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frontiers reimagined

Frontiers reimagined

from 09 May 15 to 22 Nov 15
Location: 
Palazzo Grimani
Price: 
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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...

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Locandina mostra Glasstress

Glasstress 2015 Gotika

from 09 May 15 to 22 Nov 15
Location: 
Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Palazzo Ducale

The Guardia di Finanza in the Great War 1915-1918. "The long road towards Vittorio Veneto"

from 09 May 15 to 27 Sep 15
Location: 
Doge's Palace
Price: 
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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...

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Mario Merz

Mario Merz. Unreal City

from 08 May 15 to 20 Sep 15
Location: 
Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia
Price: 
Paid admission
Mario Merz. Unreal City pays tribute to one of the most important figures of the...
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Federica Marangoni

The Leading Thread

from 08 May 15 to 15 Sep 15
Location: 
Ca' Pesaro
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Biennale

The Sound of Creation. Sound Paintings by Beezy Bailey and Brian Eno

from 07 May 15 to 22 Nov 15
Location: 
Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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DODDOACID 008769 BLUE WHITE, 2008

Jenny Holzer

from 07 May 15 to 22 Nov 15
Location: 
Correr Museum
Price: 
Paid admission

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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Calder

Frammenti Expo ’67 Alexander Calder

from 06 May 15 to 18 Oct 15
Location: 
Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation - exhibition space
Price: 
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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...

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Frammenti _Emilio Vedova

Frammenti Expo ’67 Emilio Vedova

from 06 May 15 to 18 Oct 15
Location: 
Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation - exhibition space
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Armenity

Armenity / Haiyutioun

from 06 May 15 to 18 Oct 15
Location: 
San Lazzaro degli Armeni
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Cagnaccio di San Pietro - "Primo denaro"

Cagnaccio di San Pietro

from 06 May 15 to 27 Sep 15
Location: 
Ca' Pesaro
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Kai Vollmer "Not Exactly Sequitorious" - Jimmie Durham

Jimmie Durham

from 06 May 15 to 20 Sep 15
Location: 
Querini Stampalia Foundation
Price: 
Paid admission

During the 56th Venice Biennale, Durham will present Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism.

The installation at the Spazio Carlo Scarpa will feature new objects...

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The Rose (IV)

Cy Twombly

from 06 May 15 to 13 Sep 15
Location: 
Ca' Pesaro
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Lilya Pavlovic-Dear Sea Foam

Water by Lilya

from 06 May 15 to 02 Aug 15
Location: 
Querini Stampalia Foundation
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Peter Doig

Peter Doig

from 05 May 15 to 04 Oct 15
Location: 
Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation - Palazzetto Tito
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Museo Archeologico nazionale

Unchangeable, ancient water

from 03 May 15 to 23 Nov 15
Location: 
National Archeological Museum
Price: 
Paid admission

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,...

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Otto Dix, “Portrait of the Lawyer Hugo Simons” 1925

New Objectivity

from 01 May 15 to 30 Aug 15
Location: 
Correr Museum
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Palazzo Cini

Palazzo Cini Gallery

from 25 Apr 15 to 15 Nov 15
Location: 
Palazzo Cini
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Ettore Spalletti

Ettore Spalletti

from 25 Apr 15 to 23 Aug 15
Location: 
Palazzo Cini
Price: 
Paid admission

Promoted by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Institute of Art History in collaboration with ASLC Progetti per l’arte – Verona, the Ettore Spalletti...

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Mural - Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock's Mural

from 23 Apr 15 to 16 Nov 15
Location: 
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Price: 
Paid admission

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....

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Charles Pollock, Chapala 3, 1956

Charles Pollock

from 23 Apr 15 to 14 Sep 15
Price: 
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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,...

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Martial Raysse

Martial Raysse

from 12 Apr 15 to 30 Nov 15
Location: 
Palazzo Grassi
Price: 
Paid admission

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...

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Alchemy - Pollock

Alchemy by Jackson Pollock

from 14 Feb 15 to 14 Sep 15
Price: 
Paid admission

 

After more than a year's absence, Jackson Pollock's Alchemy – one the museum’s masterpieces and a masterpiece of American Abstract Expressionism –...

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"Alefbet. Part 3"

Grisha Bruskin

from 12 Feb 15 to 13 Sep 15
Location: 
Querini Stampalia Foundation
Price: 
Paid admission

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....

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Luciano Vistosi_Incubi 1999

Luciano Vistosi. Sculptor

from 09 Feb 15 to 17 Jan 16
Location: 
Glass Museum
Price: 
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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,...

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