Acquired by the City of Castelfranco Veneto in 2021, Palazzo Soranzo Novello is preparing to become one of the new nerve centers of the city’s cultural life. The building, once an elegant aristocratic residence and later the headquarters of the Banca Popolare di Castelfranco Veneto, will in fact house the Castelfranco Veneto Civic Museum.
The building had already been officially presented to the community in 2023, on the occasion of the event Temporary. Exhibit. Document. Recover, thus marking the start of its redevelopment. The event outlined the guiding principles of the project: promotion of contemporary art, protection of historical and artistic heritage and support for creativity. Today Palazzo Soranzo Novello reinvents itself as a living and dynamic space, combining research, exhibition and participation. Its environments, in which elegant 18th-century rooms coexist with more modern architectural stratifications, will become a meeting place for citizens, artists and visitors, a laboratory of ideas and different languages.
From November 15, 2025 to February 14, 2026, Palazzo Soranzo Novello will host PORTOFRANCO, an exhibition curated by Rossella Farinotti, promoted and produced by NOT Titled YET in collaboration with the Municipality of Castelfranco Veneto and the Casa Giorgione Museum.
The exhibition aims to bring artists of different generations and backgrounds into dialogue, interweaving historical looks and contemporary visions to build a plural and multifaceted narrative. Through painting, photography, installations (including site-specific ones), video, sculpture and performance, the artists involved (including, Thomas Braida, Maurizio Cattelan, Flavio Favelli, Guido Guidi, Goldschmied & Chiari, Raoul Schultz, Silvia Mariotti, Silvia Negrini, Agnese Guido, Duane Hanson) inhabit the spaces of the palace, generating an emotional experience on different levels of reading, in which memory, suspension, suggestion and disquiet coexist.
The exhibition aims to invite the public to imagine new possible stories between past and future. Nature, a redeeming element, creeps between the cracks of architecture and proposes new scenarios; domestic spaces are contrasted with those of work, while the individual rediscovers his own times and places.
PORTOFRANCO thus intends to configure itself as a field of shared visions. Through the artists’ works and actions, the exhibition aims to rethink the collective future starting from abandoned places, but rich in memory and stories.
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