Don’t have hope, be hope!

Michael Armitage, Sasha Gordon, Victor Man, Walter Price, and Andra Ursuța are among the artists included in the exhibition Don’t have hope, be hope! Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection.

The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo inaugurates its third venue on the Island of San Giacomo in Venice with an exhibition bringing together works from its collection. The title, Don’t have hope, be hope!, drawn from a 2024 painting by Walter Price, invites visitors to connect the exhibition path with the island’s new identity: a former military outpost reimagined as an artistic, cultural, and ecological one.

Don’t have hope, be hope! is both a presentation of the collection and a device for reflecting on our time. Through the voices of the artists, it proposes a vision in which hope is not an abstract concept but an embodied practice—fragile and yet necessary.

Learn more at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.