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Waiting for King Lear takes shape as an interdisciplinary and immersive work that merges the languages of theatre, cinema, and contemporary visual arts, shaping a narrative that both documents and interprets the creative process behind staging King Lear by William Shakespeare. Through the observation of rehearsals, the exploration of places, and the rendering of existential reflections that emerge during the production, the work takes on the character of a meta-theatrical investigation. Set between the Teatro Goldoni and several symbolic sites in the city of Venice — including the New Prisons, the Doge’s Palace, the Arsenal, and the Cini Foundation — the documentary unfolds as a sensitive and visionary journey that transcends the limits of the stage, becoming a dreamlike experience and a reflection on representation itself.

During a meeting at a Norwegian elementary school, parents are called in to discuss a serious incident involving two six-year-old children, Armand and Jon, who are also cousins. Armand is accused of inappropriate sexual behavior toward Jon, and his mother Elisabeth, a widow, must confront the accusations in a climate of growing tension. During the meeting, the boundaries between guilt, innocence, and perception blur, leading to a slow but inevitable emotional confusion.

Bailey is twelve years old and already carries the weight of a broken world: that of the squatters. She grows up in North Kent, between graffiti-covered and crumbling buildings, and dreams that never make it through the day. Her father, Bug, had her when he was a teenager, and now he is about to marry Kayleigh, who also became a mother too soon. In that neighborhood, it’s the norm: teenage mothers, angry men, violence that devours childhood.

 Every day, Bailey fights. Against her changing body, against the fear that Skate, her mother's new partner, might be yet another man she needs to protect herself from. Against the fixed thought that her younger siblings could end up worse off. Nobody protects anyone where she lives, except for her brother, Hunter.

 Then comes Bird, a strange character, an out-of-place sprite like a dream amidst the mud. He’s different. He’s unpredictable. And in a way that Bailey doesn’t immediately understand, he could change everything.

 

Qiao Yan, a successful woman in Beijing, lives a life built on apparent certainties and hollow ambitions. Her orderly, detached world shatters with the arrival of her sister Da—pregnant and overlooked by society—who reenters her life after seventeen years of separation. The two sisters, marked by a traumatic past and an unbridgeable distance, are forced to confront the weight of their divided lives: Qiao Yan, shaped by success but inwardly empty, and Da, trapped in the shadows of a marginal and oppressed existence.

A Cabinet of Wonders is a tribute to the art of collecting, taking place within the splendid setting of Palazzo Grimani — a treasure in itself. Once the home of Giovanni Grimani – a visionary patron whose renowned collection of Greek and Roman statues has recently returned in part to the Palazzo after more than 400 years – no location could be more fitting for such an exhibition, where echoes of Renaissance grandeur meet contemporary curiosity.

The constellation of works by Tatiana Trouvé that occupy the three floors of Palazzo Grassi guides visitors through inner and outer worlds where dreams, memories, and visions converge. 

The exhibition explores the recurrence and transformation of motifs within Schütte's major works, from his early years to the present. 

Heatwave presents itself as an existential lab: a place where design becomes an ethical gesture, a communal act, a collective inquiry into how we might inhabit a world that is retreating, overheating, transforming.