Program city

Venice

The Biennale, historic palaces and international dialogue: exhibiting in Venice means entering one of the world’s most important cultural currents.

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Living Venice

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City Guides

Where to Eat in Venice: 5 Places We Recommend

Five addresses we recommend for eating in Venice, across Cannaregio, Dorsoduro and San Marco: Venetian cuisine, lagoon seafood, waterside tables and places to choose according to the kind of evening you want.

15 Aug 2026

City Guides

General Guide to Venice

An essential guide to understanding Venice from day one: Darte exhibition venues, where to stay, how to arrive and get around, what to know about the city and everything useful during your stay.

15 Aug 2026

darte in Venice

Venice, the context

July 2026

Exhibition experience in a historic palace during the Venice Biennale and/or Venice Carnival

Venice is one of the historic poles of global contemporary art. It is the place of stratification, memory and institutional representation of art. Here Darte joins a highly international context, where the exhibition dimension meets European curatorial tradition.

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Editorial

Stories from Venice

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Open call

OPEN CALL - VENICE INTERNATIONAL - CANVAS ART FAIR - 26th edition

Exhibit with Darte at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, a 16th-century Venetian palace, for the 26th edition of Venice International Art Fair. From 29 January to 11 February 2026, contemporary art meets historic interiors in an exhibition exploring identity, the body and space.

20 Oct 2026

Superstar

George Condo: how many people can live inside one face?

Misaligned eyes, mouths crowded with teeth, distorted aristocrats, clowns, Picasso, Old Masters and hip-hop covers. For more than forty years, George Condo has painted impossible faces to describe something profoundly real: a person can be joyful, violent, vulnerable, arrogant and terrified almost at the same time. From the Venice Biennale to collaborations with Kanye West and Travis Scott, his painting has moved between museums and popular culture without choosing between them. Perhaps a face is not meant to show us who we are, but all the people we might be at once.

16 Aug 2026

Italian Artist

Ambra Castagnetti: how much of us truly belongs only to us?

Snakes, bound bodies, wax, orchids, avatars and digital apparitions. Ambra Castagnetti creates a world in which the human, the animal and the technological continually cease to exist as separate categories. From the Venice Biennale to MAMBO in Bogotá, her practice begins with a question that concerns us all: if our bodies are shaped by relationships, environment, desire and technology, how much of what we call “I” truly belongs only to us?

16 Aug 2026

Exhibitions