Italian
Contemporary art takes center stage at M9 with emerging artists from the experimental film center
Until July 19, the project “Acque Alte” on Venice and its community, created by 15 students from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, will engage with the permanent exhibition of the Museum. Fifteen different visions of Venice and its community, from overtourism to the memory of the past, in dialogue with the multimedia narrative dedicated to the twentieth century. M9 – Museo del ’900 has inaugurated today ACQUE ALTE, a project that is part of M9 Contemporaneo, strongly desired by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and the Museum, which thus initiates a collaboration aimed at sharing content, projects, and exhibition activities. A synergy that tightens in the wake of M9’s immersive technology experience and in continuity with the long history dedicated to the teaching of cinematic language, also in relation to the visual arts, of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
Acque Alte is a contemporary art experiment that for the first time in the history of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia connects its students with a museum space.
The 15 artists involved in the project Acque Alte are the students of the Course in Performing Arts in dialogue with the historical, landscape, and urban context of Venice, coordinated by Tommaso Strinati and held from March to June 2026 with the artists Marzia Migliora, Rä Di Martino and Cesare Pietroiusti at the CSC training center on the Island of San Servolo, dedicated to the evolution of immersive and performative arts in the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary languages.
Starting tomorrow and until July 19, 15 works created during the course, ranging from video art to sculpture, from body performance to traditional photography, will enter into dialogue with >M9’s permanent exhibition. creating moments of suspension in the flow of the narrative dedicated to the history of 20th century Italy through artistic incursions dedicated, for the most part, to the relationship established by the students with the city of Venice.
The positions of the works, installed on the ground floor, on the first and second floors of the Museum, have been identified by the artists, in order to create a direct link with the contents of the permanent exhibition by focusing on Venice, the focal point of the students’ reflection and the emblem of the complex relationship between resident communities and uncontrolled tourist flows.
Access to HIGH WATERS is included in the museum ticket.
The President Gabriella Buontempo declares: “The ACQUE ALTE project – organized as part of the PNRR – offers an extraordinary opportunity for collaboration between the Experimental Cinematography Center and the prestigious Venice Foundation with its flagship, the M9 Museum in Mestre.
For our Institution, it is a source of pride that the students selected for the Course in Performing Arts, in dialogue with the historical, landscape, and urban context of Venice, have had the opportunity to showcase their works in a vibrant and international setting while also contributing to the setup phase. For the CSC Foundation, the discovery and promotion of young artists have always been among the main objectives, fostering a training rich in stimuli also coming from the world of contemporary art.”
“With ACQUE ALTE we are starting a collaboration that is very important to us and that links us to a national excellence such as the Experimental Center of Cinematography,” said Giovanni Dell’Olivo, General Director of the Venice Foundation. “At the heart of the project is the intention to tell Venezia from a different perspective, that of young people, also coming from other cities, whose gaze is essential for us to reflect on how to see and live our spaces today and tomorrow. For this reason, we thought that putting in dialogue contemporary visual languages with the narrative of M9 on the twentieth century would help make this reflection all the more complex and, at the same time, relevant.”
