This year as we open our exhibitions in Venice, we’re taking stock of all the exciting shows that are opening across the city. It brings us great joy to see so many Berengo Studio collaborators at work and featuring sculptures in glass in Venice so we thought we’d take a moment to take stock of some of the shows we’re putting in our calendar for the weeks ahead.
The season of the Biennale is always a busy one, and sometimes making one’s own itinerary can be an overwhelming experience. If you need A Guide in Venice we’d recommend a friend of the Studio Hélène Salvadori. An experienced guide of the city, she also knows the world of Berengo Studio intimately and has been a companion for famous creatives within La Serenissima for over a decade.
With Hélène you’re in safe hands, whether you’re after the Art Lovers Tour, a Guide to Contemporary Art, or Modern and Contemporary Architecture Hélène has an itinerary just for you. She even has a tour specially designed for those interested in deepening their knowledge of Murano glass, with an exclusive look behind the scenes at some of the most prestigious furnaces, with a special visit to Berengo Studio itself. So if you’re in need of a guide to this year’s Glasstress, Venice Biennale, the city, or the islands within the lagoon, don’t be afraid to reach out.
The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh
9 May – 22 November 2026
Venezia
This year we’re delighted to have collaborated with Cuban artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons once again to create a special installation that features within the main exhibition. The large glass red flower features as part of the artist’s examination of the life cycle of the magnolia, a symbol of the American South in a moving dedication to the author Tony Morrison and Koyo Kouoh, the late curator of this year’s Biennale.
Stefano Cagol
In the mouth of fire (2026)
Nauru Pavilion
AIM Inundated, Imagining Life After Land
Calle Bosello 3683, Venezia
For the first pavilion for Nauru, the world’s smallest island nation at the Venice Biennale, Berengo Studio has created a handblown glass flame – In the Mouth of Fire (2026), for Stefano Cagol’s contribution to the pavilion, which includes a performance.
Leandro Erlich
HYBRIDS
Curated by Marcello Dantas
Negozio Olivetti
Official Collateral Event of the Venice Biennale
9th of May – 22 November 2026
The exhibition Hybrids. Leandro Erlich at the Negozio Olivetti, curated by Marcello Dantas and with the support of Galleria Continua, brings together around twenty sculptures by the contemporary Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich, including several previously unseen works. The exhibition presents a series of hybrid organisms that merge elements from different worlds: butterflies whose wings resemble ears, cabbages transformed into architectural forms, corals recalling urban morphologies, and trees ending in human feet. Through these unexpected combinations, the works intertwine natural and artificial forms, inviting reflection on art as a process capable of generating new configurations of reality. The glass artwork made in collaboration with Berengo Studio featured in the show “Quartz” (2023) depicts a small city bursting forth from the natural forms of crystal.
Koen Vanmechelen
WE THOUGHT WE WERE ALONE
Palazzo Rota Ivancich
May 9 – November 22, 2026
Koen Vanmechelen returns to Venice with a solo exhibition entitled We Thought We Were Alone. The exhibition will feature 30 installations across three floors, transforming the historic 17th-century Palazzo Rota Ivancich into a space of hybridity, connection, and dialogue between all forms of life. We’re delighted to be working on a large-scale installation for the Belgian artist creating a series of handblown serpents that will be wrapped around a huge bronze bone.
Judy Chicago
THE MATERIALITY OF JUDY CHICAGO
Curated by Allison Raddock
8 May – 22 November 2026
Alberta Pane is delighted to announce that its Venice gallery will host a solo exhibition by renowned American artist Judy Chicago (b. 1939), on view from 8 May to 22 November 2026, in conjunction with the upcoming Venice Biennale. The Materiality of Judy Chicago, curated by Allison Raddock, is a focused exhibition that aims to offer a comprehensive overview of Judy Chicago’s work, through the lens of the materials and innovative techniques that have defined the artist’s six-decade career while introducing viewers to a new series of work which will make its debut at Alberta Pane gallery. From spray-painted car hoods and porcelain plates to needlework and glass, Chicago has continuously challenged artistic hierarchies, embracing techniques historically dismissed as “craft” to expand feminist and conceptual art practices.
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