Structures Of Venice

Chaos may surround us, but beauty and kindness are always waiting to be found.

Have a good start of the week!

Where Renaissance heritage meets contemporary vision. ✨

The exhibition The Shape of Time presents a major survey of Barry X Ball at Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore.

Curated by Bob Nickas and coordinated by Carmelo A. Grasso, the exhibition brings together 23 sculptures- most shown publicly for the first time - creating a dialogue between advanced digital technologies, traditional craftsmanship, and the architecture of Andrea Palladio.

Spread throughout the basilica, the works explore portraiture, spirituality, and art history, including Barry X Ball's ongoing engagement with historical sculptural traditions and his reinterpretations of iconic masterpieces. The exhibition offers a compelling encounter between past and present in one of Venice's most remarkable cultural settings.

In the heart of Piazza San Marco, art and architecture meet in a dialogue across life and contemporary art.

Now on view at SMAC Venice:
• Lee Ufan
9 May – 22 November 2026

A major exhibition spanning more than 70 years of the artist’s practice, featuring paintings, sculptures, and a new site-specific installation.

• Alighiero Boetti
7 May – 22 November 2026
A landmark presentation of one of Italy’s most influential contemporary artists, bringing together key works from across his career.

Throughout the exhibition, Boetti investigates themes of order and chaos, authorship and collaboration, control and chance, time and transformation. Rather than presenting the artist as the sole creator, his works reveal art as a process shaped by systems, collective effort, and the world itself.

A compelling overview of one of the most influential Italian artists of the twentieth century, whose practice continues to resonate through its engagement with geopolitics, identity, collaboration, and the complexity of contemporary life.

📷Artworks and views are featured in the carousel.

📍 SMAC Venice, Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza San Marcom Venice

🎫 Entry ticket: online / on the spot.

In the heart of Piazza San Marco, art and architecture meet in a dialogue across life and contemporary art.

Now on view at SMAC Venice:
• Lee Ufan
9 May – 22 November 2026

A major exhibition spanning more than 70 years of the artist’s practice, featuring paintings, sculptures, and a new site-specific installation The Kiss.

What is interesting and clear, is the gesture, chosen movement and breath and dedication behind the brush strokes.

📷Artworks and views are featured in the carousel.

• Alighiero Boetti
7 May – 22 November 2026
A landmark presentation of one of Italy’s most influential contemporary artists, bringing together key works from across his career.

📍 SMAC Venice, Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza San Marcom Venice

🎫 Entry ticket: online / on the spot.

A glimpse of the inauguration of - a new home of beauty, memory, and fragrance. A place where historic scents meet new creations, inspired by art and emotion.

It's that time of the year 🌿🌴✨️

Petit Musée de la Femme - a story of memory, family and enduring love. 🥀

Next week, Fondazione Maddalena Di Giacomo - founded by Alexandra Mazzanti in memory of her mother, Maddalena Di Giacomo - presents its inaugural exhibition La Nota Mancante at Palazzo Valier.

From this initial gesture, the visit unfolds as a journey through memory, perception, and intangible heritage, where artworks, objects, and atmospheres come together in a continuous dialogue between the visible and the invisible.

Curated by Alexandra Mazzanti, the project explores how memories survive through fragments, sensations, and emotional traces.


Exhibition open to the public:
May 22 – November 21, 2026
📍 Palazzo Valier
www.fondazionemaddalenadigiacomo.org

Petit Musée de la Femme - a story of memory, family and enduring love. 🥀

Next week, Fondazione Maddalena Di Giacomo - founded by Alexandra Mazzanti in memory of her mother, Maddalena Di Giacomo - presents its inaugural exhibition La Nota Mancante at Palazzo Valier.

Conceived as a multisensory meditation on memory, absence, and perception, the exhibition brings together historical masterpieces and contemporary artists in dialogue with scent, sound, and immersive installations.

Curated by Alexandra Mazzanti, the project explores how memories survive through fragments, sensations, and emotional traces.


Exhibition open to the public:
May 22 – November 21, 2026
📍 Palazzo Valier
www.fondazionemaddalenadigiacomo.org

Direction: glorious, sparkling discoveries.

Keep moving, but slowly. The real discoveries don’t announce themselves, they shimmer, waiting to be noticed.

Structures Of Venice

Asymmetrical symmetry.

In Venice, balance is never rigid. It shifts, adapts, negotiates with water, light, and time. Arches don’t always mirror perfectly, façades bend to constraints, perspectives slip, and yet, everything holds together.

Not despite the imbalance, but because of it.

This is a city where harmony is constructed through variation, where imperfection becomes structure and the dance of its ancient glory.

Structures Of Venice