Venezia Contemporanea

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Venezia Contemporanea

Venezia Contemporanea is a nonprofit cultural association based in Venice, Italy. It was founded in 2007 with the aim to promote and support emerging artists.

06/05/2026

Dear friends and community,

Join us tomorrow, May 7th, from 6–8 p.m. for the opening of the third edition of the Yiddishland Pavilion, in collaboration with Venezia
Contemporanea, opening in Venice, Italy.

This year’s edition is titled The Worlds That Fit My Mouth. You can
read about the full program here:
https://yiddishlandpavilion.art/

The Yiddishland Pavilion is a grassroots, independent art project run
by Maria Veits and Yevgeniy Fiks (link to the project). To support
this fantastic and important project (link to the donation). Follow
our activities and help spread the word from afar.

All donations go to the Yiddishland Pavilion.

The exhibition opening address is:
Campiello delle Scuole, Cannaregio 1154, Ghetto Vecchio, Venezia.

Please see the map with the two exhibition locations, The Studio in
Venice and Galleria ScalaMata, map here. They are just around the
corner from each other, a moment away.

The nearest vaporetto stop is Guglie. See you there! 😊

28/04/2026

We’re excited to announce the opening of the latest edition of the Yiddishland Pavilion, in collaboration with Venezia Contemporanea and Galleria ScalaMata.contemporanea

An independent project celebrating contemporary Yiddish culture through art, language, and research…. free entry ⭐️

📍 Campiello delle Scuole, Cannaregio 1152
Calle del Ghetto Vecchio, Cannaregio 1236
Arsenale Nord
Venezia
🗓 Opening: May 7, 6–8 pm
“The Worlds That Fit My Mouth”

Learn more and support the project → link in bio

biennaledivenezia

25/03/2026

Debra DSouza is the artist currently hosting in La Storta artists residency.

25/03/2026

The La Storta Artist Residency is pleased to host Debra DSouza.
(DebraDSouza.com)

"My work consists of three distinct yet related bodies, botanical illustration, botanical and still-life subjects rendered in oil and my new passion: mosaic.These separate bodies both share the subject of nature and the art of observation, while being executed in different mediums. [...] Mosaic is an ancient practice still rendered with the same techniques, using stone, glass, hammer and chisel.

Mosaic is a language, tessera are the letters to form the lines/words and sentences. My mosaics are a study of these rhythms. By leading the viewer through the contours, ebb and flow of the subject. A mosaic artist creates the feeling of a subject with the material’s size, shape, colors and elements. My work is a combination of modern materials and ancient practice still rendered with the same techniques; using glass, stone, nipper, hammer and chisel. I am dedicated to preserving the history and tradition of mosaic art, along with the techniques and materials used in the past. One must study and remember the past to be informed for the future."

Come and viait her exhibition!

05/03/2026

“It was a windy night, and before my retina registered anything, I was smitten by a feeling of utter happiness: my nostrils were hit by what to me has always been its synonym, the smell of freezing seaweed.”
(Joseph Brodsky, Watermark)

Tal Yehezkely, our scholar in residence, organized a “scent walk” in the Venetian Ghetto, reflecting on boundaries and sensitivities. Scenting the threshold of the Ghetto, listening to texts by scientists, writers, and philosophers, bringing attention to the body, sniffing what was and what is.

She is now finishing her stay at Venezia Contemporanea, where she resided with her family: Partner Ram and baby Shvo, both contributed to shaping the scholarly-artistic practices of the scent walk.

27/02/2026

Join us in an exploration of the hidden sensory layers composing collective memory and subjective experience.
27.2.26
5 pm
Starting point: ponte San Girolamo
20-30 min
Please bring a notebook and a pen

Tal Yehezkely is a scholar of smell in literature and culture, her PhD explores the phenomenology of smell in selected works of Hebrew and Italian literature (Tel Aviv University, The Azrieli Foundation)

photo: Hadas Parush

19/02/2026

We are delighted that Elik , Danielle .alha, and little Ari are enjoying their stay at the rooftop residence.

11/02/2026

We are delighted to host two new artists in the Skyline Residency: Elazar (Elik) Elhanan and Danielle Alhassid.

Elazar (Elik) Elhanan is an Associate Professor of Hebrew, Yiddish and French literature at the City College of New York and at The CUNY Graduate Center.

Danielle Alhassid .alha is an artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. Her works involve stop-motion animation, print and performance and focuses on archives, femininity and urban experience.

Here in Venice, Danielle and Elik are continuing the project of the Traveling Archive, a series of research-based installations inspired by Yiddish texts written for and by women.

.alha .contemporanea

02/02/2026

In galleria La Storta, the Dutch visual artist Gonny Stuut is initiating a growing installation connected to the carneval, with participation of the public.

By short interviews visitors (Venetians and tourists) are invited to come in for a personal interview to contribute their experiences about identity, double illusions, their personality in combination with the use of masks.

The written texts will be integrated in the project and is growing day by day.

The hours that La Storta is open for interviews or just visiting are 13-17 hrs.

Gonny is since 2007 connected with a lot of passion to Venezia, which resulted in 2 exhibitions, a intercultural maskproject with 450 schoolchildren in Delft NL, and Venice, and research possibilities of cultural cooperations.

This is an ongoing proces. Stuut visits Venice a few times yearly. Not to forget for the carnival time. She likes theatrical costumes with a surreal twist in her work and masks.

31/01/2026

The beginning of the carnevale

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Venice
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+390415208997

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http://www.veneziacontemporanea.com/

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