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Exhibitions
Eva & Franco Mattes: RAGE BAIT
6 May – 30 June 2026
Autotelic Foundation is pleased to present RAGE BAIT, an exhibition by the Italian artists Eva & Franco Mattes.
The exhibition will open in Venice during the preview days of the 61st Venice Biennale of Art.
Eva & Franco Mattes are among today's foremost artists of networked culture. This exhibition continues their recent investigation into the gap between online culture's polished surface and its murky ethical depths.
The exhibition title is derived from the internet slang term ‘rage bait’: content engineered to provoke a visceral emotional response before reason can intervene. Spanning installation, video, and generative AI, the show explores how rage bait is the logical — often inevitable — endpoint of platforms optimised for user engagement.
RAGE BAIT arrives at a moment when provocation is no longer fringe but is instead native to digital infrastructures. Under these conditions, the strange is the new normal — a feedback loop in which platforms, users, and algorithms train one another into ever more reactive configurations.
Palazzo Franchetti
Fondamenta Narisi
2847, 30124
Venezia VE, Italy
(vaporetto: Accademia)
Duration: 6 May–30 June 2026, 10am–6pm
Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, except May 11–12 and June 1–2
Le Cabanon
Campo del Santissimo Redentore
Giudecca 193/A
Venezia VE, Italy
(vaporetto: Redentore)
Duration: 6–31 May 2026, 12pm–6pm (by registration only)
To register please send the full name of all attendees to registration@autotelic-foundation.org
Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, except May 11–12
RAGE BAIT is curated by Nadim Samman and Luisa Haustein.
Commissioned by Autotelic Foundation.
Additional kind support from Palazzo Bentivoglio, APALAZZOGALLERY, Massimo Giorgetti, and CTRL+Alt Museum.
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