ARTIVISM, now at its second edition, aims to become a permanent presence during the Venice art biennale. Since we established an inspiring collaboration with Saturnia Film Festival the art movie section was created inside the SFF corroborated by a fine art curation with international artists.  The socio-ecological thematics are the core interest and all applications will be watched with great interest, also for other future events. 

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We are seeking to show young emerging art next to established names under a strong curation choice. We encourage group works on meaningful subjects. The video art plays a major role, this is why we secured the partnership with the Saturnia Film Festival in-order to further promote the talents. 

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We believe art has today the key to public’s heart in understanding and adopting a new way of life. 

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We make sure to ensure the programming of public art performances in the limit of the city hall validation. And most of all, we express a desire to secure long term partnerships with art patrons and sponsors. This is why we wish to create the Artivist Lion awards and the Saturnia FF art movie award. A legacy in which both, patrons and artists can start writing a story. 

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ARTIVISM is an expression and result of the SHIM ECO art group, hosted by Shim Art Network that functions as an extensive matrix of motley islands connecting artists, collectors, writers, philosophers, creators of all types, scientists, galleries and public places around the world to share information and creations whose central concern are climate change, environment and social justice. Shim ECO is an open-sourced platform with a non-hierarchical structure. Each individual can suggest or develop initiatives with the support and help of other members. It is an entrepreneurial laboratory with a self-funded base that can open up to sponsors and patrons in accordance with the group's philosophy.

Shim ECO is the first art group created by and for artists of any age or nationality, to begin the process of reinventing the art world as a progressive, interactive and user-generated ecosystem that can reshape how we understand each other within the global cultural economy. We prise the process, the devotion and the technics, the intimate  poetics of each artist or designer. Shim ECO is dedicated to bringing together artists eager to integrate collective action, inspired by science, and who work full time alone or jointly to preserve, educate and share information, forge communities, highlight facts. They are ready to surprise. Shim ECO is therefore an archipelago of determined and united creators, who will diverge and converge on subjects, with the aim of ensuring that these global artistic voices no longer remain invisible.