making art
with glass
For hundreds of years, glass has been viewed as simply a decorative or functional medium.
We shatter those notions.
Berengo
A glass studio, an artistic foundation, and an internationally acclaimed exhibition: Berengo Studio, Fondazione Berengo, and Glasstress. The three essential components that make up Berengo, a place where artists, designers and creatives from every discipline can create works in glass which exceed all expectations, an opportunity to write new chapters in the histories of both glass and art.
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...
Berengo Studio features in Corning Museum of Glass exhibition “New Glass Now”
We’re delighted that several pieces made and developed at Berengo Studio have been selected to feature in this year’s stunning New Glass Now, the survey of contemporary glass art presented by the...
German artist Thomas Schütte features Berengo glass in public exhibition
After winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2005 German Artist Thomas Schütte has enjoyed a string of solo exhibitions and European retrospectives, the most recent being his first Parisian...
“IT COULD BE THE START OF THE NEXT BIG ART WORLD THING”
The Times