Current exhibitions
VENETIAN FORTRESSES in Mediterranean Sea
From March 8 to September 22, 2013Displayed in the seat of the Serenissima’s “power”, and making use of the interesting documents loaned from the Gabinetto di Cartografia (Maps Cabinet) and Library of Museo Correr, the exhibition reconstructs the Venetian military defence systems and fortresses of the Stato da Mar. [...] [...]
MANET. Return to Venice
From April 24 to August 18, 2013Manet. Return to Venice is the name of the exhibition the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia will host from 24th April to 18th August 2013 in the monumental rooms of the Doge’s Palace. It will include about 80 paintings, drawings and prints, and has been planned with the special collaboration of the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, which possesses the largest number of masterpieces by this extraordinary painter. [...] [...]
SEGUSO: Art Glass: 1932/1973
From May 18 to September 29, 2013Covering a chronological period ranging from the creation of the company to the period in which the members of the family separate, stimulated to try different, independent roads, the exhibition traces out the fundamental artistic contribution made by this famous glass maker. [...] [...]
FLORA VIALE. Sacred fragments
From May 18, 2013 to January 5, 2014The exhibition shows laces by Flore Viale, an Italo-American artist who, elaborating the problems posed by her sensitivity and perception, produces a series of “fragments” charged with meanings and queries for which she seeks answers. [...] [...]
ANTONELLA ZAGGIA. Paper Jewels
From May 18 to September 17, 2013The applied art of Antonella Zaggia, a Venetian artist who has for years worked in a “theatrical” setting, arrives at Casa Goldoni with her collection of papier mâché jewels. [...] [...]
MULTIPLE VEDOVA
From May 18 to October 13, 2013The project rediscovers and at the same time stresses the work of Emilio Vedova and, with some of his most forceful works, makes possible a comparison with the glorious artistic history of Venice within two of its leading museum [...] [...]
ANNA SKIBSKA. Metamorphoses of forms
From May 31 to December 1, 2013Polish artist Anna Skibska likes to reveal the metamorphoses of forms, using glassmaking techniques in a masterly fashion. This exhibition shows the play between the visible and invisible that leads to the essenceabsence of gravity and the lightness of her compositions. [...] [...]
REGATTA BOATS
From May 31 to November 4, 2013Regatta boats were extravagantly decorated by leading artists and these designs today are documented by one of the most important collections of prints and drawingsconserved in the Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe in Museo Correr, now displayed after a long period out of public sight, at Ca’ Rezzonico [...] [...]
A VERY LIGHT ART. Mario Airò / Stefano Arienti / Cerith Wyn Evans / Flavio Favelli / Luigi Ontani / Gabriel Orozco / Heimo Zobernig
From May 31 to November 24, 2013Situated in the historic environs of the Ca’ Rezzonico Museum, this exhibition showcases the work of artists who master space and material in relation to context. The unique aspect of all the works selected is their emphasis on craftsmanship and technical finesse, almost all of them the product of high Italian artistry. [...] [...]
CONTEMPORARY BESTIARY. Between art and science, Italian artists from the ACACIA collection
From May 31 to October 24, 2013For the 2013 edition of the Venice Biennale, contemporary art will enter the Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, invited to create a dialogue with the museum’s holdings in an alternation of grand effect and microscopic surprise based on formal analogy and similarity of content. [...] [...]
CARO AT CORRER MUSEUM
From May 31 to October 27, 2013The splendid rooms of the Museo Correr will be the setting for the first major Italian retrospective dedicated to one of the greatest of living sculptors: Sir Anthony Caro [...] [...]
ERALDO MAURO. Darkroom: slides
From May 31 to December 1, 2013The “SLIDES/diapositive” art project by Eraldo Mauro, is based on the evocative power of the perception of colour and on the common denominator linking alchemy, glass and slides. Mauro’s installation recreates the interior of a photographic laboratory in which new works are displayed, together with others created for the occasion. [...] [...]
THE SONNABEND COLLECTION
From June 1 to September 29, 2013Ileana Sonnabend, perhaps one of the leading discoverers of fresh talent of the late 20th century, is remembered at Ca’ Pesaro thanks to the exceptional ong-term loan to the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia of 30 works from the Sonnabend Collection of New York. [...] [...]
TAPIES. The eye of the artist
From June 1 to November 24, 2013A year after the death of the brilliant Catalan artist, a key exponent of international informal art, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Vervoordt Foundation pay tribute to him through a fascinating exhibition aiming to reveal the profound essence of the art produced by this major figure in 20th century art [...] [...]