Special Projects of the Historical Archive

The project, curated by Luigia Lonardelli, retraces Marco Polo’s travels on the 700th anniversary of his death (1324 – 2024).

Four stages of this itinerant exhibition have been carried out so far:

2-28 December 2025, New Delhi, Indian Interior

2-5 October 2025, Istanbul, Amfibio Sound Days

10 December 2024 – 28 February 2025, Venice, Gulnur Mukazhanova. Memory of Hope

10 November 2024 – 10 January 2025, Hangzhou, The Perfect Path. Hangzhou, Marco Polo’s “City of Heaven”

Coro is the masterpiece composed by Luciano Berio between 1974 and 1976, which premiered in Italy at the Biennale Teatro e Musica directed by Luca Ronconi in 1976. Coro was presented on 6 and 7 December 2025 at the Teatro La Fenice in a new production that featured original choreographies by Sir Wayne McGregor. A tribute dedicated by La Biennale di Venezia to the great composer on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice and with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture.

Arcipelago Battiato is a tribute to the composer and philosopher Franco Battiato (1945-2021) in collaboration with the publishing company SZ Sugar on the eightieth anniversary of his birth, that was performed on 17 and 18 November 2025 at the Teatro alle Tese in the Arsenale.

Le guerre e la pace (Wars and Peace) is an encounter focused on the theme of conflict in European thought. On 6 November 2025 at the Sala delle Colonne, Ca’ Giustinian, the philosopher Massimo Cacciari held a Lectio Magistralis titled The death of jus belli, inspired by two fundamental writings: Zum ewigen Frieden (Perpetual Peace) by Immanuel Kant and Der Friede (The Peace: A word to the youth of Europe: A word to the youth of the world) by Ernst Jünger.

Meister Eckhart, Expositio Sancti Evangelii Secundum Iohannem. This project took place from 5-9 March 2025 (repeat performance from 11-15 March) and staged the Commentary on John by Johannes Eckhart (1260 - 1328), the Dominican theologian and mystic known as Meister Eckhart. in the Portego delle Colonne of the Scuola Grande di San Marco, the atrium of the monumental 16-century complex of today's Ospedale Civile SS. Giovanni e Paolo.