Particolare
Venice

Inspired by the theme of the Biennale, the exhibition explores how art can serve as a tool for integration and adaptation, blending science, technology, craftsmanship, and humanist thought to address the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Artificial intelligence as a tool of imagination comes to life in Refik Anadol’s work, where data becomes living material and algorithms generate synesthetic landscapes – visualizations of the machines’ immaterial thoughts. His work asks: Can AI not only interpret, but also dream, building the imaginative architecture of tomorrow?
Tomás Saraceno’s projects explore the intersection of science, biology, technology, and community. His practice demonstrates how natural intelligence and innate sensitivity can unite to find a new balance among cultures, ecosystems, and ways of living.

Natural intelligence – slow, embodied, and artisanal knowledge – is present in the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto, a founding figure of Arte Povera. He invites the viewer to become a co-creator, transforming observation into a form of collective thinking.

Alicja Kwade’s precise and minimalist interventions question the limits of perception. Her work examines the fragile balance between reality and illusion, using physical materials as instruments of metaphysical inquiry.

Miryana Todorova’s paintings explore the dialogue between the human body and urban space. Her canvases reflect the interaction between emotional memory and architectural structure, shaped by intuition and movement.

Rashid Al Khalifa’s installations draw inspiration from traditional Middle Eastern forms, reinterpreted through light, rhythm, and contemporary materials. His works become poetic architectures of place, where cultural memory engages in dialogue with the present.

Christian Jankowski’s Hooping Guggenheim exhibition adds a critical dimension to the reflection on collective and institutional intelligence. The artist transforms the iconic museum into a performance partner, using a segmented model of the Guggenheim rotunda as a hoop, which he spins around his body. The physical action, documented in a series of black-and-white photographs, humorously and precisely deconstructs the weight of institutional architecture. Here, architecture ceases to be a static backdrop and becomes a moving actor, where body and institution, the natural and the artificial, merge in a choreographed encounter.

“Dialogue Between the Natural and the Artificial” is not only an exhibition about humans and machines: it addresses the plurality of approaches to thinking and creating. It explores the ability of architecture and art to serve as platforms for collaboration between forms of intelligence – biological and digital, personal and collective. The exhibition does not offer a single answer, but instead opens a living space for experience and reflection, inviting the viewer not to observe from a distance, but to actively participate in the world to come.

An essential part of the Particolare concept is its multidisciplinary nature, which extends beyond the visual to engage other sensory and intellectual dimensions. Running alongside the exhibition is a vibrant program of music and performance that deepens the visitor’s experience.

The music program, Palazzo Sonore, curated by Klangforum Wien, explores strategies for both collective and individual sonic presence in space. It investigates how sound interacts with architecture, environment, and audience — offering a rich, dynamic listening experience that dissolves the boundaries between music, space, and movement. It is an invitation to listen with the whole body and to navigate a landscape of sound as both participant and observer.

Adding another dimension to the program is MAHAMAYA, a bold new theater piece by acclaimed playwright Ivan Vyrypaev. Composed of rapid-fire questions and answers, the play confronts the major issues of our time — society, psychology, spirituality, artificial intelligence, identity, life, death, and, ultimately, love. Through its urgent and rhythmic dialogue, MAHAMAYA provokes reflection and emotional engagement, expanding the intellectual terrain of Particolare.