Explore Venice by night: exhibitions, encounters, aperitifs, and artistic visions illuminate galleries and museums for an after-hours cultural experience, awaiting Art Night
At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
- Lights Off/Art On – Free Evenings at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Every Sunday in June from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM (last entry at 9:30 PM)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro 701, Venice
Free admission, reservation required: info@guggenheim-venice.it
Evenings are special at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: the doors open to welcome Venetians and travelers to admire works of art under a different light. Masterpieces of the 20th century and the exhibition Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of a Space (open to the public until September 15) reveal themselves in a new atmosphere; amid the lights of sunset, the Grand Canal, and the tranquility of the sculpture garden, with an aperitif.
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection for Art Night Venice 2025 – Special Opening
Saturday, June 21, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (last entry at 9:15 PM)
Reservation is free, subject to availability
For the fourteenth edition of Art Night, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection opens free of charge in the evening and offers a creative workshop for children, running from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. Parents wishing to visit the museum during the activity must book the visit online.
Although it is not in the evening, we highlight this free workshop led by artist Ginevra Dolcemare, open to anyone interested in exploring the practice of drawing, an analog tool for recording the present capable of influencing the imaginal. Thursday, June 12 the workshop concludes with a performative presentation open to the public in the afternoon.
- FONDALI – Drawing Workshop for “Imaginal Architects”
June 10, 11, and 12, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Free admission, reservation required: didattica@guggenheim-venice.it
Three days dedicated to drawing as a practice of observation and storytelling. The workshop led by Ginevra Dolcemare offers individual and collective exercises related to the current exhibition, to build a personal perspective on the represented space.
Sunset at Punta della Dogana
- Experience the Golden Hour at Punta della Dogana: art, architecture, and aperitif at sunset
Every Friday from June 6 to 27 and from September 5 to 26, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Punta della Dogana, Dorsoduro 2
Paid admission (€60 full price, €50 with Pinault Collection Membership Card). The ticket includes access the following day to Palazzo Grassi as well
Contact and reservations: ticketlandia.com
A guided tour after museum hours through the retrospective of Thomas Schütte – the largest ever held in Italy – transforms into a complete experience with an aperitif at sunset on the panoramic terraces overlooking the San Marco Basin.
A Late Afternoon at the Gallerie dell’Accademia
- Evening Encounters and Guided Tours
Gallerie dell’Accademia, Calle della Carità 1050
Free participation with purchase of admission ticket. Places are limited (25 people) with mandatory reservation via email: biglietteria.accademia@marsilioarte.it
Thursday, June 5, 5:00 PM
Guided tour with curator Guido Beltramini
Friday, June 6, 5:00 PM
Encounter with Rosella Lauber: The Tempest and The Old Woman by Giorgione, Between Invention and Wonder
Thursday, June 12, 5:00 PM
Guided tour with curator Giulio Manieri Elia
Friday, June 13, 5:00 PM
Encounter with Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo: Three Women by Giorgione, Campagnola, and Licinio
Thursday, June 19, 5:00 PM
Guided tour with curator Francesca Borgo
Friday, June 27, 5:00 PM
Encounter with Patricia Caprino: Exercises in Seduction from the Ancient World: The Grimani Altar in Venice
- Modern Bodies. The Construction of the Body in Renaissance Venice
Until July 27
The exhibition brings together works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, Giorgione, and other masters to explore how, during the Renaissance, the representation of the human body became a space for artistic, scientific, and symbolic research. From Vesalius’s anatomical theater to the geometric rigor of the Vitruvian Man, to figurative variations between idealization and desire, the body emerges as an object of study and cultural construction.
Evening Events at the Gallery
- Shaken Not Framed
Friday, June 6, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
AKKA Project, Ca’ del Duca 3052, Corte del Duca Sforza
Free admission
Between contemporary African art and conviviality, the format is an aperitif in the gallery with an after-hours visit to the current exhibition (until May 31). An opportunity for direct dialogue between works and the public.
- Amuse Bouche
The opening is on June 11 at 6:30 PM. Exhibition on view until October 31
Bea Vita, Fondamenta de le Capuzine, Cannaregio 3082
Free admission
Contact: info@beavitavenezia.com
The fourth chapter of Amuse Bouche is the work-in-progress exhibition by the Malutta Foundation at Bea Vita: eight artists join the collection already active in the exhibition space, which expands week by week. Painted dishes and banquets – metaphors for artistic appetite and contemporary excess – compose a landscape in transformation.
Fortuny 50: The Museum Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
- Fortuny 50: OPEN DAY at Museo Fortuny
Tuesday, June 10, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Free admission (ticket collection at the ticket office)
Museo Fortuny celebrates 50 years since its opening with a special day: special opening from 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM, the display of rarely seen works, screenings, and live music in Campo San Beneto, with the participation of Venetian musical groups.
All information at fortuny.visitmuve.it
Article by Lucia Pecoraro.
Cover photo by Ranga Hettiarachchi. Photos courtesy of press offices and Lucia Pecoraro.
