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Thus waves come in pairs:

Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano

April 22 – November 5, 2023
Ocean Space Venice
Past
Exhibitions
TBA21–Academy

The Soul Expanding Ocean #4: Diana Policarpo

Ciguatera

April 9 – October 2, 2022
Ocean Space Venice
Past
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

The Soul Expanding Ocean #3: Dineo Seshee Bopape

lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela / my love is alive, is alive, is alive

April 9 – October 2, 2022
Ocean Space Venice
Past
Commissions
TBA21–Academy

SUPERFLEX:

Vertical Migration

September 21 – September 24, 2021
Past
Commissions
TBA21–Academy

Territorial Agency:

Oceans in Transformation

August 27, 2020 – August 29, 2021
Ocean Space Venice
Past
TBA21–Academy
Ocean Space Venice

Claudia Comte

After Nature

May 11 – August 22, 2021
MNTB Madrid
Past
TBA21–Academy
MNTB Madrid

Joan Jonas.

Moving Off the Land II

May 24 – September 29, 2019
Ocean Space Venice
Past
Ocean Space Venice
TBA21–Academy

Taloi Havini
Answer to the Call, 2021
TBA21–Academy
Exhibitions
Commissions

Susanne Winterling
Glistening Troubles, 2017

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Rossella Biscotti, The Journey's Sonic Diary, 2020–2021
The Current III: Mediterraneans

Ocean-Archive.org
Ocean-Archive.org
TBA21–Academy
Digital

Ocean Wants

Podcast
TBA21–Academy
Podcasts
Commissions

Aridity Lines

Podcast
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Podcasts

Invernomuto, Black Med, Chapter VI, 2021
The Current III: Mediterraneans

Ocean-Archive.org
TBA21–Academy
Ocean-Archive.org
Commissions

Dineo Seshee Bopape
lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela / my love is alive, is alive, is alive, 2022

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Giorgio Andreotta Calò, lacuna, 2021
The Current III: Mediterraneans
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Joan Jonas

Moving Off the Land IV, 2014-2020
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Claudia Comte
Underwater Cacti, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Will Benedict, DIS.ART,
All Bleeding Stops Eventually
Past
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Te Moana - The Ocean

Ocean-Archive.org
Past
TBA21–Academy
Digital

Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano,
Un Sogno, Un Pesce

Ocean-Archive.org
Commissions
Ocean-Archive.org
TBA21–Academy

Rossella Biscotti,
Disorientation Notes

Ocean-Archive.org
Commissions
TBA21–Academy
Ocean-Archive.org

Simone Fattal

Pearls, 2023

Ocean Space Venice
Ocean Space Venice
Commissions
Collection

Adelita Husni Bey

Il Fiato del Suolo, forum theater, 2025
Commissions
TBA21–Academy

Carlos Casas

LACUNAE, 2025
Commissions
TBA21–Academy

Nandita Kumar

Sounding the Invisible: An Elegant Symbiosis, 2025
Commissions
TBA21–Academy

Tessa Mars

A call to the ocean, 2025

Ocean Space Venice
Commissions
Ocean Space Venice
Artworks On view

Nadia Huggins

A shipwreck is not a wreck, 2025

Ocean Space Venice
Commissions
Ocean Space Venice

“River Running Free / You Know How I Feel”

Considering Rights of Nature for European Water Bodies, from the Venice Lagoon and its Basin

Ocean Space Venice
TBA21–Academy
Research
Ocean Space Venice

Sonia Levy

We Marry You, O Sea, as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion, 2023
Collection
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Diana Policarpo
Cigua Tales, 2022
Collection

Wu Tsang

MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

TBA21–Academy
Programming
Commissions

Simone Fattal
Young Boy, 2023

Ocean Space Venice
Ocean Space Venice
Commissions
Collection

Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano

Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas, 2023
Commissions
Collection

Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas
Breathings of the moon. Expedition, 2022

June 21, 2022
TBA21–Academy
Programming
Commissions

Lodovica Guarnieri
When I breathe, I swallow the Lagoon, 2022

June 8, 2022
TBA21–Academy
Programming
Commissions

pantea,
⚪, 2022

Digital
TBA21–Academy
Digital
Commissions

To Become a Sea / عمول منيح وكب بالبحر
2021-2022
The Current III: Mediterraneans

Digital
Commissions
TBA21–Academy
Digital

Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer
How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps)

Ocean-Archive.org
TBA21–Academy
Ocean-Archive.org
Commissions

Jana Winderen
bára, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Inhabitants

What is Deep Sea Mining?, 2018–2020
TBA21–Academy

Armin Linke

OCEANS. Dialogues between ocean floor and water column, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Armin Linke

Photoessay related to the “Prospecting Ocean” project, 2016-2017
Collection
Commissions
TBA21–Academy

The Choir of Hapatoni
Te Tanieka O Taiuoho, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Dark Morph
The So(ng)qe/Tovuto Kyrrahafið Sound Field, 2019

Ocean Space Venice
TBA21–Academy
Ocean Space Venice
AHF Jamaica

John Akomfrah

Purple, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Laura Anderson Barbata
Ocean Calling, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Sissel Tolaas
Ocean SmellScapes, 2017
03.2017 : 10.5438700 / 84.4537700 / 10.5 / 84.5
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Susanne M. Winterling
Planetary sensing: navigations below the surface, 2018–

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
AHF Jamaica
Commissions

Eduardo Navarro
Hydrohexagrams (For Tahuata), 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Alexander Lee
ME-TI'A - An Island Standing, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Tue Greenfort
Tamoya Ohboya, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Em'kal Eyongakpa
Gaia beats/bits III-i/
doves and an aged hammock, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Atif Akin
Tepoto Sud morph Moruroa, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Armin Linke

Prospecting Ocean, 2018
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Jana Winderen
Silencing of the Reefs: Departure Iceland, 2012
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Tony Myatt, Paul Modler, Peter Worth, Pascal Wyse

Underwater Ambisonic Recordings, 2013
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Chris Watson
Deep Blue Notes, 2013
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Jana Winderen
Silencing of the Reefs, 2011
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Claudia Comte
Soft Coral (three teeth), 2020

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Claudia Comte
Fire Coral (five fingers), 2020

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Claudia Comte
Sun Coral (nine headed hydra), 2020

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Claudia Comte
Small Jamaican Cactus, 2020
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Claudia Comte
Yellow Sponge (two tubes), 2020

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

SUPERFLEX
Dive-In, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

SUPERFLEX

Vertical Migration, 2021
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

SUPERFLEX
Hunga Tonga, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Stephanie Comilang

Diaspora Ad Astra, 2020

Ocean-Archive.org
Commissions
TBA21–Academy
Ocean-Archive.org

Ocean-Archive.org presents:
Togetherness stories for healing (with) the Ocean

Ocean-Archive.org
TBA21–Academy
Ocean-Archive.org
Commissions

Taloi Havini and Michael Toisuta,
Hyena Lullaby, 2020

Ocean-Archive.org
TBA21–Academy
Ocean-Archive.org
Digital

freq_wave: 7 seas

curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

SUPERFLEX
Deep Sea Minding, 2019–2021
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Nabil Ahmed
INTERPRT (2019)
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Nate Petre at the Alligator Head Foundation

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
AHF Jamaica
Commissions

Ingo Niermann
Sea Lovers (2020) and Wet Gods (2020)

Digital
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Digital