OPENINGS: PLACES – SURFACES FESTIVAL VENICE 2018
Palazzo Ca' Zanardi – July 26, 2018
THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space – July 27, 2018

ITSLIQUID GROUP, in collaboration with Palazzo Ca' Zanardi and Venice Events, is proud to announce the OPENINGS of PLACES, second appointment of SURFACES FESTIVAL – ITS LIQUID International Art and Architecture Festival, that will be presented in Venice at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi (from July 26, 2018 to September 13, 2018) and THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space (from July 27, 2018 to September 13, 2018), during the same period of the BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2018 – 16th International Architecture Exhibition.

The openings of PLACES – SURFACES FESTIVAL, will be on July 26, 2018 at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi in Venice, starting from 06:00 PM (free entry); on July 27, 2018 at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space in Venice, starting from 06:00 PM (free entry).

Follow our event live at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi

Follow our event live at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space

SURFACES FESTIVAL is organized and curated by Arch. Luca Curci (founder and director of THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, ITS LIQUID GROUP and LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS), in collaboration with Venice Events at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, and organized and curated by Arch. Luca Curci and Andrea Chinellato (director of Palazzo Ca' Zanardi) at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi.

SURFACES FESTIVAL consists of 3 main exhibitions: BODIES (May 25 – July 12, 2018), PLACES (July 26 – September 13, 2018), SPACES (September 27 – November 25, 2018), focused on different themes, an Experimental division dedicated to video-art and performing art and the Venice Architecture Academy.

Sponsored by
Città Metropolitana di Venezia

Supported by
ORLEN OIL

organized by ITSLIQUID GROUP
in collaboration with Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice Events
project coordinators Vincenzo Filoni, Carmela Loiacono
collaborators Nadine Bordignon, Anna Cerri, Giulia Tassi

VENUES
Palazzo Ca' Zanardi
Cannaregio 4132 – 30121 Venice, Italy
curators Luca Curci, Andrea Chinellato
July 26, 2018 – September 13, 2018
From Monday to Friday | 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM (free entry)
Closed on Saturday and Sunday

THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space
Calle Larga San Marco, 374 – 30124 Venice, Italy
July 27, 2018 – September 13, 2018
curator Luca Curci in collaboration with Venice Events
From Monday to Friday | 9:30 AM – 05:30 PM (free entry)
Closed on Saturday and Sunday
#surfaces

PLACES are connected to the concept of time, memories, borders and disorders. Places are tangible and finite unit of space. We can experience places through body or senses. This division of the festival invites artists and architects to explore new grounds, searching a new vision of contemporary places, related to new human behaviors, city transformations and everyday life needs.

The festival focuses on the concept of SURFACES, borders and structures between body, mind and soul, the human identity and the city, the space and the ground. The festival analyzes the idea of human and urban places, how people live them and how they are modified in contemporary society. Every human being lives in a world in which surfaces shape their attitudes and behaviors, limiting freedom and creating a sense of alienation. The man reacts breaking the limits and finding a new way of life. We imagine a world of "liquid bodies and cities", where differences create new possibilities, developing new structures, physical, intellectual and spiritual. The festival aims to analyze the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time.

PALAZZO CA' ZANARDI
SOLO EXHIBITION Rudolf Leitner Gründberg . Austria curated by Marilena Streit-Bianchi
(July 26 – September 13, 2018)

SELECTED ARCHITECTS
Dominika J Rostocka . Poland | LINK Landskap . Norway

SELECTED ARTISTS
Frederika Adam . USA | Alina Assenova . Belgium | Luz Bañón. Spain | Pavel Berdon . Italy | Patricia Carvalho . Portugal | Federico Dal Pozzo . Italy | Marek Jaśkowiec . Poland | Alkistis Kafetzi & Vasiliki Biska . Germany | Zinaida Kubar . Ukraine | Anastasia Lobkovski . Finland | Georgina Lohan . Canada | Studio LOKA (Lorena Hernandez & Jérémie Kalil) . France | Karin Monschauer . Switzerland | Liana Psarologaki . UK | Francesca Saraullo . Belgium | Taylor Simone . USA | Yulianus Yaps . Indonesia | Monika Zabel . Germany/USA with contribution of Joerg Broska . Germany

THE ROOM Contemporary Art SpaceSELECTED ARCHITECTS
Arkkitehdit Casagrande Oy. Finland | Heikki Kaikkonen . Finland | Kimmel Eshkolot Architects . Israel | Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects . Finland | TEZ Architekci . Poland

SELECTED ARTISTS
Bikkel Artist . The Netherlands | Patrizia Casagranda . Germany | Federico Dal Pozzo . Italy | Sherry Huang . UK | Chris 'Toffears' Irons . Belgium | Alkistis Kafetzi & Vasiliki Biska . Germany | Zinaida Kubar . Ukraine | Rudolf Leitner Gruendberg . Austria | Po Cheng Liao . Taiwan | Anastasia Lobkovski . Finland | Studio LOKA (Lorena Hernandez & Jérémie Kalil) . France | Ivanno Macci . Canada | Urmi Roy Magoon . Germany | Lennart Normann . Germany | Florian Schaller . Austria | Jesus Segura . Spain | Toni Simó . Spain | Taylor Simone . USA



VENICE EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVALPalazzo Ca' Zanardi | July 26, 2018
THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space | July 27, 2018
Fran Apprich & Fabrizio Urettini . Italy | Leonardo Martin Blanc . Argentina