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Venezia Contemporanea
Announcing the 2026/27 Venice Ghetto-Related Residency Awardees:
We are delighted to announce this year’s selected artists, researchers, and writers who were granted the Fully Covered Residency 2026/27.
The Venezia Contemporanea 2026/27 Venice Ghetto-Related Residency Programme invites artists, writers, and scholars whose practices are rooted in research, dialogue, and site-responsive exploration. This residency focuses on engaging with the rich cultural legacy of the Venice Ghetto and broader aspects of Jewish heritage.
Organized in collaboration with Galleria ScalaMata, this fully sponsored residency takes place at the Skyline and La Storta spaces.
A brief overview of the projects is below and will be updated on our website and social media.
The list of residents is updated quarterly.
– Tamar Geist
– Saad Jalal
– Raphaëlle Oskar
– Ana Rita Campos
– Tal Yehezkely and Ram Bashan
– Artist Danielle Alhassid in collaboration with Professor Elazar Elhanan
The list of artists is updated quarterly
Tamar Geist is a London-based multidisciplinary artist merging visual art, performance, and classical vocal music. Trained in both music and curation, she uses
bodypainting, set design, and photography to blur the boundaries between gallery exhibitions and concert halls. Driven by her PhD research on the immigrant experience and the public erasure of women in ultra-Orthodox society, Geist uses bodypainting to transform censorship into a vibrant reclamation of visibility. During her residency, she will explore the historical tension between concealment and visibility in the Jewish Ghetto by creating site-specific works that camouflage her body directly into the local architecture.
Saad Jalal is a Moroccan press cartoonist, comic book author, and the founding president of the Moroccan Cartoon Center. He is widely recognized for using caricature as a tool for social activism, particularly to challenge patriarchal norms and advocate for human rights in Morocco. Jalal’s work frequently addresses gender equality, women’s emancipation, and gender-based violence (such as domestic abuse and sexual harassment).
His illustrations aim to expose societal injustices and provoke reflection on traditional gender roles. During his residency, Saad will develop a graphic narrative (comic/illustrated story) project related to the Holocaust.
Raphaëlle Oskar is a project researcher in Judaic Studies whose research focuses on rabbinic literature, the Talmud, and sensory aspects of Talmudic study. During her 2025/2026 residency at the German Centre for Venetian Studies, she created the artist’s book DAF as a homage to Daniel Bomberg’s first printed Talmud edition. For this upcoming residency, she will continue her research and develop her next project. Having studied in Stockholm, Heidelberg, Berlin, and New York, she holds MAs from NYU and the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg.
Ana Rita Campos is an artist whose practice explores the intersections of storytelling, urban rehabilitation, sustainability, and human settlement practices, drawing on her background in researching sustainable cities. During a previous residency, she developed a project examining the unique high tides of Venice and their relationship to climate change and flooding in her native Azores. An experienced exhibitor, Campos focuses on utilizing residencies to conduct site-specific research, develop new work, and engage in meaningful exchange with
local communities.
Tal Yehezkely is a researcher, translator, and PhD student in the Program of Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. Her interdisciplinary research examines the expressions of smell in Hebrew and Italian literature, exploring how the sensory intersects with the literary and the political. Specifically, she traces how writers use smell to express various forms of “otherness”—such as ethnic, political, or gendered differences—within texts that react to social conflicts. Her work combines comparative literature, critical theory, and critical phenomenology with scientific findings.
Ram Bashan is a public‐humanities practitioner, literary researcher, and cultural strategist whose work bridges academic research with community‐based cultural action. He holds a master’s degree in Literature and is a graduate of the Program for Judeo-Arabic Cultural Studies. His profile, as reflected in verified public sources, shows a blend of interdisciplinary scholarship, civic engagement, and literary inquiry.
Danielle Alhassid in collaboration with Professor Elazar Elhanan Artist Danielle Alhassid (NYC) is collaborating with Professor Elazar Elhanan (City College of New York / CUNY Graduate Center). Go Forth O Daughters is an ongoing project which delves into a pivotal moment in Jewish women’s history – the emergence of women as a literary public and market.
While the impact of the press industry on Jewish culture in all that related to Hebrew was widely researched and commented upon, the rise of the Yiddish press and its impact on its intended audience, Jewish women, did not receive the same attention. Yiddish-reading women became an important market and were seen as subjects with specific needs and desires.
https://www.amsterdammuseum.nl/en/topic/women-of-amsterdam/contribution/151435-go-forth-o-daughters
