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#PatriziaSandrettoReRebaudengo for Venice Biennale Portraits.

Founder of @fondazionesandretto Re Rebaudengo, whose new Venetian home on the island of San Giacomo marks a significant new chapter in the foundation's activity.

Located in the northern lagoon between Murano and Burano, the island has been restored from a state of abandonment and transformed into a space for exhibitions, artistic production and residencies.

In this conversation, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo reflects on the history of the project, the challenges of the restoration, and the role she envisions for the island within the foundation's wider network of venues in Turin, Guarene and Madrid — as a place where contemporary art, ecology and cultural exchange can coexist.

AN INTERVIEW BY MARA SARTORE
DISCOVER MORE ON OUR WEBSITE taken in Venice, Italy by @marasartore

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22 days ago

@ilgiornaledellarte spoke with @marasartore and @teresa.sartore of Lightbox for its ongoing interview series, “How Is Art Communicated Today?”, which invites leading figures in Italian cultural communication – press officers, communication directors, and consultants working with museums, foundations, institutions, galleries, and major events – to reflect on how their profession is changing.

Lightbox has never approached its work as a traditional press office, but rather as a consultancy and communication agency specialising in contemporary art. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience across contemporary art and cultural projects, Mara and Teresa discuss communication not as something that comes at the end of a project, but as an integral part of its development. The interview also touches on the value of context, editorial judgement, and a close reading of the contemporary art world – not simply to make a project visible, but to understand what makes it worth paying attention to in the first place.

Read the full interview at the link in bio. by @marasartore

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a month ago

#IntiLigabue for Venice Biennale Portraits

Founder of @ligabuefoundation — established in 2016 in memory of his father, the researcher and collector #GiancarloLigabue — Inti spent a decade staging exhibitions across Venice's historic palazzi before opening Palazzo delle Arti e delle Culture: housed in his own home, #PalazzoErizzoLigabue on the Canal Grande, where ancient artefacts from cultures around the world enter into dialogue with contemporary works.

Here he reflects on the meeting point between past and present at the heart of the foundation's vision, its artist residency programme and the exhibitions planned for the years ahead — and on Venice itself, its current renaissance, and his belief that the city must become a place of artistic production, not only of display.

AN INTERVIEW BY MARA SARTORE
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#MyartGuides
#ContemporaryArt taken in Venice, Italy by @marasartore

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3 days ago

Over the past twenty years, Copenhagen has reshaped its cultural landscape, bringing together its longstanding traditions of Danish design and architecture with a flourishing food scene and an expanding network of museums, kunsthalles, galleries and independent art spaces.

Discover the city through this curated weekend itinerary by @marasartore, featuring a selection of art spaces and leisure offerings.

Explore our selection on the interactive My Art Guides Global Guide map or at myartguides.com – link in bio. taken in Copenhagen, Dennmark by @marasartore

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12 days ago

#BarbaraPrenka
Making myself at home
24 September 2026 — 18 February 2027

For Vetrina#18, Mara Sartore invites Barbara Prenka to present Making myself at home, an existing work reconfigured specifically for the Vetrina in collaboration with @lightboxpublishing

The work originally measures 450 cm in length. Here, it has to fit within a space just 227 cm wide and 30 cm deep. So it folds, turns back on itself, and adapts.

It fits — but it can no longer be seen in its entirety at once.

The result is a quiet negotiation between what we bring with us and what we encounter: something changes shape, something remains hidden, something persists without being immediately visible.

Not necessarily becoming something else.
Just finding a way to exist within conditions we did not choose.

The work was created during Barbara Prenka’s 2025 residency at @lottozero
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Ph credits @giorgioschirato_photography taken in Venezia, Italia by @marasartore

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12 days ago

Such a Fever: I Can’t Stop Living / Che febbre: non riesco a smettere di vivere

La mostra è aperta dal giovedì al sabato dalle 10:00 alle 18:00, fino al 1 Novembre.

Opere di:
@____tide_____
@davidelamontagna

A cura di:
@marasartore

05.09 – 01.11.2026
Joystick.space – Calle Longa, San Polo 2125/B, Venezia taken in Venezia by @marasartore

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19 days ago

Thank you, Barbara, for Making Myself at Home.

A blanket is one of the simplest forms of shelter. It holds warmth, memory and care. It protects us, but it can also travel with us — carrying something of home wherever we go.

In Barbara’s work, the blanket becomes an intimate metaphor for adaptation and transformation: the way we learn to inhabit new places and circumstances, reshaping ourselves in relation to what we encounter while holding on to what we carry within us.

Perhaps making ourselves at home is precisely this: not remaining unchanged, but finding new forms of belonging through care, connection and transformation.

Grazie Barbara, for such a deeply personal and generous work. ❤️ taken in Vino-Vero by @marasartore

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22 days ago

Spoiler Inaugurazione Vetrina #18

"Making myself at home"
by @barbara_prenka
Lo spettro visivo ad alta frequenza che avevamo bisogno per l'inverno 🌈

Un progetto a cura di @marasartore
In collaborazione con @lightboxpublishing
Grazie a tutti ❤️‍🔥 taken in Venice, Italy by @marasartore

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22 days ago

#CharlotteColbert for Venice Biennale Portraits.

Presented with "Possible Landscapes", two site-specific interventions in historic gardens across Venice. At the Giardino di Ca' Granda della Regina, overlooking the Grand Canal opposite the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a polished steel arch crowned by an eye stands as a portal, an invitation to see the world otherwise.
At #AmanVenice, Colbert transforms the hotel's historic garden into a space for wandering, discovery and quiet magic, exploring the idea of gardens not as backdrop but as artworks in their own right.

AN INTERVIEW BY MARA SARTORE
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#myartguides
#venicebiennale
#contemporaryart taken in Venice, Italy by @marasartore

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a month ago

Still smiling from last night. My children, my friends, my people. Beautiful and crazy friends, endless hugs, laughter and so, so much love. ❤️

And to everyone who couldn’t be in Venice but flooded me with messages from near and far: I felt you there.

Thank you to my amazing Lightbox Team for all the love (and these brilliant badges!) and to the Bea Vita Team for making the magic happen.

Very loved. Very lucky. Very happy.
Senza di voi non vale. ❤️ by @marasartore

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2 months ago

#MerikeEstna for Venice Biennale Portraits

Estonia's representative at the 61st Venice Biennale with #The HouseofLeakingSky, curated by #NataliaSielewicz.

A former church in Castello is transformed into an open studio where Estna develops a #monumentalpainting throughout the duration of the Biennale, inviting visitors to witness the work as it comes into being.

Conceived as a living, performative and social medium rather than a finished object, her practice moves between canvas, architecture and everyday life, bringing artistic labour into dialogue with #motherhood, care and collective forms of making.

AN INTERVIEW BY MARA SARTORE
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GRAZIE @merikeestna @siele_witch @estonianpavilion_merikeestna taken in Venice, Italy by @marasartore

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2 months ago

“Such a Fever: I Can’t Stop Living / Che febbre: non riesco a smettere di vivere”

Matilde Sambo, Davide La Montagna
Curated by Mara Sartore

5 September - 1 November, 2026
Joystick, Venice

Opening: 4 September, 7pm

“Such a Fever: I Can’t Stop Living / Che febbre: non riesco a smettere di vivere” inaugurates Joystick’s new exhibition season, bringing together for the first time the practices of @____tide_____ and @davidelamontagna.
Curated by @marasartore, the exhibition explores the shared territory between two distinct artistic voices, united by a profound attention to fragility, memory and the subtle ways in which materials can carry emotional experience.

Learn more on @joystick.space website 🔗 by @marasartore

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3 months ago