Premio AQUARIUS 2026 – Award Ceremony

VENETIAN CONTEMPORARY ART COMPETITION
with Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

Award Ceremony of the 1st Edition (2026)

Jury
Dr. Elisabetta Barisoni
Dr. Beatrice Marciani
Dr. Stefano Cecchetto
Dr. Massimiliano Bugno
Dr. Federico Gorini Sambuy

Atelier Program 2025–2026
Curated by Dr. Camilla Mozzato
Special thanks to: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
President: Bruno Bernardi
Board of Directors: Marina Bastianello and Roberto Zamberlan
Director: Michele Casarin

Atelier program staff
Matilde Ferrarin and Stefano Coletto in collaboration with Marta Gradenigo.
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Emeroteca dell’Arte
Elisabetta Barisoni, Head of Museums Division / Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art and Fortuny Museum, and Executive Director MUVE in Mestre
Giulia Bacianini, Francesca Medda, Cristiano Sant.

CLOISTER OF SS. COSMA E DAMIANO
GIUDECCA, VENICE
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
Irene Mathilda Alaimo (Rome, 2000)
Martina Biolo (Padua, 1996)
Nuvola Camera (Como, 1998)
C. A. Castro Lobato (Mexico City, Mexico, 2003)
Federica Gottardello (Brescia, 2000)
Besnik Lushtaku (Mayen, Germany, 1999)
Sara Pacucci (Treviso, 1999)
Isabella Ponte (Venice, 2003)
Tommaso Viccaro (Conegliano, 2001)

PALAZZO CARMINATI
VENICE
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
Nina Baietta (Camposampiero, PD, 1997)
Paola Cenati (Ponte San Pietro, BG, 2000)
Giorgio Maria Crescentini (Bagno a Ripoli, FI, 1998)
Ketty Gobbo (Treviso, 1999)
Hetty Laycock (Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1997)
Rovers Malaj (Koplik, Albania, 1995)

EMEROTECA DELL’ARTE
MESTRE
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Anna Benetti (Asiago, VI, 2005)
Barbara Koller D’Alessandro (Palermo, 1998)
Bottega Hospites 2021: Leonardo Piana (performance artist and theater director), Chiara Cecconello (sound artist and performer), and Luca Gallio (musician and sound designer).
Carlotta Mazzariol (Montebelluna, 2001)
Cecilia Cocco (Palmanova, UD, 2001)
Daniele Antoniazzi (Conegliano, 1999)
Enzo e Barbara 2022: Greta Fabrizio (Padua, 2000) and Riccardo Lodi (Padua, 1998).
Giulia Gaffo (Cittadella, PD, 1999)
Ilaria Costaglia (Camposampiero, PD, 2001)
Irene Stellin (Noventa Vicentina, VI, 1998)
Lorenzo Seano (Brescia, 2002)
Simone Fochesato (Schio, VI, 1996)
Zeroscena: Elisa La Boria (Latisana, 1998) and Luka Bagnoli (Rimini, 1998).