WAVES: THE FIRST PROPRIETARY EXHIBITION FROM SANLORENZO ARTS

Venice, 6 May 2026

The collective exhibition, during the Venice Biennale, features works by Calder, Fontana, Melotti, Cragg, Safa, Maloberti and Andreoni.

Hosted at Casa Sanlorenzo during the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, WAVES brings together historical and contemporary artists in an immersive environment spanning the building’s interiors, garden and bridge.

The exhibition is headlined by works from Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti, whose radical approaches redefined the boundaries of sculpture in the 20^th century. This dialogue continues with Tony Cragg, whose sculptures appear in perpetual metamorphosis, and Christine Safa, whose paintings dissolve into atmospheric fields of colour and light. Site-specific interventions extend the exhibition into the architecture of Casa Sanlorenzo: Marcello Maloberti’s ECHO transforms the pedestrian bridge into a space of resonance, while Friedrich Andreoni activates the garden through sound, sculpture and natural elements.

Together with them the astrophysicist Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta expands the exhibition’s horizon beyond the visible world with her textual “interferences”, which connect the oceanic to the cosmic.

WAVES takes place from 6 May – 28 June 2026 at Casa Sanlorenzo, Dorsoduro, 170, Venice.