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Beatrice von Babel is a visible expression of a long-term speculative process: the artists interact as a collective, through frequent meetings both online and in their studios in Düsseldorf, Bucharest and Venice. This debate shed light on the poetic urgency, the principles and the existential conditions of each artist, while also igniting awareness of a common perspective that would otherwise hardly surface. Thanks to this methodology, which is less and less practiced in our accelerated contemporaneity, the resulting works – be they material or performative – do not stand as single words or individual fragments that randomly fall into a context. They rather represent sentences forming a collective narration that continually renews itself. As in any non-written form of expression, every element is subject to modification, rethinking and metamorphosis, thus transforming the exhibition into a space for ever-changing possibilities, rather than offering a predetermined path. In other words: a space where unexpected things can actually happen.

BvB deals with the idea of overturning the status quo, and represents both the condition of constant disorientation and urgency in which we live, and the need to reshape the present under the guidance of new rules and according to democratic and participatory criteria. 

 BvB is an international artist collective who chose a fictional woman’ name, and acted for the first time in Venice, 2022.

Beatrice von Babel expresses itself through diverse media, spanning from painting and photography to architecture, music and poetry, dance and sculpture, refusing any sort of attention-seeking behavior. Beatrice was ideally born at Dante’s time, and her name ambiguously deals with the entangled complexity of our condition today, just a step away from Babel-like catastrophe, and the chance to find a guide indicating a way to go with the commitment of each one.