Residencies and fellowships
Diana Anselmo, Andrea Canepa, Edoardo Lazzari
Fellowship, Residency
Residencies
Every year Scuola Piccola Zattere will host 3 established artists from different fields, whose work is pertinent to the themes of the general program. About 3 months long, residencies are intended for artistic research and for work on a specific project, commission, or exhibition. The artists in residency will also contribute to the educational activities of the Scuola by serving as tutors and mentors, giving workshops, and sharing their research process. Participants are invited directly by the institution.
Fellowships
The fellowship program provides grants and workspace to emerging artists, curators, authors from the local, national, or international scene. Lasting 3 or 5 months, a fellowship is an opportunity to focus on one’s research or ongoing projects, in dialogue with the Scuola’s artistic community. Fellows both receive and provide education, work with other participants from different cultural contexts and disciplines, and contribute to the Scuola’s public programs. This will help initiate a circular, iterative approach to the research process, opening up new areas of exploration, to the benefit of subsequent phases of study, development, and production. The first fellowships, assigned by invitation, will start in November 2024 and January 2025. Two more positions will be offered through an open call. During the year 4 fellowships will be assigned to international or Italy-based participants, while 4 will be reserved for applicants based in Venice.
Current residencies and fellowships
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).
Edoardo Lazzari is an independent curator, educator, and PhD student at the University La Sapienza in Rome, where he investigates assembly devices within performative artistic practices, understood as processes that establish reality, ecological methodologies, and political practices of coexistence between bodies.
In recent years, he has curated and led public programs, pedagogical, and participatory projects in museum institutions (Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, La Biennale di Venezia, MUDAM Luxembourg) and beyond (Biennale Urbana, Catalysi Festival, Venere in Teatro, Fondazione Lac o Le Mon). He collaborated with Piersandra Di Matteo on the creation of the book performance + curatela (Luca Sossella Editore, 2021) and translated Bernard Voilloux’s essay Palcoscenici Fantasma. Gisèle Vienne (Nero Editions, 2022). His writings have been published in academic journals such as Biblioteca Teatrale, TURBA Magazine, Culture Teatrali, Polèmos, and OFFICINA, as well as in Antinomie, Cut/Analogue, and Opera Viva, and in publications like Training for the Future (Sternberg Press, 2022), Civitonia (Nero Editions, 2022), and Scrivere in Residenza (Biennale di Venezia/bruno, 2018).
In 2019, he co-founded the artistic and curatorial platform Extragarbo. He lives and works in Venice, where he co-managed and curated the cultural space Bardadino (2020-2023) and regularly collaborates with the Iuav University of Venice in the Master’s program in Theatre and Performing Arts and in the Movies – Moving Images Arts Master.
Diana Anselmo is a Deaf visual artist and performer, activist, and improvised human being.
Bilingual in LIS (Italian Sign Language) and Italian, she made her debut with her first performance Autoritratto in tre atti (2021), which is still being presented at various festivals in Italy and internationally (Serbia, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Cyprus).
Abroad, she made her debut in Berlin, performing in Le Sacre du Printemps (2022) by Xavier Le Roy. Recently, she exhibited her first solo show Je Vous Aime at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation (2024), and is now represented by Galleria Eugenia Delfini.
She is one of the founders of Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the first European association for artists with disabilities, where she has participated in various European festivals (Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Latvia). She is the youngest member of the Cultural Advisory Board of the British Council.