Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice – Major Modern Art Exhibition 2025/26

This exhibition centres on the ceramic works of Lucio Fontana (1899–1968), exploring a lesser-known but essential facet of his practice. The showcase includes approximately seventy works on loan from major public and private collections, some shown for the first time. The artist’s pioneering vision brings together sculpture, light, material innovation and spatial sensibility. Visitors will discover how Fontana’s ceramic forms extend his seminal “Spatial Concept” into tangible objects of earth, glaze and hole.

Placed in the setting of Venice and its historic institutional home to the Guggenheim legacy, the exhibition invites reflection on material, craft and the intersection between modernism and post-war artistic research. The museum situates Fontana’s ceramics alongside archival photographs of his process and models, providing insight into how his studio practices and experimentation in Italy and Argentina shaped later generations of artists. The ambiance of the Venice palace, with its gardens and waterfront façade, enhances the experience of these fluid, delicate yet radical works.