Events
The Leading Thread
A thread of light, the “main theme” in cracked red neon always in motion, is the thread of Federica Marangoni’s life and emotions.
A red rivulet of energy and blood – specially visible at...
Painting as shooting di Liu Xiaodong
Faurschou Foundation is proud to present Painting as Shooting by Liu Xiaodong, one of China’s most influential painters of the last two decades, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice.
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Dancing Solar Flowers
Alexandre Dang’s “Dancing Solar Flowers” will be displayed in the Cortile Grande of Ca' Foscari University for the entire period of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the...
The Sound of Creation. Sound Paintings by Beezy Bailey and Brian Eno
We listen to music not only with our ears; we look at images not only with our eyes.
The Sound of Creation presents a selection of pictorial works and sounds, the...
Jenny Holzer
The works on exhibit at Museo Correr have been selected from a decade of the artist’s war paintings, a significant departure from the LED installations for which Holzer is best known.
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Frammenti Expo ’67 Alexander Calder
The exhibition, curated by Germano Celant and organized in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, New York, fills the Spazio Vedova with sculptures, a film, and photographs of Calder’s 1967...
Frammenti Expo ’67 Emilio Vedova
Curated by Germano Celant with Fabrizio Gazzarri in the Magazzino del Sale, Frammenti Expo ’67: Emilio Vedova offers the public a reinterpretation of the artist’s original projection for...
Armenity / Haiyutioun
The Golden Lion for the national pavilion goes to Republic of Armenia for forming a pavilion based on a people in diaspora, each artist engaging their specific locality as...
Sebastião Salgado
Presented at the Foundation's gallery in Piazza San Marco, the exhibition consists of a selection of 75 of the most representative images from the photographic journey which the great...
Cagnaccio di San Pietro
Twenty-four years after the retrospective at the Museo Correr, Cagnaccio di San Pietro (1897-1946) is returning home: to his Venice and to the same museum – Ca’ Pesaro – in which he took the first...
Jimmie Durham
During the 56th Venice Biennale, Durham will present Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism.
The installation at the Spazio Carlo Scarpa will feature new objects...
Cy Twombly
One of the greatest masters of contemporary art, Cy Twombly returns to Venice 1964, with a major monographic exhibition curated by Julie Sylvester and Philip Larratt-Smith.
CY Twombly...
Water by Lilya
Lilya’s inspiration is Water. It is in line with her continuity of working on nature’s fundamental elements Air, Fire, Earth, Water, and intriguingly appropriate for Venice. The exhibition...
Peter Doig
The artist presents large paintings and several intimately scaled works, all of them new and being shown for the first time. The imagery in the new works is diverse, drawing on private and found...
Jia Aili
The exhibition features a body of six works – four of which have never been exhibited before – and is the first solo show a European museum dedicates to Jia Aili. Created between 2011 and 2015,...
Unchangeable, ancient water
A new circuit, set up within the permanent collaction, suggesting visitors may linger over some masterpices at the Museum, linked to the water elemnt, fundamental in man's evolution over time,...
Tribute to Gilles Caron
This exhibition, set up within the charming venues of this foundation dedicated mainly to musical research, presents a selection of colour photographs by the Franch artist on the occasion of the...
New Objectivity
New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933, the first comprehensive show in Italy and the United States to explore the themes that...
Palazzo Cini Gallery
On 25 April the Palazzo Cini Gallery at San Vio will re-open to the public, thanks to a partnership with Assicurazioni Generali, with a number of...
Ettore Spalletti
Promoted by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Institute of Art History in collaboration with ASLC Progetti per l’arte – Verona, the Ettore Spalletti...
Jackson Pollock's Mural
The immensely dynamic Mural is the largest painting Pollock created and it has exerted a seismic impact on American art down to the present day....
Charles Pollock
The exhibition documents Charles Pollock’s full career, with most of the material (art and documents, some of it never before exhibited) being loaned by the Charles Pollock Archive, Paris,...
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crowd and Individual
The exhibition at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini will feature around 80 one-off, jute figures, made individually by Abakanowicz herself. The figures will be assembled one beside the...
Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection
The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see for the first time some very rare objects, often one-off pieces, which Bruno and Christina Bischofberger have...
Martial Raysse
Curated by Caroline Bourgeois in collaboration with the artist
“The social role of the painter? To show the beauty of the world in order to encourage people to protect...
Slip of the Tongue
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the artist Nairy Baghramian (born in 1971), who has been in active conversation with Danh Vo. Three of her installations are presented. Indeed, the...
HENRI ROUSSEAU Archaic candour
The actress at work. Scripts annotated by Eleonora Duse
La mostra presenta una ricca serie di testimonianze del lavoro di Eleonora Duse sui testi teatrali da lei portati in scena o rimasti allo stato di progetto.
The exhibition...
Alchemy by Jackson Pollock
After more than a year's absence, Jackson Pollock's Alchemy – one the museum’s masterpieces and a masterpiece of American Abstract Expressionism –...
Grisha Bruskin
A mysterious alphabet composed of 160 characters: angels, animal-faced demons, figures pierced by lightning, men carrying their own shadow on their shoulders or gazing into the secrets of a book....