The project deboleFORTE and the Island of Sant‘ Andrea in Venice

Since 2023, Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò (b. 1979) and a collective of collaborators have been working to sustain the lagoon island of Sant‘ Andrea – a former Renaissance fortress, once built to defend Venice, now in a state of transition between decay and renewal.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò, who lives and works in Venice, transfers the atmosphere of the lagoon and the tensions of this moment to Munich: green shades, a bronze sculpture of an eroded “briccole” and the image of a crab endlessly shedding its shell as a metaphor for vulnerability and transformation.
The exhibition at ERES Projects bridges to Sant’ Andrea – now a fragile ecosystem and laboratory for art, ecology and cultural renewal – as well as to the group exhibition “Shifting Waters”, with which the ERES Foundation participates as a Collateral Event at Biennale Arte 2026 in Venice.