Exhibitions in Venice

Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace)

Water worship and sanctuaries of the Etruscans and ancient Veneti, from Tyrrhenian ports to healing springs and Adriatic sites, in the Doge's Apartment.

Ocean Space (Chiesa di San Lorenzo) · Free

The Repatriates Collective fills the church with a sand dune of shell figures, ghost nets, video and sound on repatriation, Indigenous knowledge and the ocean.

Ocean Space (Chiesa di San Lorenzo) · Free

The Research Room becomes a Policy Lab on the Rights of Nature movement and the Venice Lagoon, with documentaries, activist props and research materials.

Ca' Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art

First major Venice show of British painter Jenny Saville: 30+ paintings and drawings from the 1990s to today, ending with new works made in homage to the city.

Punta della Dogana

Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth fills the former customs house with twenty years of work tracing colonial fractures, threaded by a line of salt outlining a ghost slave ship.

Punta della Dogana

Lorna Simpson's largest European show in over a decade: about fifty paintings, collages, sculptures, installations and films on memory, representation and identity.

Palazzo 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.

Palazzo 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.

Museo Correr

Bizhan Bassiri's recent and emblematic works in the Sala delle Quattro Porte, with ninety images of artists from the 15th to 21st centuries in a suspended, stepped display.