Thursday, 4 June
- TALK
Venice Climate Week 2026
Eugenio Cesaro is an Italian singer, songwriter, and the frontman of the indie-pop band Eugenio in Via Di Gioia. Born in Turin, he began his musical journey performing as a…
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SEA BEYOND. OCEAN LITERACY CENTRE – UNESCO
- TALK
Venice Climate Week 2026
Emiliano Ponzi is an Italian illustrator and visual artist based in New York, known for his distinctive conceptual style. He has collaborated with major clients including The New York Times,…
at 19:00
CASA SANLORENZO
- CONCERT
Musikàmera 2026
The 2026 Season of Musikàmera continues with a concert by the duo composed of Paolo Carlini on bassoon and Fabrizio Datteri on piano. This is an unusual ensemble that will…
TEATRO LA FENICE – SALE APOLLINEE
Friday, 5 June
- PERFORMANCE
French filmmaker and screenwriter Alice Diop is the protagonist of the second appointment of Extended, the performance programme curated by Ilaria Mancia across the spaces of Palazzo Grassi, Punta della…
PUNTA DELLA DOGANA
- TALK
Venice Climate Week 2026
Yigyeong Oh is the regional focal point for the Making Cities Resilient 2030 initiative at UNDRR ROECA, based in Brussels, Belgium. Since joining UNDRR in 2023, she has monitored UNDRR’s…
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UNIVERSITÀ IUAV DI VENEZIA – TOLENTINI
Saturday, 6 June
- TALK
Venice Climate Week 2026
The special screening and dialogue “From Net Positive to Regenerative Capital” represent a high-profile event of Venice Climate Week 2026. The special screening of the documentary Net Positive – The…
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OCEAN SPACE
- CONCERT
Venezia Jazz Festival 2026
Nu jazz emerged in the 1990s as a further hybridization of a musical genre that has always made hybridity its primordial humus, its most fertile organic foundation. In this context,…
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TEATRO LA FENICE – SALE APOLLINEE
Sunday, 7 June
- SHOW
Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
A leading figure of the new Greek theatre scene and recipient of the Silver Lion at La Biennale di Venezia, Mario Banushi presents for the first time in a unified…
CA’ MALCANTON
Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
For over thirty years, Satoshi Miyagi – a student and heir of the great Japanese theatre master Tadashi Suzuki – has been reinterpreting the key works of Western tradition, from…
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
- TALK
Venice Climate Week 2026
Jeremy Rifkin is one of the world’s leading thinkers on sustainability, economic transformation, and the transition to post-carbon societies. An economist, social theorist, and author of Planet Water, he has…
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PALAZZINA CANONICA – CNR-BIODIVERSITY GATEAWAY
- PERFORMANCE
June 7, 14, 21
From 7 to 21 June 2026, Berggruen Arts & Culture and Gare St Lazare Ireland bring to Venice the world premiere of the live performance of How It Is, one…
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PALAZZO DIEDO
Monday, 8 June
- SHOW
Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
The second chapter of Romance Familiare, the Silver Lion-winning trilogy by Mario Banushi, Goodbye, Lindita explores themes of loss and nostalgia through the figure of an adopted mother, Lindita, the…
TEATRO ALLE TESE
- TALK
Venice Climate Week 2026
The conference speaker, Daniele Franco, has served as Scientific Director of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice since July 2024. He is a member of the Italian Society of Public…
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FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI
Tuesday, 9 June
- SHOW
In Venice, a new chapter opens in Davide Iodice’s socially engaged theatre practice, developed through a workshop-based process in which “stage specialists” work alongside “reality specialists.” Following Pinocchio. Che cos’è…
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CENTRO SERVIZI SAN GIOBBE
- SHOW
Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
Cries gives voice to human suffering, offering a constellation of experiences shaped by slavery, displacement, and migration across centuries. The project is constructed through an interweaving of ancient and modern…
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ISOLA DI SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE
Wednesday, 10 June
- SHOW
Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
By day he studies gravitational waves – the ripples in spacetime produced by the collision of cosmic objects such as black holes. In the interstices, he makes theatre. Alberto Colombo…
ARSENALE (BIENNALE)
- SHOW
Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
For the first time in Italy, Dorcy Rugamba – Rwandan writer, actor, dancer and director – presents Hewa Rwanda – Letter to the Absent, a stage work developed from his…
TEATRO ALLE TESE
- PERFORMANCE
June 10-11, 13 / 17-18, 20
From 7 to 21 June 2026, Berggruen Arts & Culture and Gare St Lazare Ireland bring to Venice the world premiere of the live performance of How It Is, one…
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PALAZZO DIEDO
BIENNALE ARTE 2026 – IN MINOR KEYS
9 May 2026
22 November 2026
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
- CONFERENCE, FESTIVAL
VENICE CLIMATE WEEK 2026
3 June 2026
8 June 2026
An international forum to rethink the future of Planet Water. Six days of programming, over one hundred speakers – scientists, policy makers, entrepreneurs, artists and activists from around the world.…
SEA BEYOND. OCEAN LITERACY CENTRE – UNESCO
CASA SANLORENZO
PALAZZINA CANONICA – CNR-BIODIVERSITY GATEAWAY
IUAV – PALAZZO BADOER
THE HOME OF THE HUMAN SAFETY NET
- FESTIVAL
VENEZIA JAZZ FESTIVAL 2026
6 June 2026
31 July 2026
A journey through Berlin cabaret and Broadway, through electronic jazz and Brazilian music, through New York fusion and the immortal legacy of Miles Davis—this is what the 18th edition of…
TEATRO LA FENICE – SALE APOLLINEE
GIARDINO PALAZZO MUNICIPALE FIESSO D’ARTICO
AUDITORIUM LO SQUERO
LAGUNA LIBRE
TEATRO GOLDONI
- FESTIVAL
BIENNALE TEATRO 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
7 June 2026
21 June 2026
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…
CENTRO SERVIZI SAN GIOBBE
CA’ MALCANTON
TEATRO ALLE TESE
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
ARSENALE (BIENNALE)
- FESTIVAL
ART NIGHT VENEZIA 2026
20 June 2026
21 June 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
17 July 2026
1 August 2026
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
18 July 2026
19 July 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
1 September 2026
30 September 2026
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
2 September 2026
12 September 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
Sunday
6 September 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
12 September 2026
20 September 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
1 October 2026
4 October 2026
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
9 October 2026
18 October 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
10 October 2026
24 October 2026
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
Saturday
17 October 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
Sunday
18 October 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
19 October 2026
24 October 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
Sunday
25 October 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
Saturday
21 November 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
Ultimo giorno
TINTORETTO RACCONTA LA GENESI
11 February 2026
7 June 2026
GALLERIE DELL’ACCADEMIA
Ultimi giorni
I GUARDI DELLA COLLEZIONE GULBENKIAN
7 March 2026
8 June 2026
CA’ REZZONICO – MUSEO DEL SETTECENTO VENEZIANO
Ultimi giorni
WORSE THAN IVY
17 May 2026
20 June 2026
FORTE MARGHERA
Ultimi giorni
FABRIZIO PLESSI. PERDERSI IN UN BICCHIER D’ACQUA
23 November 2025
21 June 2026
BAROVIER&TOSO ARTE
Ultimi giorni
TESORI E MAGIE DA UN’ALTRA INDIA
11 April 2026
21 June 2026
SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN MARCO
TONY CRAGG. OCEAN OF DROPS
5 May 2026
28 June 2026
CA’ TRON – UNIVERSITÀ IUAV DI VENEZIA
EMILIA KABAKOV. VENETIAN DIARY
9 May 2026
28 June 2026
CA’ TRON – UNIVERSITÀ IUAV DI VENEZIA
GIANNI BERENGO GARDIN
27 February 2026
30 June 2026
PALAZZO FLANGINI
HORST P. HORST. THE GEOMETRY OF GRACE
21 February 2026
5 July 2026
LE STANZE DELLA FOTOGRAFIA
IBRAHIM MAHAMA. A SHEA GARDEN
4 May 2026
18 July 2026
BAROVIER&TOSO GALLERY
MARTIN WEINSTEIN. NOTHING GOES AWAY
9 May 2026
26 July 2026
CASTELLO 925
ANNE LEITH. VERGE
7 May 2026
26 July 2026
CASTELLO 780
DU HAI JUN
8 May 2026
29 July 2026
CAVANA GALLERY
100 DRAWINGS FOR 100 YEARS
16 April 2026
31 July 2026
IUAV – MAGAZZINO 6
DAYANITA SINGH. ARCHIVIO
17 April 2026
31 July 2026
ARCHIVIO DI STATO
ANISH KAPOOR
6 May 2026
8 August 2026
ANISH KAPUR FOUNDATION – PALAZZO MANFRIN
PERTINI. L’ARTE DELLA DEMOCRAZIA
20 November 2025
31 August 2026
M9 – MUSEO DEL ‘900
MAURIZIO PELLEGRIN. THE LOST PORTRAITS 1990-2025
22 May 2026
5 September 2026
MARIGNANA ARTE
SHIRIN NESHAT. DO U DARE!
9 May 2026
6 September 2026
PALAZZO MARIN
ROLAND DUFAU. SCULPTOR OF LIGHT
23 May 2026
12 September 2026
PALAZZETTO BRU ZANE
GEORGE BASELITZ. EROI D’ORO
6 May 2026
27 September 2026
FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI
DAVID SALLE. PAINTING IN THE PRESENT TENSE
6 May 2026
27 September 2026
PALAZZO CINI
ETRUSCHI E VENETI. ACQUE, CULTI E SANTUARI
6 March 2026
29 September 2026
PALAZZO DUCALE
SHIM MOON SEUP. HARNESSED FROM NATURE
6 May 2026
30 September 2026
CA’ FACCANON
THE ONLY TRUE PROTEST IS BEAUTY
25 April 2026














