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Ca' Giustinian
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Ca' Giustinian is the historical headquarter of the Venice Biennale. After a restoration that was carried out in the last three years, the registered offices of the Venice Biennale moved back to Ca’ Giustinian on 15th January 2009.
The building is located at a short distance from St. Mark's square, and offers spaces and services for visitors. Ca' Giustinian intends to become a place of relationship with the city and of attraction for encounters and events. Inside and outside, spaces are open for citizens and guests to visit freely.
The building is located at a short distance from St. Mark's square, and offers spaces and services for visitors. Ca' Giustinian intends to become a place of relationship with the city and of attraction for encounters and events. Inside and outside, spaces are open for citizens and guests to visit freely.
On the ground floor, the ancient Sala degli Specchi (Hall of Mirrors) with a view onto the Bacino di San Marco has become L’ombra del Leone, a cafeteria and a parlour for the city to be used for cultural initiatives, where artists and personalities may come to meet the public.
The ground floor of Ca’ Giustinian also hosts the exhibition Macchina di visione: Futurists at the Biennale, open from June 7th to November 22nd (Mon to Fri 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. / Sat 9 a.m. to 1 p.m), and dedicated to the futurists who appeared in La Biennale from 1926 to 1942, and to the retrospectives and tributes dedicated to them through 1995.
Curated by the Laboratorio Internazionale di Semiotica a Venezia (LISAV) – Università IUAV di Venezia, in collaboration with La Biennale – Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts (ASAC), the exhibition features letters, prefaces to catalogs, posters, photographs, films and audiotapes, selected during a research study at ASAC.
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