May 25-28, 2023 will be the annual celebration of glass and the arts of fire. You can learn about Corning, New York's rich history of producing world-class glasswhile attending four days of musical performances and glass exhibits. Stroll down historic Market Street for entertainment, restaurants, and shopping. Don't miss the...

Type of event: Shattering Beauty by Simon BergerWhere: Museo del Vetro Fondamenta Giustinian 8 Murano Venezia ItalyWhen: 28 Gennaio 2023 Until: 07 Maggio 2023Opening times: Everyday from 10 am to 5 pmOrganized by/Curator: Sandrine Welte with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Berengo Studio Official Website     

Venice Fashion Week is a fashion culture event aimed at national and international designers and brands.The event contributes to the international debate on sustainable fashion, supports creative young talents and it is committed to protect and promote the high craftmanship. Venice Fashion Week presents sustainable, tailored, Made in Italy and...

Where: Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - Venice - ItalyWhen: 18th September 2022 Until: 9th July 2023 Organized by: Le Stanze Del VetroType of event: Free Event Official Website The fall exhibition "Venini: Light 1921-1985," curated by Marino Barovier,is dedicated to an in-depth study of the Venini glassworks' activity in the field...

When:  from 22 March 2022 to 9 September 2022Where: Italy - Arts, Design, Museums - Casalmaggiore (CR)Organized by: Museo del BijouType of event: Museums, ExhibitionOfficial Website Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, following the industrialization process, glass diversified its identity: on the one hand, a product of fine and very high craftsmanship."Glass, kaleidoscopic and...

What's the history of Murano glass? Murano glass charms thousands of people around the world. But what is its history? What are its origins? We have visited the renewed Glass Museum in Murano for you. The Glass Museum of Murano was founded in 1861 when the mayor Antonio Colleoni and...

From 3rd December 2021 to 13th March 2022 SILICON DIOXIDE, the new solo exhibition by Tony Cragg at the Museo del Vetro in Murano runs from 3 December 2021 to 13 March 2022, and features a variety of works several of which have never been exhibited before. The exhibition retraces...

From 21 November 2021 to 13 March 2022."Tapio Wirkkala at Venini" and "Toni Zuccheri at Venini" are two exhibitions side by side on the wonderful island of San Giorgio in Venice (in front of Piazza San Marco. Both curated by Marino Barovier and dedicated to two artists and designers active...

From 4th September 2021 to 6th January 2022. Murano Glass Toys, scheduled at the Murano Glass Museum from 4 September to 3 October 2021, is an exhibition that has the declared objective of revolutionizing the common perception of glass by presenting 13 huge games made by as many Murano glass...

From November 6, 2021 – April 24, 2022 Where: Fuller Craft Museum – 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301 - https://fullercraft.org/ Official Website At the "Glass Lifeforms 2021" exhibition you will admire reproductions of biological models made of glass. The idea was born as a continuation of the wonderful works...

Dear friends, this week we would like to inform you about EGE - European Glass Experience, a call for artists living in the European Union that are older than 40. Until 31st December 2013 The EGE project intends to promote the common European heritage through glass artworks. Three exhibitions will...

If you are in Venice be sure not to miss the exhibition "The Santillanas - Works by Laura de Santillana & Alessandro Diaz de Santillana", on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, opened until August 3rd, 2014 every day, except Wednesdays. Admission is free. The exhibition - promoted by Le...

On the 6th January of every year - for the Three Kings celebration - in Venice there's the traditional "Regata delle Befane" (Befanas regatta). Members of the various rowing clubs dress up as witches, load their brooms on the boats and the rowing race starts. From the Rialto Bridge a...

Epiphany Eve is an important day for kids and adults in Italy. In the Venetian folklore we have some special ways to celebrate it. It’s an important day for Venetians: it’s Epiphany day and it marks the end of the Holiday Season. In fact there’s a saying: “Epiphany Day brings...

"Maree Sonore" is an internationally renowned event organized by the cultural association "The Sestiere of Music" under artistic direction of Arrigo Cappelletti in collaboration with Veneto Jazz. Maree Sonore is a music festival open to classical and avant-garde jazz but also to contaminations between jazz and other music genres. This...

Sweets, fruits and tea rituals: the exhibition of Japanese glass artists Enami and Konishi arrives in Venice. It started on 19th September at Ca ' Pesaro-Museo d'Arte Orientale in Venice : until November 29th it will be possible to admire the glass works of Japanese artists Fujiko Enami and Ushio...

Fulvio Bianconi is the new featured artist of Le Stanze del Vetro on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, famous for its neo-classical basilica, the beautiful view of San Marco, and for being home of the Giorgio Cini Foundation and its glass exhibitions. From September 13th, 2015 to January 10th,...

What's happening when two Japanese artists - Fujiko Enami and Ushio Konishi - meet Murano glass? Something very magical indeed.   In 1542, on the tiny island of Tanegashima in southern Japan, arrived a Portuguese ship that had suffered shipwreck. For the West, this was the real discovery of Cipango...

Saturday, October 24 Venice becomes the capital of fashion with the Venice Fashion Night. A night where fashion is protagonist with events, photo shooting sessions, limited edition collections: live on Instagram. The purpose? Promoting Venetian creativity and products made in the Veneto region, with stylists, designers, bloggers, and instagramers. Photo...

  Triennale Design Museum presents a selection of glass artworks by Carlo Nason. Born in Murano in 1935, Nason comes from one of the oldest family of glassmakers on the island. Grown by attending the masters who worked in the family furnace, he’s immediately intuited and investigated the potential of...

Venice and its channels seen from above the sky, but also Italy at night. Deserts, auroras, starry skies and thunderstorms. Staying on the ISS allows to enjoy some of the best views ever admired by man. Everything seems fickle, inconsistent, and at the same time irresistibly wonderful. These are just...

Sand and fire. Color hues and magic. The Bröhan Museum in Berlin, located in the Charlottenburg district, pays tribute to Murano - the island of glass blowing - by hosting an exhibition entitled " Colori di Murano ". The exhibition, started on July 14th, will be open to the public...

The German town is home to a fascinating exhibition that focuses on glass art, with works coming from one of the most important private collections in the world. Undisputed capital cities of creativity, Milano and Venice have been able to distinguish themselves during the 20th Century even thanks to another...

Until January 18th 2017 18 Murano glass masters have created glass cribs to celebrate Christmas. During the Holiday Season, along the Christmas Tree you’ll find a Nativity scene – presepio - in every Italian house. The first nativity scene was created by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1223, after visiting...

Murano glass is a protagonist during Venice Carnival! From 3pm to 5pm on Saturday 18th and Tuesday 21st February, glass masters of Signoretto Lampadari glass studio will create - in front of the audience - some projects designed by students of the Venice Arts Accademy . All of this will...

April 25 th is an important day for Italy. It is in fact Liberation Day, the day in which the Nation celebrates the end of the Italian Civil War, the end of Nazi occupation thanks to the Italian resistance and the Allies, and the end of Fascism. It represents the...

This spring the exhibition in the museum Le Stanze del Vetro in Venice is dedicated to one of the great masters of the glass: Maurice Marinot. The show call "Glass 1911-1934" is curated by Jean-Luc Olivié, of the Musée des art décoratifs, and Cristina Beltrami. The show starts on March...

Lupin III is back at Palazzo Ducale. Yes, but this time it's a joke, and not a band like the Serbo-Croatian band that stole the jewels of the maraja last year. Emanuele Sari, a forty-two year old Venetian mosaicist, brought his works dedicated to Lupin III to the Ducale. The...

The autumn exhibition 2019 of Le Stanze del Vetro will be dedicated to Thomas Stearns who arrived in Murano in 1960, and his collaboration with the Venini glassworks: the search for documents and works began in view of the exhibition and the realization of the reasoned catalog. Thomas Stearns produced...

From 7 May to 29 September 2019 Murano and contemporary Exhibition of TAPIO WIRKKALA in the Glass Museum in Murano, Venezia. Tapio Wirkkala (1915- 1985) was one of the great names of the golden age of design in Finland. He mastered many materials and elements both as a sculptor and...

An exhibition brings the collection of Barry Friedman from New York to the Museum of Glass in Murano, an art enthusiast who donated his collection to The Venitian Heritage - New York in 2017, which in turn brought it permanently to the Glass Museum of Murano is thus enriched by...

The artist Matthias Schaller develops two themes in the series Leiermann: the mirror - source and through intellectual reflections, ideals and rational - and Venice - symbolic, historical and cultural place, connected to the contemporary. The path that Schaller suggests us therefore proposes a detailed reading. His photographic works refer...

From 5 to 8 September 2019, in conjunction with the Venice Art Biennale and the Film Festival, a selection of important ancient and contemporary works. Conceived by Giorgio Pace and Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, multifaceted art collectors, Nomad Venice will bring to Venice for 4 days, from 5 to 8 September, a...

Barovier & Toso participates in the third edition of The Venice Glass Week, scheduled from 7 to 15 September, the international festival dedicated to glass art that celebrates the great liveliness of the artistic, cultural and productive scene of the lagoon city. For this special occasion, which marks the 130th...

From February 8th to 25th Venice will become the magical set of the Carnival . Tourists from all over the world will flock to the town on the lagoon to witness and take part at this great show , right on the streets of Venice . It’s a way to...

The Exhibition LIVIO SEGUSO 15 October 2019 - 30 June 2021 Murano, Glass Museum Curated by Chiara Squarcina Scientific direction Gabriella Belli A great tribute to Livio Seguso, brilliant Murano master of contemporary glass, whose works are recognizable for the highest creative quality, where glass dialogues in an innovative way...

Date and Time Thu., 07/11/2019, 8:30 am – Sat., 30/11/2019, 4:30 pm Central European Standard Time Italy Time Location: Gallery Ermanno Nason Calle del Molador, 10 30141 Murano - Venezia Ermanno Nason 'Il Guerriero del Vetro'. Murano Glass Private Gallery is open to visitors. Only by appointment. About this Event...

Opening Times9 May - 24 November 2019 Location:Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Campiello Della Pescheria, Murano The sixth edition of GLASSTRESS brings together a new lineup of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, India, and China in an ambitious exhibition exploring the endless creative possibilities of glass....

We are glad to announce the Vetro e Disegno exhibition Save the date: 2 Feb. - 20 May. 2020, Punta Conterie - Murano. In the close collaboration between Murano designers and masters, well-distinguished figures inside the twentieth-century glassworks of that size, the exhibition also highlights important figures from the world...

Application Deadline April 20, 2020 Online application opens half march 2020 are you an innovative glass artist? here is a nice occasion to introduce yourself. 2 large curated exhibitions at the Bornholm Art Museum and Grønbechs Gård will showcase the best of European glass. The exhibitions are curated with personal...

Venice relaunches Murano glass. From 2017 The Venice Glass Week festival takes place in September in Venice and in Murano. The Venice Glass Week is an international festival dedicated to celebrating, supporting and promoting the art of glassmaking – the artistic and economic activity for which the Lagoon City has...

From October the 3rd to October the 10th, 2020 Opening times: see the program Tickets: free admission. Telephone: +39 3281765744 (Associazione culturale Arte e Design a Venezia) E-mail: mail@venicedesignweek.it Website: venicedesignweek.com Venice Design Week takes place every year in Venice, 2020 is a complex year, therefore all events and meetings...

We are delighted to announce the second edition of Homo Faber Save the date: Join us in 2022, 10 Apr. – 01 May, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. Organised by the Michelangelo Foundation in partnership with Japan Foundation, Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte and Fondazione Giorgio Cini.An immersive experience, Homo Faber...

We are glad to announce the Tapio Wirkkala and Toni Zuccheri exhibition Curated by Marino Barovier, autumn 2021. The 2021 autumn exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO will be dedicated to the Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala and the artist-architect Toni Zuccheri, who have worked with the Venini company since the...

From 6 September 2020 to 10 January 2021. The spring exhibition of LE STANZE DEL VETRO will be dedicated to Studio Glass, with an extraordinary selection of glass works by American artists and designers. The intention is to examine closely the influence of aesthetics and traditional Venetian glass processing techniques...

From 26th April to 1st November 2021. The spring exhibition focuses on the extraordinary glass animal collection of Pierre Rosenberg, former Director/President of the Louvre in Paris From April 26th, 2015 to August 1st, 2021. The exhibition “The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection”, curated by Giordana Naccari...

The third edition of The Venice Glass Week started on the evening of Friday 6 September 2019 in Campo Santo Stefano in Venice, with the inauguration of the second edition of The Venice Glass Week HUB.   An event that the Veneto Region has officially recognized in 2018 and reconfirmed in...

The Venice Glass Week HUB hosted a series of installations in the two venues of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti at Palazzo Loredan and Palazzo Franchetti, in Campo Santo Stefano, Venice. The HUB has been curated by Rosa Barovier Mentasti and realized incollaboration with the company Green...

When:  from 10 September 2018 to 6 January 2019Where: Italy - Venice - San Giorgio Island - Le Stanze del VetroEdited by: Marino Barovier The 2018 autumn exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO was dedicated to highlighting the importance of the M.V.M. Cappellin between the twenties and thirties, thanks also to...