Exhibitions in Venice
December 2026
December at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 0 closing, and 7 more on view across the city.
Also on through December
A Lace for Venice 2026to 6 JanPalazzo Mocenigo – Museum of Textiles and Costume
43 works from the 12th national lacemaking competition, in needle and bobbin lace on the theme of flowers and nature, from traditional patterns to contemporary takes.
Amar Kanwar. Co-travellersto 10 JanPalazzo Grassi
Two multimedia installations by Indian artist Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages and The Peacock's Graveyard: poetic, political meditations on justice, mortality and impermanence.
Michael Armitage. The Promise of Changeto 10 JanPalazzo Grassi
45 paintings and over 100 studies by the Kenyan-British painter, whose works on Ugandan bark cloth weave East African politics, violence, migration and dreamlike visions.
La Tua Perla per Venezia 2026to 10 JanMuseo del Vetro (Murano Glass Museum)
Finalist works from the international Venetian glass bead competition, shown in the museum's Venetian Bead Room; visitors can vote for their favourite bead.
Nel segno di Venezia: The Alessandro Favaretto Rubelli Donationto 11 JanCa' Rezzonico – Museo del Settecento Veneziano
29 drawings from a recent donation, from Palma il Giovane's 16th century to Carlevarijs, Ricci, Canaletto and Tiepolo, shown in the first-floor portego.
Fucina degli Angeli: Peggy Guggenheim and 20th-Century Artistic Glassto 29 MarPeggy Guggenheim Collection
Postwar Murano glass by Egidio Costantini's Fucina degli Angeli, founded 1955, which turned artists' designs into glass with Peggy Guggenheim's backing.
BABEL - Marco Toso Borellato 30 MarMuseo del Vetro (Murano Glass Museum)
About twenty new works by Murano artist Marco Toso Borella, scratched into gold leaf on glass, on incommunicability in an age of social media and AI.
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