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Strange Rules - conceived by Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, Hans Ulrich Obrist and curated in collaboration with Adriana Rispoli - introduces Protocol Art, a practice that turns algorithms, AI, and digital infrastructures into artistic material. Spanning installations, performances, and research, the exhibition positions art as a system rather than an object, foregrounding human–machine co-creation at the heart of contemporary culture.
OPENING WEEK CALENDAR
04.05
BOOK LAUNCH – 5.30PM
E.A.T. INDEX introduced by Hans Ulrich Obrist and contributors
OPENING & COCKTAIL RECEPTION – 7PM
05.05
BOOK LAUNCH – 6PM
Mark Alizart, Spectator No More: Artificial Intelligence and the broken promise of the avant-garde. A conversation between the author and Lorenzo Marsili
06.05
PERFORMANCE – 5PM
Sogwen Chung, Lecture performance
MINIMARATHON – 5.30PM
Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Joshua Citarella, Primavera de Filippi, Simon Denny, Fabien Giraud, Ayoung Kim, Agnieszka Kurant, New Models, Trevor Paglen, Lorenzo Senni, terra0
09.05
BOOK PARTY – 6PM
What Is Universalism? and Homage to Alexander Kluge: A conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Lorenzo Marsili
Presented within Transforming Energy, curated by Shai Baitel at the Gallerie dell'Accademia, TAEX contributes a series of six moving-image works featuring Marina Abramović’s avatar. The project unfolds in two forms: a monumental immersive installation (Slow Walking) and five screen-based digital exercises integrated throughout the exhibition, extending a collaboration first initiated in Shanghai.
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RESERVED TO 100 COLLECTORS MEMBERS
During the Venice Biennale, CityX Foundation presents a two-day program across the Arsenale Pavilion and Garden Pavilion, bringing together artists, collectors, and cultural voices within a shared space of experimentation and exchange.
The program unfolds through live performance, film, digital presentation, and public discussion, exploring fragility as a defining condition of contemporary art and life, across both physical and digital worlds.
Set against the Venetian sunset, the evening unfolds through:
• A private salon exploring AI as a collaborator in contemporary art
• A preview of select works from New Materialities, an upcoming exhibition
• Conversation among collectors and cultural voices
• Aperitivo and informal gathering
If you are interested in joining, please contact us.
RESERVED TO 100 COLLECTORS MEMBERS
As one of the longest-running international media art festivals, CYFEST brings together artists, curators, engineers, and media thinkers from around the world. It serves as a platform for both emerging and established practitioners working across time-based installations, sound, video art, algorithmic composition, and hybrid forms. A nomadic exhibition series, CYFEST 17 began in Thessaloniki and continues in Venice. The exhibition places works from the Frants Family Collection in dialogue with over 20 contemporary media artists, tracing a continuous trajectory of artistic becoming from the 20th century to the present.
DOM Art Residence presents its first Digital Residency within Accepted Without Review, a project developed for the 2026 edition of Personal Structures – Confluences 2026, organised by European Cultural Centre Italy and held across historic palazzi in Venice from 9 May to 22 November 2026.
This digital residency challenges traditional selection systems. During the residency, artists will stream live from their own studios, sharing their creative process with audiences in Venice. The live stream will be shown on a large screen inside Palazzo Bembo, one of the Personal Structures official venues.
Inside Palazzo Bembo, DOM will build a replica of a shipping container, a symbolic exhibition space. It represents both the rigidity of institutions, closed and impenetrable, and the movement of ideas across borders, echoing DOM’s nomadic spirit.At first, the container will be empty. Over time, as artists ship their works to Venice, it will gradually fill up, becoming an archive of time, trust, and creative freedom.
