Last days to take home your CANICULA memorabilia 🧢

The limited edition of clothing and accessories designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio (@lorenzomasonstudio) for CANICULA is available at the exhibition bookshop together with our publications, including:

𝘊𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘊𝘜𝘓𝘈 exhibition catalogue
with texts by 2050+/Francesca Lantieri and Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Leonardo Bigazzi, Svitlana Biedarieva, Leo Goldsmith, Ana Janevski, Alvin Li, Mason Leaver-Yap, Dubravka Sekulić, Nicole Shukin, Bianca Stoppani, Jan Verwoert, Sophie Williamson (2026, Marsilio Arte)

𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴
with texts by Maria Alicata, Lucia Aspesi, Silvia Bottinelli, Lara Conte, Flavia Frigeri, Francesca Gallo, Sharon Hecker, Laura Iamurri, Caterina Iaquinta, Teresa Kittler, Jennifer Malvezzi, Iolanda Ratti, Giulia Kimberly Colombo, Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, Valentine Umansky, Giovanna Zapperi (2026, Lenz)

𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘩 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘶: 𝘛𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 monograph
with texts by Myriam Ben Salah, Leonardo Bigazzi, Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Martin Clark, Dr. Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Alessandro Rabottini, Bettina Steinbrügge, Arese Uwuoruya (2025, Mousse)

𝘕𝘌𝘉𝘜𝘓𝘈 exhibition catalogue
with texts by 2050+/Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Karen Archey, Natalie Bell, Leonardo Bigazzi, Nasrin Himada, Emily LaBarge, Paolo Pecere, Alessandro Rabottini, Philippa Snow, Bianca Stoppani, Xiaoyu Weng, and Isobel Whitelegg (2024, Marsilio Arte)

𝘈𝘭𝘪 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪: 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 monograph
with texts by Cecilia Alemani, Erika Balsom, Étienne Bernard, Leonardo Bigazzi, Ali Cherri, Lorenzo Giusti, Stefanie Hessler, Priyesh Mistry, Alessandro Rabottini, and Stefan Tarnowski (2023, Lenz)

Find them all at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice

Photos by Giacomo Bianco (@g.i.a.c.o.m.o.b.i.a.n.c.o) ...

Last chance to visit CANICULA!

EXTENDED OPENING HOURS

📆 November 13, 14, 20, 21
🕦 10–23 (Last admission at 22:15)

📆 November 15, 22
🕣 10–20 (Last admission at 19:15)

REGULAR OPENING DAYS AND TIMES

Open every day except Tuesdays, 10–18 (Last admission at 17:15)
Free entry

CANICULA is a group exhibition of newly-commissioned 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, and Maya Watanabe at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice

Curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi

Scenography by 2050+

HOW TO GET HERE
Complesso dell’Ospedaletto is located in Barbaria de le Tole, 6691, in the area of Castello
The nearest waterbus stops are Rialto, San Zaccaria, and Ospedale

INFO
[email protected] / T. +39 389 5315152

Photography: @g.i.a.c.o.m.o.b.i.a.n.c.o
Typography: @lorenzomasonstudio ...

While we upload the video documentation of these inspiring and nurturing days online, you can read the highlights from the second day of the symposium accompanying the group exhibition CANICULA, which is on view at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

The event unfolded as a two-day symposium reflecting on the aesthetics and politics of art and exhibition-making during the current cultural, political, social and climate crises

Participants from across the fields of the visual arts, cinema, art theory and history, performance, psychoanalysis, and law gathered to navigate a collective path through the limits and possibilities in the cultural mediation of a reality that feels increasingly overwhelming

A heartfelt thank you to all the speakers who joined us and contributed to the programme with such dedication: 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

Thank you also to all the people who attended, listened, and shared their thoughts with us

Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia

Coordinators:
Chiara Nicolini (@chiara_nicolini__)
Giovanni Giacomo Paolin

Live report:
Anna Castelli (@anninacastelli)

Educational partners:
@abavenezia
Department of the Arts, @unibo
@dfbc.cafoscari
@curatorial.school
@iuav_venezia

Visual identity by @lorenzomasonstudio

Photos by Matteo De Fina

“Cognitively speaking, perception is always a hallucination.”

From 𝘈 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺, 𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘦
Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film

“What we were really trying to do with these exhibitions was to create a space where the body could encounter a ...

While we upload the video documentation of these inspiring and nurturing days online, you can read the highlights from the first day of the symposium accompanying the group exhibition CANICULA, which is on view at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

The event unfolded as a two-day symposium reflecting on the aesthetics and politics of art and exhibition-making during the current cultural, political, social and climate crises

Participants from across the fields of the visual arts, cinema, art theory and history, performance, psychoanalysis, and law gathered to navigate a collective path through the limits and possibilities in the cultural mediation of a reality that feels increasingly overwhelming

A heartfelt thank you to all the speakers who joined us and contributed to the programme with such dedication: 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

Thank you also to all the people who attended, listened, and shared their thoughts with us

Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia

Coordinators:
Chiara Nicolini (@chiara_nicolini__)
Giovanni Giacomo Paolin

Live report:
Anna Castelli (@anninacastelli)

Educational partners:
@abavenezia
Department of the Arts, @unibo
@dfbc.cafoscari
@curatorial.school
@iuav_venezia

Visual identity by @lorenzomasonstudio

Photos by Matteo De Fina

“In such overwhelming reality, we have found ourselves questioning what it means to be human and what is real — a sheer fact that registers a failure of politics, representation, when not of morality in itself.”

From 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴
Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In ...

The full schedule of the symposium of CANICULA is out now via the link in bio

Tuesday, 27.10.2026

🕤 Morning session

09:30 – 10:00 𝘈 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺, 𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘦
Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film

10:00 – 11:00 𝘍𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 The Trilogy of Uncertainties
Leonardo Bigazzi, curator, Fondazione In Between Art Film
Francesca Lantieri, architect, designer, and 2050+ partner
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, architect, curator, and 2050+ founder
Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director, Fondazione In Between Art Film

11:00 – 12:00 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢
P. Staff, artist
Daniel Blanga Gubbay, writer and curator

🕝 Afternoon session

14:00 – 14:30 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺
Doreen Mende, co-founder, Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin

14:30 – 15:30 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, artist
Damir Arsenijevic, professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Tuzla

15:30 – 16:00 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯
Chema González, head of Film and New Media Department, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

16:00 – 17:00 𝘐𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘺
Maya Watanabe, artist
Julian Ross, sector manager – Programming, Distribution and Exhibitions, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

🕠 Evening session

17:30 – 18:00 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
Quinn Latimer, writer and head of the MA at the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW

18:00 – 19:00 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵: 𝘞𝘢𝘳, 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦
Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, artists
Natalia Sielewicz, chief curator, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

19:00 – 19:30 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥-𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘢𝘺 2
Chema González, head of Film and New Media Department, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Quinn Latimer, writer and head of the MA at the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Doreen Mende, co-founder, Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin
Moderated by Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film ...

The full schedule of the symposium of CANICULA is out now via the link in bio

Monday, 26.10.2026

🕤 Morning session

09:30 – 10:00 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴
Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film

10:00 – 10:30 𝘍𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 Canicula
Leonardo Bigazzi, curator, Fondazione In Between Art Film
Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director, Fondazione In Between Art Film

10:30 – 11:00 𝘉𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘐𝘵 𝘈𝘭𝘭: 𝘖𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵, 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦
Daphne Dragona, assistant professor, Department of Audiovisual Art, Ionian University, Corfu; independent curator and writer

11:00 – 12:00 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦: 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺
Janis Rafa, artist
Daniela Zyman, curator and writer

🕝 Afternoon session

14:00 – 15:00 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
Yuyan Wang, artist
Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, independent curator

15:00 – 15:30 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴
Xenia Chiaramonte, associate professor, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

15:30 – 16:30 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢
Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, artists
Enrico Camporesi, head of Research and Documentation at the Film Collection of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris

🕠 Evening session

17:00 – 18:00 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
Wang Tuo, artist
Alvin Li, curator, International Art, supported by Asymmetry, Tate Modern, London

18:00 – 18:30 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥-𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘢𝘺 1
Xenia Chiaramonte, associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Daphne Dragona, assistant Professor, Department of Audiovisual Art, Ionian University, Corfu; independent curator and writer
Moderated by Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film ...

Introducing architect and 2050+ founder Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026

Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli (@ippopeste) will join architect and 2050+ partner Francesca Lantieri (@fralantieri) together with CANICULA’s co-curators Leonardo Bigazzi (@leonardobigazzi) and Alessandro Rabottini (@alessandro.rabottini) in a conversation discussing the role of scenography across the ‘Trilogy of Uncertainties’

Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli is an architect and curator whose work encompasses technology, politics, design, and environmental practices. Formerly a partner at OMA/AMO, he founded the interdisciplinary studio 2050+ in Milan to deploy space as a medium rather than as a goal; there, he works on projects that include curatorial and research practices, exhibition design, set design, and architecture. In 2018 Pestellini co-curated Manifesta 12, The Planetary Garden: Cultivating Coexistence in Palermo. Since 2017 he has been teaching at the Royal College of Art in London and, in 2023, he served as president of the Jury at the Biennale Architettura 2023, Venice. His work has been shown and published internationally across various media, institutions, festivals, and exhibitions

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 architect and 2050+ partner Francesca Lantieri, who will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026

Francesca Lantieri (@fralantieri) will join architect and 2050+ founder Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli (@ippopeste) together with CANICULA’s co-curators Leonardo Bigazzi (@leonardobigazzi) and Alessandro Rabottini (@alessandro.rabottini) in ...

Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director at Fondazione In Between Art Film, will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026

Alessandro Rabottini (@alessandro.rabottini) will join curator Leonardo Bigazzi (@leonardobigazzi) in a conversation discussing their curatorial methodology behind CANICULA

Alessandro Rabottini is an art writer and curator living in London. Since 2020, he has been artistic director of Fondazione In Between Art Film, co-curating the Trilogy of Uncertainties: “Penumbra” (2022), “Nebula” (2024), and “Canicula” (2026), presented during the Biennale Arte in Venice. In this role, he also co-curated solo shows by Ali Cherri at GAMeC, Bergamo, and FRAC Bretagne, Rennes; and by Karimah Ashadu at Camden Art Centre, London, and The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Rabottini has also curated solo exhibitions of artists including Roe Ethridge, Talia Chetrit, Guido Guidi, John Latham, Adrian Paci, Walid Raad, and Danh Vo, among others. He has contributed to museum catalogues on the practices of Uri Aran, Rosa Barba, Cecily Brown, Thao Nguyen Phan, Ugo Rondinone, Dana Schutz, Piotr Uklański, Paloma Varga Weisz, and others. He has edited books and catalogues on the work of Michael Anastasiades, Gianfranco Baruchello, Andrea Branzi, Latifa Echakhch, Formafantasma, Giuseppe Gabellone, Elad Lassry, David Maljković, Victor Man, Oscar Murillo, Robert Overby, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Sterling Ruby, and Ettore Spalletti, among 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 Giacomo Bianco

Leonardo Bigazzi, curator at Fondazione In Between Art Film, will participate in the symposium accompanying CANICULA and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 26–27, 2026 ...