Exhibitions and events at Venezia

Lee Ufan stars in Venice with a major exhibition by Dia Art Foundation

Dia Art Foundation brings to Venice one of the most important exhibitions dedicated to Lee Ufan (Haman, 1936) in recent years. Starting May 9, 2026, SMAC Venice, the San Marco Art Centre inaugurated in 2025 in the Procuratie of St. Mark's Square, wil...
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Chihuly returns to Venice: three monumental installations on the Grand Canal in 2026

Thirty years after Chihuly Over Venice, the project that helped redefine the relationship between contemporary art and the Venetian glassmaking tradition in the 1990s, Dale Chihuly returns to the lagoon city with a new diffuse intervention conceived ...
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MUSE of Trento participates in the Venice Biennale with Ronald Ventura's collateral dedicated to the Moon

MUSE - Museo delle Scienze di Trento is participating in the 61st International Art Exhibition in Venice as the co-organizing institution of Ronald Ventura: Luna, an official collateral event of the Biennale that interweaves contemporary art, scient...
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WAVES, in Venice the first exhibition produced by Sanlorenzo Arts

From May 6 to June 28, 2026, Casa Sanlorenzo in Venice is hosting WAVES, the first exhibition produced by Sanlorenzo Arts, a cultural project developed by the yachting maison as an extension of its activities in the field of contemporary art. The ini...
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Equatorial Guinea debuts at the Venice Biennale with Paraguayan artist Ingrid Seall and the theme of undergrowth

From May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026, Palazzo Donà dalle Rose in Venice will host, within the Pavilion of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, present for the first time in history in the official programming of the Venice Biennale, Paraguayan artist Ing...
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Venice, at Palazzo Franchetti the contemporary glass of Bertil Vallien and Martin Janecký

On the occasion of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Franchetti is hosting from May 5 to November 22, 2026, two solo exhibitions dedicated to Bertil Vallien and Martin Janecký, major figures in the internati...
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Venice, in the Sale Canoviane of the Museo Correr, Julian Charrière in dialogue with Canova

At the Museo Correr in Venice the exhibition Dialoghi Canoviani continues, a project that relates contemporary artistic research to the legacy of Antonio Canova. The second edition offers a confrontation between the Franco-Swiss artist Julian Charri&...
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In Venice, at the Berengo Foundation, Tony Cragg investigates the qualities of matter

The Berengo Foundation, in the spaces of Ca' Tron in Venice, will present from May 5 to November 22, 2026 the exhibition Ocean of Drops, where the protagonist will be Tony Cragg (Liverpool, 1949), among the main protagonists of contemporary sculpture...
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