ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with ACIT Venice - Italian-German Cultural Association, is pleased to announce the opening of the 17th edition of CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2025 that will take place at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello on October 24,2025.The exhibition will run until November 07,2025.Bringing together over 80 artists from around the world, the 17th edition of CONTEMPORARY VENICE focuses on the connection between the body and its surroundings, reflecting on the merging of identities and contemporary cultural, physical, social, and urban landscapes through its two curated sections: MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES. MIXING IDENTITIES analyzes the hidden parts of our identities through an immersive experience inside the fascinating universe of the complex labyrinths of our consciousness. The human body is a changing system that connects us with other bodies and spaces to perceive the surrounding reality; a strong communication system with its language and infinite ways of expression. FUTURE LANDSCAPES are abstract, infinite and conceptual, associated with a sense of freedom and infinite extension. Primarily experienced with the mind, spaces redefine their limits and borders, transforming surfaces into an open flow of pure ideas. This section focuses on the concept of the borders and the structures between body, mind and soul, the human identity and the city, the space and the ground. In the reflective atmosphere of Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2025 unfolds as a collective meditation on perception and transformation. Artists from across the world come together to explore how identity is built, dissolved, and redefined - through time, technology, memory, and matter. Many of the exhibited works open a dialogue between inner landscapes and external realities, tracing how consciousness and environment continuously shape one another. Across this wide constellation of practices, a shared inquiry emerges: how does the self inhabit change? For Itse Ochka, art is a philosophical tool, a search for equilibrium between matter, energy, and awareness. Her approach, deeply rooted in the relationship between consciousness and form, resonates with Chitipat Prasertsang’s lyrical abstraction, where color and rhythm become acts of reflection. Both explore the flow between interior balance and outward expression, revealing identity as a dynamic field rather than a fixed condition. This dialogue expands through artists whose work navigates psychological and emotional topographies. David Whitfield, through a deep psychological introspection, reflects on human behavior and the unconscious as a sensitive landscape, while Galatea Venturelli pursues an equilibrium between structure and emotion, turning shapes into a space for contemplation. Together, their visual languages move between control and release, reason and intuition, echoing the exhibition’s central theme of coexistence between body and mind. Jorge A. Yances transforms memory into living matter. His painting, infused with the sensibility of “Magical Realism”, merges imagination and reality into suspended visions where shadows become presence and light holds the breath of time. In his work, the surface becomes a threshold - a place where stories, traces, and echoes of life continue to resonate beyond the visible. A similar sensibility emerges in Irena Krizman’s practice, where memory takes the form of perception. Through layers of light and texture, she constructs fragile balances between presence and disappearance. Blending traditional printmaking with digital experimentation, Krizman turns matter into rhythm and light into language, revealing time as vibration. In both Yances and Krizman, memory is never a static recollection, but a living process of transformation. This same tension toward metamorphosis finds a vital echo in Tatjana Adlešič’s painting, where body and color merge into movement. Her figures, dynamic and sensual, are charged with a fluid energy that transcends time and turns gesture into emotion. In her vision, painting becomes a form of dance, every brushstroke an act of rebirth. Elsewhere, artists engage with the act of seeing and reconstructing. Colocho Art, working with shattered glass, transforms fragility into renewal: each fracture becomes an affirmation of resilience, echoing the exhibition’s meditation on reconstruction and impermanence. He invites viewers to perceive beauty not in perfection, but in the traces of what has been lived and altered. At the intersection between humanity and technology, Antonio Uvalle investigates the evolving dialogue between the organic and the synthetic. His use of artificial intelligence as an expressive medium transforms digital code into emotional language, redefining the boundaries of authorship and perception. This exploration of the post-human condition connects naturally with the gestural freedom of Federico Verdiani, whose abstract expressionism channels raw emotion into motion and light. For both artists, creation is an act of energy, a gesture of becoming that transcends medium and material. Through their diverse perspectives, the artists of CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2025 create a space where body, memory, and technology intertwine. Their works inhabit the threshold between presence and transformation, between what is seen and what is sensed. In their dialogue, the exhibition becomes more than a display: it is a living organism, breathing with the rhythm of contemporary experience. Like Venice itself, suspended between reflection and flow, the exhibition invites viewers to perceive art not as an object, but as a process: a continuous negotiation between identity and change, form and perception, matter and imagination.