From 29th August to 21st November 2010

The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, which will take place in Venice, at the Giardini the Arsenale from 29th August to 21st November 2010, has been awarded to the Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas. The decision was taken by the Board of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta. in Time in 2008 as

Until 19th September 2010
Foundation Emilio and Annabianca Vedova, Zattere

Until 19th September 2010 the Fondazione ‘Emilio e Annabianca Vedova’ inaugurated last year and whose machinery of display has been designed by Renzo Piano, will expand its area by adding to the Magazzino del Sale Emilio Vedova’s

1st July – 20th November 2010

From Thursday 1st July 2010  the great sculptures by Justin Peyser have been on show in the enchanting setting of Ca’ Zenobio, a few steps away from Campo Santa Margherita, in the exhibition devoted to the artist from New York, entitled “Adrift, sculptures”, which will end on 21st November 2010. The show consists of seven flat sculptures witnessing the first period of Peyser’s artistic work and ten characters/symbols in the round, covered with

From 19th June to 29th August
Palazzo Mocenigo

For the fifth time since 2006 the Fiber Art is back to the Palazzo Mocenigo: it is a contemporary form of expression which use all achievable materials – yarn, fiber, fabric, with a completely new autonomy which today is updated by means of structures and iconographies continuously evolving.

The exhibition will offer, under the portico on the first floor of the museum, 54 mini artextil (small size fiber art works, 20×20x20 cm) by artists from 40 Countries and six

29th August – 21st November 2010
Giardini and Arsenale

Last May an early program of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition was presented: it will be opened to the public from Sunday 29th August to Sunday 21st November 2010 at the Giardini of Biennale and at the Arsenale. For the first time this year a woman will direct the Architecture Sector: Kazuyo Sejima who has recently been awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010 (together with Ryue

15th May – 30th November 2010
Archaeological National Museum, Altino

A new exhibition has been held since Saturday 15th May at the Archaeological Museum, Altino, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Museum on 29th May 1960: “Altino. Glass of the Venetian Lagoon” collects more than 400 glass finds which testify

24th April – 11th July 2010
Island of St. Giorgio, Cini Foundation

Last Saturday 24th April 2010 an exhibition dedicated to Sebastiano Ricci, titled ‘Sebastiano Ricci. The triumph of invention in the Venetian eighteenth century’ was inaugurated in Venice on the island of St Giorgio, in order to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of the well-known artist from Belluno, that Derschau described

From 27th March to 18th July 2010
Fortuny Museum, third floor

The extraordinary Koelliker Collection from Milan, one of the most important and complete in Western Europe, which can boast of an amazing nucleus of Japanese war-garments, helmets and accessories, of modern times, has been on show since 27th March 2010 on the third floor of Fortuny Museum. “Samurai” will be opened up to 18th July 2010, offering us the opportunity of admiring extraordinary examples of tosei gosoku (modern war garments) as well as learning their history and assembly techniques,

From 1st April to 20th June 2010
Galleria Franchetti – Ca’ D’oro

Galleria Franchetti at Ca’ D’oro has been always endowed with some rooms dedicated to the paintings by Flemish masters. From 1st April to 20th June 2010 the collection will be enriched with 24 drawings on the same field, coming from the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings of the Accademia Galleries. The exhibition, titled ‘ Flemish and Dutch Drawings’, will include a numerically limited but prestigious group of drawings from the from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, some of which

From 28th March to 26th September 2010
Villa Nazionale Pisani, Stra

The exhibition wants to enhance the works of the most known painters who were educated or who taught in the classrooms of Venice Academy during the Nineteenth century and the first five-year periods of the succeeding century. Artworks covering a period of more than one century, by interacting and approaching the protagonists of the art from the Veneto, in which the different routes met in the Venetian institutional context, whose prestige has