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Berengo Studio is a furnace and studio on the Venetian island of Murano. It was established in 1989 by Adriano Berengo whose goal was to take glass to a new level in the world of contempo-rary art. By marrying the craftsmanship of centu-ries-old techniques with contemporary creativity, he created an unique and exciting space, a glass furnace for artists.

Since the late 1980s, more than 300 contemporary artists have expanded their oeuvre by creating works of art in glass. The Berengo roster includes Tony Cragg, Thomas Schütte, Jaume Plensa, Erwin Wurm, Zhang Huan, Song Dong, Vik Muniz, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Cai Guo-Qiang.Many of the works created at Berengo Studio are found today in private and public collections worldwide, including the Louvre in Paris, MAD (Museum of Arts and Design) in New York, and the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York. Berengo Studio also works in partnership with Fondazione Berengo in promoting internships and residencies, wel-coming students and artists to the world of glass.

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Berengo Studio is pleased to present a selection of works created this year for major international exhibitions and special projects.

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Bernard Heesen 3,8

Klaas Gubbels 4,5

Andrea Salvador 6

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Erwin Wurm 9, 12

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What a Symposium at SOFA Chicago!A panel discussion entitled Contemporary Art from Glass in an Age of Blurred Boundaries, took place at SOFA Chicago in November. The panel members were the art critic, James Yood, a contrib-uting editor to GLASS magazine, Koen Vanderstukken, author of the book Glass, Virtual Real, and Laura Bresolin from Fondazione Berengo. Moderated by Andrew Page who is the editor of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, the panel explored the acceptance of glass as a medium in contemporary art. The panelists agreed that Glasstress with the works realized at Berengo Studio were one of the driv-ing forces that introduced glass into the contemporary and fine art world.

Jan FabreAdriano Berengo met with the unstoppable Jan Fabre in his labo-ratory theater Troubleyn in Antwerp, Belgium, to discuss exciting new projects. Stay tuned for further news on Fabre’s incredible works that will be presented in 2017.

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↗Jan Fabre and Adriano Berengo, Antwerp 2016

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Abdellah Karroum Abdellah Karroum, Director of Mathaf Arab Museum of Mod-ern Art in Qatar, paid a visit to Berengo Studio to meet the mae-stros and see where Wael Shawky’s glass marionettes were born.

Brigitte Kowanz We had the honour of hosting Brigitte Kowanz in the furnace where she tried her hand with Murano glass for the first time. Ms. Kowanz, together with Erwin Wurm, another Austrian artist who works with Berengo Studio, has been selected to represent Austria in the 57th Venice Biennale of Art in 2017.

Ai Weiwei On a recent trip to Berlin, Adri-ano Berengo met with the cel-

ebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Together they enjoyed posing for a selfie on Instagram. We have a feeling that big things are on the horizon!

Studio Pakhale Berengo Studio’s collaboration continues with the 2016 Red Dot Award winner Satyendra Pakhale who has worked with prominent companies including Poltrona Frau, Alessi, Cappellini, and the ammann//gallery. His works are in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Montréal Muse-um of Fine Arts and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

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↖Satyendra Pakhale and Adriano Berengo, Amsterdam 2016

↖Adriano Berengo and Abdellah KarroumBrigitte Kowanz

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Wael Shawky’s “Cabaret Crusades”

The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky, the recip-ient of the first edition of Mario Merz Prize, had a solo exhibition at The Kunsthaus Bre-genz where he presented “The Secrets of Karbala,” the last of his film trilogy “Cab-aret Crusades.” The film tells of the story of the Crusades from an Arab perspective and stars over 350 glass marionettes as the performers. Berengo Studio fabricated the marionettes (120 of which are fully artic-ulated) in collaboration with Shawky in 2015. “The Secrets of Karbala” premiered at MoMA PS1 in New York in January 2016.

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In November 2016, the marionettes travelled back to Italy for a solo exhibition at Castello di Rivoli in Turin.

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↗Wael Shawky, Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets Of Karbala (detail), 2014

Glass, fabric, enamel, thread, (marionettes 50 × 15 cm) / variable dimensions

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Tony Cragg at Lisson GalleryTony Cragg’s new body of works, created in Berengo Studio, starred in his recent solo exhibition at both of the Lisson gal-leries in London.

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Ayman Baalbaki, “Blowback”Ayman Baalbaki’s exhibition “Blowback” at the Saleh Barakat Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon, included “Cheveaux de Frise: Hom-age to Apollinaire”, a glass work realized for Glasstress 2015 Gotika.

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↗Ayman Baalbaki, Cheveaux de Frise: Homage to Apollinaire, 2015

Glass, wood, 160 × 160 × 250 cmTony Cragg, Substances, 2016

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Lucy + Jorge Orta’s New Exhibition: FOOD

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Lucy + Jorge Orta opened the exhibition, “FOOD”, at the City Gallery and Museum, Priestgate, Peterborough, U.K. The show focuses on consumer food waste, global food distribution and biodiversity and includes SEEDS, a beautiful installation of 20 glass flowers and vegetable seeds created in our Studio.

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Marya Kazoun in Beirut with “Whispering Woods”

Marya Kazoun presented “Gurgles in the Woods” in her home-town of Beirut, Lebanon, at Galerie Janine Rubeiz. Kazoun’s installation of trees conveyed the feeling of spirituality often found in forests. Her work is a tribute to nature and its goal is to raise awareness of sustainability issues.

07.09 - 14.10.2016Lucy + Jorge Orta, Arboreal (detail), 2015

Glass, bronze, Ø 160 × 220 cm

Marya Kazoun, Gurgles In The Woods (detail), 2016Wood, glass, hemp, paint, variable dimensions / site specific

FONDAZIONE BERENGO

In 2014, Adriano Berengo founded Fondazione Berengo to be a leading institutional voice pro-moting the glass of Murano in the world of fine art and revitalizing the Venetian glassmaking island.

Fondazione Berengo is based in the neo-Gothic Palaz-zo Franchetti in Venice and will sponsor Glasstress 2017 LIVE!. Visual artists, painters, sculptors, musicians, and designers from Europe, China, the United States, Russia and the Middle East have been invited to create works of art in glass to be presented in the exhibition in the 57th Venice Biennale of Art.In four editions since its debut in 2009, Glasstress has been an official collateral event of the Venice Biennale. In 2011, Glasstress began to travel and was presented in the cities of Riga, Stockholm, New York, Beirut, and London. In pre-senting Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Fondazione Berengo en-joyed a collaboration with the prestigious State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.As a second venue for Glasstress and a home for its per-manent collection, the Fondazione opened an exhibi-tion space on Murano in an old glass furnace that has not been used for decades. Fondazione Berengo also promotes artists’ residencies and internships in partnership with Berengo Studio with the objective of educating future generations of glass masters and glass professionals.

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Koen Vanmechelen,Black Medusa (detail), 2015

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The much anticipated catalog of Glasstress 2015 Gotika, organized in collaboration with The State Hermitage Museum, has been published

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Glasstress Boca Raton31 January - 2 July, 2017

Glasstress has been travelling the world in the past few years, hosted by prominent institutions in Riga, Stockholm, Beirut, New York and London. In January 2017, Glasstress returns to the United States with an exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida. Kathleen Goncharov, who curated the U.S. Pavilion in the 2003 Venice Biennale, is the curator of this show. Ms Goncharov has chosen works of 30 artists who were part of past Glasstress editions to present the “cutting edge of glass” to the American public.

Glasstress 2017 LIVE!13 May - 26 Novembre, 2017

We are busy working on Glasstress 2017 LIVE! to be held for the fifth time at the Palazzo Franchetti, home of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, in the Venice Biennale of Art. Artists from all disciplines have been asked to interpret in their works the simplest and yet most complex word that gives title to this year’s exhibition: LIVE! In its very essence, Glasstress is an attempt to give new life to an old material. Glasstress 2017 LIVE! will also feature an installation in the garden of the Palazzo by the Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen whose works drive social and scientific debates on biodiversity and sustainable ecosystems. This project is made possible by the generous support of ECO-oh!.

Song Dong at Museo Novecento, FlorenceJune - September, 2017

The acclaimed Chinese artist Song Dong, whose works were shown in MoMA in New York, will surprise the Florentine public and international visitors with his solo show of glass works cre-ated in Berengo Studio along with his photographs and videos.

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Song Dong, Glass Big Brother, 2015Glass, metal, 164 × 164 × 326 cm

Shirazeh Houshiary, Flux, 2016Glass, metal, 87,8 × 40,2 × 134,8 cm

ZAHA HADID Retrospective | 27.05 - 27.11.2016

Fondazione Berengo sponsored the exhibition “ZAHA HADID” at the Palazzo Franchetti, the first retrospective of the famed architect after her untimely death earlier this year. At the ope-ning gala dinner, Anna Tikhomirova, the first soloist of Bolshoi Ballet, made a stunning tribute ballet performance entitled the “Beauty of Movement.” Architecture critics, students, professors, clients and collectors were among the many visitors who enjoyed the show and marveled at the breath of her works and the beau-ty and complexity of her buildings. Running concurrently with the Architecture Biennale, the exhibition featured Hadid’s early paintings and drawings, maquettes of major projects, research projects, models, photographs and video installations. A spe-cial thank you to Zaha Hadid Architects and Zaha Hadid Design for making this exhibition possible and to our supporter Stone Italiana and our main partner Falconeri.

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Glassfevera Dutch Success | 30.04 - 25.09.2016

“Glassfever – Contemporary Art in Glass” was shown in four lo-cations and public spaces in Dordrecht, in the Netherlands. Glas-sfever was a celebration of Berengo Studio’s first almost 30 years.

Tony Cragg. Sculptures and Drawings The State Hermitage Museum | 01.03 - 07.05.2016

Fondazione Berengo, together with Falconeri, was the proud supporter of the solo exhibition “Tony Cragg. Sculptures and Drawings”. Included in his show were Cragg’s glass sculptures most recently realized at Berengo Studio.

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The Glass Art Society Selects Murano The Glass Art Society (GAS), a non-profit organization with more than 1,500 artists and glass lovers, has chosen Murano to host the 47th annual GAS conference. In May 2018, Murano will open its furnaces for demonstrations and seminars on the evolution of glass as a means of artistic expression. The initiative is sponsored by Fondazione Berengo and the Italian artists who serve on the Steering Committee for the conference.

30 Years After “Beelden in Glas” Thirty years after the groundbreaking exhibition “Beelden in Glas” in Oude Horn, Netherlands, which featured Lino Taglia-pietra and Dale Chihuly who collaborated with artists like Tony Cragg. Fondazione Berengo and the Nationaal Glasmuseum Le-erdam, with Hélène Besançon, started in December 2016 a joint project. The first phase consists of a conference that questions the development and acceptance of the binom glass and contem-porary art in a European context. The project will continue with appointments in 2017 and 2018 ending with an exhibition that shows the European achievements of the last 30 years.

4th International Glass Art Festival Sofia

On October 14th, Fondazione Berengo, invited by the American Embassy, was represented by Jane Rushton who presented a lecture on Glasstress at the International Festival of Glass in Sofia, Bulgaria, to an audience of artists, students and art lovers from all over the world.

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Tepidarium del Roster during Firenze Suona Contemporanea

Bernard Heesen and Lino Tagliapietra in the Berengo Studio furnace

Adriano Berengo speaking at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York during the GAS Conference 2016

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On September 14th, the ensemble Klangforum Wien performed the world premiere video-concert of “Fallen Falls”, a poem and video installation created by the artist Erwin Wurm set to music written by the composer Andrea Cavallari. The concert took pla-ce in the beautiful Tepidarium del Roster in Florence. The video was commissioned by the festival “Firenze Suona Contemporanea 2016.” Fondazione Berengo was a proud supporter of the event.

ANICA Special Nightduring the Venice Film Festival

In the “Berengo Center for Contemporary Art and Glass” on Murano, ANICA (the National Association of Industries Cine-matographic Audiovisual Multimedia) and MIBACT (Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism), in collaboration with Fonda-zione Berengo, hosted a elegant dinner party for a delegation of Chinese stakeholders.Star chef Graziano Prest of Ristorante Tivoli in Cortina delighted the international audience, which included the Danish director Bille August, Academy Award winner and two-time Golden Palm winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Marco Müller, Director of the Venice Film Festival for eight years, and Luciano Sovena, Pre-sident of the Film Commission of Rome and Lazio.The Venetian Councillor of Tourism and Internationalization, Federico Caner, hailed this as a blend of cinematic, sculptural and culinary art which would foster interchanges with the Chi-nese culture.

Lecturer at the GAS Conference in New York

On June 11th, Adriano Berengo presented “Why Glasstress?” at the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, for the annual confe-rence of the Glass Art Society (GAS).

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Glasstress Becomes MusicMax Casacci, guitarist and leader of the Italian group Subsonica, and Daniele Mana, also known as Vaghe Stelle, produced Glasstress, Glass Music, an album of electronic music. The rhyth-mics were realized by recording the sounds of the glass while it was being made and broken in the furnace at Berengo Studio. On October 4th, with the contribution of Fondazione CRT, two exclusive live sets of Glasstress played in the “Camera di Vetro” in Palazzo Madama in Turin, which hosts a permanent collection of glass objects dated from ancient Roman times to the 19th century.

Joyce J. Scott 2016 MacArthur Fellow

Congratulations to our friend and appreciated artist Joyce J. Scott who was named as a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, the prize given by the MacArthur Foundation and popularly known as a “genius grant” for exceptionally talented individuals in a wide range of fields. We enjoy a long relationship with Joyce whose works were exhibited in Glasstress 2013, Glasstress Beirut and Glasstress New York.

Residency ProgrammesThe Brazilian artist Patricia Bagniewski successfully comple-ted her residency program at Berengo Studio sponsored by Fondazione Berengo. Her project “Housing” was comprised of 21 blown glass houses which played on social concepts of liberty and imprisonment.In early July, the Korean artist Na-Young Han completed her period of residency which was awarded to her by a jury at the 10th Premio Arte Laguna.Student Yaguel Le Gall took his first steps in the Murano furnace as resident. Véronique Marazzi, selected by the artist Maya Von Moos, the winner of Costasera Contemporary Art in the context of Premio Masi, started his experimentations in glass.The Italian artist Gaia Dallera Ferrario was invited to the presti-gious Artissima art fair in Turin, Italy. For this occasion, Gaia decided to try to work with a new medium in Berengo Studio and created a shiny version of the default Facebook avatar in glass.

UniversitiesFondazione Berengo has started an ongoing dialogue with seve-ral Venetian universities, such as the IMID Master at Iuav Uni-versity and Ca’ Foscari for the project Experior. Thanks to Pro-fessor Michele Tamma, in collaboration with Promovetro, the Berengo Studio has been presented as a case-study for innovative management approaches. A testimony on Fondazione Berengo also took place at Università Cattolica, Milan, which also forese-es a promising collaboration.

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Patricia Bagniewski, Housing, 2016Glass, metal, variable dimensions / site specific

BERENGO NEWSLETTER 2016/2017

Editorial Coordination and TextsLaura BresolinClaudio Pavesi

English TranslationMichelle Tripodi

Italian TranslationSimona Larghi

Design and Layout bruno, Venice

Photo CreditsFrancesco Allegretto, Cover, pp 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 19, 21Rossella Biscotti, pp 2Andrea Salvador, pp 2Riccardo Cavallari, pp 3Lyda Vollebregt, pp 3Jo Vervoort, pp 3Laura Bresolin, pp 5, 6, 16, 24Satyendra Pakhalé Associates, pp 6Ai Weiwei, pp 7Walid Rashid, pp 13Oak Taylor-Smith, pp 19Luke Hayes, pp 20, 21Peter Cox, pp 22Rustam Zagidullin, pp 23Heather Baigelman, pp 24Berengo Studio, pp 24, 28Letizia Goretti, pp 26, 30Oliver Haas, pp 32

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cover:Tony Cragg, Identity (detail), 2016

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