From Emily Dickinson to Ungaretti, there are concluding lines that help a poem not end; "Thus waves come in pairs"(...) is part of them. In its exhaustion, it generates a pause as long as the time of a deep breath, as happens in front of the sea.

— Tatiana Basso

Lasciarsi Venezia alle spalle con una ninna nanna metallica che rimbomba e avvolge, al tempo stesso, timpani e corpo, al tempo stesso: è la filastrocca onomatopeica, è il collettivo di statue ossimoriche perché in movimento, umane e umanizzate, è la performance che va oltre l’arte per ritornare all’origine di tutte le cose, il primo ricordo, il desiderio atavico della nostalgia per il passato che si riflette sul presente.

Just as sunlight is refracted through Church stained glass windows, exist contrasts and light effects of rare beauty and underwater atmosphere; Ocean Space is a cultural ecosystem that promotes a deeper relationship with the Ocean through the prism of art

— Markus Reymann

Ocean Space represents the intersection of imagination and action: a catalyst between the ability to re-imagine the present and striving towards the future. Because change does not lie in the thrill of the plunge, but in the vertigo of the immersion

— Markus Reymann

Ocean Space and Pirelli HangarBicocca dedicate two exhibitions to Dineo Seshee Bopape, considered among the most interesting exponents of South African art. Bopape between history, politics and memory, addresses the legacy of the African diaspora

— Alessandra Alliata Nobili

Taloi Havini's artwork reaches out to audiences and grabs them with their compelling nature

The church embodies Venice's Unesco World Heritage status as 'a unique artistic achievement', but it also captures the pressing existential threat confronting the city