MAKING ART
WITH GLASS
For hundreds of years, glass has been viewed as simply a decorative or functional medium.
We shatter those notions.
Making
art
with
glass
For hundreds of years, glass has been viewed as simply a decorative or functional medium.
We shatter those notions.
Berengo
Berengo Studio, Fondazione Berengo and Glasstress: a glass studio, an art foundation and an internationally acclaimed exhibition. The three essential components that make up the Berengo universe, a place where artists, designers and creatives from every discipline create innovative works in glass, and together write a new chapter in the history of this ancient and beguiling medium.
Berengo Studio
An innovative glass-production company that has been working with glass for over three decades, pushing the boundaries of glass making and revolutionizing the centuries-old Venetian tradition of glass-blowing. Created with the collaboration of world renowned artists, the work produced in the studio is beautiful, powerful and truly contemporary.
Fondazione Berengo
Based in the Palazzo Franchetti in the heart of Venice, Fondazione Berengo was founded as a leading institutional voice to introduce glass to the world of contemporary art. The foundation is vital a force in the international art scene and has created a vibrant community dedicated to enriching the possibilities of artistic practice with glass as well with other mediums.
Glasstress
Glasstress was launched in 2009 as an official collateral event of the Biennale di Venezia. Today it is the world’s leading showcase for the collaborative work of contemporary artists with Berengo Studio’s Muranese glass masters. Artists of all disciplines from sculptors to musicians have been invited to collaborate with the maestros in creating art in glass.
UNBREAKABLE: WOMEN IN GLASS wins Bonhams Prize for The Venice Glass Week
We are delighted to announce that the exhibition UNBREAKABLE: WOMEN IN GLASS has won the 2020 Bonhams Prize for The Venice Glass Week. The prize is awarded to the best project participating in the...
Renate Bertlmann at the Belvedere Museum Vienna
“Gardens are never innocent.” Architectural historian Beatriz Colomina noted in the catalogue for Renate Bertlmann’s Austrian Pavilion at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale of Arts. “Formal...
Tony Cragg at BUILDINGBOX
“My works are absolutely geometric objects, but at the same time they have a shape which is complicated enough to allow you to involve them and have an emotional response” – Tony Cragg The fifth...
The Radical cycle
Fondazione Berengo was originally established to give a platform and space to explore the relationship between glass and contemporary art. January 2020 saw the final chapter of its contemporary art...
“From sand, artworks in glass” – Jan Fabre, Shitting Doves of Peace and Flying Rats
If you’re in Milan why not head to BUILDINGBOX for some Berengo art in glass? BUILDINGBOX is focusing its 2019-2020 season on contemporary art in glass with the project “From sand, artworks in...
Jaume Plensa at The State Hermitage Museum
This Autumn Berengo Studio was delighted to transport Jaume Plensa’s sculpture “Carlota” to Russia and install the contemplative artwork in the external courtyard of the impressive State Hermitage...
An interview with Nancy Burson – DNA HAS NO COLOR
A world-renowned artist and photographer, Nancy Burson may be best known to many for her striking portrait that took the cover of TIME magazine by storm: a morphed image that combined the faces of...
Berengo at St. Regis Venice
In an innovative new project Berengo Studio is proud to partner with the St. Regis Hotel in Venice to bring Murano glass back to the heart of the ancient city. The cultural partnership sees selected...
Wael Shawky returns to New York
We’re delighted to share the news that Egyptian artist Wael Shawky has opened his first exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in New York. The show marks Shawky’s first in the Big Apple since his solo...
Berengo Studio at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
This year Berengo Studio has been integral for creating work for several Biennale pavilions. In the last months we’ve been seriously busy collaborating with a number of artists participating in the...
Glass as a critical lens
The six editions of Glasstress have been groundbreaking for the use of glass as a medium for contemporary art. When Adriano Berengo started a glass studio on Murano thirty years ago, few could have...
Tony Cragg in Boboli Gardens
A curved blade of steel sets itself like a twisting stem against the spectacular panorama of Florence, it seems to reach for the sky from the highest point of the famous Boboli Gardens. This...