Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, night view
Art Night Venice 2026 | Extended hours at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Art Night Venezia returns on Saturday, June 20, 2026, organized by Ca’ Foscari University in close collaboration and partnership with the City of Venice. The Giorgio Cini Foundation and the Palazzo Cini Gallery are participating in the project, extending the opening hours of their exhibition spaces until 10:00 p.m.
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Exhibition Georg Baselitz. Eroi d’oro
–
Exhibition How To Reach the Sky
Ex Piscina Gandini
–
Exhibition Horst P. Horst. La Geometria della Grazia and 30 Years, The Wild Horses of Sable Island
–
Admission is free, and the venue will be open from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM, with last entry at 9:15 PM.
–
On the occasion of the Art Night, VisitCini guided tours on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore will also be expanded, along with extended hours for the bookshop. At 6:00 PM, visitors can tour the Vatican Chapels, while guided tours of the Giorgio Cini Foundation’s monumental spaces are scheduled for 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM (for information and reservations: www.visitcini.it). Caffè San Giorgio is also participating in the initiative and will remain open until 10:00 PM.
Palazzo Cini. The Gallery
The Palazzo Cini Gallery is once again participating in Art Night this year, inviting the public to rediscover the exhibition spaces in an intimate evening atmosphere. The first floor houses part of the ancient art collection of the renowned entrepreneur and collector Vittorio Cini, which was bequeathed to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini by his heirs. The collection includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, and art objects dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, displayed in the rooms of the patron’s former stately home. The tour begins with exquisite artifacts in ivory, bone, and enameled copper, continuing into the Sala dei Primitivi, featuring paintings, sculptures, and chests dating from the 13th to the 15th centuries. The Salone and adjacent rooms house works by some of the most celebrated masters of the Tuscan and Ferrarese Renaissance, including Beato Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Cosmè Tura, Dosso Dossi, and Pontormo. The tour concludes in the Dining Room designed by Tomaso Buzzi, a true “treasure trove” of the museum, where the collection of porcelain from the Cozzi manufactory, produced between 1785 and 1795, is on display.
On this occasion, visitors can admire the new “guest at the Palace”: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’s oil-on-canvas painting Minerva Breathes Life into the Human Figure Molded in Clay by Prometheus.
The second floor of the Gallery is hosting David Salle’s exhibition Painting in the Present Tense, which will remain open throughout the evening.
Admission is free, and the venue will be open from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM, with last entry at 9:15 PM.
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, night view
