ART? Communication project | Galleria Contemporaneo

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• Laboratorio urbano per le arti contemporanee
• Centro Culturale Candiani
• Musei Civici Veneziani

Gallery opening hours

Tuesday - Saturday
15.30 - 19.30
Closed on Sunday and Monday

Free admission

 

The Galleria Contemporaneo

History in short
Galleria Contemporaneo is a public exhibition space successfully managed by the Cultural Heritage and Production sector of the City of Venice.
Opened in 1998, after the restoration works of the former public library, the gallery, even though irregularly, was the venue of important exhibitions among which: a retrospective show on Alberto Viani (1906-1989), sculptor who lived for several years in Mestre, accompanied by three significant series of photographs dedicated to the artist by Ugo Mulas (catalogue published by Mazzotta); the solo exhibitions by Duane Michaels and Stephen Shore, internationally renowned photographers; the group show Natura della Luce-Nature of Light (catalogue published by Marsilio) that inaugurated a great series of collaborations with both public and private, Italian and international exhibition spaces; the group shows organised together with the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, the Archivio Giovani Artisti and the Circuito Giovani Artisti Italiani.

 

New programming
Since May 2006 the Galleria Contemporaneo aims to strengthen the collaboration not just with similar contemporary arts public spaces, but also with those private galleries whose research is absolutely noteworthy. A flexible and open space, responsive not just on a local level, but on a national and international level too.
Clearly and exclusively dedicated to contemporary visual arts, the gallery is a place for production, research, analysis, confrontation, discussion and exchange among artists, curators, experts and a widely varied audience. The dynamism and flexibility on which its new identity is based ensure the production of highly innovative site specific projects, the actual ability to provide artists with facilities and spaces for their research and an always up to date program of events, seminars, lectures and talks in an ongoing exchange with the outside and a diverse public.
Galleria Contemporaneo is institutionally coordinated along with the Centro Culturale Candiani in Mestre and they develop together specific projects for the exhibition spaces of the centre. The aim is to foster the image of Mestre and of the whole Venice mainland, enhancing it and making it more visible with a cultural programme specifically oriented towards contemporaneity able to complete that of the city of Venice.

 

The space
The exhibition space of approximately 300 square metres is a sophisticated white cube without windows and with wide white unbroken walls: an extremely flexible space with four exhibition rooms on the ground floor whose structure and facilities allow the production of ambitious installation projects.
The gallery is in central Mestre, an area currently on the way of a deep social change and particularly rich with contrasts emphasized also by the mix and coexistence of different ethnic groups. That’s why, with a fresh program and communication that often involve the urban space itself, the Galleria Contemporaneo aspires to keep alive the strong relation with its social and territorial context.

 

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