Venice Glass Week to return with its 6th edition in September 2022

Venetian glassworks are perhaps one of the most unique, exclusive and expensive glasswares found around the globe. The Murano glass has been worked on and experimented over on the Venetian island for more than a thousand years, thanks to the unique combination of passing down ancient knowledge and skills through generations and welcoming new artists and their new practices to the island.

The Venice Glass Week exhibits this timeless tradition each year. After a well-received fifth edition, the organisers are all set to host its sixth instalment from 17th to 25th September 2022.

Over the span of seven days, the festival hosts exhibitions, demonstrations, guided tours and online events amongst other things. The 2021 festival, which was spread across 146 different venues in Venice, Murano and Mestre, and made accessible to online viewers, saw an intake of 78,000 visitors who participated in around 250 events that were organised by 170 participants as part of #VivaVetro!.

#VivaVetro!featured 113 exhibitions and installations, 32 inaugurations and special openings, 31 demonstrations and workshops, 21 guided tours, 18 conferences and award ceremonies and one night-time race around the canals, streets and furnaces of Murano.

A digital programme titled ‘Conversations on Glass by Apice’ included a series of seven panel discussions and interviews and were broadcast online. The discussions were conducted in English in an attempt to include and involve an international audience. The event, which was created in collaboration with a leading art transportation company, Apice, included the participation of several celebrated glass masters like Dale Chihuly and Lino Tagliapietra. A recording of the same is still available to watch on The Venice Glass Week YouTube Channel.

The week-long festival also included the distribution of several prizes. The prestigious ‘Glass in Venice Prize’ was awarded to Federica Marangoni and Mauro Bonaventura. The ‘Premio Fondazione di Venezia per The Venice Glass Week’, consisting of a cash prize of € 1,000.00, was awarded to the exhibition Czech Glass, Quo Vadis?!, which was staged at Giudecca Art District (GAD), and featured the works of ten Czech artists - Jaroslav Róna, Vladimira Klumpar, Zdeněk Lhotský, Martin Janecký, Petr Stanický, Klára Horáčková, Luba Bakičová, Michal Macků, Michaela Spružinová and Tomáš Krejčí.

The details of the sixth edition will soon be announced via the official website and social media channels of The Venice Glass Festival.