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.
GLASSTRESS. WINDOW TO THE FUTURE now at The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
We are pleased to welcome you to The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia for Glasstress. Window to the Future from 11 September to 31 October 2021. The latest edition of Glasstress,...
GLASS TO GLASS opens in Murano
Traditional craftsmanship paired with contemporary thinking. This is the common thread which brought Berengo Studio to collaborate with WonderGlass and work together to hold a joint exhibition....
“Glass makes you rethink.” A conversation with eL Seed
eL Seed is an artist to be reckoned with. With a signature style developed from a fascination with Arabic calligraphy he is perhaps best known for his large scale murals, which spread messages of...
Chiara Dynys at Villa Panza: “A Journey through light”
Berengo Studio is delighted to have assisted the creation and installation of Chiara Dynys’s new exhibition, Sudden Time, at Villa Panza in Northern Italy. For this latest display, as with so much...
Laure Prouvost at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
Detritus from an unknown river bed is rendered in exquisite shades of Murano glass: slivers of green algae, turquoise seaweed, a discarded glove, the body of an eel coils around a metal frame, a...
The International Sculpture Center welcomes new board member, Adriano Berengo
After thirty years of working to reinvent the position of glass as a medium in the world of contemporary art we are delighted to announce that Adriano Berengo, the founder of Berengo Studio and...
“I like to be surprised by my work.” A conversation with Marlene Bart
Marlene Bart has always been curious, so coming to work in the Venetian Lagoon during a worldwide pandemic was an opportunity she wasn’t going to miss. The German artist, who lives and works in...
GLASSTRESS BOCA RATON 2021 opens to public
“There is every reason this year to have a world view,” says Irvin Lippman, the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s Executive Director, as South Florida boldly ushers in the New Year with the national...
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...