Venice inaugurates the 79th International Film Festival, in the year of the 90th anniversary of the Festival, organized by the Venice Biennale and, for the 2022 edition, directed by Alberto Barbera.
Until September 10, the lagoon will experience the excitement of the red carpet and the packed program of the festival, during which 68 films will be screened.
But Venice is not just the Festival, and for those who want to take a break from the glitz of cinema, here are five exhibitions not to miss in the lagoon.
Anselm Kiefer at the Doge’s Palace in Venice until October 29, 2022
Anselm Kiefer at Doge’s Palace confirms itself as one of the most successful exhibitions in recent times.
The German artist presents within the monumental halls of the Palace unpublished works, created specifically for the exhibition and placed in a perfect and engaging dialogue with those of great Venetian artists of the past such as Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.
The exhibition is also a tribute to Andrea Emo, a Venetian philosopher whose thoughts and reflections Kiefer has studied and internalized.
From Emo, Kiefer draws inspiration for the title of the exhibition “These writings, when burned, will finally give a little light.”
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Surrealism and Magic. The Enchanted Modernity at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection until September 26, 2022
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents, until September 26, the exhibition Surrealism and Magic. The Enchanted Modernity.
The Venetian venue of the museum hosts about sixty works from both international institutions and private collections.
The theme is that of Surrealism along with magic and the occult that have inevitably characterized the development and art of its major representatives: de Chirico with his metaphysical painting, Max Ernst with The Bride’s Dressing, and also Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo.
Surrealism and Magic. The Enchanted Modernity showcases iconic works that reflect the dialogue between the artists and the aforementioned themes.
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Marlene Dumas Open – End at Palazzo Grassi until January 8, 2023
At Palazzo Grassi there is a major solo exhibition of Marlene Dumas, open until January 8, 2023.
The exhibition titled “open-end” includes over 100 works and outlines a journey focused on her painting production, featuring a selection of paintings and drawings from 1984 to the present, as well as unpublished works created in recent years, coming from the Pinault Collection, international museums, and private collections.
Many themes are addressed in the exhibition such as love and death, gender and racial issues, innocence and guilt, violence and tenderness.
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Anish Kapoor at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice until October 9, 2022
Anish Kapoor in Venice at the Gallerie dell’Accademia.
Until October 9, 2022, coinciding with the Biennale, the Gallerie dell’Accademia dedicates this incredible exhibition to the Indian artist, who is now a British citizen.
A true retrospective, which includes both key works from the artist’s career and a new body of unpublished works created using carbon nanotecnology.
The exhibition path of the exhibition also includes a second prestigious venue: the historic Palazzo Manfrin, in the Cannaregio district of Venice, to which a significant nucleus of masterpieces originally belonged and are now displayed within the Museum.
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Danh Vo, Isamu Noguchi, Park Seo-Bo at the Querini Stampalia until November 27, 2022
The Fondazione Querini Stampalia has invited Danh Vo, a Danish-Vietnamese artist, to curate an exhibition project together with Chiara Bertola for the Venice Biennale.
Thus was born Danh Vo, Isamu Noguchi, Park Seo-Bo.
The works of Danh Vo, along with those of the American sculptor of Japanese descent Isamu Noguchi and the Korean painter Park Seo-Bo, establish a complex dialogue among themselves within the spaces of this extraordinary building.
Danh Vo’s works fit perfectly into the memory and weight of the history that a venue like Querini Stampalia carries. His work with objects and architectural spaces reveals a sensitivity towards time as an element connected to each of us. Vo constantly reuses his work, inserting past projects into new environments and meanings, altering the visitor’s perception.
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