On May the first the pavilion Venice has built for the 2010 Shanghai Expo has officially opened. The exhibition space in the UBPA section of the expo is about 500 square meters and is placed in a central position in the B1 pavilion, close to the city of Liverpool, Cairo, Suzhou, Hagzhou and (...)

Extremely famous, award-winner, praised to the skies…all this when he was still alive. Felice Carena (1879-1966) was born in the Piedmont and later moved to Rome. He arrived in Venice right after the war. The city mobilized to receive him. In a note found in Guido Cadorin’s autobiographical (...)

The “European capital of culture” project was officially initiated in 1985 after the ministries of Culture approved the resolution. Its first edition took place in Athens that same year. As early as 1983, on the occasion of a forum organized together with other 10 European ministers of culture, (...)

“Short networks” was the title of the second meeting of the series organized by Fondazione Venezia 2000, Encounter for Venice. During the first meeting, devoted to the discussion of long networks, the role of the city in relationship to its geographical position and its economical and cultural (...)

On the occasion of the “Venice’s horizon – extended networks” congress, Fondazione Venezia has once again addresses the role of the city in relation to its geographic position as well as the economical and cultural relations established with the rest of Italy, the Mediterranean area, Europe and its (...)

Cristiano and Patrizio Alviti exhibit their works on the occasion of the 53rd International Art Exhibition in Venice. Curated by Philippe Daverio the show is called “Alviti Vertigo”: sculptures and paintings, it will be hosted by the State Archive in the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari complex, (...)

The annual report has reached its fifth edition and has proved once again to be a great tool of observation and analysis of the cultural milieu in the Venice Area. On one hand it allows a longer life span to the information referred to temporary cultural events and it also provides the city and (...)

The sorrow of the outcasts, or those speaking for them. Included artists who feel misinterpreted and consequently withdraw their works. A long series of preconceived stands, legal threats, assumptions of ideologism. On the invitation Francesco Clemente’s fist. All the above are the prior events, (...)