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BIENNALE ARTE 2026 – IN MINOR KEYS
Following the premature passing of the designated curator Koyo Kouoh (10 May 2025), La Biennale di Venezia announced that the exhibition will be realised according to the project she had…
VENEZIA – AROUND TOWN
ARSENALE (BIENNALE)
GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE
- SPORT
50th VOGALONGA
On a late spring morning, the Basin of San Marco fills with colors, reflections, and voices. This is not a regatta like the others: it is the Vogalonga, a celebration…
BACINO SAN MARCO
CANAL GRANDE
- FAIR
THE VENICE BOAT SHOW 2026
The Venice Boat Show is one of the leading international fairs dedicated to boating, an event that each year brings the jewels of the sea into the lagoon and showcases…
ARSENALE NORD
- FESTIVAL
BIENNALE TEATRO 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
Following the success of his first edition as director – with Theatre is Body – Body is Poetry, an homage to Ronconi’s legendary 1975 Biennale – Willem Dafoe returns to…
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
TEATRO MALIBRAN
ARSENALE (BIENNALE)
TEATRO GOLDONI
- FESTIVAL
ART NIGHT VENEZIA 2026
Art Night is back to transform Venice’s night into one long, wonderful excuse for art – and this year it does so with a special milestone: the fifteenth edition. Spreading…
VENEZIA – AROUND TOWN
- FESTIVAL
BIENNALE DANZA 2026 – TIME DOES NOT EXIST
Following the success of the 2025 edition, Myth Makers/Creatori di miti – a journey through the generative power of art – Wayne McGregor returns to direct the Biennale Danza for…
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
TEATRO MALIBRAN
ARSENALE (BIENNALE)
- FEAST
FEAST OF THE REDEEMER 2026
The midsummer night, hot, humid, crowded, noisy, yet always beautiful, when all eyes are turned skyward to admire a long series of fireworks floating over Venice, is a fixed appointment…
CANALE DELLA GIUDECCA
BACINO SAN MARCO
HOMO FABER 2026- AN ISLAND OF LIGHT
Dedicated to fine craftsmanship and hands-on creativity, Homo Faber is a biennial exhibition curated by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, an international non-profit organization committed to promoting the…
FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI
MOSTRA DEL CINEMA 2026
Alberto Barbera will once again lead the Venice Film Festival this year. The world’s oldest film festival is preparing to celebrate the best of international cinema, offering an extraordinary variety…
LIDO DI VENEZIA
- FEAST
REGATA STORICA 2026
Among the city’s most anticipated and evocative events, held every year on the first Sunday of September, the Historical Regatta is a ritual on the water that brings together sport,…
CANAL GRANDE
- FESTIVAL
THE VENICE GLASS WEEK 2026
Founded in 2017 to celebrate and promote the art of glass, The Venice Glass Week is the international festival dedicated to a craft that has shaped Venice’s cultural and economic…
VENEZIA – AROUND TOWN
- FAIR
4. HIGH-END ITALIAN CRAFTSMANSHIP FAIR
The Salone dell’Alto Artigianato Italiano (High-end Italian Craftsmanship Fair) is an event that celebrates the excellence of Italian craftsmanship in the heart of Venice, a city that embodies ancient trades…
ARSENALE NORD
- FESTIVAL
THE VENICE DESIGN WEEK 2026
The Venice Design Week, the city-wide festival launched in 2010 by the Associazione Culturale Arte e Design, returns to Venice from 9 to 18 October 2026, transforming the city into…
VENEZIA – AROUND TOWN
- FESTIVAL
BIENNALE MUSICA 2026 – A CHILD OF SOUND
Second edition directed by Caterina Barbieri, following the 2025 debut with The Inner Star, an edition that explored the world of cosmic music with a rich line-up including renowned artists…
TEATRO ALLE TESE
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
ARSENALE (BIENNALE)
CA’ GIUSTINIAN
- SPORT
VENICE HOSPITALITY CHALLENGE 2026
The Venice Hospitality Challenge is an exclusive event that combines sport, luxury, history, and spectacle in one of the most iconic settings in the world. Born with the aim of…
BACINO SAN MARCO
- SPORT
VELEZIANA 2026
In Venice everything becomes a spectacle: the water, the light, the reflections, even the wind. It is no surprise, then, that one of the most fascinating regattas in the Italian…
BACINO SAN MARCO
- FEAST
VENICE FASHION WEEK 2026
Venice Fashion Week returns to Venice from October 19 to 24, 2026, showcasing the new protagonists of ethical and sustainable Made in Italy fashion. Now in its thirteenth edition, the…
VENEZIA – AROUND TOWN
- SPORT
VENICEMARATHON 2026
It was 1986 when Salvatore Bettiol and Paola Moro etched their names in the history of the Venicemarathon by winning its very first edition, an event that from the start…
VENEZIA – AROUND TOWN
- FEAST
FESTA DELLA SALUTE 2026
In Venice, the celebration of the Madonna della Salute has marked the city’s calendar for nearly four centuries. The festival commemorates the miracle that, according to tradition, saved Venice from…
BASILICA DI SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE
- TALK
At the intersection of painting, literature and curatorial thought, Palazzo Grassi hosts a conversation bringing together three major voices of the contemporary cultural scene: Salman Rushdie, Hans Ulrich Obrist and…
alle 18:00
TEATRINO DI PALAZZO GRASSI
- CONCERT
100__ve Expanded Festival 2026
Casa Michelotto Pastor hosts the live performance of Ange Halliwell, a musician and composer who began playing the harp at the age of 12. Originating from the countryside of southwest…
alle 19:00
CASA MICHELOTTO PASTOR
- CONFERENCE
Public art, aquatic cultures and the rights of nature intersect in the public talk Public Art, Hydrophilia and Rights of Nature, scheduled for Friday, 22 May at Ca’ Bottacin (Aula…
alle 16:00
CA’ BOTTACIN
- CONCERT
XVI Festival Callido Nacchini – I Concerti del Vespro
The Vespers Concert returns to the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore as part of the 16th edition of the Callido Nacchini Festival. The evening features organist Andrea Trovato with a…
alle 17:00
BASILICA DI SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE
- CONCERT
The Concert Hall of the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory hosts an evening dedicated to the institution’s young talents, selected through auditions among its most outstanding students. Accompanied by the Conservatory Orchestra,…
alle 18:00
CONSERVATORIO BENEDETTO MARCELLO
- CONCERT, SPECIAL OPENING
European Night of Museums
On the occasion of the European Night of Museums, Museo di Palazzo Grimani will exceptionally open its galleries in the evening with a symbolic admission fee of 1 euro. On…
alle 18:30
MUSEO DI PALAZZO GRIMANI
- WORKSHOP
A creative workshop led by the Polish collective River Sisters (Siostry Rzeki), active at the intersection of art, ecology and activism and represented by Cecylia Malik and Anna Chmiel, opens…
alle 14:00
OCEAN SPACE
- CONCERT
Stagione Lirica e Balletto 2025-2026
Teatro La Fenice will stage Carmen once again as part of the 2025–2026 Opera and Ballet Season. The production will return in the fascinating and controversial staging created by director…
TEATRO LA FENICE
- CONCERT
Musikàmera 2026 – Dekàmeron
Young pianist Maya Oganyan, born in 2005, presents works by Chopin and Scriabin. Her remarkable career includes performing Beethoven in Armenia before Riccardo Muti at age 15 and playing Mozart…
alle 20:00
TEATRO LA FENICE – SALE APOLLINEE
- CONCERT
Long Playing
The second session in the listening series welcomes Valentina Magaletti, drummer, composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music dissolves the boundaries between noise, ritual and sound. Her practice transforms ceramics, objets trouvés…
alle 18:30
TEATRINO DI PALAZZO GRASSI
- PERFORMANCE, TALK
Peanut fields near friendship
In the first event of Peanut fields near friendship, a project curated by Piersandra Di Matteo, Edoardo Lazzari and Annalisa Sacchi, friendship is approached as a field of inquiry and…
alle 17:00