The eighth edition of The Glass Week, a festival dedicated to the art of glass, will be titled #AWorldofGlass and will be held from 14 to 22 September in Venice,Murano and Mestre. The event is characterized by an extraordinary international standing: over 300 applications were received from 45 countries, then selected by the Scientific Committee chaired by the Venetian glass historian Rosa Barovier Mentasti.
New this year is the partnership with Homo Faber, which will be offering the best of contemporary high craftsmanship at the Fondazione Cini from 1 to 30 September. In particular, the collaboration with The Venice Glass Week will take concrete form, as part of Homo Faber in Città, in the programme of The Venice Glass Week Tours by Select, free guided tours with aperitifs in historic Murano furnaces.
A Glass Bateo, conceived by the Consorzio Promovetro Murano, will sail the canals of Venice for the entire duration of the festival, hosting events, meetings, demonstrations and workshops, with the aim of introducing an ever-wider audience to the history and charm of Murano artistic glass.
This year, too, the nerve centres of the event will be The Venice Glass Week HUB (with works by 25 international artists) and The Venice Glass Week HUB Under35 (with works by 19 young artists), for the first time both free of charge for all selected artists and hosted in Campo Santo Stefano at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in the Palazzo Loredan venue.
There will also be activities for young and old alike: in particular, the Family Programme offered by MUVE Education. Stories of art, sand and fire will be the title of the guided tour through the halls of the Murano Glass Museum, which houses works known throughout the world and which will be completed with a furnace demonstration at the Abate Zanetti Glass School, one of the island’s most important glass institutions.
Numerous exhibitions organized by the Fondazione MUVE: 18th-century Venetian engraved glass at Palazzo Mocenigo (14 September-8 January 2025), La difesa at Palazzo Ducale. Sarah Revoltella with a blown glass armour (14-22 September), Forbidden Garden with an installation of remodelled bottles by artist Jolanda Prinsen (Casa Goldoni), Federica Marangoni On The Road 1970-2024/Not only glass at the Murano Glass Museum (until 24 November) and 1912-1930-Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale at Le stanze del vetro (until 24 November).
