Fondazione Malutta: Amuse Bouche at Bea Vita Venezia
Fondazione Malutta presents
Amuse Bouche
Bea Vita Venezia
January 18th – September 15th, 2025
Bea Vita inaugurates “Amuse Bouche”, a new exhibition dedicated to the Fondazione Malutta collective. This is a work in progress exhibition that involves the gradual accumulation of objects and elements over the six-month duration of the show, with a continuous multiplication of artworks and participating artists. For this show, a selection of artists from the collective will present their works, reflecting the breadth and diversity of their creative vision. Now in its third chapter, it exhibits artworks by Ariele Bacchetti, Alessandro Bevilacqua, Thomas Braida, Nina Ćeranić, Chiara Campanile, Veronica de Giovanelli, Bruno Fantelli, Cristiano Focacci Menchini, Anna Furlan, Enej Gala, Andrea Grotto, Manuela Kokanović, Bogdan Koshevoy, Alice Modenesi, Stefano Moras, Pierluigi Scandiuzzi, Bianca Francesca Serafin, Aleksander Velišček, Maria Giovanna Zanella, and Nežka Zamar.
“The works on display represent plates, ingredients, and ‘banquets’ painted by the involved artists, each with their own visual and poetic language. But there’s more: throughout the exhibition, the number of paintings grows, as if the artistic and human desire to ‘add’ never ends. Every week, new painted plates are added to those already on display, transforming the exhibition space into an ever-expanding banquet, a living and ever-changing work that reflects our relationship with food, pleasure, and accumulation. This exhibition invites the viewer to reflect on the relationship between satiety and hunger, between satisfaction and the desire for more. In an era where consumption and production are often excessive, the continuous increase in paintings becomes a powerful metaphor: how much can we accumulate before reaching a limit? Is there really a limit to our desire?”
Founded in Venice in 2013, Fondazione Malutta consists of over thirty artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, ages, languages, and creative practices. These boundaries, far from being limitations, become catalysts that the group actively challenges and reinterprets. The foundation represents a lively confluence of cultures, genders, and sensibilities that enrich and fuel its collective and dynamic research. Spanning multiple geographies—from Albania and Serbia to Italy and Croatia, from Slovenia and Bulgaria to France and Kosovo—the artists of Fondazione Malutta converge in Venice. This city, much like art itself, resists boundaries and thrives on movement and exchange, reflecting its true essence through its rich commerce and cultural history. Through innovative exhibitions and events, the foundation celebrates a dynamic and ever- evolving artistic heritage.
Ariele Bacchetti (Belluno, 1994) enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in 2015. Recent exhibitions include “Portraits, Battles and Other Stories” at Galleria Monica Ruppert in Frankfurt; “Gemmazione”, an open studio at Dolomiti Contemporanee; and “Lo sguardo impossibile”, a two-person show at Terzospazio Zolforosso, curated by Elena De Angeli.
Alessandro Bevilacqua (Ravenna, 1996) achieved a BA in Painting at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Venezia. His research analyses the intimate relation between the matter and the subject painted, familiarity, and memory. His meticulous approach is primarily centered on painting, aided by photography, sculpture, and digital technologies.
Thomas Braida (Gorizia, 1982) lives and works in Venice. Over the years, he has exhibited in Italy and abroad in numerous solo and group shows in spaces such as Monitor Gallery (Rome, Lisbon), Le Dictateur (Milan), and Palazzo Cavour (Turin). Recent solo exhibitions include “I Pilastri” at Fondazione Malutta, Venice (2024) and “Matematiche Notturne” at Monitor Lisbon, Portugal (2023).
Nina Ćeranić (Belgrade, 1993) is a painter with a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her work, characterized by small formats on canvas and paper, explores themes of identity, memory, and perception related to the body and object. She has exhibited at MONITOR Gallery, Tommaso Calabro Gallery, and AplusA Gallery.
Chiara Campanile is a multidisciplinary artist whose work, often site-specific, incorporates various media (painting, textiles, and sound) to relate to questions of identity. Her work uses colour and perceptions as tools to analyse the brain, human psyche, and relationships. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Monitor Gallery in Rome, CERN in Geneva, Cer Modern Museum in Ankara. A member of Fondazione Malutta, she co-founded Sees acid, Vienna, in 2025.
Veronica de Giovanelli (Trento, 1989) lives and works in Brussels. She holds BFA and MFA degrees from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and ENSAV La Cambre. Her work has been exhibited at MART Museum, KANAL-Centre Pompidou, and Boccanera Gallery, among others. Recognised with awards such as the Prix Emma du Cayla-Martin and Prix Laurent Moonens, she was also featured in a monograph by MART Museum in 2020.
Bruno Fantelli (Cles, 1996) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and currently lives and works between Venice and Dimaro-Folgarida. He has exhibited in solo shows at Cellar Contemporary in Trento and Weber&Weber in Turin, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the recent “CRASH” at Joystick Space and “TORN CURTAIN-buongiorno, buonasera,” curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Hélène de Franchis.
Cristiano Focaccia Menchini (Viareggio, 1986) lives and works between Pietrasanta and Venice. In 2013, he co-founded the collective How We Dwell and received an artist studio at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. He has undertaken a residency at Viafarini DOCVA and exhibited at spaces such as Monitor Gallery and Dolomiti Contemporanee. He has collaborated with institutions like the Design Academy Eindhoven and the Fondazione Tiziano e Cadore. He is currently project coordinator for the RARE residency program at AP! Art Project.
Anna Furlan (Monfalcone, 1998) graduated from the Liceo Scientifico Paolino d’Aquileia and later enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, where she currently resides and attends the AtelierF of Carlo Di Raco. Recent exhibitions include “All Tomorrow’s Songs” al Kuhlhaus di Berlino, curated by JASA and Laura Rositani, and “Antares” at the Magazzini del Sale di Venezia, curated by AtelierF e Daniele Capra.
Enej Gala lives and works between London, Venice, and Nova Gorica. He holds a BA and MA in Painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and completed the Royal Academy Schools in London. His practice explores materiality and otherness through puppetry, sculpture, and installation, questioning traditional perspectives on art, craftsmanship, and other forms of production. Gala has exhibited at Toast Project Space, Almanac, TJ Boulting, and Marlborough Gallery, among others.
Andrea Grotto (Schio, 1989) is a painter with a degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. In 2013, he won the Atelier program at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa with the collective How we Dwell. Notable exhibitions include “Project Showcase” (GlogauAir, Berlin, 2014), “Leda / Grecale” (Galleria Caterina Tognon, Venice, 2017), “BruciaLuce” at Galleria Arrivada, Milan (2019), and “Casabase” at Galleria Nashira, Milan (2023). He is a co-founder of Fondazione Malutta and part of ATRII/Sezioni e Piani.
Manuela Kokanović (Zagreb, 1991) is a painter who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where she currently lives and works. She is a member of the Fondazione Malutta collective and works at the artist-run space Zolforosso. Among her recent projects are “Venice Time Case”, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, and her participation in Avvenimento#1 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
Bogdan Koshevoy (Dnipropetrovsk, 1993) pursued his artistic education first in Ukraine and later in Venice, where he currently lives and works. His work integrates realism with fantastic, often grotesque, elements, creating atmospheres that capture moments of tragedy or foretell disasters. Among his recent exhibitions are “Unknown Events” (Barvinskyi Art Gallery, Vienna), “The Roof is on Fire” (Weber&Weber, Turin), and “CRASH” (JoyStick Space, Venice).
Alice Modenesi is an artist with a background in restoration, trained at the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice. She participated to the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, collaborating with the Albanian Pavilion under the curatorship of Fondazione Malutta. Notable exhibitions include “One of Us” with Casa delle Ragazze in Treviso, curated by Carlo Sala and Rachele Maistrello, “I 1000, Garibaldi event” in Venice, and “Crepaccio – Casa delle Ragazze” in Milan, curated by Caroline Corbetta.
Stefano Moras (Pordenone, 1985) is a visual artist based in Brussels, where collaborates with the Open Earth Foundation. He graduated in Visual Arts and Performing Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (2012). His practice has developed in international contexts, including residencies at KAT-Sugar Refinery Art Village (Taiwan), Reopening Boxes (Brussels), Progetto Borca (Italy), and an ongoing collaboration with Dolomiti Contemporanee.
Pierluigi Scandiuzzi (Padua, 1993) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Notable exhibitions include “Panorama Monferrato. Camagna, Montemagno e Castagnole”, a project by Italics, curated by Carlo Falciani; “Campo magnetico” (Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia), curated by Cristina Beltrami; “Salon Palermo 4” (Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo), curated by Antonio Grulli e Francesco De Grandi; “Oltre il sangue amaro” (MOCA, Brescia), curated by Giorgia Massari and Riccardo Valiati.
Bianca Francesca Serafin (1998) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. She lives and works between Venice and Padua, working through painting, photography, and digital projects. Recent group exhibitions include “Il verme nel Cuscino”, curated by scafandra collettivo (Panorama, Venice) and “20 Let Novomeskih Likovnih Dni” (Dolenskij Musezj, Novo Mesto, Slovenia).
Aleksander Velišček (Šempeter pri Gorici, 1982) is a contemporary visual artist with a degree in Visual Arts and Performance Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. His artistic research focuses on social, political, and cultural themes, exploring the relationship between identity, memory, and the present. Co-founder of Fondazione Malutta, Velišček has participated in major artistic residencies (Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Viafarini, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Cité Internationale des Arts) and exhibited in numerous international contexts.
Maria Giovanna Zanella (Schio, 1991) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her works explore the experience of alterity as an encounter with difference from the self, by searching for an “existential nudity” that reveals the fragility and beauty of the human condition. Notable residencies include Viafarini, Dolomiti Contemporanee, and Mediterranea. Recent activities include the group shows “Salon Palermo 4” at Galleria Rizzuto, “Le diablo au corps” at Galleria Bonelli, and “Venice Time Case,” an itinerant exhibition/project curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
Nežka Zamar is an interdisciplinary artist based between Vienna, Venice, and Ljubljana. Her practice questions the limits of identity and individuality of a language, expanding the interspace between materiality and concept. She holds BA and MA degrees from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and studied at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. Co-founder of Sans acid, she has exhibited internationally and participated in major residencies and projects, including the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale.
