Under the Boat: Collective Exhibition Challenges Exhibition Conventions at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa

The collective exhibition 'Under the Boat' at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa's Sala del Camino in the former convent of Santi Cosma e Damiano on Giudecca Island, Venice, runs for a few more days. Curated by Daniele Capra and Anca Muresan, the show features works by the international collective Beatrice von Babel. The exhibition subverts traditional display rules: artworks hang from a ceiling resembling an inverted ship's hull, performances erupt spontaneously, and the layout creates a constantly shifting archipelago. The title alludes to overturning the status quo and the need to rebuild the present through democratic, participatory criteria. The project questions fixity, static works, thematic coherence, and individual authorship, emerging from a long, communal reflection process among artists and curators.