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What’s on in Venice

Exhibitions, encounters and new reasons to explore. Find an event for your next Venetian day.

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2026-04-25 — 2026-10-19

Peggy Guggenheim in London: Birth of a Collector

At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, this exhibition explores Peggy Guggenheim's London years and her first gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, active from 1938 to 1939. It brings together key works shown in those pioneering exhibitions, alongside similar-period pieces by artists including Eileen Agar, Salvador Dalí, Barbara Hepworth, Vasily Kandinsky, Henry Moore, Piet Mondrian and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, plus archival materials. After Venice, it travels to London's Royal Academy of Arts, then to Guggenheim New York.

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2026-09-17 — 2026-10-30

Festival delle Idee

The eighth edition of the Festival delle Idee returns to various venues in Venice from 17 September to 30 October 2026, titled "Desire or Duty". It features more than 40 meetings, including events and spin-offs exploring desire as a drive toward possibility and duty as a call to responsibility and connection with others. Journalists, writers, philosophers, scientists, artists and entrepreneurs take part.

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2025-11-20 — 2026-10-31

Teatro La Fenice, 2025-2026 Season

Venice's Teatro La Fenice presents its 2025-2026 Opera and Ballet Season with eleven operas, four dance productions and two new Education productions, pairing repertoire classics with titles long absent from the Venetian stage and modern works. The programme opens with Mozart's La clemenza di Tito in a new staging by Paul Curran, conducted by Ivor Bolton. The Symphony Season runs from 28 November 2025 to 31 October 2026.

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2026-04-30 — 2026-11-02

Spiral Economy

At Museo Correr's Gallerie Canova in Venezia, Spiral Economy stages a dialogue between Franco-Swiss artist Julian Charrière and Antonio Canova. Charrière's geological materials, with their cracks, veins and textures recording ancient seas and metamorphic pressures, meet Canova's idealized marble bodies. The exhibition contrasts marble as human likeness with stone as living body, inviting reflection on attempts to measure or master time and on deeper planetary durations.

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2026-06-09 — 2026-11-11

The Silks of Lucio Andrich

At Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice, an exhibition presents silk panels by Lucio Andrich, an Agordino artist who moved to Torcello in the 1970s. He used fabric remnants from the Missoni fashion house and textile sample books from Como. Choosing colours, cuts and embroidery stitches, he worked with Burano embroiderer Maria Tagliapietra, who layered, cut and hand-embroidered the cloth. Subjects range from abstract and geometric motifs to Dolomite legends, lagoon animals and figures.

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2026-03-29 — 2026-11-22

Joseph Kosuth. The-exchange-value-of-language-has-fallen-to-zero

This Venice exhibition honours Joseph Kosuth, a conceptual art pioneer with ties to the city, bringing together key works and a new neon installation. Its title addresses language's lost value in today's media landscape. Reactivating his own pieces, Kosuth questions fixed word meanings, treating them as variable constructions, in dialogue with Ludwig Wittgenstein. The show opens with the site-specific A Chain of Resemblance, after Michel Foucault.

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2026-04-19 — 2026-11-22

1948–1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

At LE STANZE DEL VETRO, the third chapter of an exhibition cycle explores Murano glass at the Venice Biennale, focusing on 1948 to 1958, from the resumption of the Biennale after World War II through the 1950s. Held in the Venezia pavilion, these glass shows featured historic and newer glassworks plus individual artists. Curated by Marino Barovier; a catalogue with Carla Sonego accompanies.

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2026-05-09 — 2026-11-22

Hybrids. Leandro Erlich at Negozio Olivetti

Associazione Arte Continua presents Hybrids by Leandro Erlich at the historic Negozio Olivetti in Piazza San Marco, a Carlo Scarpa masterpiece entrusted to FAI. Curated by Marcello Dantas as a Collateral Event of the 61st Venice Biennale Arte, the show features around twenty sculptures, some new, forming impossible yet familiar organisms: butterflies with ear-wings, cabbages as architecture, coral cities, trees ending in human feet.

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2026-03-28 — 2026-11-22

Jenny Saville at Ca’ Pesaro

During the Biennale Arte year, Ca’ Pesaro hosts the first extensive Venice exhibition of Jenny Saville, a leading contemporary painter. Over thirty paintings and drawings trace her career from the 1990s to today, with major works. Her monumental canvases engage with Venice’s old masters and Italian and Venetian painting traditions. A final room features a new cycle created as a tribute to Venice for Ca’ Pesaro.

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2026-05-06 — 2026-11-22

Erwin Wurm. Dreamers

Museo Fortuny in Venice hosts the first extensive Italian monographic exhibition on Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm, born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur. Wurm expanded sculpture's concept, questioning time, mass, surface, abstraction and representation, and long used clothing for sculptural concerns. His path often crossed that of Mariano and Henriette Fortuny. After studying in Vienna, he gained international success with One Minute Sculptures, begun in 1996-97.

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2026-02-27 — 2026-11-22

Bizhan Bassiri. Principe. Il Nottambulo del Pensiero Magmatico.

At Museo Correr in Venice, Bizhan Bassiri presents recent creations alongside emblematic works that express his poetic principles. The display engages the host space, with the Principe figure greeting visitors at two of four entrances, while ninety images of chosen artists, from Quattrocento masters to the 2000s, form a genealogical tree. Works are suspended and staggered from low walls to maximum height, while a bronze Meteorite and Fratino with Serpenti suggest verticality and horizontality.

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2026-09-23 — 2026-11-22

Corpus serialis. Ludovico Project

At Ca' Pesaro in Venice, Nicolás Lamas presents an exhibition organised by Progetto Ludovico with Max Goelitz. Sculptures, installations and images combine scientific, technological, natural and cultural objects, forming unexpected constellations. Found elements, tool fragments, organic materials and technological remains are placed together through associative logics that suspend traditional hierarchies, questioning how classification shapes perception. Free entry.

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2026-05-09 — 2026-11-22

Biennale Arte 2026

The 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, titled In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, will run from Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026, with pre-opening on 6, 7 and 8 May. It takes place at the Giardini, the Arsenale and various venues across Venice. With the full support of Kouoh's family, La Biennale di Venezia has chosen to realise her exhibition following her concept.

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2026-02-05 — 2026-12-03

VeneziE – Lecture Series

VeneziE is a cultural project organized by Il Circolo Veneto, open to citizens and residents of the metropolitan city. It takes a critical, interdisciplinary and debate-friendly approach, exploring the histories, arts, architecture, politics, cultures, mentalities, devotions, traditions and myths that shaped a unique, diverse and contradictory city, aiming to build awareness of cultural heritage and encourage social cohesion.

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2026-04-21 — 2027-01-08

Merletti d'Autore

At the Museo del Merletto in Burano, an exhibition explores designer lace with a focus on the 1920s and 1930s. Works by Giulio Rosso, Fausto Melotti, Vittorio Zecchin, Giovanni Gariboldi and Tomaso Buzzi appear with preparatory drawings, cartoons and period publications. A section covers the 1931 Amsterdam international review where Italian lace stood alongside Murano ceramics and glass. Part of the fifth Biennale del Merletto, it honours Doretta Davanzo Poli.

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2026-09-12 — 2027-01-10

Your Pearl for Venice

From 12 September 2026 to 10 January 2027, the Glass Museum in Murano displays in its Venetian bead room the 20 works that passed the first evaluation of the fifth international competition for traditional Venetian glass bead art, organised with international glass bead societies. The competition promotes sharing traditional knowledge and its inspiration for contemporary art. During The Venice Glass Week, museum visitors can vote for their favourite bead; online voting is also available later.

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2026-09-23 — 2027-01-11

In the Sign of Venice: The Alessandro Favaretto Rubelli Donation

At Ca' Rezzonico, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia presents Alessandro Favaretto Rubelli's recent donation of 29 drawings by old Venetian masters, including Palma il Giovane, Luca Carlevarijs, Sebastiano Ricci, Canaletto and Giambattista Tiepolo. Destined for the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, the collection reflects his passion for collecting and his bond with Venice, its history and its artists.

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2026-09-26 — 2027-02-14

Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka and the Body in Contemporary Art

At MUVEC in Mestre, this exhibition explores the body through Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, linking early twentieth-century Vienna to postwar and contemporary art. It follows this theme across Nouveau réalisme, Conceptual Art, Body art and performance, with works by Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Ana Mendieta and Gina Pane, showing the body as image, symbol and political message.

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2026-10-09 — 2026-10-18

Venice Design Week 2026

Venice Design Week is an international festival devoted to design in all its forms, turning Venice into a creative laboratory spread across historic spaces, galleries, museums, ateliers and unusual venues. Founded in 2010 and organised by the Associazione Culturale Arte e Design Venezia, it brings together the public, designers, companies and cultural institutions through dialogue, exhibitions, installations and workshops over ten days.

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2026-10-10 — 2026-10-11

FAI Autumn Days in Venice

The FAI Autumn Days open places in Venice that are usually closed to visitors, with FAI volunteers and apprentice guides. Openings include the Gradenigo Garden in Santa Croce, still owned by the family, Palazzo Gussoni Grimani Della Vida on the Grand Canal, a sixteenth-century building by Michele Sanmicheli now housing the TAR, and Palazzo Labia, with Tiepolo frescoes on Antony and Cleopatra. The Carlo Scarpa-designed Olivetti Store and Murano's Glass Experiment Station also open. Some visits require FAI membership or booking.

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2026-10-10 — 2026-10-24

Biennale Musica 2026

The 70th International Festival of Contemporary Music, titled A Child of Sound, takes place in Venice from 10 to 24 October, directed by Caterina Barbieri. It features world premieres and site-specific works spanning centuries and continents, mixing tradition, classical and experimental music. The Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble performs an unpublished Ennio Morricone work built around a Pier Paolo Pasolini poem, alongside Bach and a Sarah Davachi commission.

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2026-10-19 — 2026-10-24

Venice Fashion Week 2026

Venice Fashion Week returns with two 2026 editions: Giornate del Made in Italy – Atelier Aperti from 15 to 18 April, then the main week from 19 to 24 October. This cultural project, active year-round, promotes Made in Italy in Venice through fashion, craft, design, business culture and sustainability, connecting local creative communities with international counterparts. Created in 2013 by Venezia da Vivere, it forms part of the Comune di Venezia's Grandi Eventi.

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2026-10-21 — 2026-10-21

Regional Day of Venetian Trails

A first regional day dedicated to the trails of Veneto brings institutions, operators and local representatives together in Venice at Palazzo Grandi Stazioni. Promoted by the regional tourism directorate with UNPLI Veneto, it explores walking as an authentic way to discover landscapes, villages, culture and communities, and aims to turn routes into sustainable, accessible and inclusive tourism products.

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