The Guggenheim Experience
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is among the most important museums in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. The museum presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is owned and operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, which also operates the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and which is a partner of the Basque Regional Government for the programming of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages
A focused exhibition devoted exclusively to early collages produced by Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991), one of the leading figures of American Abstract Expressionism, during the first decade of his career, from 1941 to 1951. [ info]
Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection
From October 2012, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection proudly presents works from the Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequeathed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2012 by Hannelore B. Schulhof. [ info]
Peggy Guggenheim Interns Society
In 2010 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection announced the founding of the museum’s interns alumni group: The Peggy Guggenheim Interns Society. The Peggy Guggenheim Interns Society is a platform for former interns to meet, get back in touch, network and share experiences. The time to meet has come again!
Next Peggy Guggenheim Interns Society Reunion will take place on the 30th May at 10 PM on the museum roof terrace. [ info]
HappySpritz@Guggenheim
Happyspritz@guggenheim is coming back.
Three dates, May 6, June 10 and July 1, from 8 pm to 10 pm.
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STEPHAN BALKENHOL
Big Head-Column
April 30 -September 16, 2013
In agreement with the Sandro Rumney, Art of The Next Century, and the Galerie Löhrl. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is exhibiting Big Head-Column (2013) by Stephan Balkenhol (b. Fritzlar, Germany, 1957), on the Grand Canal Terrace. Balkenhol’s carved wood figures appeared first in 1983 in reaction to abstract formalism and conceptual art, and with the intention of reintroducing the human body in contemporary art imagery. Balkenhol lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Meisenthal, France. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, including at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington D.C. (1995), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Saatchi Collection in London (1996), and the Arts Club of Chicago (1998), among many other museums and galleries.
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