March 29, 2026 — November 22, 2026
Punta della Dogana presents “Algebra”, a major solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth. The exhibition project includes a core of previously unseen works, bringing together over twenty years of artistic practice.
March 29, 2026 — November 22, 2026
The solo exhibition of Lorna Simpson at Punta della Dogana represents the most significant presentation of her work in Europe in more than a decade, focusing on her painting practice.
March 29, 2026 — January 10, 2027
The artist Amar Kanwar is presenting his latest major installation, "The Peacock’s Graveyard" (2023), alongside a selection of other works at Palazzo Grassi.
March 29, 2026 — January 10, 2027
Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage presents at the Palazzo Grassi a selection of forty-five paintings, including newly created pieces, and over one hundred studies that reveal his dense and vibrant pictorial language
April 6, 2025 — January 4, 2026
“The Strange Life of Things” surveys the imaginative territory of FrenchItalian artist Tatiana Trouvé’s work.
April 6, 2025 — November 23, 2025
The exhibition has been conceived in collaboration with the artist and takes us to the heart of his vast repertoire, which resists simplistic interpretation, offering instead a critical view of the world and human nature.
17 March 2024 — 6 January 2025
The exhibition brings together a selection of more than fifty works, between painting and printmaking, that the artist produced over the timespan of 25 years, including several of the artist’s recent paintings from 2021-2024.
17 March — 24 November 2024
Conceived by the artist together with curator Anne Stenne, the exhibition is centred around major new works, combined with those from the last ten years, in particular from the Pinault Collection.
13 — 17 March
15 — 22 April 2024
In this film, presented in the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Edith Dekyndt draws the viewer’s attention to our duty to maintain and preserve the memory of those tragic events, in order to avert their recurrence.
12 March 2023 — 7 January 2024
“CHRONORAMA. Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century” is the first major exhibition of masterpieces recently acquired by the Pinault Collection and from the Condé Nast archives, some of which have never been seen by the public before.
2 April — 26 November 2023
The exhibition mainly presents emblematic works from the Pinault Collection, and proposes a reflection on the theme of the icon and the status of the image in the contemporary world.
27 March 2022 — 8 January 2023
Palazzo Grassi presents ‘open-end’, the first comprehensive solo show exposing the work of Marlene Dumas in Italy, as part of the cycle of monographic shows organised by the Pinault Collection dedicated to major contemporary artists.
5 September 2021 — 9 January 2022
The exhibition is specifically dedicated to the city of Venice on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of its foundation. It presents for the first time to the public the ambitious “Venice Urban Photo Project”, conceived and developed by Mario Peliti.
23 May 2021 — 9 January 2022
The exhibition focuses on three fundamental aspects of Bruce Nauman's œuvre: the artist studio as a space where creation takes place, the body through performances and the exploration of sound.
22 March 2020 — 10 January 2021
The exhibition is a unique project based on the Master Collection created in 1973 by Cartier-Bresson at the re- quest of his art collector friends Dominique and John de Menil.
22 March 2020 — 10 January 2021
As part of its cycle of monographic shows dedicated to contemporary artists, Palazzo Grassi unveils the first major survey of Youssef Nabil, multi-faceted Egyptian artist, whose work encompasses photography, painting, video and installation art.
22 March 2020 — 13 December 2020
Conceived specifically for the spaces of Punta della Dogana, ‘Untitled, 2020. Three perspectives on the art of the present’ is the fruit of discussion and dialogue between the three curators, who are linked by longstanding personal and professional relationships.
24 March 2019 — 6 January 2020
As part of the cycle of monographic shows and ‘carte blanche’ dedicated to major contemporary artists, launched in 2012 and alternating with thematic exhibitions of the Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi presents Luc Tuymans’ first personal exhibition in Italy.
24 March 2019 — 15 December 2019
‘Luogo e Segni’, conceived by Mouna Mekouar, independent curator, and Martin Bethenod, Director of Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, is the seventh exhibition to be presented at Punta della Dogana from its opening as an exhibition space of the Pinault Collection.
8 April 2018 — 6 January 2019
the exhibition lays out a path dedicated to Albert Oehlen’s production through a selection of approximately 85 works, including some lesser-known ones, created between the 1980s and today.
8 April 2018 — 16 December 2018
On Sunday 8 April the collective exhibition ‘Dancing with Myself’ opens at Punta della Dogana. Curated by Martin Bethenod and Florian Ebner, it stems from the collaboration between the Pinault Collection and Museum Folkwang in Essen.
9 April 2017 — 3 December 2017
The exhibition is displayed across 5,000 square meters of museum space and marks the first time that Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the two Venetian venues of the Pinault Collection, are both dedicated to a single artist.
17 April 2016 — 20 November 2016
“Accrochage” brings together nearly seventy works that have not been on display since they became part of the Pinault Collection and over two thirds of the artists have never been presented in an exhibition of the collection.
17 April 2016 — 6 November 2016
The exhibition spans the artist’s entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s and underlines the variety of his artistic practice. It brings together nearly ninety works from the Pinault Collection and numerous other public and private collections.
12 April 2015 — 31 December 2015
Danh Vo has been invited to collaborate with Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection not only as an artist but also as a curator, working with the collection in conjunction with a number of invited artists.
12 April 2015 — 30 November 2015
It is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist outside of France since 1965 and is the perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover France’s hidden master and to explore the dedication and proximity between a collector and an artist.
30 May 2013 — 15 February 2015
“Dialogue” is the key word of the exhibition Prima Materia. First of all, the constant dialogue, during the preparation of the show, between Michael Govan and Caroline Bourgeois, entrusted by François Pinault to conceive this exhibition starting from his collection.
13 April 2014 — 31 December 2014
The exhibition “Irving Penn, Resonance”, curated by Pierre Apraxine and Matthieu Humery, brings together on the second floor of Palazzo Grassi 130 photographs, taken between the end of the 1940s and the mid-1980s.
13 April 2014 — 31 December 2014
The exhibition “The Illusion of Light” explores the physical, aesthetic, symbolic, philosophical and political stakes of an essential dimension of human experience that has also been a fundamental element of art: light.
7 April 2013 — 31 December 2013
François Pinault decided to invite Rudolf Stingel to devise, in absolute freedom, an exhibition involving the totality of the spaces at Palazzo Grassi for the first time.
10 April 2011 — 17 March 2013
The opening of the exhibitions In Praise of Doubt at Punta della Dogana marks the 5 year anniversary of the opening of Palazzo Grassi by François Pinault and the Mayor of Venice in April 2006.
30 August 2012 — 13 January 2013
François Pinault entrusted the curating of “Voice of Images” to Caroline Bourgeois. It includes thirty works by twenty-seven artists from the François Pinault collection: films, videos, installations, ...
15 April 2012 — 15 July 2012
François Pinault decided on Urs Fischer to inaugurate this new cycle of one-man shows, thus becoming the first living artist to be the subject of a solo exhibition at Palazzo Grassi–Punta della Dogana–François Pinault Foundation.
2 June 2011 — 21 February 2012
By juxtaposing different ways of making art, disciplines and personal backgrounds, the exhibition intends to explore artists’ relationships to history, reality and its own representation.
6 September 2009 — 10 April 2011
The exhibition includes two hundred works by sixty artists, which fill the spaces of Palazzo Grassi and the newly renovated exhibition space at Punta della Dogana, which has recently reopened following its renovation by Tadao Ando.
27 September 2008 — 22 March 2009
This time our journey into contemporary art, which began two years ago at Palazzo Grassi, leads us to Italy.
26 January 2008 — 20 July 2008
Following on from the exhibitions that focused on the great civilisations of the past, Rome and the Barbarians takes an original look at the ever-important issue of comparison and contamination.
5 May 2007 — 11 November 2007
"Sequence 1" featured a diverse range of work by sixteen artists from the Pinault Collection, as well as new commissions and special projects.
11 novembre 2006 — 11 mars 2007
Through more than 200 loans from major public institutions and private collections, "Picasso, la joie de vivre, 1945-1948" covered a period of intensive creation and artistic experimentation: paintings, drawings, ceramics...
29 April 2006 — 1 October 2006
The exhibition takes its title from a famous painting by Paul Gauguin, ironically echoed by Damien Hirst for an iconic 2004 sculpture featured in the show: Where are we going? Where do we come from? Is there a reason?.