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
















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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 the 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
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 investigations. In 2023, he
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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
Set 30
Sneak peak from the upcoming video documentation of CANICULA, where artist Maya Watanabe elaborates on the role of vision and visibility in her video installation “Jarkov”
Within surroundings where the darkness is designed as a spatial experience, the work by Maya Watanabe titled “Jarkov” (2026) exposes us to a paradox of vision and knowledge. The camera leads us into very close proximity with a woolly mammoth from 20,000 years ago, discovered in the Arctic tundra as a result of the increase in temperatures caused by global warming, and forces us to grapple not only with timescales that exceed human understanding but also with the fragility of life
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
Set 24
The catalogue for CANICULA, our group exhibition on view at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice until November 22, is out now via @marsilioarte
Edited by @abinoppst with @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, this volume expands on the making of CANICULA and offers an in-depth look at the curatorial concept, the exhibition scenography, and the creative processes and poetic concerns of the 8 video-installations by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Massimo D`Anolfi and Martina Parenti, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Janis Rafa, P. Staff, Wang Tuo, Yuyan Wang, Maya Watanabe
The exhibition and the wider rationale of the Fondazione`s work is told via a series of texts by our President and Founder Beatrice Bulgari, the co-curators of CANICULA Rabottini and Bigazzi, and the co-creators of its scenography from @2050.plus studio, @ippopeste and @fralantieri
A two-part monographic section has been dedicated to each of the artists featured in the exhibition: one that documents both the narrative and production aspects of their video installations, and another that expands upon the artists` practice both via newly commissioned critical texts by Svitlana Biedarieva, Leo Goldsmith, Ana Janevski and Dubravka Sekulić, Mason Leaver-Yap, Alvin Li, Nicole Shukin, Jan Verwoert, Sophie Williamson, and an original visual contribution
With the aim of offering a set of complementary points of view to the video installations, the fields of expertise of the writers involved range from environmental humanity to media culture, experimental film-making, performance, architecture, and art history, while the visual contributions use materials as diverse as Romantic paintings and forensic visualization, and are presented in ways as different as encyclopedia-style thumbnails and fictional film strips
The book is completed by a visual essay by photographer @g.i.a.c.o.m.o.b.i.a.n.c.o, capturing the atmosphere at the heart of CANICULA, and by the exhibition views realized by @marcocappellettistudio (Marco Cappelletti, @beppemiotto, @lis.gallo)
Design by @lorenzomasonstudio (Lorenzo Mason, @simonespinazze)
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Sneak peak from the upcoming video documentation of CANICULA, where artist Wang Tuo elaborates on the fraught relationship between the ideas of public and private spaces in his video installation “The Experimental Paradigm of Ownership and Autonomy”
In what was the pharmacy of the ancient hospital, Wang Tuo sets his two-channel video installation “The Experimental Paradigm of Ownership and Autonomy” (2026), a fictional tale that addresses the tension between the individual experience of events and organised forms of political life. The fragility of the human body becomes a metaphor for the heterogeneity of collective memory, while the past, the present and the future are seen as caught in a perennial cycle of control and amnesia, fabricated truths and omissions
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
Set 17
SAVE THE DATE
We are pleased to announce the symposium accompanying the group exhibition CANICULA, which is on view at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026
26-27 October 2026
09:30 - 18:30
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Free entry, all welcome
The event will unfold as a two-day symposium involving the artists featured in CANICULA and expanding the discourse around their practices via talks, lectures, discussions, and screenings. Together with curators, researchers, and writers from the fields of both the visual arts and cinema, it will also be an occasion to engage with the material and metaphorical atmospheres of the exhibition while fostering meta-reflections on the status of moving images and exhibition making today
Speakers include 2050+/Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli and Francesca Lantieri, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Damir Arsenijevic, Leonardo Bigazzi, Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Enrico Camporesi, Xenia Chiaramonte, Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, Daphne Dragona, Chema González, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Quinn Latimer, Alvin Li, Doreen Mende, Alessandro Rabottini, Janis Rafa, Julian Ross, Natalia Sielewicz, P. Staff, Bianca Stoppani, Wang Tuo, Yuyan Wang, Maya Watanabe, Daniela Zyman.
Curated by @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