The 2022 of the Civic Museums of Venice, between Kiefer, Afro and the reopening
A 2022 of decisive restart for the Civic Museums of Venice: the MUVE Foundation, under the direction of Gabriella Belli and the presidency Mariacristina Gribaudi, presented his program that will animate the months with a series of initiatives of depth and wide appeal, with a particular eye to contemporary art. From the reopening of Palazzo Fortuty to the exhibitions of Anselm Kiefer, Afro and Raqib Shaw as part of the MUVE Contemporaneo exhibition, until the return to the Lagoon, after centuries, of the Venetian paintings from the Pushkin collection, it will be a 2022 of great ferment for the circuit of the Civic Museums of Venice.
“Reopen and expand the venues returned to the city, enhance the collections, bring temporary exhibitions to the international scene with the biennial exhibition MUVE Contemporaneo, enhance conservation and study activities and promote lagoon excellence from ancient history, strengthen territorial relations and global, are acts of resilience due and conducted with a sense of responsibility, considering the various emergencies that the millenary city of Venice, our Serenissima, is once again facing “, declared Gribaudi.
The reopening of Palazzo Fortuny and the new itinerary of Palazzo Reale
The first, highly anticipated appointment is with the reopening of the doors of Palazzo Fortuny in Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, with a new layout, which is linked to the life that animated it when it was a residence and laboratory of Mariano Fortunawith the muse and wife Henriette Negrin. The Fortuny, as the Venetians call it, will become a permanent exhibition venue: paintings, clothes and fabrics, lighting and scenography and all that was the artistic and productive path that took shape in the Palazzo, at the center of the cosmopolitan relationships of the time, they will be usable again all year round. In any case, the Museum will continue to be the site of the highly appreciated temporary exhibitions, particularly in the contemporary field.
Much awaited, and postponed due to a pandemic, is also the opening of the entire itinerary of the Royal Palace, in the Correr Museum, with the rooms overlooking the San Marco basin and the Royal Gardens. Headquarters of various state offices for many years, the rooms have been at the center of a restoration project established and pursued by the Foundation and the Municipality of Venice with the Superintendency and the State Property and with the fundamental support of the French Committee for the Safeguarding of Venice with its international donors.
MUVE Contemproneo, by Anselm Kiefer and Afro
Palazzo Ducale, the heart of the museum system of the City of Venice, will host various temporary exhibitions in 2022. Linked to the celebrations for the 1600 years of Venice, in the context of which the exhibition “Venetia 1600. Births and rebirths” has finally already been presented, it will be “These writings, when burned, will give some light”, exhibition by Anselm Kiefer , opening from 20 April, in conjunction with the Biennale d’Arte, for the MUVE Contemporaneo review. On display in the Sala dello Scrutinio, a series of paintings created specifically for the Doge’s Palace in 2020 and 2021.
In September, in the Doge’s Apartment in the Doge’s Palace, the appointment is with “Venetian Dialogues”, an exceptional exhibition of paintings by the greatest Venetian artists active between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries arriving from the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow, an invaluable heritage for scholars and for the general public, with masterpieces by Titian, Guardi, Bellotto, Canaletto.
Also for MUVE Contemporaneo, the International Gallery of Modern Art of Ca ‘Pesaro will present “Afro 1950-1970 From Italy to America and back / From Italy to America and back”, a tribute to one of the great protagonists of Italian painting of the second Novecento and its twenty-year relationships with the American artistic world. There is also space for the contemporary English scene, with “Palazzo della memoria”, the exhibition of the artist originally from Kashmir and living in London Raqib Shaw.
At Palazzo Mocenigo there will be “Es / senza”, a collective of Mircea Cantor, Mateusz Chorobski, Jason Dodge, Bruna Esposito, Eva Marisaldi, Florian Mermin, Giuseppe Penone, Paola Pivi, Namsal Siedlecki, Achraf Touloub, Nico Vascellari, Luca Vitone. On display, a series of works dedicated to the discovery of the artistic potential of the senses and, in particular, of the sense of smell.
With the new year the third edition of “Artefici del nostra tempo” has opened, a competition for young artists of the Municipality of Venice of which the MUVE Foundation is an organizational part, which from spring will offer selected exhibitions in the Venice Pavilion at the Biennale and from the summer in the great collective in Forte Marghera.