Andrea Canepa works with installations, sculptures, videos, and performances, with a particular sensitivity to design, dance, and play. In his projects, the active involvement of the audience plays a central role, along with a desire to stimulate gestures and interactions between bodies that foster a transformation of space. Through his work, he highlights the formative value inherent in interactions with the spaces we move through, as well as with the objects and organisms we encounter.

The artist has been commissioned to create an installation for the area of the Scuola adjacent to the entrance, the Ridotto. Serving as an informal meeting space that is always accessible, the Ridotto is primarily dedicated to educational activities, while also allowing for the exploration of new forms of welcome and interaction with audiences, hosting workshops, inviting play or rest, and fostering both planned and spontaneous exchanges.

The work Andrea Canepa has specifically designed for this space, titled Geometrie del Possibile, is conceived as an experiential environment, aimed at increasing sensitive awareness and stimulating the bodies that inhabit it. The spatial composition is inspired by modular floor geometries, exploring the infinite possibilities of elements that may seem rigid at first glance. The structures do not impose but invite, opening up to the randomness of play, free movement, and the continuous reconfiguration of space.

A first part of the installation is inaugurated with the activation of a performance component entitled Le Forze d’Ercole, inspired by an ancient acrobatic competition part of Venetian vernacular history. The project will be further developed by the artist during the months of her residency, including through the opportunities for experimentation offered by the educational activities.

Andrea Canepa, An interior motion, 2022, Film still. Courtesy of the artist 

Andrea Canepa is a visual artist that grew up on the coast of Peru and is currently based in Berlin. She works primarily with installation, sculpture, textiles and performance.

She studied Fine Arts in Lima (PE) and Valencia (ES) and received her MFA in Visual Arts and Multimedia from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. She has received grants from the German Art Fund Foundation, the Senate for Culture and Europe in Berlin, Endesa Foundation (ES), and awards including the ARCO Community of Madrid Prize for Young Artists and the Generaciones Prize (ES). She has participated in a number of residencies including Gasworks (UK), Jan Van Eyck Academie (NL), Cité des Arts (FR), Bauhaus Masters’ Houses (DE), MATADERO (ES), Tokyo Wonder Site (JP), Beta Local (PR) and was a 2018-2019 recipient of the Spanish Academy in Rome Fellowship (IT). She’s had solo shows at the MSU Broad Museum in Michigan, De Appel in Amsterdam, the Peruvian-American Cultural Institute - ICPNA in Lima, Domus Artium Museum in Salamanca, the Museum of Teruel and Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona. Her works are part of collections such as CA2M, IVAM, Museo de Teruel (ES), MSU Broad Museum (US) and of foundations such as Endesa, Montemadrid, DKV and Inelcom (ES), Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (DE) and MASM (PE).