Le stanze del vetro
Le Stanze del Vetro, or Rooms for Glass, is a glass art gallery on San Giorgio Maggiore island in Venice. It shows rotating exhibitions of Venetian glass. It is a collaboration between the Cini Foundation and Pentagram Stiftung, a non-profit founded by David Landau and Marie-Rose Kahane. The building is a former boarding school that was renovated by Annabelle Selldorf.
The gallery aims to highlight the history and use of glass in 20th and 21st‑century art and bring glass back into the international art scene. It follows a free-entry model so culture belongs to the community.
Its programs look at contemporary artists who work with glass, as well as important glass makers and major glass collections. Each year there are two exhibitions on San Giorgio: in spring, about glass in modern art and design; and in autumn, about designers who created Venini objects in the 20th century.
Le Stanze del Vetro also hosts special site‑specific projects with living artists, such as Not Vital in 2013 and Hiroshi Sugimoto in 2014, inviting them to work with glass. The projects usually lead to a large installation and a small limited‑edition glass object made in Murano and sold in the bookshop to support the activities.
The center runs a Study Centre for research in artistic glass, an archive of Venetian glass, and offers scholarships, seminars, conferences, and workshops for scholars and artists on the history, techniques, and development of glassmaking.
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