In 2026 Sanlorenzo celebrates ten years of cultural engagement with an annual program that brings together art, design, craftsmanship, innovation and sustainability. The company is presenting its most articulate calendar yet, built around the first full year of operation of Casa Sanlorenzo in Venice, a permanent space inaugurated in 2025 and destined to consolidate the brand’s presence on the international cultural scene.
“Over the past decade, Sanlorenzo Arts has gone from being an instinctive passion to being the cultural compass of our organization,” says Massimo Perotti, Executive Chairman of Sanlorenzo. “Guided by the belief that culture and responsibility are not complements of excellence, but its fundamental basis. Supporting culture means investing in ideas, promoting craftsmanship and stimulating the courage to question the present while imagining the future. It is in this spirit that we opened Casa Sanlorenzo in 2025 as the permanent home and beating heart of Sanlorenzo Arts. Through our annual program we make our ambition explicit: to create a platform where art, sustainability and design are intertwined in an authentic and coherent dialogue, capable of reflecting the measure, innovation and timelessness that define Sanlorenzo in the international yachting scene.”
The anniversary marks an important milestone for Sanlorenzo Arts, a platform through which the Maison has structured its relationship with the art world over time. The project, which began as an initiative linked to participation in Art Basel Miami Beach in 2016, has gradually transformed into a system of institutional collaborations, artistic commissions and long-term partnerships with artists, curators and cultural institutions. From 2018 to 2023 Sanlorenzo held the role of Global Host Partner of Art Basel, flanking this presence with sponsorship of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and support for the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, an unprecedented case for a shipyard.
Continued participation in Milan Design Week, launched in 2017, represented another junction in this cultural strategy. In that context, the installation Il Mare a Milano (The Sea in Milan), set up at the Triennale, was awarded the Compasso d’Oro ADI in 2020, a benchmark recognition in the design sector. The path found further development in June 2025 with the opening of Casa Sanlorenzo in Venice, a villa restored by Piero Lissoni and Lissoni & Partners, inaugurated on the occasion of the first edition of Venice Climate Week. The space, conceived as a permanent cultural venue, was presented with the exhibition Breathtaking by Fabrizio Ferri, a photographic project dedicated to the theme of ocean pollution and the role of art as a tool for awareness. The 2026 program fits into this trajectory and expands its scope. The first appointment is scheduled for April, during Milan Design Week, when Sanlorenzo will take part in the exhibition-event organized by the magazine INTERNI with a new installation signed by Piero Lissoni at the Università degli Studi di Milano Statale. The project aims to explore the relationship between interior and exterior, design and navigation, proposing a reflection on the ways in which the brand interprets the idea of the contemporary icon.
The centerpiece of the calendar is Waves, a group exhibition scheduled from May 6 to June 28, 2026 at Casa Sanlorenzo, in conjunction with the Venice Art Biennale. Curated by Sergio Risaliti, director of the Museo Novecento in Florence, and Cristiano Seganfreddo, with the scientific support of Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta, members of the Sanlorenzo Arts scientific committee, the exhibition addresses the theme of movement and transformation through the metaphor of the wave. The wave is proposed as a physical element and at the same time as a cultural figure, linked to the brand’s identity and its relationship with the sea. The exhibition brings into dialogue masters of the 20th century and sculpture such as Alexander Calder, Fausto Melotti, Lucio Fontana and Tony Cragg with contemporary artists such as Christine Safa and visual artists Friederich Andreoni and Marcello Maloberti. The confrontation between different generations and languages aims to explore the idea of energy, rhythm and change, extending the reflection to the scientific field as well.
From June 3 to 8, 2026 Sanlorenzo will participate in the second edition of Venice Climate Week, of which it is a founding member. On that occasion, Casa Sanlorenzo will reopen to the public as a place to discuss climate change, scientific research and collective action, strengthening the connection between cultural programming and environmental responsibility.
In September, from September 1-30, Casa Sanlorenzo will host the fourth edition of Homo Faber, an event titled An Island of Light, curated by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship and artistically directed by Es Devlin. The project explores the relationship between light, materials and craftsmanship, focusing on the dialogue between creativity, savoir-faire and innovation. The initiative consolidates the brand’s focus on craftsmanship as a field of research and an essential component of its production identity. The calendar will close from Oct. 12 to Nov. 24 with a solo exhibition by Sicilian photographer Roselena Ramistella, commissioned by Sanlorenzo. The project documents life on Italy’s lesser-known islands outside the tourist season, focusing on the communities that inhabit them and the daily dynamics that define their identity.
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The author of this article: Noemi Capoccia
Originaria di Lecce, classe 1995, ha conseguito la laurea presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara nel 2021. Le sue passioni sono l'arte antica e l'archeologia. Dal 2024 lavora in Finestre sull'Arte.Warning: the translation into English of the original Italian article was created using automatic tools. We undertake to review all articles, but we do not guarantee the total absence of inaccuracies in the translation due to the program. You can find the original by clicking on the ITA button. If you find any mistake,please contact us.
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