Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space & Gallery, a new and innovative space set up in Venice for hosting contemporary art, will be holding a preview of an exhibition entitled ET IN TERRA from 10th-21st May 2017 in conjunction with the opening of Biennale Arte 2017. This event will set down the gallery’s future intentions and underlying spirit.

The gallery spaces will be revealed for the first time in a 200 m2 warehouse located in 14th century Corte Petriana, just a very short distance from Campo San Polo. This is where Sant’Apollinare Opera Theatre used to stand in the 17th-century and its traces are still clearly visible thanks to erudite renovation work currently underway, which has unveiled historical stratifications from various periods in the past, including relics of theatre boxes, floor levels, graffiti and remnants of work carried out down the centuries.

The eye-catching renovation site, carefully secured for the occasion, provides the perfect setting for Gianfranco Baruchello’s Earth Exchange project. At a performance taking place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 10th May, the artist will exchange a cubic metre of earth from the Baruchello Foundation with a corresponding amount from Venice itself.

The symbolically significant performance act will be accompanied by an exhibition of works Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Francesco Candeloro, Margherita Morgantin, Giovanni Rizzoli, Marco Nereo Rotelli and Anita Sieff: six Venetian artists, who, like fertile seeds coming from this exposed earth, are all internationally acclaimed and now displaying their work together for the first time.

With the help of this striking event of great ethical, anthropological and design significance, Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space & Gallery is opening up to an empathetic and dialogical vision of contemporary art to encourage debate, interaction and artistic creativity. The gallery is, indeed, designed to accommodate transgenerational and (undoubtedly) international artistic projects, without overlooking local and traditional works, provided they are open to the future as part of a kind of visionary thinking capable of embracing and interpreting everything waiting to be said.

The exhibition ET IN TERRA is accompanied by a book with texts by the invited artists and the philosopher Massimo Cacciari.

In accordance with this notion of welcoming and sharing, as well as hosting exhibitions, part of the gallery – an Art Space as well as a Gallery – will be used as a production place and artists’ residence, so that art works can be created in the same place they are displayed, further enhanced by stimulating interaction between the artists, ordinary people, gallery space and city itself.