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EXPANDING CULTURAL SPACES

THEIR STORIES, OUR SHARED SPACE

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KEEP THE WILD ALIVE

WHAT WE DO

Education: We offer workshops, lectures, and artist-led programs that foster critical thinking, cross-cultural literacy, and creative skill development.

Community-Building: Our residencies and collaborative initiatives bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds to co-create work, build mutual understanding, and strengthen social cohesion.

Charitable Outreach: We provide access to art programs for underserved populations, and we actively support artists who lack institutional representation or financial means to develop their practice.

Their Stories, Our Shared Space

THIRDSPACE Art Foundation creates platforms where artists, thinkers, and communities from diverse backgrounds come together to exchange ideas, collaborate, and reimagine cultural boundaries.

We support emerging voices, immigrant communities, and artists working at the intersection of social justice and creative expression.

Programs

Jelili Atiku | Eyes No Dey Forget Wetin Heart See

5 May, 2026

Hotel Monaco, Sala Vallaresso, European Cultural Centre Marinaressa Gardens, Creative Venice Giudecca

The performance, Eyes No Dey Forget Wetin Heart See, features a mystical figure embodying the earth's energy, embarking on a 'Luminous Pilgrimage,’ a deliberate, trance-like journey that weaves…

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Wura-Natasha Ogunji and ruby onyinyechi amanze | The Dash

6 May, 2026

Hotel Monaco, Piazza San Marco, and surrounding area

The Dash is a performance of two runners who race in slow motion for exactly one hour. The performance may be staged within an interior or exterior space:…

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Zora Snake and Wilfried Nakeu | Escape the Boxes

8 May, 2026

Giardini Marinaressa I or II

In L’Opéra du villageois, Zora Snake stages a dialogue between living bodies and museum-held works of art, situated at the crossroads of imaginaries.

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Bernard Akoi-Jackson | Untitled: Flaggings IN MEMORIAM in the BLUES on some CUES and when WAX ain’t so LOST (a sketchy score for some processional gestures and an eventual celebratory discussion)

9 May, 2026

Giardini Marinaressa I and II, plus Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi

The work unfolds as a series of performative interventions manifest as processional gestures, fictive liturgical invocations, leading eventually to a day of collective re-membering (a gathering).

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Tsedaye Makonnen and Jermay Michael Gabriel | Waves of Ash

6 Mar, 2026

Peggy Guggenheim Collection Garden (approval pending)

This performance links Tsedaye Makonnen’s and Jermay Michael Gabriel’s artistic practices, migration, the archive of memory, and the deviation of Western epistemology.

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