Warwick Venice Centre Participates in Art Night 2026
Venice, Saturday 20th June 2026 18:00 – 22.00
Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, San Marco 2893
Palazzo Giustinian Lolin
“Lagoon Rhythms”
A collaboration between Fondazione Ugo e Ola Levi
and the University of Warwick
For Art Night 2026, the long night of Venetian art, The Levi Foundation and the University of Warwick, also in collaboration with the Venice in Peril Fund, Liceo Marco Polo and the Vogalonga Committee, are pleased to present a joint programme that puts Venice, its lagoon, and rowing as protagonists.
The Warwick Venice Centre which overlooks the Grand Canal from the second floor of Palazzo Giustinian Lolin – a work of the young Baroque architect Baldassarre Longhena – will be exceptionally open to the public for this occasion. The rooms will welcome visitors with videos that illustrate: some of the University of Warwick’s activities; recent restoration projects of the Venice in Peril Fund; the story of the Vogalonga, curated by the committee of the Vogalonga on the occasion of its 50th anniversary “Vogalonga. La Cinquantesima.” The programme concludes with two concerts and two exhibitions organised by the Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi together with the students of a nearby high school, the Liceo Marco Polo.
“The event represents a significant collaboration between institutions committed to the enhancement of Venetian cultural heritage” declared Valeria Zane Director of the Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, and Bryan Brazeau Academic Director of the Warwick Venice Centre. “Music, research, restoration, historical memory, and education link together in one dialogue which brings to life the cultural vitality of the city and its capacity to build relationships and international connections.”
The Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi is presenting a concert at 19.00 and 20.00, entitled Ritmi Lagunari – Canzoni veneziane (Lagoon Rythms – Venetian songs). The main singers are Cecillia Giovanna Camatti and Linda Ongarato, both sopranos, accompanied on the piano by Kevin Cedrick Garma Ragadi. The project forms part of the institutional collaboration between the Levi Foundation and the Liceo Musicale Marco Polo, which aims to enhance young talents. The music programme was designed and built by the students themselves specifically for Art Night 2026 as part of the FSL pathway.
The exhibition Note di Carta. Suoni e visioni dalla Biblioteca Gianni Milner(Paper Notes. Sounds and visions from the Gianni Milner library), presents a special pathway dedicated to the Treviso composer Ausonio De Lorenzi Fabris(1861-1935). The exhibition demonstrates a heritage of great musicological interest composed of musical manuscripts, printed editions, opera booklets, costume sketches, newspaper clippings and personal documents that give an artistic, but also human, profile of the musician.
In May 2023, the University of Warwick– ranked among the top 10 universities of the United Kingdom – inaugurated a new and prestigious home in the heart of Venice, in Palazzo Giustinian Lolin. The space is used throughout the year for seminars, conferences, summer schools, and university courses. It welcomes students, researchers, and partners from all over the world, and gives young people a unique educational opportunity to immerse themselves in the history, art, and culture of the city. The University has a deep connection with Venice, where it has been present since 1967. In recent years, Warwick has reinforced a strategic alliance with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The new space contributes to amplifying further educational and research connections between these two partners, both of which participate in the EUTOPIA network of European universities.
Since 1966, the Venice in Peril Fund has worked to safeguard Venice’s cultural heritage, supporting conservation projects and encouraging reflection on the challenges the city faces today. The video presented during Art Night offers an overview of several significant restoration projects from recent years, highlighting both the extraordinary richness of Venice’s artistic heritage and the high level of expertise required for its preservation.
The visual narrative opens with the Disdotona ceremonial gondola of the Reale Società Canottieri Francesco Querini, and then focuses on the restoration of the Tablino and the Oval Staircase by Andrea Palladio at the Gallerie dell’Accademia. Other interventions that will be featured include the medieval relief of St Peter at the church of San Trovaso; ceiling panels by Giorgio Vasari from Palazzo Corner Spinelli; the Terrestrial Globe by Vincenzo Coronelli at the Marciana Library; the Reliquary Altar by Francesco Cabianca and the Canova Cenotaph in the Basilica dei Frari, concluding with Antonio Canova’s magnificent Cavallo Colossale at the Musei Civici, Bassano del Grappa.
The Vogalonga Committee will present the video Vogalonga. La Cinquantesima, the story from past to present dedicated to one of the most significant events of Venetian rowing, side by side with an exhibition of drawings by the students of class 4F at the Liceo Artistico Marco Polo, who participated in a competition for the creation of the 50th Vogalonga poster.
Complete programme: https://www.fondazionelevi.it/eventi/ritmi-lagunari-art-night-2026/
Programme on Art Night website: https://www.unive.it/web/it/8687/evento/8404Link opens in a new window
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Italian-English Translation by Ocean Critchley