On display at Ca’ Pesaro are the works of Terry Atkinson, in which he explores the very language of art. His work aligns with the international conceptual art movement, yet stands out for translating deep theoretical content into a highly impactful visual language. […]
At Ca’ Pesaro, a retrospective exhibition pays tribute to Gastone Novelli on the centenary of his birth, encompassing all the phases of the artist’s creative journey. […]
Antonello Viola’s works, on which glazes of colour, erasures and transparencies are deposited over time, are inspired by islands, regions with changing boundaries and lit by the invariably iridescent reflections of light on water. […]
On view at Ca’ Pesaro a selection of artworks by Eleonora Rinaldi, questioning the nature of reality and perception. The exhibition unfolds around the idea of nature as a primordial space of vision and revelation, and the subjects emerge from scenes suspended between dream and reality, where the landscape becomes a conduit for delving into the subconscious. […]
On view at Ca’ Pesaro the “Poem of Human Life”, the pictorial cycle by Giulio Aristide Sartorio, who completed the approximately 230 square meters of the work in just nine months […]
Starting from the works of the Venetian artist Raoul Schultz preserved in the civic collections of the Museum, the exhibition presents a corpus of over fifty paintings from important private collectors, in a chronological sequence that explores the artist’s many-sided creativity. […]
On view at Ca’ Pesaro the best paper design products made by the students of the Paper Technology course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice held by Prof. Dario Cestaro. […]
On view at Ca’ Pesaro, a selection of the series of works created by the artist Biagio Gibilterra from 2021 to 2024. All paintings find inspiration from the mugshots taken from 1920 to 1930 at Sydney Central Police Station […]
From 15 November 2024, Ca’ Pesaro hosts an exhibition devoted to Giorgio Andreotta Calò, a Venetian artist who won the Ministry of Culture’s PAC competition, enabling the acquisition of his monumental sculpture “Medusa” for the municipal collections in Ca’ Pesaro. […]
At Ca’ Pesaro an exhibition dedicated to two Venetian artists, Paola Madormo and Luana Segato. The project was born from the observation of the environmental and human problems of the contemporary world. The artists seek to return to a more harmonious and profound time of human nature, inviting a slowdown of the Art itself in its execution and observation by the public. […]
The exhibition engages with various themes enabling us to explore the multiplicity and depth of Matta’s output of paintings, drawings and sculptures and revealing his many-sided creativity […]
From 10 October 2024, Ca’ Pesaro’s hommage to Marcolino Gandini underlines the most revolutionary moment of his production, the 1960s […]
One of the most radical artists of the Italian Twentieth century, Ennio Finzi was able to subvert the informal language of the postwar period. On view at Ca’ Pesaro some of the most emblematic works of the 1950s by the Venetian painter […]
‘Lo Stile’ is an exhibition and a site-related project, designed specifically for Ca’ Pesaro and at the same time pays reference to the work of Piet Mondrian and the artistic current of Neoplasticism. Chiara Dynys creates a series of new immersive environments in which light and matter redesign the story of reality. […]
A major exhibition devoted to Armando Testa (1917-1992), at the centre of a monographic survey to discover and rediscover original aspects of his output. The exhibition reconstructs the artistic development of a leading figure in contemporary visual culture, the creator of celebrated icons that have been part of our collective imagination for years. […]
In the ‘Blueprint’ project, Wang Jingyun weaves a visual grammar that symbolises the composition and origin of life. In 2021 he won the visual poetry category of the “Artefici del nostro tempo” competition and in 2022 he achieved the first place for the discipline of glass design. […]
This year the partnership with the IUAV in Venice also presents initiatives in the Salotto Longhena project, uniting the university with the Fondazione Musei Civici in a dialogue between art and architecture. In the museum’s project room, three events from January to April offer “Polifonie italiane”, curated by Camilla Salvaneschi and Angela Vettese […]
To mark the exhibition “The Nineteenth-Century Venetian Portrait”, Ca’ Pesaro presents the contemporary eye of Maurizio Pellegrin. […]
A crucially important exhibition, which rediscovers an entire century of Venetian art, reconstructs the 1923 review by Nino Barbantini, the first director of Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro […]
Ca’ Pesaro welcomes the work of five artists from the African art scene as guest resident artists in Venice during the spring of 2023, where they will interact with the gallery’s history and collections […]
In spring 2023, Ca’ Pesaro celebrates the arrival of the Gemma De Angelis Testa donation, the most recent acquisition for the gallery’s collections. The donation comprises 105 works by major international contemporary artists. […]
From 11 March 2023, the Ca’ Pesaro permanent collection will be enlivened by a new spirit, artist Mario Sironi, in an exhibition of the Sironi-Straußwald donation […]
In celebration of the Vittore Carpaccio exhibition hosted at the Palazzo Ducale, Ca’ Pesaro presents Marco Petrus. Venetian Capricci the last cycle of works by the painter Marco Petrus […]
The permanent collection will focus on the works donated to the Venice Municipality by Ileana Ruggeri with the exhibition Riverberi (Reverberations) in recognition of her recent production […]
On the occasion of the Giornata del Contemporaneo, Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art presents Laura Omacini’s exhibition “Le beatitudini” […]
Ca’ Pesaro presents, for the MUVE Contemporaneo programme, the exhibition Raqib Shaw. Palazzo della Memoria, with new paintings by the artist Raqib Shaw, curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal […]
The focus Bice Lazzari. Between space and dimension is a small but precious recognition of Bice Lazzari’s work, during the transition from the Informel to Abstract minimalism between late 1960s and the end of the 1970s […]
For MUVE Contemporaneo programme Ca’ Pesaro is hosting “Afro 1950-1970 Dall’Italia all’America e ritorno / From Italy to America and Back”, exhibition dedicated to one of the leading exponents of Italian painting in the second half of the 20th century. […]
At Ca’ Pesaro, Grones thus presents seven moments of site-specific dialogue placed along crucial points of the itinerary. […]
As part of the initiative Salotto Longhena. MUVE and IUAV in Dialogue between Art and Architecture, the Gallery showcases the first four issues of “Vesper. Rivista di architettura, arti e teoria | Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory”. […]
Selected in 2019 at Art Verona Fair for the Level 0 program, Paola Angelini was invited by Ca’ Pesaro for the 16th Italian Contemporary Art Day, promoted by the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums (AMACI). […]
Presentation of Margherita Morgantin’s work VIP = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, ABOVE THE MOUNTAIN, winner of the 8th edition-2020 of the Italian Council […]
The exhibition dedicated to Umberto Moggioli proposes to retrace – through a selection of twenty works, among oils, drawings and etchings of absolute qualitative level – that segment of production that best represents and identifies the painter in the collective imagination. […]
From 19 October 2019 more than 40 works by young emerging artists working in London today, including some specially commissioned works for Ca’ Pesaro […]
From 24 April to 1 September will be on show the winning works of the call for a selection “Creators of our time” at Ca’ Pesaro Intenational Gallery of Modern Art […]
At Ca’ Pesaro a major exhibition of the work of Arshile Gorky, the first exhibition in Italy of this celebrated and influential figure of 20th Century American Art.
The exhibition will examine the stages of Gorky’s remarkable career from his earliest works during the 1920s, to the point where the elements from modern masters and movements explicitly coalesced into Gorky’s singular and powerful vision. […]
A master of international contemporary sculpture and one of the most interesting conceptual artists of the 21st century, Barry X Ball confronts the history of art and of Ca’ Pesaro through the reinterpretation of Medardo Rosso’s masterpieces. […]
BLIND FAITH is an exhibition of photography by French artist and filmmaker Ann Ray. Shot over the past fourteen years, the exhibition features numerous encounters between Ray and a wide range of art practionners […]
After more than a century, Angelo Morbelli’s pictorial cycle, Il poema della vecchiaia (The Poem of Old Age), one of the Divisionist artist’s masterpieces, has been completely reassembled after being split up in 1906. […]
23 June 2018 – 6 January 2019 Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice Ca’ Pesaro presents another intriguing […]
Juan Navarro Baldeweg has designed some of the most emblematic Spanish buildings of recent decade and he’s reputated as one of the most authoritative and eclectic Spanish practitioners of contemporary art and architecture. Discover his show at Ca’Pesaro in Venice. […]
The sensational Ca’ Pesaro avant-garde seen through the eyes of one of its most cosmopolitan and innovative exponents, seventy years after his death. Find out more about the exhibition “Gino Rossi in Venice”. […]
20 January – 18 February 2018 Venice, Ca’ Pesaro- International Gallery of Modern Art _ In 1967 Luciano Zarotti, at […]
12 October – 26 November 2017 Venezia, Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art _ Venice. A tale through […]
English-born but Californian by adoption, David Hockney is among the best-known and most successful contemporary artists. The eighty-two portraits on display, executed between 2013 and 2016 and considered by the artist as a unique body of work, offer a particular vision of Hockney’s life in Los Angeles and his relationship with the international art world, gallery owners, critics, curators and artists. […]
Visit the great retrospective dedicated to the American artist William Merritt Chase, an absolute European preview on display at Ca’ Pesaro from February 11. The exhibition is organized with The Phillips Collection Washington DC, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Terra Foundation for American Art. With the generous support of Terra Foundation for American Art. […]
Discover Gabrielle Chanel’s creative world from a totally new perspective with “CULTURE CHANEL. The woman who reads”: that of her relationship to books and reading. Find out more […]
Ca’ Pesaro is dedicating a comprehensive study to Lino Selvatico (1872-1924) with paintings recently restored and on public display for the first time. An artist of great relevance emerges, whose major characteristics are presented in the large-format portraits he made for Venetian and Milanese high society. Discover more […]
In his paintings, Ferruccio Gard creates highly original formal and compositional solutions, magical combinations of forms and colors that are born of the artist’s commitment to painting, in his vision of the primary importance of form and color. Discover the exhibition […]
In line with the traditional attention shown by Ca’ Pesaro to the crossroads between sculpture and painting, this exhibition offers the opportunity for a fascinating dialectic comparison between the works of four great exponents of Italian contemporary art. Click to discover more. […]
Discover the spectacular exhibition / installation by Federica Marangoni: a thread of light, the “leading thread” in cracked red neon always in motion, is the thread of the artist’s life and emotions. […]
One of the greatest masters of contemporary art, Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928 – Rome, 2011) returns to Venice with a major monographic exhibition curated by Julie Sylvester and Philip Larratt-Smith […]
Twenty-four years after his retrospective at the Museo Correr, Cagnaccio di San Pietro (1897-1946) comes home once more, to the museum in which he took the first official steps of his career. A selection of masterpieces illustrates the thematic range of this internationally recognised sample of Magical Realism. Discover more […]
At Ca’Pesaro on display from March 12th, a large selection from 103 artists books by Editions Colophon. An opportunity to rediscover the unique charm of the artist’s book, considered as a complex AND multifaceted work of art. […]
“Les Bourgeois de Calais à Venise”, the well-known sculptural group by Auguste Rodin, has given inspiration for the new exhibition of Candida Höfer, one of the leading exponents of the so-called Düsseldorf School. […]
For the first edition of “Museum calling Artist”, the directors of the AMACI association have chosen to commission the execution of a new work from twins Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio. For a number of years, the twins have combined their work as visual artists with a career in filmmaking in a constant striving for balance between photography and their artistic work. […]
On October 17, 2014, Ca’Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art is opening a renew space made possible by Dom Pérignon. The new “Dom Pérignon Space” is where the “old” and the “new” are mixed and fused with each other. […]
Organised by Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Glas Italia, the exhibition presents glass designed works by 12 International designer, simultaneously on display at Ca’ Pesaro and Palazzo Fortuny […]
The exhibition includes paintings and drawings that reflect one of the most important aspects of the Miroslav Kraljevć’s caree, the portraits and self-portraits painted in Paris or in his native Požega […]
The exhibition aims to pay tribute to one of the leading protagonists of international collecting of the 20th century, Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, a man whose passion, intuition and faith in contemporary art have made it possible to create one of the most interesting collections of post-war American art […]
Ileana Sonnabend’s collection represents a holding of inestimable cultural value for the city. In this occasion some of the great names of 20th century will be hosted at the International Gallery of Modern Art of Ca’ Pesaro: Andy Warhol, Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, Dine, Lichtenstein, Flavin, Judd, Wesselmann […]
The exhibition reconstructs, via the most significant issues of “Camera” and photographic documentation concerning the most important phases of Romeo Martinez’ work, the period of the “International Photography Biennials”, organised between 1957 and 1965 in Venice […]
Ileana Sonnabend, perhaps one of the leading discoverers of fresh talent of the late 20th century, is remembered at Ca’ Pesaro thanks to the exceptional ong-term loan to the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia […]
The project rediscovers and at the same time stresses the work of Emilio Vedova and, with some of his most forceful works, makes possible a comparison with the glorious artistic history of Venice within two of its leading museum […]
The exhibition offers an occasion to examine the links between the history of the Ca’ Pesaro collection and that of the Biennale, which have for many years been inextricably bound together […]
In studying the research and aims of Rosso, Angelo Garoglio reveals his vision to us, presenting images of the great master’s works to the public […]
Ca’ Pesaro has numerous prints, thanks to a sizeable donation from the family. This was the artist’s favourite area, comprising drawings, watercolours, engravings, woodcuts, drypoints, aquatints, lithographs and monotypes […]
Two great masters of contemporary art, significant exponents of the latest generation of the Gruppo Zero, meet after almost 50 years for this exhibition […]
Arturo Martini presents a dramatic, mysterious love story in which the characters, surrounded by a wild and harsh nature, indicated by a firm, bold line, live the events of their lives […]
An exhibition dedicated to the influence of the great Italian painting on Italian art in the early 20th century, culminating with the 1910 Venice Biennale […]
A major retrospective exhibition that aims to discover, trace, and document, through more than 200 works the entire artistic itinerary of Gennaro Favai […]
The exhibition presents a selection of six works of sculpture, a print and a video, whose most apparent formal link is the color black. […]
The exhibition provides the rare opportunity of examining the plurality of the artist’s work and his ability to combine the most diverse formal languages. […]
In conjunction with the 54th Venice Biennale, the Museum of Ca’ Pesaro presents a site-specific project by Anita Sieff at the first floor, Sala 10. […]
Rooms in the ground floor of Ca’ Pesaro host the central part of the exhibition ideated by the Venetian artist Marco Nereo Rotelli for his city, conceived as a “concept-city” for its big poets who loved Venice. […]
As part of this programme, the first date in 2011 offers several large canvases, all on show for the first time, by Sonia Ros, a young artist who lives and works in Venice and Vittorio Veneto. […]
A project conceived especially for Ca’ Pesaro by one of the protagonists of sculpture today, Tony Cragg (Liverpool, 1949). With an itinerary through the three floors of Ca’ Pesaro – from the entrance hall and small room on the ground floor, to the monumental staircase, second floor and façade overlooking the Grand Canal – the exhibition offers forty works of art, in glass, bronze, steel, plastic, wood and stone, but also drawings, preparatory sketches and watercolours, spanning thirty years activity, from the 1980s to today, most of which have never been on show in Italy before. […]
Around thirty large sculptures belonging to the famous sculpture collection of Ca’ Pesaro are arranged in a completely new itinerary that enhances formal values and novel combinations.
The exhibition winds its way through the lavish area of Longhena’s entrance hall on the ground floor and the monumental second floor – over one thousand square metres of outstanding architectural value and light quality – recently returned to their use as a museum area, finally making it possible to exhibit works that have been inaccessible to the public for ages. […]
Shadows Must Dance is an exhibition project conceived specifically for Ca’ Pesaro by Bernardi Roig, one of the most important exponents of the current Spanish art scene. Fifteen of his works – mainly sculptures, but also installations, drawings and videos – made in the last fifteen years are related to the museum’s spaces and masterpieces, creating an active dialogue between images of the past and the present that generates a weave of new meanings and a new emotional dynamic. […]
Involving the collaboration of both Ca’ Pesaro museums – the International Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum of Oriental Art – the exhibition comprises some eighty works by the Japanese artist Kuniaki Kurioki (Suki, province of Miyazaki, 1945). […]
Forty years after his first major show in Venice – a room dedicated to his work at the 1968 Venice Biennale – Morandini returns to Venice with an important exhibition at Ca’ Pesaro, to be held in concomitance with the Biennale Architecture – 11th International Architecture Exhibition.
Comprising more than 60 pieces, the show will include 34 wall sculptures and ‘structures’ in white- or black-lacquered wood that were produced over the period 1978-2008. […]
The Rialto Fish market, the Pescheria, is one of the distinguishing marks of neo-historical and urban architecture of the early Twentieth century in Venice. It was designed by the versatile artist Cesare Laurenti (1854-1936) with the technical collaboration of the architect Domenico Rupolo (1861-1945) […]
One of the most significant living Turkish Modern Painters, Abdurrahman Öztoprak (Istanbul, 1927) seizes his cosmic power of harmony from love, exaltations of the heart, and passion. The paintings compiled from Elgiz Collection of the artist mature period, must be evaluated primarily as the result of the dialogue between the artist and the collector. […]
Exit-Entry is an installation that Angelo Zennaro designed specifically for Ca’ Pesaro.
Entirely hand-made using the technique of ‘glass fusion’, the work is unique of its kind, both for its size and for the way in which it is adapted to its architectural setting. It comprises a total of 24 leaves of polychrome glass covering an overall area of 24 square metres. […]
Who was Edgard Chahine? In Paris in the early 1900s he was more famous than Bonnard. A draughtsman lionised by the beau monde, an engraver of dazzling technical skill, an illustrator of works by Huysmans and Barrès, he was a close friend of Anatole France and would (up to 1926) exhibit at every Venice Biennale. […]
More than an individual exhibition, this is part of a multi-faceted project launched by Angelo Zennaro in 2004 with the fundamental support of the Local Industries and Crafts Dept. of the Provincial Council of Venice. Involving a total of 280 students and 11 teachers working in local arts education (the Accademia di Belle Arti, the Istituto Statale d’Arte and the Liceo Artistico Statale), it has been carried out thanks to collaboration with the Musei Civici Veneziani. […]
The exhibition, opened to public from 12th November to 7th January 2007, celebrates the twenty years of the graphic prize. Works by the winners are exposed in the ground floor of the Museum, among with works by Fabrizio Plessi, Alberto Gianquinto, Igor Mitoraj, Sandro Chia and Mimmo Rotella. […]
From 16 September to 29 October, a selection of about thirty-five engravings by Carol Rama – winner of the Golden Lion to the career at the 50° Venice Biennale (2003) – will be exhibited in the rooms for temporary exhibitions of the Ca’ Pesaro Modern Art Museum in Venice, alongside twenty or so works of Rama’s paintings and drawings that will be hung in the main hall. […]
The thirty works in the exhibition date from the 1930s to the 1950s, a period when Miranda Visonà immersed herself with great enthusiasm in the artistic life of Venice. As well as a series of Venetian capricci, there is a self-portrait, a portrait of her by Bortolo Sacchi and a rare portrait of Berto Morucchio, one of most important art critics in the Venice of the day and a great admirer of Visonà’s work. […]
Painted in 1919, shortly before the artist’s death, La femme à l’éventail – one of the masterpieces from the Paris Musée d’Art Moderne – is one of the numerous portraits that Modigliani painted of his friend and confidante, Lunia Czechowska.
A clear example of his late style, it reflects the influence of Cubism and of the artist’s own explorations of the medium of sculpture in the years 1911-1913. […]
Paul Gauguin’s Le Cheval blanc at Ca’Pesaro until 23 January 2006. […]
The project consists of installations, film, sculpture and photography, which together form one large single work: Isole.
Each individual section has its own precise logic; however, its full vitality is captured when it is seen in relation to the spirit of the overall project. […]
Organised by the Musei Civici Veneziani in collaboration with Archivio Lazzari di Roma and curated by Renato Miracco and Flavia Scotton, the exhibition will be open to the public from 6 August to 18 september 2005. […]
Organised by the Musei Civici Veneziani and curated by Enzo Di Martino and Flavia Scotton, the exhibition will be open to the public from 8 June to 31 July 2005. […]
Organised as part of the celebrations for the sixtieth anniversary of the Liberation, the show hinges on Leoncillo Leonardi’s sculpture The Partisan Woman, the first version of the Venetian monument to the Resistance that was destroyed by neo-fascists in 1961. […]
On the occasion of the 9th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the University Iuav and the Civic Museums of Venice are proud to present, from the 10th to the 15th of November, at the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro, an exhibition on the work of architect Lina Bo Bardi,conceived and curated by Luciano Semerani, Antonella Gallo and Giovanni Marras. […]
The ground floor of Ca’ Pesaro is hosting a show of works of sculpture given to the Museum over the past four years. […]
Thanks to the Venice International Foundation, Ca’ Pesaro has recently acquired three paintings by Pompeo Marino Molmenti (1819-1894). […]
This exhibition give to public the chance to look at and understand the long and articulated path of the work of Shozo Shimamoto, one of the most significant exponent of the artistic revolution after the Second World War. He is a free and eclectic spirit, a protagonist of a complex and original expressive path, displayed in the exhibition through a significant selection of works. […]
