The Peggy Guggenheim Collection closes 2023 with more than 378,000 visitors. And announces upcoming exhibitions

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection closes 2023 with over 378,000 admissions during its 315 days of operation, with a daily average of 1,200 guests. Add to this figure more than 5,000 people who visited the collection at openings, institutional, corporate, and private events, and more than 10,000 participants in Public Programs, Kids Day, accessibility programs, and visits related to the At Guggenheim School project.

“We are absolutely delighted with the results achieved in this 2023 that has just concluded,” said Director Karole P. B. Vail. “In a year that saw Venice host the Architecture Biennale, as well as major art exhibitions organized by the city’s various institutions, our museum recorded excellent visitor numbers, which exceeded expectations. We are thrilled with how critics and the public welcomed the tribute dedicated to the Venetian Spatialist Edmondo Bacci, and now the exhibition featuring Marcel Duchamp, hailed by the press and loved by our visitors. We are now already hard at work on the year’s exhibition program, which will see Jean Cocteau and Marina Apollonio at the center of two major monographs opening in April and October respectively, and of course there will be no shortage of free collateral activities, Public Programs, and accessibility and inclusivity projects, for all audiences and our members.”

And if the exhibition Marcel Duchamp and the Seduction of the Copy, which will remain open until March 18, has already recorded nearly 90,000 admissions since its opening on Oct. 14, the first-ever retrospective in Italy dedicated to Jean Cocteau is awaited. Entitled Jean Cocteau. The Juggler’s Revenge, the exhibition will open on April 13, 2024 and will display more than one hundred and fifty works, including drawings, graphic works, jewelry, tapestries, historical documents, books, magazines, photographs, and documentaries. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the eclecticism that always characterized Cocteau’s artistic language, tracing the development of the unique and highly personal aesthetic of the enfant terrible of the French art scene, tracing the main moments of his tumultuous artistic career, as well as the friendship that bound him to Peggy Guggenheim. It was with an exhibition of Cocteau’s drawings, suggested by Marcel Duchamp, that Guggenheim began his artistic career at London’s Guggenheim Jeune gallery in 1938. A tribute to Marina Apollonio will follow in the fall: Marina Apollonio. Beyond the Circle, the first solo exhibition dedicated to one of the most important protagonists of the international optic-kinetic movement, supported and collected by the American patron during the 1960s.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection closes 2023 with more than 378,000 visitors. And announces upcoming exhibitions

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