Palazzo Fortuny (Museo Fortuny) · San Marco

Erwin Wurm. Dreamers

Em cartaz6 de maio de 2026 – 22 de novembro de 2026·€ 15

First major Italian retrospective of Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm: One Minute Sculptures, anthropomorphic objects and the body as sculpture, blending humour and philosophy.

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On the second floor, the art is you. Wurm's One Minute Sculptures hand you instructions: hold a pose with a chair, a bottle, a book or a piece of clothing, and for one minute you are the sculpture.

Downstairs on the ground floor, the sculptures do the posing themselves. Pillows stand on human legs, empty clothes stand up with no body inside, and the dressing gown Rodin gave his Balzac comes back as 3.2 metres of aluminium. It is the Austrian sculptor's first major retrospective in Italy, hung among Mariano Fortuny's own works in his old palazzo.

Maurizio Cecchetti, reviewing it for Finestre sull'Arte, called it "brilliantly ironic", with a "bitter aftertaste" that arrives after a while, though he felt the satire "grabs attention but doesn't bite". Entry is the museum ticket, €15 or €7.50 reduced, with the MUVE app audio guide included. From 1 November the palazzo closes at 17:00, last entry 16:00, and it is closed on Tuesdays. The show ends on 22 November.

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A primeira grande retrospetiva italiana do escultor austríaco: One Minute Sculptures, objetos antropomórficos e o corpo tratado como escultura. Uma One Minute Sculpture demora mais ou menos o mesmo que a pose para a fotografia das férias na Ponte de Rialto.

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The One Minute Sculptures
Look for the instructions on the second floor, then pose with a chair, bottle, book or garment and become the work for sixty seconds.
The Dreamers
Oversized pillows propped on human legs, which Cecchetti likened to turkeys or ostriches with no wings or heads.
Balzac
A 3.2-metre aluminium take on the dressing gown Rodin draped over his Balzac, swollen with extra forms that read as a stifling bourgeois life.
Uncle Bazooka
An overfed figure in military dress, painted an unlikely bubblegum pink.
Yikes beside Fortuny's Knossos shawl
Wurm's garment frozen mid-moment is paired with Fortuny's shawl, a flat piece of silk that only takes shape when someone wears it.

Ideal para

Visitas de fora
Adolescentes

Com crianças

Ages 6 to 14 pay €7.50, and a group of two adults with at least one child up to 16 all pay the reduced rate. The second-floor One Minute Sculptures invite visitors to pose with everyday objects.