29th August – 21st November 2010
Giardini, Arsenale

Last 22nd January 2010 the new Director  of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Kazuyo Sejima, with the President of the Biennale, Paolo Baratta, met, at Ca’ Giustinian, the representatives of the 54 Countiries participating in the next Biennale which will take place from 29th August

Correr Museum
19th December 2009 – 11th April 2010

Drawings by Venetian artists or concerning Venice: views, monuments, glimpses, typical sketches, costumes, boats… for the most part unpublished, by author such as Caffi, Pividor, Guardi, Moro, Bosa, Vervloet and some others. Some of them will be related to / confronted with contemporary photos coming from the collections of the Venetian Civic Museums too. TD

3rd December 2009 – 7th March 2009
Palazzo Franchetti

Venice will pay homage to Zoran Music, the Dalmatian artist considered among the most eminent representatives of the Twentieth century, with a great exhibition hosted at Palazzo Franchetti from 3rd December 2009 to 7th March 2010. ‘Zoran Music. Estreme figure’ celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth and it is composed of more than eighty works, among which oil paintings and works on paper, some of which are unknown and exhibited for the first time. In particular the latest thirty

10th October 2009 – 3rd January 2010
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

From Saturday 10th October Peggy Guggenheim Collection has been hosting the exhibition ‘Prendergast in Italy’, a display which, for the first time in Italy, gives the public the opportunity to admire the works by the American Post-Impressionist artist who depicted the lagoon town and Italy in its whole in a conspicuous number of artworks. It is a collection of works Prendergast made after two important trips in Italy, the first one in 1898 when he stopped also  in Padova, Firenze, Siena ,Assisi, Orvieto, Roma, Napoli

10th October 2009 – 10 January 2010
Accademia Gallery

After seven years since its last exhibition, for some days the public has had the opportunity to admire the well-known Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing ‘The Vitruvian Man’, which, nowadays, has become the icon of Western civilisation, at the Gallerie dell’Accademia.
The drawing has been stored at the Gallerie dell’Accademia since 1822, when the Austrian Government bought it, from the collector Giuseppe Bossi, from Milan, who

Until 22nd November 2009
Palazzo Zenobio

The exhibition of Francis Bacon’s designs organized for the 53rd Biennale of Venice and named ‘The peak of the iceberg’ is open until 22nd November 2009.
The exhibition presents a selected ‘corpus’ of about 20 Francis Bacon’s designs on paper of different dimensions, outlining a range of humanly monstrous characters typical of

3rd October – 3rd November 2009
Warehouse of Salt, Gardini Hall, Head Office of the Bucintoro Oarsmen Company.
For the first time in Venice, in the evocative rooms of the Sala Gardini at the Warehous of Salt, along the Zattere, there will be a personal exhibition dedicated to the Serbian artist Nikola Kolja Milunovic (Belgrado 1935). NAVE MONDO (WORLD SHIP) exhibition, open to the public from 3rd October to 3rd November 2009, presents a

29th August 2009 / 10th January 2010
Diocesan Museum, Cloister of S. Apollonia

Last 29th August a magnificent exhibition was opened, with the aim of celebrating one thousand years of history of one of the most extraordinary monuments around the Venice lagoon: the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello, which was built, in its original structure in 1008, and which represents an artistic and cultural destination that is constantly visited by tourists. We are speaking about ‘Torcello. At the origins of Venice, between West and East’, which has been

Collateral events of the 53rd International Contemporary Art Exhibition.
Until 25th October 2009.

Summer and autumn can become the ideal seasons to decide of exploring Venice lagoon and its islands, in order to discover enchanting places covered with a blooming nature and trained by man thanks to few but majestic Seventeenth century buildings just restored and transformed into places for exhibitions. Beside a

Until 4th October 2009
Venice, Island of St. Giorgio Maggiore

Since June Fondazione Cini in Venice has been holding, within its own spaces, an anthological exhibition, curated by Germano Celant, dedicated to the American artist John Wesley.
The event, which is organized by Fondazione Prada, will take place in parallel with the Venice Art Biennale and represents the largest and most complete exhibition ever