Venice. A stage watched by the world

Venice is increasingly a showcase for contemporary art, hosting prestigious events and institutions – the Biennale, Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Fondazione Cini, Querini Stampalia and now Fondazione Vedova – attracting a heterogeneous public from throughout the world: collectors, art critics, influential patrons and students, together with the general public. Venice is able to interpret the stimuli that arrive from artists around the world in an ever more effective manner through its museums and international galleries, which are now seen not only as a place for conserving art, but increasingly as spaces in which art offers stimuli for social and cultural exchange, a place in which different people can meet. The museums of contemporary art (and not only), are also structures that produce culture, offering the tools needed to evaluate trends, characteristics and also the critical aspects of contemporary culture. It is within this framework that the Fondazione Vedova works, with the opening of a major museum dedicated to the great master.