The exhibition 1912-1930 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale, curated by Marino Barovier, offers a rare opportunity to explore the evolution of Murano glass at the Venice Biennale. Running until 24 November 2024 at LE STANZE DEL VETRO, this showcase focuses on the pivotal period from 1912 to 1930, highlighting how Murano glass gradually gained prominence at the prestigious event. This Murano glass exhibition presents 135 exquisite works, many of which are exceptionally rare, sourced from renowned museums and private collections.

Between 1912 and 1930, Murano glass became increasingly visible in the Biennale’s exhibitions, with artists recognizing the extraordinary possibilities offered by this medium. The artworks on display demonstrate the creative and technical mastery achieved by Murano glassmakers during this time, showing how the craft evolved into a fine art that could stand alongside traditional painting and sculpture. This period saw the introduction of the Applied Arts section, which included glassworks, housed alongside the Fine Arts exhibits in the Palazzo dell’Esposizione.

One of the highlights of this Murano glass exhibition is the way it illustrates the journey of Murano glass from a craft tradition to a key part of the Venice Biennale’s narrative. The decision to showcase Murano glass in the Biennale was a significant step in recognizing glass as an art form in its own right. By 1930, the Biennale acknowledged the importance of applied arts, leading to the eventual creation of a dedicated pavilion in 1932. This transition is a crucial moment in the history of both the Venice Biennale and the development of glass as a medium for artistic expression.

The exhibition is not only a visual celebration but also a scholarly one, as it is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue curated by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego. The catalogue is the product of meticulous research, combining an in-depth investigation into archival documents from the Biennale Historical Archive and a thorough bibliographic study. Visitors to the Murano glass exhibition will gain a deeper understanding of the artistic and historical significance of Murano glass. Its relationship with the Venice Biennale during these formative years.

This exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO provides a unique insight into the delicate balance between tradition and innovation that defined Murano glass production in the early 20th century. As the exhibition runs until 24 November 2024, visitors have ample time to explore this fascinating chapter of art history. It is the rare chance to see some of the finest examples of Murano glass from the period. Whether you’re an art enthusiast, a glass aficionado, or simply curious about the rich cultural heritage of Venice, this Murano glass exhibition offers a captivating look at how one of the world’s most beautiful materials found its place in one of the most important art events globally.

Images courtesy of https://lestanzedelvetro.org/ – Ph. Enrico Fiorese

The Julie Mehretu exhibition titled “Ensemble” will be presented at Palazzo Grassi from 17 March 2024 to 6 January 2025. Curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Chief Curator of the Pinault Collection, together with Julie Mehretu herself, this is the most comprehensive exhibition of Mehretu’s work to date in Europe. Spanning 25 years of her artistic journey, the exhibition features over fifty works, including both paintings and prints, with a particular focus on recent pieces from 2021-2024.

Spread across two floors of Palazzo Grassi, the Julie Mehretu exhibition brings together 17 works from the Pinault Collection alongside key loans from international museums and private collections. This rich selection allows visitors to experience the full scope of Mehretu’s dynamic and evolving artistic practice. Her works are known for their intricate layering of lines, forms, and marks, which create complex compositions that reflect global issues, urban landscapes, and the chaotic nature of contemporary life.

The exhibition is structured as a non-chronological exploration of Mehretu’s oeuvre, encouraging visitors to engage freely with her work. Central to the concept of the Julie Mehretu exhibition is the theme of collaboration and dialogue. Alongside Mehretu’s works, the exhibition features pieces by several of her closest artist friends, including Nairy Baghramian, Huma Bhabha, Tacita Dean, David Hammons, Robin Coste Lewis, Paul Pfeiffer, and Jessica Rankin. These artists, who share with Mehretu an experience of displacement—whether leaving or fleeing countries like Ethiopia, Iran, and Pakistan—engage in a rich visual and conceptual dialogue with her art.

Through this exhibition, Mehretu explores the idea that art is not created in isolation. Instead, it is deeply influenced by connections, relationships and shared experiences. This collaborative spirit is at the heart of Ensemble, revealing how Mehretu’s artistic practice has been shaped by her peers and how her works resonate with broader social, political, and cultural themes.

The Julie Mehretu exhibition will also include a series of public conferences and cultural events at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, providing additional insights into the exhibition’s themes and the artists involved. A comprehensive catalogue, published by Marsilio Arte, Venice, will accompany the exhibition, featuring contributions by Hilton Als, Caroline Bourgeois, Patricia Falguières, Julie Mehretu, Jason Moran, and two in-depth conversations between Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer, Lawrence Chua, and Caroline Bourgeois.

In collaboration with K21–Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, which will present the exhibition in 2025, the Julie Mehretu exhibition at Palazzo Grassi offers a unique opportunity to explore the work of one of the most significant contemporary artists today, showcasing her continued innovation and engagement with the world around her.

Images courtesy of https://www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/52018331061 – Ph. JR P

The Eva Jospin exhibition titled “Selva” invites visitors to explore the unique relationship between nature and art through her intricate and immersive creations. Born in Paris in 1975, Eva Jospin completed her studies in 2002 and later became a resident at the Académie de France in Villa Medici, Rome from 2016 to 2017. Her artistic journey is deeply rooted in her fascination with nature, capturing its raw essence as well as the diverse iconographic and iconological interpretations it has inspired throughout history.

Using humble materials such as cardboard, plant-based elements, fibers, metal, and fabric, Jospin creates large-scale plastic compositions that evoke a world of landscapes, trees, plants, geological formations, and architectural structures. These works often possess a fairy-tale quality, imbuing her creations with a mysterious, almost magical tone. Through these intricate compositions, she encourages reflection on themes like the creative intellectual processes of past and present, environmental and ecological concerns, and the perception of space. Her works alter both the intellectual and physical space of the venues in which they are displayed, creating a transformative experience for viewers.

The Eva Jospin exhibition at Venice’s Palazzo Pesaro exemplifies her ability to engage with both the historical and environmental contexts of her surroundings. The ancient palazzo, which houses the diverse collections of Mariano Fortuny, serves as the perfect backdrop for Jospin’s work. Her sculptures interact with the existing collections in a dialogue that reveals surprising and unexpected aesthetic and methodological affinities between her creations and Fortuny’s artistic vision. This connection forms the conceptual foundation of the exhibition and drives the choice of the venue, highlighting the relationship between Jospin’s poetic vision and the historical art housed within the space.

Through Selva, Jospin invites visitors to delve into a world that straddles the line between reality and imagination, where nature and art converge in an immersive experience that challenges both intellect and emotion. The Eva Jospin exhibition not only showcases her technical skill but also her profound engagement with the themes of nature, creation, and environmental awareness, making it a must-see event for art lovers visiting Venice.

Images courtesy of https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/53838929666/ – Ph. Jean-Pierre Dalbéra.

From 28 March to 24 November 2024, the Helmut Newton exhibition titled “Legacy” will take center stage in Venice, curated by Matthias Harder, Director of the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, and Denis Curti. This retrospective marks the hundredth anniversary of the iconic photographer’s birth (Berlin, 1920 – Los Angeles, 2004) and stands as the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Helmut Newton’s work to date.

With over 250 photographs, polaroids, and archival documents, the Helmut Newton exhibition retraces the legacy of one of the most influential and controversial photographers of the 20th century. Known for his provocative style, Newton’s work pushes the boundaries of fashion photography, often blending boldness with elegance. The exhibition on San Giorgio Maggiore Island, with its stunning views over the San Marco basin, further enhances the power of Newton’s imagery, displaying iconic works alongside a selection of previously unseen pieces that offer new perspectives on his practice.

Born as Helmut Neustädter in Berlin, Newton fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and started his photography career in Australia, where he eventually opened his own studio. In Melbourne, he met June Brown, also known as Alice Springs, who would become his lifelong partner and muse. His career blossomed in Europe and the United States, particularly through his collaborations with renowned magazines like Vogue and designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, and Thierry Mugler. Newton’s daring approach to fashion and the female form, as seen in his celebrated Big Nudes series, challenged conventions and left an indelible mark on the world of photography.

The Helmut Newton exhibition is structured into six chronological chapters, allowing visitors to trace the evolution of Newton’s career from his early days in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s, through his work in France in the 1960s, and on to his groundbreaking fashion photography in the 1970s in the United States. The exhibition continues with his prolific period in Monte Carlo and Los Angeles during the 1980s and highlights his work throughout the 1990s, documenting his global travels and extensive body of work.

Curator Matthias Harder emphasizes Newton’s deep connection to Venice, as evidenced by his various projects in the city, such as his 1966 report for Queen magazine and his portrait of Anselm Kiefer. After living in Australia and the United States, Newton returned to Europe, residing in Paris and Monte Carlo while making frequent visits to Venice. This exhibition in Venice is a fitting tribute to his lifelong fascination with the city and his remarkable contributions to photography.

Images courtesy of https://www.flickr.com/photos/drewwilsonphotography/7160325045– Ph. Drew Wilson.

The Francesco Vezzoli exhibition marks a significant chapter in the artist’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between contemporary culture and classical antiquity. Running at the Museo Correr in Venice, this exhibition is a natural continuation of Vezzoli’s artistic journey, which has evolved over the past decade to create a bridge between past and present, blending solemn historical references with pop culture.

Francesco Vezzoli is known for his ability to merge different media, including video, artistic performance, and his signature portraits adorned with embroidered tears. His work juxtaposes the grandeur of classical art with contemporary icons, creating a dialogue that spans centuries. This new Francesco Vezzoli exhibition builds on this theme, presenting works from his extensive artistic repertoire alongside masterpieces from the Museo Correr’s collection, offering a fresh narrative that views the history of art as alive, relevant, and constantly evolving.

Vezzoli’s ability to recontextualize the past was first showcased internationally in his 2011 Sacrilegio exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. There, he transformed the gallery into a Renaissance chapel, inserting contemporary supermodels like Claudia Schiffer and Linda Evangelista into reinterpretations of 16th-century Italian Madonnas. This bold combination of sacred and profane elements has become a hallmark of Vezzoli’s work, and his latest project in Venice continues this tradition of blending different eras and artistic expressions.

In Musei delle Lacrime, Vezzoli presents a series of historical and recent works, including some created specifically for this exhibition. By placing them alongside religious and cultural masterpieces from the Museo Correr, Vezzoli encourages a new reflection on themes such as identity, emotion, and the role of the past in the present. His work does not seek to erase or deny history, but rather to engage with it in a way that highlights its ongoing relevance.

The Francesco Vezzoli exhibition is not only a celebration of art history, but also a tribute to the city of Venice, a city that embodies the intersection of tradition and modernity. The project is designed with Venice in mind, paying homage to the city’s rich cultural legacy and the work of architect Carlo Scarpa, who played a significant role in shaping the artistic identity of Venice’s museums. By merging past and present, Vezzoli’s work emphasizes the transcendental power of art and its ability to resonate across different historical moments.

Vezzoli’s previous projects, such as his exhibitions at the Collection Lambert in Avignon (2019) and Palcoscenici archeologici with the Fondazione Brescia Musei, have explored similar themes of archaeology and memory. His work often incorporates ancient art into contemporary settings, as seen in his 2021 sculptures for the project Francesco Vezzoli in Florence, where he placed modern and ancient elements in public spaces, creating powerful visual statements about the coexistence of past and present.

This latest Francesco Vezzoli exhibition at the Museo Correr furthers his exploration of these ideas, inviting visitors to experience the dialogue between his art and the historical treasures of Venice. Through a unique blend of classical and contemporary, Vezzoli’s work continues to challenge and inspire, offering a fresh perspective on the timeless power of art.

Images courtesy of https://www.flickr.com/photos/medievalkarl/16276861420/– Ph. Karl Steel.

On the occasion of the seventh centenary of the death of Marco Polo in 1324, the City of Venice has launched a rich calendar of events in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and many other local, national and international associations. These initiatives aim to celebrate the memory of this illustrious Venetian, recognized for having written the first complete and reliable account of the East, thus contributing to the mutual knowledge between Asia and Europe. Support for the celebrations was sanctioned on 29 December with a decree of the Ministry of Culture, signed by Gennaro Sangiuliano at the request of the City and the Venetian University. The National Committee for the celebrations, chaired by the Mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro and coordinated by the Dean Tiziana Lippiello, was established to oversee these activities.

The celebrations, together with the Committee, will last for three years, with further initiatives planned in 2025 and 2026. Marco Polo is famous for exploring the lands of the far East, and his epic history as a traveller has created a deep bond with distant cultures and peoples, both by sea and by land. ” The rediscovery of the figure of Marco Polo raises questions of great relevance”, explains the mayor of Venice and president of the Promoting Committee, Luigi Brugnaro. “How can we dialogue with other cultures while preserving our identity? How can we manage relations between peoples and cities? How can we pass on art and work capacity?” The regions and seas explored by Marco Polo during his twenty years of travel are often today at the center of diplomatic tensions. Thanks to the memory of Marco Polo, Venice intends to launch a message of hope, peace and brotherhood, remaining open to new proposals to pursue this goal.

There are also many initiatives in the Ca’ Foscari calendar, which turn into a moment of deep reflection on the life and contribution of Marco Polo, through a compelling scientific and cultural program. Activities at the local level, which include public readings in symbolic places of the city, cultural routes and cycle conferences open to citizens, aim to facilitate the understanding of the complex figure of this man of the Middle Ages and the implications of his journey on the development of Western thought. Theatrical and multimedia projects will also be activated and realized, with workshops focused on the reception of the myth of Marco Polo in the media of the twentieth century: operas, comics, film and television adaptations, as well as creative workshops dedicated to students of primary and secondary schools in Venice, in collaboration with the Regional School Office of Veneto. For the international public, initiatives are planned in collaboration with Rai for the transmission of historical plays on Marco Polo, in order to spread the knowledge of this fascinating figure globally.

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Your instructor, an experienced decorator, will teach you how to paint and decorate your own mask and will accompany you on every step of the decorating process. You’ll have the opportunity to choose a mask, decorate it however you wish, and then take it home as an exclusive souvenir and memory of this Venetian experience.

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History of a Murano glass family

The exhibition celebrates one hundred years of activity of the NasonMoretti glassworks, one of Murano’s most original and flourishing businesses.
The exhibition opens the archives and shares with the public of the Glass Museum an important history made up of over ten thousand models.
From the very beginning, Nason & Moretti chose the art of the table, reinterpreting it according to contemporary formulas with a profoundly modern flair.

The glassware has become a design landmark since the 1950s, when the Lidia cups won the Compasso d’oro and its presence at the Venice Biennale began. The exhibition will give an account of the most successful objects created by the furnace and collaborations with some of the most important names in design and architecture, without neglecting a section devoted to current events.

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The Museo Correr’s initiative falls close to the centenary of the birth of Carla Accardi who, although she lived in Rome, established a constant link with Venice throughout her life, both individually and professionally. Among other things, in 1948 she made her debut at the Biennale, returning to it in 1964 (personal room introduced in the catalogue by Carla Lonzi), in 1976, in 1988 (personal room) and in 1993, also appearing in the 2022 edition. Works, photos and other documentary material attest to her relationship with the lagoon city including an image from 1952 when, on the occasion of an exhibition at the Galleria del Cavallino, she visited the Guggenheim collection with her husband, the artist Antonio Sanfilippo, and Tancredi Parmeggiani.

The Venetian project curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, as a homage and not an anthological exhibition, presents, in the form of an installation, a restricted selection of works placed in dialogue with the museum’s historical rooms. This is a small number of works, rarely visible but, despite their particularity, entirely indicative of the artist’s research and, in their own way, summarising his creative path.

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Back for its second edition is the Swim Run Serenissima Venezia, an event that is part of the ‘Le Città in Festa’ programme and will take place in the Marina di Sant’Elena on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June.

The discipline of the swim run originated in 2006 in Sweden, when the Ötillo race, whose name means ‘Island to Island’, was held for the first time. Today, Ötillo has become a worldwide circuit that organises swim run races in various locations around the world. The Venice event is organised by Kima srls.

On Saturday 24 June, the swimming races will be held, starting at 3.30 p.m., and athletes will compete over distances of 800, 1,800 and 3,500 metres. On Sunday 25, the men’s and women’s swim run and relay races are scheduled, as well as a mixed category. During the competitions, there will be background music by DJ Alberto Milani and live commentary by speaker Gilberto Zorat.

The swim run competition will consist of four running fractions with a view of St. Mark’s Basin and the walkways that skim the water, alternating with four consecutive swimming fractions, for a total of 8 km of running and 2,200 metres of swimming. The start will take place at 10:00 a.m. in front of the church of St. Helena, with a route through the Marina, the island of St. Helena and ending in the dock.
The swimming fractions will take place within the dock, delimited by buoys.
In the last swimming fraction, the athletes will reach the finish line after walking the 200 metres of the dock suspended over the lagoon.
Starting at 12 noon, the relay race will begin, with two running fractions interspersed with a swimming one.

As part of the Venice 1600 program, to celebrate sixteen centuries since the mythical founding of the city, the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice announces the exhibition JAPANESE TALES. Costumes and Stories from Nō Theatre at the Museum of Oriental Art, curated by the Museum’s director Marta Boscolo Marchi.

From March 26 to July 3, 2022, the exhibition spaces on the third floor of Ca’ Pesaro will host paintings, prints, photos, documents, costumes, musical instruments and masks related to the Nō theatre, one of the most famous Japanese theatrical forms, which made its very first appearance in Europe thanks to the 13th International Theatre Festival of the Venice Biennale in 1954. Most of the items and works on display are part of the heritage of the museum, which mostly consists of Prince Henry of Bourbon-Parma’s collection. In addition to these there are loans from private collections as well as a series of unpublished photographs by Fabio Massimo Fioravanti, who has been researching the Nō theatre since 1989.

The exhibition has been realized with the collaboration of scholars from Italian and international universities composing the scientific committee: Monique Arnaud, Marta Boscolo Marchi, Matteo Casari, Andrea Giolai, Diego Pellecchia, Bonaventura Ruperti and Silvia Vesco.

Inaugurated in 1928, the first Italian State Museum to exhibit Asian art, the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice houses Prince Henry of Bourbon-Parma’s considerable collection, which became part of the public patrimony in 1925, and has since been displayed on the top floor of Ca’ Pesaro. Among the works and artefacts in this collection, the Japanese ones from the Edo period (1603 – 1868) stand out – in number and quality – as the most significant in terms of development of Japanese art. The costumes and works on display are also part of this period: paintings, prints and screens show the diffusion of those stories, drawn from poems, legends and tales of the past, which inspired both theatrical texts and iconographies.

The middle section of the exhibition – the richest – will be dedicated to stage costumes purchased by Prince Henry during his long journey around the world between 1887 and 1889, now kept in the museum’s storage and never exhibited to the public all together until now. In the Nō theatre, the stage costumes focus the public’s attention and reveal the nature, age and social class of the characters. The mask also plays a fundamental role – to accompany the costumes. Some of the masks exhibited will be from the collection of Renzo Freschi in Milan.

The musical accompaniment of the Nō is traditionally entrusted to the hayashi, the ensemble that accompanies the singing and acting, the entry and exit of the actors, the dance, and consists of one wind instrument (flute, fue or nōkan) and three percussion instruments: kotsuzumi, ōtsuzumi and taiko. All the hayashi instruments belonging to the Museum collection will be presented in a dedicated section.

The contemporary staging of the dramas will be evoked through the photographic documentation of Fabio Massimo Fioravanti, who has been carrying out work on the Nō theater since 1989. Eighteen unpublished images have been selected from his archive to capture some salient moments of the representation and measured gestures of the actors, not only on the stage but also behind the scenes – in the mirror room called kagami no ma – or along the bridge that leads from this to the scene. In addition to the photos is the docufilm The Flight of the Heron, by Giuliano Cammarata and Alessio Nicastro, dedicated to the work of the master Udaka Michishige.

Finally, a special section will retrace the arrival of the Nō theatre in Europe in1954 which was through a series of shows held in Venice. In fact, that year the city celebrated the 700th anniversary of the birth of Marco Polo and on the occasion of the 13th International Theatre Festival of the Venice Biennale a group of actors from the Kanze and Kita schools marked the history of the performing arts by performing at the Teatro Verde on the Island of San Giorgio between August 6 and 7, 1954. Through the images and documents preserved in the Historical Archive of the Venice Biennale, it will be possible to reconstruct the phases of this very important exchange between Venice and Japan.

JAPANESE TALES. Costumes and Stories from Nō Theatre at the Museum of Oriental Art, promoted and sustained by Direzione regionale Musei Veneto of the Italian Ministry of Culture, avails itself of the patronage of the General Consulate of Japan in Milan, the Fondazione Italia Giappone (Italy-Japan Foundation), the Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma (Japan Foundation in Rome) and the International Noh Institute, and will be documented through a catalogue published by Grafiche Antiga, realized thanks to the support of the Comitato Giapponese Venezia aVvenire, as part of the initiatives of the Association of International Private Committees for the Safeguarding of Venice.

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The Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice presents, from March 11 to October 23, 2022, the largest retrospective ever held – and the first in Italy – dedicated to the Franco-Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss, who passed away at the age of 97 at her home in Paris on 28 December 2021, one of the greatest representatives of French humanist photography along with Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Edouard Boubat, Brassaï, and Izis. 

The exhibition is the first and most important international tribute to her career, with over 200 photographs. Curated by Virginie Chardin, the retrospective is sponsored by the Fondazione di Venezia, realized by Marsilio Arte in collaboration with the Berggruen Institute, and produced by the Sabine Weiss atelier – Laure Delloye-Augustins, with the support of the Jeu de Paume and the International Festival Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, under the high patronate of the Swisserland Consulate general in Milan.

The only woman photographer of the postwar era to have practiced this profession for such a long time and in every photographic genre – from reportage, artists’ portraits, and fashion to ‘street’ photography, with particular attention to children’s faces and her extensive travels around the world, Sabine Weiss, who was able to actively participate in the construction of this exhibition, had opened her personal archives in Paris to tell her extraordinary story and present her work in a comprehensive and structured way.

The shots exhibited at the Tre Oci retrace, along with various publications and magazines of the time, Weiss’s entire career, from her beginnings in 1935 to the 2000s. From the outset, as the photographs of children and passersby in the exhibition testify, Weiss directed her lens on bodies and gestures, immortalizing emotions and feelings, in the spirit of French humanist photography, an approach from which she would never deviate, as can be seen from her words: “To be powerful, a photograph must speak to us about an aspect of the human condition, make us feel the emotion that the photographer felt in the presence of her subject“.

Born Sabine Weber in Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland, on 23 July 1924, later taking the surname of her husband, the American painter Hugh Weiss (Philadelphia, 1925 – Paris, 2007), she approached photography at an early age. She completed her apprenticeship with the Boissonnas, a dynasty of photographers who had been working in Geneva since the end of the 19th century. In 1946, she left Geneva for Paris and became the assistant of Willy Maywald, a German photographer specializing in fashion and portraits. When she married Hugh in 1950, she embarked on a career as an independent photographer. Together, they moved into a small Parisian studio and frequented the postwar art milieu.

One of the core groups of works in the exhibition Sabine Weiss. The Poetry of the Instant tells the story of the 1950s, the period in which the photographer gained international recognition. In 1952, her career took a decisive turn when she joined the Rapho agency on the recommendation of Robert Doisneau. From 1953 onwards, her photographs were published by major international dailies and magazines including Picture Post, Paris Match, Vogue, Le Ore, The New York Times, Life, and Newsweek. In that same year, Weiss participated in the exhibition Post War European Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), and in 1954 the Art Institute of Chicago dedicated an important solo exhibition to her work. In 1955 Edward Steichen chose three of her shots for the historic anthological exhibition The Family of Man at the MoMA.

From 1952 to 1961, Weiss collaborated with photographers such as William Klein, Henry Clarke, and Guy Bourdin, producing some memorable fashion shoots for Vogue, from which the exhibition displays several vivid color prints along with 15 original issues of the legendary magazine.

A section of the exhibition is dedicated to her portraits of painters, sculptors, actors, and musicians. For five years, Hugh Weiss mentored the artist Niki de Saint Phalle, whereas Sabine was close to Annette Giacometti, wife of the great sculptor Alberto. The exhibition features their portraits alongside those of other personalities such as Robert Rauschenberg, Andrè Breton, Anna Karina, Françoise Sagan, Romy Schneider, Ella Fitzgerald, Simone Signoret, and Brigitte Bardot.

A trip to America in 1955 aboard the ocean liner Liberté in the company of her husband Hugh made a strong impression on her, and the shots taken in the streets of New York, teeming with details, from the Bronx and Harlem to Chinatown and Ninth Avenue, were published in The New York Times in a major spread entitled “A Parisienne’s New Yorkers”. The images tell the story of America from a French point of view, with a marked sense of humor, many of which are exhibited for the first time in Italy, on the occasion of the retrospective at the Tre Oci.

The exhibition also reserves ample space for works created in the 1980s and 1990’s, when the artist was in her sixties and seventies, during her travels to Réunion, Portugal, India, Myanmar, Bulgaria, Japan, Poland and Egypt. As the curator VirginieChardin observes, “What strikes the viewer is the sense of isolation and sometimes the tender sadness that emanate from these later photos, where children and old people resemble each other in their shared fragility. A melancholy and sometimes darkly somber quality emerges from these images, contrasting with the photographer’s lively, playful personality, over which time seems to have no hold.”.

In addition to photographs, the exhibition will also feature extracts from documentary films dedicated to Weiss (La Chambre Noire by Claude Fayard, 1965; Sabine Weiss by Jean-Pierre Franey, 2005; My work as a photographer, by StéphanieGrosjean, 2014) in which the photographer recounts, in different periods of her life, her artistic journey, her travel experiences, and the difficulty of being a female photographer. The strength of her curiosity for the world and her joy of seeing and documenting it make Sabine Weiss a symbol of courage and freedom for all women photographers.

The catalogue, published by Marsilio Arte, includes many previously unpublished images, along with texts by Virginie Chardin, curator of the exhibition, and Denis Curti, artistic director of the Casa dei Tre Oci.

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Homo Faber Event returns in 2022 for a second edition of the groundbreaking cultural event dedicated to contemporary craftsmanship.

→ 15 exhibition spaces, each dedicated to different aspects of craftsmanship, imagined by a team of world-class designers, curators and architects

→ A special focus on craftspeople from Japan and their time-honoured skills, featuring the work of 12 National Living Treasures, a prestigious designation for its finest master artisans

→ International master artisans and rising stars illustrate the diversity of materials, techniques, origins and skills behind functional everyday objects and outstanding decorative pieces

→ An immersive experience with interactive digital initiatives, exceptional scenography and live artisan demonstrations

→ Homo Faber in Città, a chance to experience craftsmanship across Venice

Homo Faber Event returns to Venice in 2022 to unveil an unprecedented cultural experience of craftsmanship with 15 immersive exhibitions. For its second edition, the event looks to highlight the excellence of master craftsmanship internationally. With a special focus on craftspeople from Japan, it spotlights the country’s venerated craftsmanship traditions and time-honoured skills, and showcases its influence on European creativity and craftsmanship. Together, the exhibition spaces showcase a diverse array of materials and expertise, from traditional skills in danger of being lost to the most cutting-edge contemporary techniques.

The event champions talented artisans from across the globe, their cherished savoir-faire, their unique stories, and the territorial influences that enrich their masterpieces. Some of the exhibition spaces invite visitors to meet the artisans and share moments with them as they work, while others animate craft with their scenography. Visitors have the chance to explore the connection between contemporary craftsmanship and the wider arts and design world. In one exhibition space, the world’s most prestigious luxury brands reveal the craftsmanship behind their pieces; in another, a rendering by director Robert Wilson of an iconic evocation of Puccini’s opera, Madama Butterfly, takes visitors on a theatrical journey. The role of next generation automata will also be explored, while a crafted tea room considers the relationship craftsmanship has with our everyday lives. Elsewhere, artisans and ateliers reveal the essential role of the artisanal touch in creating design pieces.

Guided by a philosophy of sustainability, the event highlights the importance of making crafts viable and safeguarding them for the future, with a strong focus on the next generation through interactive and informative educational activities aimed at different age groups. The Young Ambassador Programme will animate the exhibition spaces with its talented students. Selected from the best applied arts and design schools across Europe, they will be on hand to offer visitors guided tours.

With Europe’s treasure trove as its starting point, the exhibition broadens its horizons to explore the entwining cultural relationship between Europe and Japan. Homo Faber Event 2022 honours the official recognition that Japan gives to its finest masters, designated as keepers of important intangible cultural properties. Visitors can admire the exceptional objects handcrafted by 12 National Living Treasures – exquisite porcelain, a lacquered harp, hand-dyed kimonos and much more. An evocative photography exhibition by Rinko Kawauchi transports visitors behind the scenes into the secret ateliers of these prized master artisans.

The event offers the public a rare opportunity to explore San Giorgio Maggiore island and the magnificent structures of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in an exhibition that covers nearly 4,000 square metres. Rooms such as the Longhena Library and Gandini swimming pool, usually closed to the public, will open especially on the occasion of the event, transformed into scenes where craft takes centre stage and visitors can partake in the experience.

Beyond the walls of Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the Homo Faber in Città project allows visitors to experience secret Venice, exploring the craftsmanship hidden between the city’s canals through exclusive visits to Venetian artisans’ workshops and ateliers, museums, shops and more. Using the app or website, visitors will be able to create bespoke self-guided craft tours and experience the city in a completely new way.

Key facts and figures

15 exhibitions
22 curators and designers
12 Japanese National Living Treasures
A showcase of over 400 unique objects
Crafted by over 350 designers and artisans
From over 30 countries
Over 60 immersive experiences

List of curators and designers

Jean Blanchaert – Gallerist (Belgium, Italy)
Frédéric Bodet – Curator and porcelain specialist (France)
Stefano Boeri – Architect, urban planner and chairman of the Triennale Milano (Italy)
David Caméo – Museum director and porcelain expert (France)
Judith Clark – Fashion exhibition designer and curator (UK)
Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte (Italy)
De Castelli – Furniture manufacturer (Italy)
Michele De Lucchi – Architect (Italy)
Naoto Fukasawa – Designer (Japan)
Sebastian Herkner – Designer (Germany)
Rinko Kawauchi – Photographer (Japan)
Simon Kidston – Vintage car broker, expert and collector (UK)
Nicolas Le Moigne – Head of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, (Switzerland)
Tapiwa Matsinde – Curator (UK, Zimbabwe)
Stefano Micelli, Professor, Ca’ Foscari University (Italy)
Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship (Switzerland)
Panerai – Watch manufacturer (Italy)
Alessandro Pedron – Architect and professor (Italy)
Sylvain Roca – Interior designer and scenographer (France)
Tokugo Uchida – Museum director (Japan)
Venini – Glass manufacturer (Italy)
Robert Wilson – Director and visual artist (US)
Zanellato/Bortotto – Design studio (Italy)
The general curator of Homo Faber Event is Alberto Cavalli, Executive Director of the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship.

The exhibitions

The Ateliers of Wonders
Curated by Rinko Kawauchi
The stunning photographs, exhibited in the Renaissance-style Cypress Cloister, give visitors a close-up look at the workshops of the National Living Treasures of Japan whose work is presented in the 12 Stone Garden exhibition. The award-winning photographer captures the artisans as they create precious objects using centuries-old techniques, expressing tradition at the cutting edge.

12 Stone Garden
Curated by Naoto Fukasawa and Tokugo Uchida
On display are objects by 12 Japanese National Living Treasures, master artisans whose mastery of traditional skills makes them a valued part of the country’s cultural heritage. Among the exquisite works are kimonos, an urushi lacquered harp and a bamboo flower basket. All the objects are displayed on 12 stone-shaped blocks designed by Naoto Fukasawa.

Masterful Gestures
Curated by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship.
In the magnificent surroundings of the Cenacolo Vestibule, talented craftspeople from France and the United Kingdom work in front of visitors, demonstrating their skills and dexterity and how time-honoured techniques can imbue the present with everlasting beauty. The artisans include four duos drawn from France’s Maîtres d’Art-Élèves programme, presented by the Institut National des Métiers d’Art with the support of the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller; and four talented individuals selected by the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST), a charity of the Royal Warrant Holders Association, which supports the training and education of talented and aspiring craftspeople in the United Kingdom. The structures are made by the Italian manufacturer De Castelli.

Italy and Japan: Marvellous Liaisons
Curated by Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte
In homage to the cultural exchange between Italy and Japan, which has always found a fertile breeding ground in Venice, this room invites visitors to delve into a dialogue between the finest Italian craftsmanship and the Japanese culture. On display, a selection of objects handcrafted by Italian master artisans, many designated as “MAM”, the Italian equivalent of National Living Treasures, and inspired by Japanese decorative motifs, techniques, materials and formal approaches.

Mechanical Marvels
Curated by Nicolas Le Moigne. Co-curated by Simon Kidston
Discover the creative results of a vibrant collaboration between Association Mec-Art (Pour la Mécanique d’Art) and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. Five interactive installations based on mechanical know-how, designed by the students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, illustrate the different local traditions recently acknowledged by UNESCO and associated with the Swiss town of Sainte-Croix.

Magnae Chartae
Curated by Michele De Lucchi and his studio AMDL CIRCLE
A homage to paper crafting – its relevance, its diversity and the human hands integral to the creative processes. An imaginative array of paper artworks reveals the beauty, creativity and cultural significance of paper craftsmanship. Visitors can witness the skill and artistry of artisans at work in the room, marvel at the immersive installations and allow themselves to discover the joys of writing with a fountain pen, crafted on site by Montblanc artisans.

Porcelain Virtuosity
Curated by David Caméo and Frédéric Bodet
A celebration of contemporary porcelain craftsmanship across Europe and Japan, with work by master ceramicists including Katsuyo Aoki (Japan), Tamsin van Essen (UK) and Ruth Gurvich (France), along with pieces from porcelain manufacturers Meissen, Sèvres, Nymphenburg and Bernardaud.

Pattern of Crafts
Curated by Sebastian Herkner
The award-winning German designer invites artisans and ateliers to interpret the geometric pattern on the square in front of the Basilica of San Giorgio in marble, mosaic, wood marquetry, textiles and other techniques. Their fine work reflects the designer’s signature style while showcasing the unmatched contributions of master artisans to the world of interiors.

Tracing Venice
Curated by De Castelli and Zanellato/Bortotto
A site-specific installation composed of works made of a mosaic of different metals with special finishes, which are a tribute to Venice and to the precious mosaic floors of St. Mark’s Basilica. Zanellato/Bortotto’s research is interpreted by De Castelli to tell the centuries-long story of a city exposed to the elements. These works represent the patient and incessant work carried out over time on the decorations of St. Mark and are an authentic and sincere tribute to the lagoon city, describing its fragility but also its resilience in resisting the erosive force of the sea.

Blossoming Beauty
Curated by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship
In an enchanted fairy tale flower garden envisioned by interior designer and scenographer Sylvain Roca, the Venetian glass manufacturer Venini crafts a collection of glass vases in collaboration with renowned flower designers. They will also design bespoke bouquets to complement these exquisite vases, animated by the idea that “blossoming” is the manifestation of creativity and savoir-faire.

Next of Europe
Curated by Jean Blanchaert and Stefano Boeri
A cabinet of curiosities will showcase an impressive selection of functional and decorative objects crafted by master artisans who embody the finest European craftsmanship, many of whom are dedicated to passing on their savoir-faire to the next generation or who represent the young generation themselves. Visitors can catch a glimpse of European “living treasures” working in the room, a rare opportunity to witness first-hand how these masters create objects of such fine craftsmanship.

The Artisan: a crafted tea room
Curated by Tapiwa Matsinde
Enter an enchanted oasis: bridging the functionality of a tea room with the creativity of a bohemian interior, the space is furnished with iconic pieces by artisans, designers and artists from all over the world, to create a sense of wonder through everyday gestures like sitting, relaxing, and enjoying a cup of tea.

WAITING with peace and darkness
Curated by Robert Wilson
The iconic American director and visual artist shines a light on the Japanese inspiration behind his theatrical productions, notably Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. This evocative exhibition will allow visitors to be immersed in Wilson’s staging genius, as he transforms the former Gandini 1960s swimming pool into a dramatic theatrical stage with his signature use of lighting, sound, costumes, artworks, videos, props and furniture, created in collaboration with master artisans using time-honoured techniques. Featuring video portraits of Japanese choreographer Suzushi Hanayagi.

Details: Genealogies of Ornament
Curated by Judith Clark
Witness the transformative power of craftsmanship in this multi-layered exhibition designed by Clark with Sam Collins, which showcases 15 luxury maisons dedicated to making the finest watches, tailoring, kimonos, jewellery, and more. Precious objects cluster around a demarcated route and act as mini “constellations” that change their pattern depending on where the visitor is standing. Along the route artisans sit “finishing” the objects on display, both true (they are the master artisans from the 15 participating maisons) and performative. Beautifully crafted wall panels and bespoke tiled floors reflect the heritage of each craft and its tools. 

Eilean
Curated by Panerai
Welcome aboard Eilean: step onto a legendary 1936 yacht expertly restored by Italian master artisans. Moored in the Venetian waters off San Giorgio Maggiore island, this beautiful Bermudan ketch, whose name means “Little Island” in Gaelic, was built by boat builders in Scotland. Admire the beauty of her design, the quality of her materials and discover the meticulous craftsmanship of the Italian master artisans who brought her back to life.

Entrance

Homo Faber takes place on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in the heart of the Venetian lagoon, just five minutes by vaporetto from Piazza San Marco. All useful information here → www.homofaber.com/it/practical-information

Open 10am to 7pm daily from 10 April – 1 May. Buy your tickets on www.homofaber.com/it/tickets, limited tickets available on site.

To access the exhibition spaces it is mandatory to wear a surgical mask, in addition it is necessary to show the reinforced green pass, i.e. a green pass generated following vaccination or recovery.

It is possible to admire “in person” the monumental installation by the American artist on show on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, whereas the main part of the Venice and American Studio Glassexhibition is accessible online thanks to the virtual tour and the guided tours.

LE STANZE DEL VETRO is partially reopening to the public! From Tuesday 2 February until 12 March 2021 you can visit the monumental installation Laguna Murano Chandelier by Dale Chihuly (from Monday to Friday, 10 am – 6 pm) on show in the Carnelutti Hall of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and a key feature of the Venice and American Studio Glassexhibition.

The chandelier, produced in 1996 in Murano by Dale Chihuly together with the glass masters Lino Tagliapietra and Pino Signoretto, incorporates sculptural elements which evoke the Venice lagoon, such as a crab, a jellyfish, a starfish, an eel, an octopus, a pufferfish, sharks, a mermaid and the god of the sea, Neptune, in addition to the explosion of amber-coloured tendril-like candelabra that make up the entire volume. The chandelier is composed of five enormous components, two hanging from the ceiling and three floor-mounted on fixed armatures.

Furthermore, thanks to the 1998 film Chihuly Over Venice, visitors can see Dale Chihuly working alongside the Venetian masters to create the splendid sculpture on display.

You can visit online the exhibition Venice and American Studio Glass through the 3D virtual tour and find out more about the extraordinary works of American and Venetian artists, comfortably from home. You can also take part in the free virtual guided visits.

Palazzo Grassi presents ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson. Le Grand Jeu’, co-organised with the Bibliothèque nationale de France and in partnership with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Based on a project conceived and coordinated by Matthieu Humery, the exhibition looks at how the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004) is viewed by five different curators, focusing particularly on the ‘Master Collection’, a selection of 385 images that the artist himself chose in the early 1970s, upon the request of his friends and collectors Jean and Dominique de Menil, as the most significant of his work. Today there are five copies of this extraordinary set.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz, film director Wim Wenders, writer Javier Cercas, the General Conservator and Director of the Prints and Photography Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Sylvie Aubenas, and collector François Pinault have been invited to select fifty works each from the original ‘Master Collection’.

Through their selection, each curator shares his or her vision of this major artist’s photography and work. The scope of this unique project is thus to renew and enrich our view on Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work through the respective ones of five personalities.

A taste of contemporary art from London stops in Venice at Ca’ Pesaro until March, 2020 with the exhibition “Breathless“. About forty works of art – some of them specifically commissioned for the occasion – by more than 10 emerging artists who work in London and express themselves with different media and site-specific productions.

Twenty years after the successful “Sensation” exhibition (1997), the critic Norman Rosenthal comes in Venice with a collection of 21st-century London artworks, such as paintings, sculptures, videos, photographies, art installations, and original performances. Most of them are unpublished, but others are site-specific interventions to show London’s contemporary cultural landscape.
The masterpieces come from the collections of the British Council, the Arts Council and the artist galleries.

The Foundation Musei Civici di Venezia, together with the City of Antwerp, VisitFlanders and the Flemish Community, presents “From Titian to Rubens. Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections“, at the Doge’s Palace until March, 1st 2020.

The spectacular Doge’s residence will be transformed into “constkamers“, rooms enriched with wonderful works of art demonstrating the wealths of the Flemish collections.

Featuring masterpieces by artists including Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Michiel Sweerts, the exhibition offers a dazzling array of artworks.

Three icons of Venetian painting return to their hometown, Venice: Titian’s Jacopo Pesaro presenting Saint Peter to Pope Alexander VI, the altarpiece of the former San Geminiano church, and Titian’s Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter. These artworks from Flemish collections are rarely lent, and some have never been shown in public, until now.

A special section of the exhibition will be devoted to Flemish star composer Adriaan Willaert, who settled permanently in Venice to become Maestro di Cappella of the St. Mark’s Basilica in 1527. He founded the famous Venetian School of music where Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi attended.

“Real Bodies Human Art Exhibition” waits for you at Palazzo Zaguri in Venice: a unique exhibition that leads you to discover all the aspects of the human body. As a 3D anatomy atlas, the exposure is realized with real bodies and human finds preserved through plastination – a particular conservation technique.

Inside the noble Palazzo Zaguri, the visitors can observe the plastinated body of a Murano glass master working in front of a typical furnace, and the first plastinated gondolier placed on a real gondola. Everyone will be able to observe the movements of the muscles implied in the classic Venetian rowing technique. These new human anatomical findings have been realized, in over 3 years of work, as a tribute to Venice.

The exhibition director, Venice Exhibition, divided the show into several sections – each one dedicated to a particular apparatus. From the skeleton to the muscles and nerves; from the cardiovascular system to the respiratory, digestive, reproductive, urinary tract, up to the sectional anatomy with a view to the future of biomedicine and biomechanics.

“Today more than yesterday, you can understand that Real Bodies is not just a media event but a scientific exhibition accessible to anyone” continues the curator of the exhibition Dr. Antonello Cirnelli – forensic pathologist, specialist in legal and insurance medicine, consultant and expert of the Court of Venice – “Who thinks that the Hippocratic assumption” Observatio et Ratio “(first Observation and then Reasoning) is no longer alive, will reconsider it. In fact, understanding the diseases and their dynamics is a battle that necessarily involves everyone“.

Real Bodies Human Art Exhibition offers the direct and conscious vision of the human body and gives to the children and adults a real capacity for “observation and reasoning“.

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Everyday from 10am to 7pm (last entrance at 6pm)

From August, 31st to February, 2nd 2020 a great anthology about the photographer Ferdinando Scianna will take place at the Casa dei Tre Oci – Giudecca island. For the first time, we will see a selection of 180 black-and-white pictures by Ferdinando Scianna about “Life, Story and Memory“.

The exhibition is curated by Denis Curti, Paola Bergna and Alberto Bianda: organized by Civita Mostre and Musei e Civita Tre Venezia, it is supported by Fondazione di Venezia.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Ferdinando Scianna began to love the world of photography in the ’60s: he started describing the culture and traditions of his native region, Sicily, through images. His long artistic career unfolds through various themes – current events, war, travel, popular religion – all connected by a single thread: the constant research for a form in the chaos of life.

In over 50 years of photos, he faced many different themes: from Bagheria to the Bolivian Andes landscapes, from religious celebrations – the beginning of his career – to the experience in the world of fashion, started with Dolce & Gabbana, and the iconic model Marpessa. After that, he started taking reportages – he was the first photographer to be part of the photojournalistic agency Magnum -, the landscapes, his thematic obsessions such as mirrors, animals, strange staff, and the portraits of his friends, masters of the art and culture world such as Leonardo Sciascia, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jorge Louis Borges.

For this occasion, a series of fashion images will be exhibited at the Casa dei Tre Oci: Scianna created it in Venice as a testimony of its strong bond with the city.

As tradition dictates, on the third Saturday of July, the city of Venice celebrates the Redentore Festival.

St. Mark’s Basin is going to be full of boats and fondamentas will hosts hundreds of tables illuminated by lanterns. The sky is getting ready to be the perfect scenery for an amazing firework performance.

The programme of the Redentore Festival 2019

Saturday July, 20th 2019

• 7pm: The votive bridge opens: it connects Fondamenta delle Zattere with Redentore Church on Giudecca island;
• 11.30pm: Firework display in St. Mark’s Basin.

Sunday July, 21st 2019

Regate del Redentore (Regatta of the Redeemer) – Giudecca Canal

• 4pm: Children’s twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
• 4.45pm: Twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
• 5.30pm: Twin-oared gondola regatta
• 7pm: Holy Mass at the Redentore Church

“Amazing! The fragmentation of the image is gathered in a single sculpture” said Leonardo Di Caprio. “Vasily Klyukin exhibition will have a big success around the world” supports Charles Saatchi. “Great sculptor, great work” affirmed Simon de Pury.

“In Dante Veritas” will be open until the end of November at Arsenale Nord in Venice (Tesa 94): the multimedia exhibition is organized by the Municipality Of Venice and the State Russian Museum of St Petersburg. This is a modern interpretation of the Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy by, with a particular emphasis on Dante’s Inferno (Hell) and its nine circles that house the damned souls destined for eternal punishment.

A real experience whose aim is to create an apocalyptic set consisting of over 100 multimedia elements on 900 square meters of space: sculptures, sounds, video mapping works, digital reproductions and lightboxes.

The audio guide is an integral part of the exposition itinerary, it’s free and available in 10 different languages. The device will accompany your visit with the artist’s voice. In this multi-sensory experience, visitors are called to participate activily, comparing themselves with the artworks and describing their own impressions. For example, in front of the sculpture “Betrayal“, visitors are invited to write the initials of those who have betrayed their trust in the past.

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Opening hours

From Monday to Thursday, and Sunday

From 10 am to 6 pm 

Friday and Saturday

From 10 am to 8 pm

Ticket price

Full: € 10

Reduced (students and over 70): € 5

Headphones and audio guide are included in the ticket price.

10% discount for online tickets.

The artworks of the famous painters from Burano, such as Gino Rossi, Umberto Moggioli and Pio Semeghini, will be exhibited at the Museo del merletto on the Burano island until January 2020,  in the exhibition “Pittura di luce. Burano e i suoi pittori“.

During the first decade of the last century, these artists were protagonists of the Venetian artistic movement of Ca’ Pesaro, and ended up at the center of a lively debate on modern art. In those years, Burano island became an idyllic place where painting  the nature “en plein air”, the landscapes suspended between water and sky,its colorful houses and its inhabitants.

The end of this artistic season arrived with the First World War, but the history the painters of Burano continued, together with the adventure of the artistic movement of Ca’ Pesaro, with artists such as Nino Springolo and Fioravante Seibezzi.

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Reduced: € 3,50

The exhibition “Burri, la pittura irriducibile presenza” will be open to the public until July 28, 2019 on the San Giorgio Maggiore island. This important project was specifically designed for Venice, and traces the most significant phases of the master’s career through many of his most important masterpieces.

Through 50 unique pieces, mainly from several italian and international museums, the Burri Foundation and prestigious private collections, it will be possible to admire the rares Catrami (1969) and the latest monumental Cellotex (1994). In 1983, 18 works from his Sestante cycle were the protagonists of the exhibition inside the evocative building Ex Cantieri Navali of the Giudecca island, and marked the beginning of a strong bond between the artist and the city of Venice.

The exhibition – curated by Bruno Corà, President of the Burri Foundation, and organized by the Giorgio Cini and the Burri Foundations in collaboration with Tornabuoni Art and Paola Sapone MCIA – offers the unique opportunity to experience an unpublished selection of Burri’s works to the visitors.

Catrami (1948), and Muffe (1948), presented in close comparison with the iconic Sacchi (1949-1950), Gobbi (1950), the enchanting Combustioni (1953), Legni (1955), Ferri (1958), the deformed Plastiche (1960), and the extraordinary evolution of Cretti (1970), one of the Burri’s most famous research topics The visit ends with the great Cellotex, made until the mid-nineties.

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Everyday from 11 am to 7 pm (except Wednesday)

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Science, medicine and art will meet at Palazzo Zaguri in Venice until the end of September: the exhibition “Authentic human bodies. Leonardo Da Vinci” combines medical and scientific studies with the pleasure of knowledge. This exhibition celebrates the 500 years since the death of Leonardo Da Vinci (1519-2019), remembering the brilliant precursor of the modern scientific method. For the first time, the Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous drawings are reproduced by real human models.

The artworks become tangible thanks to the innovative method of plastination: the beautiful human body complexity is finally touchable by everyone.

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Everyday 10 am – 8 pm (last entrance at 7 pm).

Have you ever seen the original drawing of the Vitruvian Man? You can now see it at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, during the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci. L’uomo modello del mondo.“. This exposure celebrates the 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci’s death (1519-2019), and it will be open to the public until July 14, 2019.

You can’t miss the chance to see 25 original drawings, which offer an interesting excursus in Leonardo’s production and show all his scientific researches about human body proportions, botany, optics, physics, mechanics and weapons. Moreover, it will be possible to see how Leonardo thought about the structure of some of his paintings: the Battaglia di Anghiari, the Sant’Anna con la Vergine e il Bambino and the Vitruvian Man, the famous study of human proportions that has become a symbol of classical perfection of body and mind.

The exhibition, curated by Annalisa Perissa Torrini and Valeria Poletto, retraces, through drawing models created by the artist himself or by his students and protegees, the fundamental stages of the master’s life, starting from the two Studies for an Adoration of the Shepherds, made during his younger years, up to the Three dancing figures, related instead to his time in France, extreme moment of his life ended in Amboise on May 2, 1519.

The Vitruvian Man is exhibited in a special section together with other studies of proportions and anatomy of the human body, combined with important documents exceptionally lent by the Royal Library of Windsor Castle, and several pages of the Huygens code, on loan from The Morgan Library & Museum of New York.

The exhibition includes more than 70 works, including as many as 35 signed by Leonardo.

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Monday 8.15 am – 2 pm;

from Tuesday to Sunday 8.15 am – 7.15 pm

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Full: € 15

Reduced (under 25): € 3,50

Maurice Marinot was a great artisan and the protagonist of a revolution about the techniques on working a particular material, the glass. This is the first international tribute, entitled Maurice Marinot. The Glass, 1911-1934, and is curated by Jean-Luc Olivié and Cristina Beltrami. The exhibition is organized by LE STANZE DEL VETRO in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris (MAD): it will be open to the public on the San Giorgio Maggiore island until July 28, 2019.

Through an exposition itinerary of 220 unique pieces, mainly from several international museums, the exhibition describes the stylistic evolution of this extraordinary and shy artist who abandoned the production of his glass objects in 1934, when the Bar-su-Seine glassworks closed due to economic difficulties. There are also 115 drawings placed side by side, including sketches and projects for objects and installations, coming from different French museums, in particular from the MAD in Paris and the Royal National Museums of Brussels.

The artist

Marinot was an indefatigable experimenter, who invented a lot of materials processing formulas, emulated in the coming decades. The exhibition Maurice Marinot. The Glass, 1911-1934 will reveal a fundamental figure in the modern and contemporary glass history, still not fully known by the general public. After a Parisian training, his career began as a Fauve painter, but with glass, which he accidentally approaches in 1911, he found his way. Marinot began to decorate some objects produced by the industrial glassworks of some friends in Bar-sur-Seine, in the Aube region. These first tests present a strong uniqueness: distant from previous models, the decorative motifs interact with any anomalies of the material. In 1912, Marinot participated at the Salon, and the following year, he began to be represented by the prestigious Galleria Hébrard (1913).

The relationship with the glass became more and more physical year after year: it was a double battle with the material. Marinot was able to control the technique and, starting from 1922-1923, he began to blow the glass creating unique pieces with highly refined colors. He was used to passing from simple forms with a smooth surface, playing with air bubbles suspended in thickness, to bottles cut with deep incisions or vases corroded with long passages in the acid. Even when he kept the glass in its transparency, emphasizing the fluidity of the hot-worked mass, it’s possible to observe a strong tactile sensuality. Marinot has invented a new type of glass, dense, heavy and “plump”, confirming himself as a model for designers and glass masters.

Until June 16, 2019, the exhibition, dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the birth of Francesco Morosini Peloponnesiaco, will be open at the Querini Stampalia Foundation

The collaboration between two Venetian cultural institutions, the Navy and the Guardia di Finanza, was created to organize conferences and exhibitions around the figure of the Captain da Mar in the Venetian political and military context of the seventeenth century.

The exhibition is born thanks to this partnership and, built on texts and documents by the historian Pietro Garzoni, kept at the Querini Stampalia Foundation, is integrated with precious coins and rare medals belonging to the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection.

The artist

The story of Francesco Morosini and the Venetian troops during the Morea war (1684-1699) is traced through old manuscripts: text and images make us understand all the available information to historians and show us how they proceeded to create the myth of the Serenissima.

The Istoria della Repubblica by Pietro Garzoni, together with the printed volumes of this work and the engravings by Vincenzo Coronelli are the main works of the exposure. Moreover, there are manuscripts of reports and news from the Morea region and the Aegean Sea.

A strong depiction of places and events of the time is offered by cartographic documents such as the map of the Penisola e regno di Morea: views, plans and fortresses’ representations of that region, accompanied by detailed battle schemes.

Regarding this, a manuscript occupies a special place in the exhibition: Diario militare della spedizione di Morea, distinti ragguagli delle fortezze prese nel regno della Morea sotto il comando dell’Ecc.mo K. Procur. Cap. General Francesco Morosini, where the story of the conquest of the cities and strongholds is accompanied by the drawings that represent it.

They are rich in military details, such as the deployment of land forces and galleys in the sea, as well as different kinds of details, such as the woods, rivers, aqueducts, wells, vineyards, gardens, mosques, castles, ports and customs.

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Next free guided tour: May 26, 2019 from 11am to 12am.

Max number pax: 25 pax

Reservation: didattica@querinistampalia.org

Free entrance: every sunday for Venetian residents only.

During the XXIX Biennale di Venezia of 1958, Osvaldo Licini (1894 – 1958), an artist from the Italian region called Marche, was awarded the Grand Prize for painting, a tribute to one of the most original personalities of the Italian art scene, during the first half of the twentieth century. 60 years after that prestigious award and his death, the museum recalls the great master
with a retrospective exhibition, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, open until January 14, 2019.

The exhibition

11 exhibition halls, over 100 works, retrace the disruptive and tormented artistic life of Licini, whose career was characterized by moments of crisis and apparently sudden stylistic changes.

The show opens with his young paintings, those that reproduce those landscapes of Marche region that Licini never broke away from, especially pictorially.  They became the subject of his first figurative phase of the 20s, to which belong works like Paesaggio con l’uomo -1926- (Montefalcone) and Paesaggio marchigiano -1928- (Il trogolo). These same views are also
the backdrop to the subsequent transition from realism to the abstraction of the early 30s, as can already be seen in Paesaggio Fantastico -1927- (Il Capro).

Then comes the non-figurative phase of the 30s, years of the unavoidable involvement of the artist in the activities of the Galleria “Il Milione” , where Licini’s abstract language is atypical, attentive to geometry, a geometry imbued with lyricism, evident in works like Castello in aria -1933/1936, or Obelisco -1932-.

His career and the great masterpieces of maturity dedicated to the themes of Flying Dutch, the Amalassunta and the Rebel Angel, all subjects present in the Venetian exhibition, are in “bilico” between the two poles of abstraction and figuration: in fact, in “bilico” means an unstable balance and it is the title and the subject of various works of Licini of the 30s. However, the most iconic works by Licini, presented as a group at the Biennale di Venezia in 1950, are those dedicated to the subject
of Amalassunta.

The wide selection of paintings of Amalassunta, offered along the exhibition path, proposes the many facets of Licini’s personality, from the lyrical and contemplative side to the more ironic and irreverent one.

In his works, realized since the end of the 40s, converge themes, styles and the unresolved trial of painting, which makes Licini as a great protagonist of Italian and international modernism, all confirmed by the award conferred to him a few months before his death during the Biennale di Venezia on 1958.

More info

Opening hours: every day, except on Tuesday and December 25th,
from 10 am to 6 pm
Phone number: 0412405422
Everyday at 3.30 pm, free guided tours are offered at the exhibition, upon purchase of the
entrance ticket to the museum

There’s no better way to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Jacopo Tintoretto’s birth, the famous Venetian painter, with an extraordinary exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Washington National Gallery of Art.

From 7th September 2018 to 6 January 2019 inside the Doge’s Palace the exhibition will be set to celebrate one of the greatest characters in the Italian and International history of art, with a journey through the Doge’s apartment, curated by Robert Echols and Frederick Ilchman, under the scientific direction of Gabriella Belli.

Here, you’ll have the chance to see 50 paintings and 20 draws autographed by Tintoretto, which were lended by the biggest and most important museums in the world, together with the famous cycles that Tintoretto painted at the Doge’s Palace from 1564 to 1592, still in the same place as they were at that time.

The exhibition will deeply describe Jacopo Tintoretto’s visionary idea of painting completely out of the box. He was the one who challenged the traditional painting of another great Venetian painter, Tiziano, introducing new iconographies and techniques, that marked a strong change of direction in the Venetian painting of 1500.

A lot of pieces come from both Italian and international museums, from London (National Gallery, the Royal Collection, the Victoria and Albert’s Museum, and the Courtauld Gallery), from Paris, Gent, Lion, Dresden, Otterlo, Page, Rotterdam.

Among the loans, five works from the Museo Prado of Madrid stand out – including Joseph and the wife of Putifarre (about 1555), Judith and Holofernes (1552-1555) and The Abduction of Helen (1578-1579), which is three meters long.

Susanna and the Elders of 1555-1556 will come from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Portrait of Giovanni Mocenigo (around 1580) from the Staatliche Museum in Berlin.

Either the United States wanted to be part of this huge celebration, sending Jacopo’s artworks from Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington.

The exhibition journey starts and ends with two emblematic self-portraits, that Jacopo’s made at the beginning and at the end of his carrier, respectively landed by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Louvre Museum.

MORE INFO

Opening Times

From 8.30 am to 7.00 pm (last access at 6.00 pm

From November 1st to March 31st: from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm (last access at 4.30 pm).

Tickets: 13€ per person.

Would you like to visit the Arsenale of Venice?

You can do it!

Even this year, the Navy in collaboration with the Associazione Amici dei Musei and Monumenti Veneziani offers guided tours at the Arsenal in the evening.

From July 14 to August 23, every thursday eveningt at 8pm you can visit the Venice Arsenal, discovering one of the most iconic places in Venice.

If you want to book a tour, send them an email within 3pm of the day before the tour.

email: roberto1.messina@marina.difesa.it, domenico1.spinelli@marina.difesa.it, maristudi.aagg@marina.difesa.it

The first museum dedicated to Giacomo Casanova.

Palazzo Pesaro Papafava will be the place where you can immerse yourself into the real story of Casanova’s life, living in first person his world, during his time. You’ll have the chance to move around the rooms of Palazzo Pesaro Papafava (Calle de la Racchetta 3764, Cannaregio), a typical Venetian palace of the XIV century, living an incredible experience, discovering the atmosphere and the way of living of the famous Venetian womanizer.

Because of his life full of experiences and adventures, Casanova is famous all around the world, especially because of his several relationships and his charm. But Casanova was also a great writer who left a lot of works and books.

Casanova Museum & Experience is an exhibition that wants to go over the usual view of Casanova, telling his story through his fragilities and weaknesses, featured by loneliness and insecurity. Traditional dress, objects, documents and much more will guide you in the discovery of the real life and person of Giacomo Casanova.

Mixing virtual experience with suggestive spaces, you’ll live a moving and touching hour, inside the building.

You’ll be able to visit 6 areas, where you’ll meet Giacomo’s family, find out more about his trips around Europe and his passion for writing and creating poems.

Casanova was also a diplomatic and a secret agent for the Serenissima Republic, but he never gave up in the research of the real love.

Info and tickets

Opening: from Monday to Sunday, 10 am – 8 pm

Full ticket, 13 euros, reduced ticket, 7 euros.

Everything is ready for the most magical night of the year!

The usual appointment with the fireworks show will be in St. Mark’s square at midnight and will enlighten the first night of the year.

But this isn’t the only thing you can do on New Year’s Eve in Venice.

Venice, St. Mark’s Basin

Riva degli Schiavoni, Riva Ca’ di Dio, Riva San Biagio and Riva dei Sette Martiri are the best places for watching the fireworks show. On the next day, January 1st, a 11.15 am, the twenty-fourth edition of “Auguri di Capodanno sulla spiaggia del Lido di Venezia” will take place. The event will be at the Blue Moon beach in Lido.

Myung-Whun Chung, the Korean award-winning maestro, will conduct the orchestra for the fifteenth edition of the New Year’s Concert at Teatro La Fenice.

The program is divided in two parts. The first one will be purely orchestral and the second one will be dedicated to a opera with arias, duets and choral parts from the most loved opera repertoire.

The appointments at the theatre are five:

• Thursday, December 28th at 8 pm
• Friday, December 29th at 8 pm
• Saturday, December 30th at 5 pm
• Sunday, December 31st at 4 pm
• Monday, January 1st at 11:15 am

The second part of the New Year’s Concert will be broadcasted live on Rai1 and later on Rai5.

Mestre, Piazza Ferretto

In Mestre, the New Year’s Eve is awaited too and it will be celebrated with the exceptional presence of Radio PiterPan, from 10.30pm till 1.30am.

Luisa Corna and the new band Le Deva will be the protagonist of the whole night, with Marco Baxo, Dj Lady Helen and Dj Andy Mancuso.

Trasportations

For the occasion there will be more waterbusses during the night after the fireworks show.

This will help everyone to reach their home easily.

Also the regular transportations between Venice and Mestre will be more frequent until midnight and after the fireworks show.

The People Mover will be working till 3am.

There will be more trains from Venice to Mestre, Castelfranco, Treviso, Portogruaro and Padua too.

Magister Giotto is an exhibition that, after 750 years from this great maestro’s birth, let you get close to the most hidden meanings of his artworks. A synergy of words, music, and images in an unprecedented multimedia exhibit. A unique occasion, that Venice couldn’t miss. In fact, the appointment is at Scuola Grande Della Misericordia, from July 13 to November 5.

Light and color. Landscapes and faces. Simplicity and naturalism. And above all, a lot of details you’ve never seen so closely: from the first kiss in the history of art to the Halley’s Comet. Magister Giotto presents an accurate, meticulous and almost magic multimedia journey, that winds through impressive spaces, scenographic reconstructions, illusionary visions thank technology. Art is enhanced by technology, which gives all visitors the chance of living an unprecedented experience.

A touching 45-minute account will accompany you during the visit. Music, words and suggestive images tell about Giotto’s revolution, thanks to Luca Zingaretti’s voice and Paolo Fresu’s exclusive soundtrack too.

the stories of St. Francis’, the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, the majestic crucifixes and the other works the artist made in Florence are the base of the narration, which ends with the Giotto Mission in 1986, organized by the European Space Agency. That was the first time the Halley’s Comet was intercepted. The same comet Giotto painted in the Adoration of the Magi, in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.

Timetable

From Sunday to Friday: from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm

Saturday: from 10:30 am to 12:30 am.

Venice is always magic, but there’s a night in particular, during the year, that is special: the night of the Redentore Feast.

The third Saturday of July, as tradition dictates, the city of Venice become the center of a feast that you won’t forget. St Mark’s Basin is going to be full of boats, the fondamenta will hosts hundreds of people with tables and lot of typical food.

The sky is getting ready to be the perfect scenery for an amazing firework performance.

The programma of the Redentore Feast 2017

7pm – The votive bridge, which connects Zattere with Redentore Church on Giudecca Island, opens.

You’ll walk literally above water, through what Venetians usually call a “pontoon bridge”, to reach the other side of the canal and get started with a yummy dinner with friends.

7pm – Presentation of the Venetian regatta boat crews.

11.30 pm – Firework display in St. Mark’s Basin

Other events

ASSEGGIANO: Firework display at 11.30 pm.

FAVARO VENETO: From 6.00 pm “Redentore a Favaro Veneto”, at the sport centre in via Monte Cervino. Firework display at 11.30 pm.

MALCONTENTA: From 4.30 pm Redentore at Malcontenta, by the parrish church. Firework display at 11.30 pm.

PELLESTRINA: From 7.30 pm Redentote at Pellestrina, by Piazza Zendrini. Firework display at 11.30 pm.

Sunday 16th July 2017

Regate del Redentore (Regatta of the Redeemer) – Giudecca Canal

4.00 pm children’s twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
4.45 pm twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
5.30 pm twin-oared gondola regatta
7.00 p.m. – Votive Mass at the Chiesa del Redentore on the island of Giudecca

Parties in St Mark’s Basin and more

You can celebrate the Redentore Feast in different ways. Of course if you have a boat, we suggest you to use it and get to the basin before 7pm.

If you don’t have you own boat you can still celebrate the redentore Feast on the Jolly Roger ship at a price of 160 euros per person or at Serra dei Giardini, where a techno party will take place right after the fireworks and there will be an additional party on a boat from 3am to 10am (this is free).

Another party will be in Lido, at Nicelli airport with Altavoz + Yolo (electronic and hip hop music, from 10pm to 7am).

If you simply want to stroll around Giudecca Island, you can easily do it since the votive bridge will be open till Sunday 16th at 10pm.

Trasportations

The Actv, public transportation company, will increase the number of buses and vaporetti from Venice:

• People Mover: from Piazzale Roma to Tronchetto will be available till 3am
• Trains from Venice to Mestre: at 1.01am, 1..10am, 1.20am, 1.50am, 2.05am
• Train from Venice to Treviso at 2.45am
• Train from Venice to Padua at 2.10 am
• Train from Venice to Vicenza at 2.50am.

On October 16th, Venice will host one of the most amazing event in the San Marco lagoon: the Veleziana 2016.

The Veleziana is the most magical regatta, organized by the Compagnia della Vela. For one day only Venice will be a unique meeting point for dozens of sailing boats. This event is the autumn classic regatta that will close the sailing season, bringing a lot of sailing boats in San Marco’s lagoon, divided in 12 categories.

Boats of more than 5 meters can partecipate to the regatta. Among the 12 categories there is also the Elan 210, the protagonist of a former regatta, called Velezianina, on October, 15th. The winners of each category of the Velezianina 2015 will partecipate, driving several Compagnia della Vela’s Elan 210, which needs a crew of 3-4 people.

The award ceremony will be on November, 26th.

Among the sponsor of this 9th edition there are: the Sartori Jewellery, which raffles a Officine Panerai watch, Carlo Moretti Glassmaker with some Murano handmade products and Rigoni d’Asiago, SLAM, Armare Ropes and Duvetica with some other prizes.

During the same day CONI organizes the Sani Sapori event.

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Venicemarathon is one of the most important running event in Venice and surrounding. Venicemarathon is not just a running competition, but an occasion for everybody to discover the beauties of the Veneto Region in a different way.

The 31st Venicemarathon edition is scheduled for October, 23rd. The departure time is at 9.30am.

You still have time to sign up for the marathon through this link.

The Venicemarathon is worldwide recognized and Bronze Label marathon, certificated by the IAAF – International Association of Athletics Federations.

The marathon will run from Villa Pisani to the Doge’s Palace in Venice, 42, 195 km in total.

Don’t be afraid to partecipate even if you are not a sportsman, you can choose a shorter itinerary such as the 10K.

The 10K is a non competitive run on the last 10km of the Venicemarathon. It starts from the Exposport – San Giuliano Park in Mestre.

The family Run, instead, is a non competitive run open to everybody, organized in different cities in October, that gets families, students and children involved to spend a day out in a spirit of amusement.

Exposport is a Sport and Leasure Fair in San Giuliano Park, where people can find the biggest producers of running staff, such as shoes, clothes and accessories.

The Venicemarathon is joining the Venicemarathon Charity Program.

The program of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival is full of stars and exclusive parties, but the real protagonists, as you know, are the movies. Who will win the Golden Lion 2016?

Twenty are the movies partecipating in the competition to win the Golden Lion, the award of one of the most important kermess of this industry.

The 73rd Venice International Film Festival is taking place in Venice Lido from August, 31st to September 10th and its calendar is full of shows. In addition to the film in competition there are other sections: Orizzonti section (Horizons), open to the new trends and the rising filmmakers, Film out of competition, regarding movies of well-known stars who have already been part of the Festival.

Paolo Sorrentino, a famous Italian director, is waited at the Venice International Film Festival with his new movie, The Young Pope, a miniseries partially set in the Venitian Lagoon. During the Festival, the first two episodes will be showed.

Sam Menders has been elected as the President of the Jury this year, among the Italian actors there are Chiara Mastroianni and Giancarlo De Cataldo.

THE FILMS IN COMPETITION

ANA LILY AMIRPOUR – THE BAD BATCH
Usa, 115’
Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Giovanni Ribisi

STÉPHANE BRIZÉ – UNE VIE
France, Belgium, 119’
Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Swann Arlaud, Yolande Moreau

DAMIEN CHAZELLE – LA LA LAND
Usa, 127’
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock

DEREK CIANFRANCE – THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
Usa, Australia, New Zealand, 133’
Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Emily Barclay

MARIANO COHN, GASTÓN DUPRAT – EL CIUDADANO ILUSTRE
Argentina, Spain, 118’
Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas, Gustavo Garzón

MASSIMO D’ANOLFI, MARTINA PARENTI – SPIRA MIRABILIS
Italy, Swizerland, 121’ (documentary)

LAV DIAZ – ANG BABAENG HUMAYO (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT)
Philippines, 226’
Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz

AMAT ESCALANTE – LA REGIÓN SALVAJE
Mexico, 100’
Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza, Edén Villavicencio

TOM FORD – NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
Usa, 115’
Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Laura Linney

ROAN JOHNSON – PIUMA
Italy, 98’
Luigi Fedele, Blu Yoshimi Di Martino, Sergio Pierattini, Michela Cescon, Francesco Colella

ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY – RAI (PARADISE)
Russia, Germany, 130’
Julia Vysotskaya, Christian Clauss, Philippe Duquesne, Victor Sukhorukov, Peter Kurt

MARTIN KOOLHOVEN – BRIMSTONE
Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, UK, Sweden, 148’
Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Emilia Jones, Kit Harington, Carice Van Houten

EMIR KUSTURICA – NA MLIJECNOM PUTU (ON THE MILKY ROAD)
Serbia, UK, Usa, 125’
Monica Bellucci, Emir Kusturica, Sloboda Micalovic, Predrag Manojlovic

PABLO LARRAÍN – JACKIE
Usa, Chile, 95’
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt

TERRENCE MALICK – VOYAGE OF TIME
Usa, Germany, 90’ (documentary)
Cate Blanchett

CHRISTOPHER MURRAY – EL CRISTO CIEGO
Chile, France, 85’
Michael Silva, Bastian Inostroza, Ana Maria Henriquez, Mauricio Pinto

FRANÇOIS OZON – FRANTZ
France, Germany, 113’
Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Marie Gruber, Ernst Stötzner, Cyrielle Claire

GIUSEPPE PICCIONI – QUESTI GIORNI
Italy, 120’
Margherita Buy, Marta Gastini, Laura Adriani, Maria Roveran, Caterina Le Caselle, Filippo Timi

DENIS VILLENEUVE – ARRIVAL
Usa, 116’
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg

WIM WENDERS – LES BEAUX JOURS D’ARANJUEZ (3D)
France, Germany, 97’
Reda Kateb, Sophie Semin, Jens Harzer, Nick Cave

SPECIAL EVENTS

“The Young Pope” Episode 1 & 2 – dir. Paolo Sorrentino
“Planetarium” – dir. Rebecca Zlotowski

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

AMBROGIO CRESPI – SPES CONTRA SPEM – LIBERI DENTRO
Italy, 70’ (documentary)

THOMAS KOOLHAAS – REM
Usa, 75’ (documentary)

LORENZO VIGAS – EL VENDEDOR DE ORQUÍDEAS
Venezuela, Mexico, 75’ (documentary)

FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION

BRUNO CHIARAVALLOTI, CLAUDIO JAMPAGLIA, BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI – OUR WAR
Italy, Usa, 68′ (documentary)

KASPER COLLIN – I CALLED HIM MORGAN
Svweden, Usa, 91′ (documentary)

ANDREW DOMINIK – ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING (3D)
UK, 112′
Nick Cave

PHILIPPE FALARDEAU – THE BLEEDER
Usa, Canada, 93′
Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman, Jim Gaffigan, Pooch Hall

ANTOINE FUQUA – THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Usa, 130’
Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Peter Sarsgaard

MEL GIBSON – HACKSAW RIDGE
Usa, Australia, 131′
Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey

NICK HAMM – THE JOURNEY
UK, 94′
Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, John Hurt, Toby Stephens

BENOÎT JACQUOT – À JAMAIS
France, Portugal, 86′
Mathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, Jeanne Balibar

YASUSHI KAWAMURA – GANTZ:O
Japan, 95′ (animation)

JEE WOON KIM – MILJEONG (THE AGE OF SHADOWS)
South Korea, 114′
Song Kang-ho, Gong Yoo, Han Ji-Min

ORIZZONTI

DORIA ACHOUR – LE RESTE EST L’OEUVRE DE L’HOMME
France, Tunisia, 14′
Houssin Benwarda, Anissa Daoud

RAÚL ARÉVALO – TARDE PARA LA IRA
Spain, 92′
Antonio de la Torre, Luis Callejo, Ruth Díaz

BIBHUSAN BASNET, POOJA GURUNG – DADYAA
Nepal, France, 17′
Parimal Damai, Lachhima Damai

MAURIZIO BRAUCCI – STANZA 52
Italy, 13′
Vincenza Modica

PETER BROSENS, JESSICA WOODWORTH – KING OF THE BELGIANS
Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, 94′
Peter Van den Begin, Lucie Debay, Titus De Voogdt, Bruno Georis

RAMA BURSHTEIN – LAAVOR ET HAKIM (THROUGH THE WALL)
Israel, 110′
Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi

CHIARA CASELLI – MOLLY BLOOM
Italia, 20′
Chiara Caselli, Enrico Carotenuto, Elisabetta de Vito, Lilian Sassanelli, Nicole Guerzoni, Lorenzo Ciambrelli

FEDERICA DI GIACOMO – LIBERAMI
Italy, France, 89′
(documentary)

MAMADOU DIA – SAMEDI CINEMA
Senegal, 11′
Fallou Keita, Assane Lo, Saikou Lo, Penda Daly Sy

REHA ERDEM – KOCA DÜNYA (BIG BIG WORLD)
Turkey, 100′
Ecem Uzun, Berke Karaer

LUCA FERRI – COLOMBI
Italy, 20′
Giovanni Colombi, Annunciata Decò, Dario Bacis

BAYU PRIHANTORO FILEMON – ON THE ORIGIN OF FEAR
Indonesia, 12′
Pritt Timothy

GIOVANNI FUMU – GOOD NEWS
South Korea, Italy, 17′
Eun U, Soonwoo Kwak

FLURIN GIGER – RUAH
Swizerland, 18′
Fabian Villiger, Christina Brandenberg, Annina Walt, Mona Petri, Jürg Plüss

WEI HU – CE QUI NOUS ÉLOIGNE
France, 18′
Camille Debray, Isabelle Huppert, Nai An, André Wilms, Zhang Xianmin

KEI ISHIKAWA – GUKOROKU
Japan, 120′
Tsumabuki Satoshi, Mitsushima Hikari

SARA KERN – SRECNO, ORLO! (GOOD LUCK, ORLO!)
Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, 14′
Tin Vulovic, Primož Pirnat, Nina Ivanišin, Tin Marn

KARL LEMIEUX – MAUDITE POUTINE
Canada, 91′
Jean-Simon Leduc, Martin Dubreuil

JUAN PABLO LIBOSSART – AMALIMBO
Sweden, Estonia, 15′
Margaretha Ulfendahl, Anna Odell

JAKE MAHAFFY – MIDWINTER
Usa, New Zealand, 17′
Jill Larson, Eleanor Hutchins

MARCELO MARTINESSI – LA VOZ PERDIDA
Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba, 11′
Librada Martinez, Cinthia Quiñonez, Raulito Cáceres

MARCO MARTINS – SÃO JORGE
Portugal, France, 112’
Nuno Lopes, Mariana Nunes, David Semedo

BILL MORRISON – DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
Usa, France, 112’
(documentary)

KATELL QUILLÉVÉRÉ – RÉPARER LES VIVANTS
France, Belgium, 103′
Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners, Kool Shen

DEEPAK RAUNIYAR – WHITE SUN
Nepal, Usa, Qatar, Netherlands, 87′
Dayahang Rai, Asha Magrati, Rabindra Singh Baniya, Sumi Malla, Amrit Pariyar

PARVIZ SHAHBAZI – MALARIA
Iran, 100′
Saghar Ghanaat, Saed Soheili, Azarakhsh Farahani, Azadeh Namdari

CHAI SIRIS – 500,000 PEE (500,000 YEARS)
Thailand, 15′
Montree Reun-ngeun

GASTÓN SOLNICKI – KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ
Argentina, 72′
Laila Maltz, Katia Szechtman, Lara Tarlowski, Natali Maltz, Maria Soldi, Pedro Trocca, Denise Groesman

TIM SUTTON – DARK NIGHT
Usa, 85′
Robert Jumper, Anna Rose Hopkins, Eddie Cacciol, Rosie Rodriguez, Karina Macias, Aaron Purvis

ANDREI TANASE – PRIMA NOAPTE (FIRST NIGHT)
Romania, Germany, 17′
Alfredo Minea, Cristiana Luca, Mimi Branescu, Elvira Deatcu

FIEN TROCH – HOME
Belgium, 103′
Sebastian Van Dun, Mistral Guidotti, Loïc Batog, Lena Suijkerbuijk, Karlijn Sileghem, Els Deceukelier, Robby Cleiren

RONNY TROCKER – DIE EINSIEDLER
Germany, Austria, 110′
Andreas Lust, Ingrid Burkhard, Orsi Toth

MICHELE VANNUCCI – IL PIÙ GRANDE SOGNO
Italy, 97′
Mirko Frezza, Alessandro Borghi, Vittorio Viviani, Milena Mancini, Ivana Lotito, Ginevra De Carolis

NICHOLAS VERSO – BOYS IN THE TREES
Australia, 112’
Toby Wallace, Gulliver McGrath, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Justin Holborow

BING WANG – KU QIAN (BITTER MONEY)
Hong Kong, France, 120′
(documentary)
BIENNALE COLLEGE

ALESSANDRO ARONADIO – ORECCHIE
Italy, 90’
Daniele Parisi, Silvana Bosi, Masaria Colucci, Sonia Gessner, Francesca Antonelli, Re Salvador

SHUBHASHISH BHUTIANI – MUKTI BHAWAN (HOTEL SALVATION)
India, 103’
Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Palomi Ghosh, Navnindra Behl, Anil K Rastogi

SOFIA BROCKENSHIRE – UNA HERMANA (ONE SISTER)
Argentina, 68’
Sofía Palomino, Adriana Ferrer, Saúl Simonet, Sebastián Carbone, Mateo Giménez

JORGE THIELEN ARMAND – LA SOLEDAD
Venezuela, 85’
José Dolores López, Marley Alvillaes López, Adrializ López Jorge, Thielen Hedderich, Maria del Carmen, Agamez Palomino
FUORI CONCORSO ORIZZONTI

“Dark Night” – dir. Tim Sutton

CINEMA IN THE GARDEN

MARCOS CARNEVALE – INSEPARABLES
Argentina, 108’
Oscar Martínez, Rodrigo de la Serna

FRANCESCO CARROZZINI – FRANCA: CHAOS AND CREATION
Italy, Usa, 80’
(documentary)

JAMES FRANCO – IN DUBIOUS BATTLE
Usa, 110’
Bryan Cranston, Ed Harris, James Franco, Josh Hutcherson, Nat Wolff, Robert Duvall, Sam Shepard, Selena Gomez

KIM KI-DUK – GEUMUL (THE NET)
South Korea, 114’
Ryuu Seung-bum, Lee Won-gun, Kim Young-min

GABRIELE MUCCINO – L’ESTATE ADDOSSO
Italy, 103’
Brando Pacitto, Matilda Lutz, Taylor Frey, Joseph Haro

CHRIS RENAUD, YARROW CHENEY – THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (3D)
Usa, 90’
(animation)

MICHELE SANTORO – ROBINÙ
Italy, 91’
(documentary)

LAURIE SIMMONS – MY ART
Usa, 86’
Laurie Simmons, Lena Dunham, Parker Posey

VENITIAN CLASSICS – Selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinemarc

ASHIM AHLUWALIA – EVENTS IN A CLOUD CHAMBER [DOCUMENTARY]
India, 20’ (documentary)

WOODY ALLEN – MANHATTAN (1979)
Usa, 97’
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway

ALESSANDRO BIGNAMI – E VENNE L’UOMO – UN DIALOGO CON ERMANNO OLMI [DOCUMENTARY]
Italy, 47’ (documentary)

NOEL BLACK – PRETTY POISON (DOLCE VELENO, 1968)
Usa, 89’
Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland

MARCO BONFANTI – BOZZETTO NON TROPPO [DOCUMENTARI]
Italia, 75’ (documentary)

ROBERT BRESSON – L’ARGENT (IL DENARO, 1983)
France, Swizerland, 83’
Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet

LUIGI COMENCINI – TUTTI A CASA (1960)
Italy, France, 115’
Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina

STEFANO DELLA CASA, FRANCESCO FRISARI – PERCHÉ SONO UN GENIO! LORENZA MAZZETTI [DOCUMENTARI]
Italy, 61’ (documentary)

NICK EBELING – ALONG FOR THE RIDE [DOCUMENTARI]
Usa, 90’ (documentary)

MARCO FERRERI – BREAK UP. L’UOMO DEI CINQUE PALLONI (1965)
Italy, France, 85’
Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak, Ugo Tognazzi

INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS’ WEEK – indipendent festival of 7 films – organized by a commission nominated by SNCCI

MARCO BELLOCCHIO – PAGLIACCI [SPECIAL EVENT – OPENING SHORTS]
Italy, 18’
Lucia Ragni, Luca Micheletti, Federica Fracassi, Rebecca Liberati, Corrado Invernizzi, Mino Manni

FATIMA BIANCHI – NOTTURNO
Italy, 15’
Claudia Consonni, Rosaria Girotti, Giovanna Gossi, Laura Morelli, Carmen La Corte, Elisabetta Sisti, Florinda Trombetta

VINCENT BIRON – PRANK
Canada, 78’
Etienne Galloy, Constance Massicotte, Simon Pigeon, Alexandre Lavigne

RICCARDO CARUSO, ROBERTO TENACE, LUIGI LOMBARDI, ELISABETTA FALANGA – DODICI PAGINE
Italy, 13’
Vittoria Araldi, Claudio Guain, Davide Bellofiore, Michele Galasso

MARIA GIOVANNA CICCIARI – ATLANTE 1783
Italy, 20’

IRENE DIONISIO – LE ULTIME COSE
Italy, Swizerland, France, 85’
Fabrizio Falco, Roberto De Francesco, Christina Rosamilia, Alfonso Santagata, Salvatore Cantalupo, Anna Ferruzzo, Nicole De Leo, Maria Eugenia D’Aquino, Margherita Coldesina, Matteo Polidoro

EDOARDO FERRARO – COLAZIONE SULL’ERBA
Italy, 14’
Riccardo Pandolfi, Giacomo Bottoni, Francesco Melchiorri, Giorgia Torregrossa, Davide Dentamaro

ROSSELLA INGLESE – VANILLA
Italy, 13’
Carolina Dovera, Eriberto Peruzzo, Mariangela Di Paolo, Antonio Iurino, Oscar Genovese

KEYWAN KARIMI – DRUM
France, Iran, 95’
Amirreza Naderi, Sara Gholizade, Akbar Zanjanian, Elyas Rasouli, Honaramooz, Ardalan Haji Rahim, Ahmad Ghoorchi, Ali Farschchi, Mohammad Safajouyi

CHIARA LEONARDI – ALICE
Itale, 14’
Francesca Leonardi, Sofia Leonardi, Chiara Leonardi, Massimo Leonardi, Elena Bonati

Peggy Guggenheim’s life and style celebrated in an exhibition at Ikona Gallery in Venice

Until 27 November 2016, in the 500th anniversary year of the Ghetto of Venice, the historic Ikona Gallery in the Campo del Ghetto Novo 2909, will host the exhibition Peggy Guggenheim in Photographs, curated by Živa Kraus and organized by Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Ikona Gallery.

It’s a great chance to reflect on life and history of Peggy – the greatest patron of 20th century western art – through a small but precious series of pictures: a selection of approximately 20 images, both from the archives of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and from private collections, will render homage to this great patroness, a key figure in 20th century western art.

Peggy was rarely the subject of painted portraits, but was frequently captured in photographs. Among the celebrated photographers who portrayed the American patron there are Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Roloff Beny, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Gisèle Freund, Constantin Brâncuși and Marcel Duchamp, all friends whose art she was to promote.

Taken in a long period of time, these photos show us the change in taste, fashion and style – and about the eccentric art collector, her professional path developed through decades.

Precious pictures of Frida Kahlo, taken by Leo Matiz, on display for the first time at the Ar33 Studio of Venice.

From 18th June to 18th August 2016, the Ar33 Studio of Venice, close to Piazza San Marco, will host an extraordinary and unique exhibition: 30 unedited pictures of Frida Kahlo taken by one of the greatest photographers of the XX century, Leo Matiz.

Frida Kahlo, whose life began and ended in Mexico City, is world-renowned as an icon of contemporary art (and of Magic realism indeed), well-known for her sensitive and enigmatic self-portraits and universally celebrated for her great depiction of the female world. Last but not least, she is a powerful symbol of strength and resistance to physical and mental pain.

Leo Matiz, Colombian photographer and artist, who had Venetian origins, met Frida in the 1940s: the result of their friendship is a series of pictures, taken both in black and white and in colours, in which the Mexican painter is portrayed in the quiet and intimate atmosphere of her private life.
These images, captured during a particularly scandalous period of her life, reveal Frida’s quiet attitude in front of the camera. The photos by Leo Matiz correspond to Frida’s artistic and personal maturity and to the acceptance of her physical fragilities and her husband’s (Diego Rivera) evidence of infidelity.

In 1998, Leo Matiz reminded of the first time he met Frida and Diego: “I met up with Diego Rivera several times and it’s curious how many things we now know about Frida Kahlo, were unknown to the people at that time. To me, she had a quite sad life. Diego had a strong personality and Frida was a fragile woman condemned to disability for the whole life. She was full of corsets and similar objects. Actually, she was invalid and her suffering was evident. She used art to release herself”.

The exhibition, organized by the Ar33 Studio of Venice and Leo Matiz Foundation, will give us the opportunity to look inside an extraordinary moment of both Leo and Frida’s lives. In the studio we can also admire photographic works of Arsen Revazov, the owner of this incredible studio gallery in the heart of Venice.

Opening hours
Everyday from 10:30 am to 07:30 pm

Imagine: the Italian avant-garde of the 1960s at Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

From 23 April to 19 September 2016 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection will host Imagine. New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero: this temporary exhibition shows a fresh perspective and a refined approach on European post war art in the Italian avant-garde in the 1960s, focusing on the origin of a new sense of image.

In Italy during the 1960s, at the height of the economic boom, artistic experimentation flourished at an unprecedented pace and intensity. The aim was to create a new vocabulary of signs and images capable of interpreting the vitality of contemporary culture and society.
This exhibition draws on the richness of Italian art production in those years: the leading theme is how the figured image served to construct a new language of representation in a little known phase of Italian art history.

The exhibition, in a tightly curated sequence of galleries, lays out the multiple lines of research of several of Italian artists who reconstituted a new world of images and narrative. On display there are works by artists such as Franco Angeli, Mario Ceroli, Domenico Gnoli, Giosetta Fioroni, Tano Festa, Fabio Mauri, Francesco lo Savio, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Schifano, Giulio Paolini, Jannis Kounellis, Pino Pascali – some of them members of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, an important avant-garde movement based in Rome. An intense sequence of emblematic works captures the vitality of that brief period of time, a mere nine years, and uncovers, by diversity and assonance, in an unceasing process of exchange and dialogue, that melting-pot of visual art, in a process which gave rise to the schools and movements of future avant-gardes.

Opening: 10 AM – 18 PM, everyday except Tuesday

Ticket: €15
Students under 26 yrs.: €9 (with current student ID)

Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana reopen with the long-awaited couple of exhibitions: Sigmar Polke and Accrochage.

Contemporary art is always on scene in Venice, especially in the two historical palaces, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, owned by the Pinault Foundation. Until November 2016 it is worthwhile visiting the couple of exhibition set up in the charming venue of these two huge exhibition halls: Sigmar Polke and Accrochage.

SIGMAR POLKE – PALAZZO GRASSI

Palazzo Grassi in Venice will host a retrospective on life and works of Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer, well-known for his experimentation in painting with chemical reactions: curated by Elena Geuna and Guy Tosatto, it marks the 75th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
On display there are 90 brilliant works, including Athanor, his project for the German Pavilion of Art Biennale 1986, in which the artist developed techniques and motifs that would become central during his life.
The exhibition follows a reverse chronological order and opens in the monumental atrium of Palazzo Grassi with Axial Age, the artist’s last important pictorial cycle, created between 2005 and 2007. The 90 works surveys the eclectic production of the artist from the 2000s to the 1960s, celebrating his long career. His work intertwines the alchemical and the political, the abstract and the figurative, past and present.

ACCROCHAGE – PUNTA DELLA DOGANA

In the meantime of the one at Palazzo Grassi, another big exhibition – curated by Caroline Bourgeois at Punta della Dogana – will show 80 works never been shown before from the Pinault Foundation: Accrochage underlines the artist’s search and creative process, not the work’s aesthetic, focusing on how rather than why these works were created.
The selection reflects the Pinault Collection as a whole and brings together established and up-and-coming artists: Sol LeWitt, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Philippe Parreno, Cerith Wyn Evans, Pierre Huyghe, Nina Canell, Pier Paolo Calzolari and the italian Arte povera.
A living performance created by Tino Sehgal – Ann Lee – is also displayed until the end of May: it sees an ethereal little girl recite a script describing her transition from manga character and interacting with visitors.

Opening: 10 AM – 7 PM. Closed on Tuesdays.

Ticket: €15
Ticket valid for both exhibitions: €20

From 26th December 2011 to 6th January 2012

A thick programme of theatre shows for everybody will entertain old and young, locals and tourists during the Christmas holidays and New Year’s Eve in Venice and Mestre.

The underlying theme will be the circus and clowns.

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