The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the 20th century created by the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979). She assembled the core of her collection between 1938 and 1947 with the advice of artists and critics. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. The museum was inaugurated in 1980 and presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of 20th century art, including masterpieces by Picasso, Magritte, Dalí, Pollock, Calder, Kandinsky and many others. The museum hosts also masterpieces from the Schulhof Collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.
Mon – Sun: 10am – 6pm
Closed: tuesdays & 25 December
Last admission: 30 minutes prior closing
Temporary exhibitions:
From Gesture to Form. Postwar European and American Art from the Schulhof Collection:
26 January to 18 March 2019
"Curated by Gražina Subelytė and Karole P. B. Vail".
This exhibition shows the art movement that developed towards the end of the Second World War.
The Nature of Arp: 13 April - 2 September 2019
"Curated by Catherine Craft "The exhibition takes a new look at the artist Jean (Hans) Arp.
During his career, which lasted more than six decades, he developed works with a variety of materials and forms.
Peggy Guggenheim. The Last Dogaressa 21 September 2019 - 27 January 2020
"Curated by Karole P. B. Vail, with Gražina Subelytė"
The exhibition celebrates Peggy Guggenheim's life and presents paintings, sculptures, and paper works that Guggenheim acquired from the late 1940s to 1979.
Migrating Objects 15 February - 15 June 2020
"Curated by Karole P. B. Vail"
This exhibition focuses on Guggenheim's own migration path and her turn to the arts of Africa, Oceania, and America in the 1950s and 1960s.
Address:
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
Dorsoduro 701
I-30123 Venice
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