Venice Meeting Point

Venice Meeting Point.

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Established in 2015, Venice Meeting Point is a platform created by Lightbox for international dialogue in contemporary art, with the aim to foster collaboration opportunities between visual artists, art organisations and the international arts community, as well as cultivate deeper public engagement with the arts.

This year Venice Meeting Point at the Navy Officer’s Club hosts a series of art encounters presented by Unfinished Camp - a global platform that links the ethical technology and visual arts communities closer together brainchild of internationally acclaimed curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries Hans Ulrich Obrist and author and cultural strategist András Szántó - and an art exhibition curated by My Art Guides publisher Mara Sartore and titled "De Rerum Natura”.

In the Annex Space to the Navy Officer’s Club, Aorist, a next-generation cultural institution founded by Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile, a patron, and innovator in the digital art ecosystem, cultural place-maker Ximena Caminos; and artist Andrea Bonaceto, will present an immersive new commission by artist Rafaël Rozendaal.

Unfinished Camp

Unfinished Camp will host its first convening at the Venice Meeting Point.

Unfinished Camp is a global platform that links the ethical technology and visual arts communities closer together, built on the belief that artists should have a seat at the table in reimagining and building a more ethical, equitable digital future.

The brainchild of internationally acclaimed curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries Hans Ulrich Obrist and author and cultural strategist András Szántó, Unfinished Camp will convene for the first time together at the Venice Meeting Point, fostering dialogues, workshops, and a "think/do-tank" with global art institutions, contemporary artists, and technology innovators.

Representing six continents, the Unfinished Camp Community is comprised of nine leading arts organizations at the forefront of visual art and digital innovation, including: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia); House of Electronic Arts (Switzerland); Luma Arles (France); Pivô (Brazil); Serpentine (UK); The High Line (US); The Shed (US); UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (China); and Zeitz MOCAA (South Africa).

De Rerum Natura

The Venice Meeting Point will host a collective art exhibition titled De Rerum Natura curated by Mara Sartore (My Art Guides founder and director).

The title De Rerum Natura / The Nature of Things is taken from a book by the Latin poet Lucrezio (1st century BC). Lucrezio’s poem is divided into six books exposing the ideas of human life by the Greek philosopher Epicure, whose atomistic doctrine not only served to explain all life in the cosmos, but also human destiny, human psychology and the freedom to think and to act.

The exhibition will occupy most of the spaces of the Navy Officer’s Club, and will trace an ideal path through the central themes of the Latin poem: the origin of the cosmos, the meaning of life, the relationship between human beings, the planet, and the stars, the motion of the soul, death, love, dreams, and passions.

The nine international artists that have been invited to present their works and meet the Biennale audience in this unconventional space are: Marie Denis, Elham M. Aghili, Ignazio Mortellaro, Giovanni Ozzola, Matilde Sambo, Francesco Simeti, Oxana Trebugova, Lucia Veronesi, Lorenzo Vitturi.

XMuse

X MUSE, pronounced ‘tenth muse’, is not only the first blended barley vodka inspired by the spirit-making traditions of Scotland, but also one of Venice Meeting Point's Cultural Partners. In its space, located in the Tavern of the Navy Officer’s, there will be a free Vodka bar open from 6 pm to 9 pm. The space will host the following events and art encounters: Forma Fantasma, Entra Nous Curatorial Collective, Jupiter Art Land.

Vino Vero

Vino Vero is a natural wine bar that opened in Venice in 2014 and in Lisbon in 2019.
Vino Vero has very rapidly obtained international recognition for its wine selection. The Venice shop has over 600 labels from all over the world and produces famous cicchetti with top-quality ingredients. This year, Vino Vero will be taking over the restaurant and the inside bar at Venice Meeting Point.

Venice Meeting Point

Venice Meeting Point, just around the corner from the Arsenale entrance, is a private club, the Navy Officer’s Private Club, which opens exceptionally for the Art Biennale opening week to also welcome My Art Guides friends, and partners. This year the VMP has a vodka bar curated by XMuse and a wine bar and tavern activated by Vino Vero.