Magazzino Gallery

Magazzino is a new contemporary art gallery on the ground floor of the Palazzo Contarini-Polignac in Venice, a short walk from the Accademia gallery and the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation. The space was in use as a merchant's warehouse for over five centuries. It showcases the work of new or established contemporary artists from all over the world.

The 75 square meter gallery occupies a warehouse on the ground floor of the historic palace. The space preserves original masonery and exposed beams. There is a versatile in-house lighting system, though additional lighting can be fitted to the existing rails. Available furniture includes two museum display cabinets, desks and seating. The space is fully equipped with wifi. It can accommodate up to 100 people for openings and events.

Location

Program

Magazzino hosts an annual program of exhibitions, many of them connected to the Venice Biennale which takes place from May to November. There is also a full program of exhibitions from December to April. The directors welcome proposals from artists and institutions who wish to use the space. Magazzino is also available for hire for exhibitions, subject to the approval of the directors. For further information on Magazzino, please contact palazzocontarinipolignac@yahoo.com

Laila Muraywid lives and works in Paris,

her work has been exhibited in various institutions, including the Institut du Monde Arabe ( 2018-2012-2001-1997) Attasi Foundation Dubai (2017-2018-2019 ) Musée Galliera Paris (2002-2004 )Fondation ONA Rabat (2012 )Piece Unique Liban Fondation Hariri (2005) Musée Caudrésian des dentelles et broderie (2009-2010)...If Galerie Paris,Green Art Galerie Dubai,waterhouse and dodd london,Kennedy Center Washington DC..

Laila Muraywid work is part of numerous private and public collections in France,Europe,USA,and the Arabe world,Musée Galliera Paris,Institut du monde Arabe Paris,Al Mansouria foundation Jeddah,Atassi Foundation Dubai..

Leonardo Onetti Muda - Faunus
8 - 24 February 2019

Invitation

365 sogni di Moby Dick
Luc François Granier
28.12.2018- 30.2019

Architecture Biennale 2018

	La Biennale si veste di "rosso": eccezionale mostra del governo di Mosca, a Venezia
	Москва представила свою экспозицию на Венецианской биеннале

Glass Week 2018, 18 July - 9-16 Septembre 2018
Feleksan Onar 41X

Exhibition : 41 X

Peter Seidel, 18 July - 12 August 2018
Venezia Black and Light

	Ankündigung Englisch
	Einladung Peter Seidel

Maria Grazia Rosin, 19 June -15 July 2018
D'arZento Landscape

Sylke von Gaza, Gabriel & Lucifero, 11 April - 30 May 2018

Exhibition Palazzo Contarini Polignac Venezia, May 2018

Sylke von Gaza is pleased to announce her forthcoming solo exhibition "Gabriel & Lucifero. The most precious Pigment of Renaissance Venice" in April 2018 at Magazzino Gallery of Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice. Working with the ultramarine pigment, Sylke von Gaza created a series of abstract paintings that reference the tradition of the Old Masters. The exhibition revolves around two large-scale works, “Gabriel” and “Lucifero”. Named after the archangels, the two paintings make their first public appearance at Palazzo Contarini Polignac. The visitor is invited to take her/his time, to sit in an armchair and to contemplate and experience the pigment’s alchemical power and its effect on the subconscious. The text “Mysterium Coniunctionis. Gabriel & Lucifero di Sylke von Gaza” by the Italian philosopher and professor of aesthetics Guido Brivio (Università di Torino) is part of the setting and offered to the visitor to complement her/his own inner dialogue.

Claudine Drai, 27 April - 27 September 2017

	Biennale de Venise : le nouvel Olympe
	The Link of the Worlds
	Le Lien Des Mondess
	Le Gout De L'Art

RETROSPECTIVE OF AN AVANT-GARDE 25 .02- 7.03.2017

Matilde Alessandra - Gino Blanc - Paolo Frascati - Biagio Gibilterra - Gavin Rain - Paul Rousso

Oggi l’arte contemporanea evolve il suo linguaggio a ritmo incredibile. Grazie alla comunicazione globale ogni settimana appaiono nuove idee ed artisti da ogni angolo più remoto del mondo e l’arte e diventata un’enorme melting pot di idee e linguaggi. L’evoluzione nella ricerca di ogni artista risente di questi nuovi ritmi. Sollecitazioni continue portano i ritmi di ricerca ditoni artista a livelli mai visti prima e continue evoluzioni nella loro produzione.

“Retrospective of an Avant-Garde" racchiude le intuizioni di alcuni artisti internazionali che negli anni scorsi hanno prodotto delle opere di particolare efficacia, e che oggi si sono già mossi oltre, ma che in quel momento hanno avuto dei risultati di grande efficacia.

Cenni dei vari artisti ...

Magazzino Gallery presso Palazzo Polignac
grazie alla collaborazione di
Bugno Art Gallery
e RO.SA.M

Justine Bradley, 10-20 March 2017

Justine Thompson Bradley (RSDI, NY. Studio School, Moore College of Art,Philadelphia)

Though now an abstract painter, Justine's training and early paintings have always had a focus on landscape. In all her paintings, no matter how abstract, this sensitivity and curiosity about the natural world comes through in different ways. Sometimes it is just a texture that reminds one of perhaps tree bark or earth, or a patterning that may bring to mind a stand of trees. More recently however this curiosity has turned towards the actual energies that surround us throughout the natural world. Through her recent study of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Justine has been exposed to a whole world of felt sensations perceived in and around our bodies and informed by a universal energetic vibration. Though perceived and revered in eastern cultures for thousands of years, (called the "unconditional winds of vital force"in Tibetan medicine), the source of this perceivable energy seems to have finally found its scientific explanation in quantum physics, starting back with the work of physicists David Bohm and followed now by many others.

What Justine is most interested in exploring here is how this source of energy actually feels when we orient our attention to it. On a more theoretical level she also is interested in how this same energy works to create the forms of all living things, from plants, to our bodies and even the stars.

Marie Hugo, 25 March - 21 April 2017

Marie et Jean Baptiste Hugo

Guglielmo Spotorno, 1-30 Novembre 2017

Cominicato Stampa

ICONOSTASIS

Katia Margolis, 9-31 March 2016

ICONOSTASIS is a recent cycle of paintings by the Russian artist Katia Margolis. Inspired both by Venice and by the Russian tradition of icon painting, the works explore the themes of love, loss and eternity.

The cycle comprises works painted on abandoned antique printing blocks, each an exquisitely tactile and textured object in its own right. Margolis uses tempera, ink and gold wax to create images on the blocks, giving them new life as devotional objects.

The resulting ‘icons’ explore a range of subject matter: the cityscape of Venice and the lagoon, everyday objects, architectural fabric, music, light and colour. They are complemented by a series of larger paintings on wood panel, and by projected light installations.

In addition to her work with ‘Grant life!’, Katia Margolis has devised and delivered several art projects for children over the years. These include the ‘Bambiennale’ children’s art courses in Venice, culminating in an exhibition that coincided with the Venice Biennale. Katia Margolis has published numerous articles and essays on the arts and literature, as well as translations of Italian, Russian, English and Polish prose and poetry. Other literary projects include illustrations to Venezia: Paradiso Ritrovato, a collection of work by eleven contemporary Russian poets co-published by the Vassilij Polenov Association and Eurocrom 4 (Incons) in 2011. The edition formed part of the Year of Russia in Italy and Italy in Russia programme sponsored by the Russian government. Katia Margolis graduated in linguistics at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. She later studied linguistics at the University of Padua. She also studied and taught at the University of Melbourne where she was an Australian Government Doctoral Fellow. In Venice she collaborates with Ca’ Foscari University, the Accademia delle Belli Arti di Venezia, La Casa delle Parole, and the Venice Biennale. She also teaches at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice where she served as artist-in-residence in 2012. Katia Margolis lives and works in Venice.

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Katia Margolis was born in Moscow in 1973. She is an artist, writer, translator, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher. She has lived and worked in Venice for over ten years. Her paintings and installations have been regularly exhibited in Venice, Moscow and St Petersburg. There are examples of her work in collections throughout Europe, the USA and Russia. Recent cycles of her painting feature predominantly Venetian imagery and investigate the interplay of love, loss, memory and eternity. She also explores these themes in her first book, Footprints on Water (Sledy na Vode) that was published to critical acclaim in May 2015 by Limbakh of St Petersburg. Katia Margolis devised and illustrated the book Quaderni Veneziani: Joseph Brodsky and Others, an intricate exploration of underlying themes and references in Brodsky’s Venetian masterpiece, Watermark. She also illustrated a children’s book by Brodsky, The Ballad of the Little Tugboat, published by Pink Giraffe of Moscow. It formed the centrepiece of a national award-winning project, The Art of the Book, presented in New York in 2010. All sale proceeds were donated to ‘Grant Life!’ in London and Moscow, a foundation set up for the benefit of children suffering from cancer. Over the last ten years she has curated a series of annual exhibitions in major Russian museums devoted to art created by these young cancer patients.

MELTING POINT

Aslı Kutluay 6-27 April 2016
In April 2016 in Venice, as a preview for early visitors of 2016 Venice Biennial of Architecture, there will be opened the show of unpublished works by Turkish artist Aslı Kutluay and curated by Vittorio Urbani in a new art space: the Magazzino Gallery on the Grand Canal, one of the most important Early Renaissance buildings in Venice.

Aslı Kutluay, designer and artist, lives and works in Ankara. She takes strong interest in presenting the world’s cultural diversities, dilemmas and richness. She transmits her observations into evocative stories displaying them in paintings, sculptures and installations.

The artist has produced a coherent body of new works, "non-functional" pieces of furniture, intended to create a connection among the artworks, the place and the visitors.. The work from her reflections on the phenomenon of Global Warming: structures at the point of melting or cracking, given the changing climate, present us as in a magic mirror the disturbing scenario we may have to find ourselves in. However, the responsible of these changes are exactly we, the humans.

Maison Francaise

VENEZIA

La Mostra in Mostra

Footage from the British Pathé archive
Magazzino Gallery 27 August - 30 October 2016

British Pathé is considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. The collection includes footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science and culture.

The British Pathé archive contains hours of valuable footage of life in Venice from 1899 to 1967. In this exhibition Magazzino Gallery screens a fascinating selection of 120 minutes this material. Topics include the Venice Film Festival, the Biennale, the annual Regatta, the social and cultural life of the city, arts and crafts, music, politics and much more. The exhibition is curated by British author and Venice specialist Robin Saikia and presents an engaging overview of how Venice reinvented itself in the 20th century as one of the most glamorous cultural destinations in Europe. The exhibition will open during the 2016 Venice Film Festival and is accompanied by a DVD and explanatory catalogue.