Autonomy” (2026) at CANICULA through the lens of performance
Alvin Li is a curator and writer based in London, where he is Curator, International Art, supported by Asymmetry, at Tate Modern. He previously worked as an Adjunct Curator at Tate Modern, a contributing editor to frieze magazine and an artistic advisor to the 59th Venice Biennale. He has staged exhibitions in institutions in the UK and across Asia, including Tate Modern, London; Para Site, Hong Kong, UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing; and chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, among others. He recently curated “Tracey Emin: A Second Life” (2026) and Turbine Hall commission, “Mire Lee: Open Wound” (2024), both at Tate Modern. His writing on contemporary art and culture has appeared in international periodicals and monographs. Most recently, he wrote about Ching Ho Cheng’s spiritual pursuits for a catalogue co-published by the Addison Gallery of American Art and Visual AIDS, accompanying the late artist’s forthcoming exhibition at the Addison
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 Jo Metson Scott
Introducing artist Wang Tuo, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Wang Tuo (@buddhathugtuo) will join curator Alvin Li (@alvin.jiahuan.li) in a conversation discussing the artist’s video installation “The Experimental Paradigm of Ownership and Autonomy” (2026) at CANICU
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Introducing writer Quinn Latimer, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Quinn Latimer (@ql_ql_ql_ql) will join the symposium with a lecture titled “Dreams Against Images”
Quinn Latimer is a writer, editor, curator, and Head of the MA at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. Her recent research considers imbrications of literary and moving-image technologies amid political desire and the social. She is the author of “Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems” (Sternberg Press, 2017) and “Film as a Form of Writing: Quinn Latimer Talks to Akram Zaatari” (Wiels, 2013), among other books. She recently curated “SIREN (some poetics)” at Amant, New York, and “Perpetual Language: Patricia L. Boyd and Na Mira, made under the signs and spirits of Roland Barthes and Teresa Hak Kyung Cha,” at Croy Nielsen, Vienna. She was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, and is now coeditor, with Claudia Perren, of the book series “Basel Dialogues” from the Basel Academy of Art and Design. Its second volume, “Desire for Transmission,” was just published. A PhD candidate at HGK Basel and Kunstuniversität Linz, she is writing a poetics of exposure on technologies of image production and surveillance, autobiography and political violence
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 Ion Grevenitis
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Introducing curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel (@rebeccalamarchevadel) will join artist Yuyan Wang (@yuyanwang) in a conversation discussing the artist’s video installation “Boring Billion” (2026) at CANICULA through the lens of composting
Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel is a curator, art historian, and author. She works in the fields of contemporary mythology, subject formation, ecological thought, and the entanglements of cultural, social, and environmental structures with colonial and domination histories. She is the co-founder of Commons Calling, an international NGO born in 2026, dedicated to cultural projects fostering solidarities and communities. From 2019 to 2025, she was the general director and artistic director of Lafayette Anticipations, where she presented numerous exhibitions with international artists such as Diego Marcon, Neil Beloufa, Meriem Bennani, Marguerite Humeau, Martine Syms, Issy Wood, and Lina Lapelyte, among others. From 2011 to 2019, she was curator at Palais de Tokyo, where she developed major projects including the cartes blanche of Tomás Saraceno and Tino Sehgal. In 2020, she was chief curator of the Riga Biennial. Her work extends internationally through collaborations with institutions such as MoMA PS1, the Stedelijk Museum, Nottingham Contemporary. She holds degrees in History, Political Sciences and Art History from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Freie Universität Berlin
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 artist Yuyan Wang, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 20
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Introducing curator Chema González, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026
Chema González (@chemagonzalez__) will join the symposium with a lecture titled “The Guernica Screen”
Chema González is a curator and programmer. His practice lies at the intersection of cinema, contemporary art and cultural institutions, with a particular interest in experimental film, documentary forms and audiovisual practices that explore critical thought. At Museo Reina Sofía, where he currently heads the Department of Film and New Media, he has developed programmes, film cycles, exhibitions, commissions and research projects centred on a critical understanding of the present and a reimagining of film history. He has served as a jury member and collaborator for festivals and institutions including FIDMarseille, DocLisboa, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, BFI London, CCCB Barcelona and Centro Guerrero, among others. He has worked with and curated artists and filmmakers including Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Godard, Hito Steyerl, Radu Jude, Pere Portabella, Barbara Hammer, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, and Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, among many others
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 Clara Valles
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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
