Events
Frontiers reimagined
Curated by Sundaram Tagore, with co-curator Marius Kwint, the exhibition will explore the theme of cultural boundaries through new and recent works, many of which...
Glasstress 2015 Gotika
GLASSTRESS 2015 GOTIKA combines historical medieval glass and objects from the Hermitage’s collection that have rarely if ever been seen by the public and contemporary art works created in glass...
The Guardia di Finanza in the Great War 1915-1918. "The long road towards Vittorio Veneto"
Organised by the Guardia di Finanza General Headquarters within the framework of initiatives for the celebrations of the centenary of entrance in the first word conflict.
The exhibition...
Mario Merz. Unreal City
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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....
Luciano Vistosi. Sculptor
Rounded, sinuous sculptures devoid of sharp angles; shapes that appeal for the changing plays of light and also for their tactile qualities; works made by modelling the blown glass with rapid,...