CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo

05/06/2026

Two years ago everything started as a joke, a way to test our audience and to make scouting of brand new talents.

After 2 edition of we had the opportunity to know and meet the works of over
8000 artists worldwide.

Now is summertime, usually time for relax and chill…

But we are already at work to create a next bigger, stronger, more partecipated edition!

Stay tuned!

07/05/2026

Sneak Peak to to the brand new flowers’ bloom
by .miyazaki.722

inside the brand new
CREA GARDEN 🌼🌺🌹🌷

This Installation is part of

FROM WATER TO FORM
Keita’s solo show at the
Museum of Oriental Art in Venice

curated by Pier Paolo Scelsi .scelsi Ilaria Cera , and Riccardo Freddo

with scientific direction by Elisabetta Barisoni Marta Boscolo Marchi Daniele Ferrara, and Stefania Portinari.

The exhibition is promoted by Direzione Regionale Musei Nazionali Veneto -
Museum of Oriental Art
Gallery Rosenfeld and CREA Cantieri del
Contemporaneo, with the patronage of the Consulate General of Japan in Milan and the Japan Foundation

The Museum exhibition will unfold within one of Europe’s most significant collections of Japanese Edo-period art, where Miyazaki’s practice engages in a profound dialogue with history, craftsmanship, and transformation.
Water becomes both material and metaphor: a generative force of destruction and rebirth, deeply rooted in both Japanese culture and the identity of Venice.

04/05/2026

We don’t like easy things!!!

Biennale days are always a challenge e we tried to react in our way!

WIDESPREAD SEEDS

On 7th and 8th of May, Our living dockyard is going to present to our visitors a deep and rich program of

Exhibitions
Installations
Public Art
Talks
Performances

Waiting for you on May 8th for the opening vernissage art, drink and food and fun!!

Come to say hello!!!

.lab .scelsi

27/04/2026

💥BREAKING NEWS!💥

Waiting for you on May 7th and 8th for the big opening of

WIDESPREED SEEDS

2 full days of a deep program made by exhibitions, public art, installations, performances and talks!

with the artistic direction of .scelsi &

To coincide with the opening days of the 61st Venice Biennale Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys, CREA – Cantieri del Contemporaneo, is pleased to announce the exhibition Widespread Seeds, taking place on 7 and 8 May 2026 at the CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo spaces located in the former Venetian small shipyard on the island of Giudecca (VE).

Widespread Seeds envisions the Cantiere as a communal garden and botanical garden where each of the eight partners involved, both national and international, sows, activates and allows their own imprint to take root in the spaces they traverse through practices and proposals involving more than 50 international artists and with the massive collaborations of our partners.

.lab .lands

Full program on the link in bio
Big opening with free bar on May 8th at 6.00pm

Massive special thanks to for graphics and visual design

20/04/2026

17/04/2026

Brand new floor
Brand new walls
At Legno & Legno art space
At CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo

14/04/2026

Massive congratulations to

Sergei Zinchuk

Winner of CREAOPEN2026 over 4021 partecipants!

Sergei Zinchuk (b. Ukraine, 1978) is a London/Portugal based q***r artist working across sculpture, installation, text and moving image. He reconstitutes residues of upkeep—dust, ash, paint flakes, textile scraps—into a paper-like fibre, weaving fragile spatial structures that register memory, repair and the material aftermath of a place. He holds an MA from the Royal College of Art (2021) and a BA from Central Saint Martins. Recent highlights include the Weave UP Textile Biennial Residency (Guimarães/Porto, 2023–24), the Art for Change Finalist Exhibition (Saatchi Berlin, 2023), the Bilbao Print Biennial (2023), the London Grads show at Saatchi Gallery (2021–22), and the Liu Shiming Artist Grant (2024). From 2021–25 he lived in rural Portugal, renovating a modernist villa in exchange for studio space, where this body of work developed.

10/04/2026

Pics from the opening night of

“Connecting Tissue”

Exhibition of yhe 24 finalists of CREA OPEN 2026.

Curated by .mrtin .taykastory

From April 9 to 17, 2026, the spaces at CREA will present a multidisciplinary narrative-spanning painting, sculpture, photography, video art, performance, textile art, installation, and new media-through works selected by the International Jury.

“Connecting Tissue” explores the invisible yet tenacious bond that unites individuals in the contemporary world: a network of energies and relationships capable of transforming the instability of the present into fertile ground for regeneration.

Alessandra Risi Castoldi, Alsu Nuriakhmetova, Ameena Aljeman Alali, Andrea Mikyska, Angelique Nagovskaya, Anna Ratajczyk, Antonio Guiotto, Bruno Romi, Corinna Rosteck, Daria Khozhai, Daria Romanenko, Emma Windsor-Liscombe, Hye Gun Lee, Hyunah Koh, Inessa Garden, Ivana Janosev, Katharina Büttgen, Ming Lu, Niamh Swanton, Olga Lepri, Ozlem Köse, Sandro D’Agaro, Sergei Zinchuk, Tatyana Palyga, are the voices and visions of a journey that, through their works, does not merely exhibit but enhances art as the chosen tool for stitching together the fragments of our contemporary identity.

03/04/2026

Don’t Miss our next Opening!

Following the extraordinary success of the second Call for Artists, which saw the participation of 4,021 artists from all over the world, CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition

“Connecting Tissue”

This exhibition showcases the 24 finalists of CREA OPEN 2026.

From April 9 to 17, 2026, the spaces at CREA will present a multidisciplinary narrative-spanning painting, sculpture, photography, video art, performance, textile art, installation, and new media-through works selected by the International Jury.

“Connecting Tissue” explores the invisible yet tenacious bond that unites individuals in the contemporary world: a network of energies and relationships capable of transforming the instability of the present into fertile ground for regeneration.

Alessandra Risi Castoldi, Alsu Nuriakhmetova, Ameena Aljeman Alali, Andrea Mikyska, Angelique Nagovskaya, Anna Ratajczyk, Antonio Guiotto, Bruno Romi, Corinna Rosteck, Daria Khozhai, Daria Romanenko, Emma Windsor-Liscombe, Hye Gun Lee, Hyunah Koh, Inessa Garden, Ivana Janosev, Katharina Büttgen, Ming Lu, Niamh Swanton, Olga Lepri, Ozlem Köse, Sandro D’Agaro, Sergei Zinchuk, Tatyana Palyga, are the voices and visions of a journey that, through their works, does not merely exhibit but enhances art as the chosen tool for stitching together the fragments of our contemporary identity.

Opening ceremony: 04/09/2026 at 6pm.

10/03/2026

We are thrilled to announce the 25 finalists of
CREA OPEN 2026

Alessandra Risi (Perù)
Alsu Nuriakhmetova (Russia)
Ameena Aljeman Alali (UAE)
Andrea Mikyska (Czech Rep)
Angelique Nagovskaya (UK)
Anna Ratajczyk (Italy)
Antonio Guiotto (Italy)
Bruno Romi (Brasile)
Corinna Rosteck (Germany)
Daria Khozhai (Ukraine)
Daria Romanenko (Italy)
Elizabeta Elisheva Povilaite (Spain)
Hye Gun Lee (South Korea)
Hyunah Koh (UK)
Inessa Garden (UK)
Ivana Janosev (Russia)
Javier leon Perez (Spain)
Katharina Büttgen (Germany)
Ming Lu (Germany)
Niamh Swanton (Ireland)
Olga Lepri (Italy)
Özlem Köse (Turkey)
Sandro D’Agaro (Italy)
Sergei Zinchuk (UK)
Tatiana Palyga (France)
Emma Windsor-Liscombe (UK)

Who are going to exhibit in Crea from April 9

A Massive thanks to all the 4021 artists who applied the first edition of our open call

And thanks to Our Jury







Graphic design

See you in Venice on April 9!


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