Events

After a series of editions directed by eminent critics and historians, this year the Venice Architecture Biennale is once again in the hands of an architect, Kazuyo Sejima, the first woman to direct the Architecture Sector of the Biennale, Sejima has recently been awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010.

In this hot summer Saint Mark's Square will be the location of a series of great shows and concerts: Charles Aznavour (accompaigned by Franco Battiato, Massimo Ranieri and Patti Smith), Pat Metheny Group, Norah Jones, Roberto Bolle and Patti Smith 

The end of residency exhibition of the third group of Art Enclosures artists will open Saturday, July 24th at 18:00: Jabulani Maseko (South Africa) and Kiluanji Kia Henda (Angola) are the two artists hosted in the Venetian studios of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa between January and April 2010 under the Art Enclosures residency project.

"Il Nido" Simon Kaci's exhibition open until August 15th 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. inParadiso Gallery Giardini della Biennale.

Every year more than 120 regattas are organized in the lagoon of Venice. The most important is Historical Regatta, contested in the characteristic style called voga alla veneta (Venetian-style rowing), which takes place on the first Sunday in September and attracts many spectators, both venetians and tourists.

With this exhibition Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova inaugurates a new exhibition space, Emilio Vedova’s Studio, in Zattere. The ancient artist former studio, restored under the supervision of Renzo Piano and to a design by the Atelier Traldi, with the coordination and direction of the engineer Maurizio Milan, will house form June 5th to September 19th  works representing an unknown aspect of Vedova’s art: sculpture.

Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova presents from June 5th to September 19th a surprising and original exhibition dedicated to the unknown works of the sculptor of French origin, but of American nationality, Louise Bourgeois.

Until July 25th  you can admire one hundred years of Russian art, from the empire to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and to the new Federation. Russie tries to show, for the first time in Italy, the whole 20th century through the artists’ eyes, their works and a more general visual culture that has been an impressive propaganda tool.

More than one hundred and thirty works (oils, temperas, drawings in pencil, sketches and preparatory studies, large canvases and small paintings) of the Bosnian artist Safet Zec will be displayed at Correr Museum until July 18th. Some of the works presented have never been on public display before.

The evolution of utopian ideas is the theme of the exhibition presented at Peggy Guggenheim Collection  from May 1 through July 25. Curated by Vivien Green, Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Utopia Matters: from Brotherhoods to Bauhaus, is organized together with Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

From April 7th to July 26th the Museum Café of the Peggy Guggenhaim Collection Museum will be covered with twelve large-format photographs of the American collector in her home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, realized in 1958 by the Italian photographer Nino Migliori.

Silk and Velvet, from March 27th to July 18th at the first floor of Palazzo Fortuny, is an homage to the art and creativity of the eclectic and multifaceted artist Mariano Fortuny and to his famous Delphos.

From March 27th to July 18th the second floor of Palazzo Fortuny will host an exhibition dedicated to the war-garments of the Samurai, the powerful military caste that ruled Japan for seven centuries, leaving the emperor with a kind of priestly role as sovereign.

The exhibition “The Teatro del Mondo as a «singular building». A tribute to Aldo Rossi” is open from February 10th to July 31st at Ca' Giustinian, renovated headquarters of the Venice Biennale. Aldo Rossi's Teatro del Mondo was a floating theatre built 30 years ago and moored at the Punta della Dogana.

In the Church of San Bartolomeo (San Salvador’s parish), the Exposure of the Goldsmith’s Art reopens: “Between Faith and Devotion”. The works (a total of 22) have been completely restored and date back to different periods between 1300 and 1800.

It is now active a new service of guided tours of Palazzo Foscari. Visitors can admire the external courtyards, the Aula Magna Mario Baratto designed by Carlo Scarpa and the most recent findings of the last restoration, following an interesting itinerary of study, art and history. Tour in English or Italian.

The Redentore feast-day is one of the oldest and most popular Venetian religious festivities which takes place every year on the third week-end of July.

Every year in Venice, the first Sunday of September is held the Regata Storica. Historical Regatta is the most traditional and picturesque amongst venetian events, the first edition was held in 1315 to celebrate the splendours of the Serenissima Republic and to honour the foreign dignitaries coming to visit Venice. This year the Regata will be on Sunday 5th September 2010.

Every year, on November 21st, is celebrated  the Madonna della Salute Festivity. This Venetian Festivity is in memory of pestilence, which lasted for two years from 1630-31, and the subsequent vow by the Doge to obtain the intercession of the Virgin Mary.