Exhibitions
Numerous exhibitions curated by CSAR, independently or in collaboration with cultural institutions, reflect the key-missions of the Centre: to implement the network of museums, cultural foundations and artists in Russia and Italy; to introduce the Italian audience to Russian arts, culture and history; to develop new approaches to public programmes and educational multimedia installations; to enhance the potential of the University exhibition venues, in accordance with Ca’ Foscari’s main aim “to display the research”.
2024
- CYFEST 15: Vulnerability
15 April — 30 August 2024. CREA - One Contemporary Art Space, Giudecca 211-b
Organized by CYLAND International MediaArtLab
 | Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde in the Desert. Form and Symbol [ITA] 17 April – 8 September 2024. Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni Curated by Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri; promoted by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation | 3.42 M |
| Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde in the Desert. Light and Color [ITA] 16 April – 30 June 2024. Uffizi Galleries - Palazzo Pitti, Andito degli Angiolini | 173 K |
| Any War Any Enemy. Murals and mezzotints [ITA] 11 April – 22 June 2024. CFZ Cultural Flow Zone Curated by Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri | 3.86 M |
Previous years
Exhibitions: from 2023 to 2020
2023
- CYFEST-15. Vulnerability
2 - 18 September 2023. Yerevan - HayArt Cultural Center, Yerevan Botanical Garden, Institute for Contemporary Art (I.C.A. Yerevan)
Curators: Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Sergey Komarov, Alexandra Dementieva, Victoria Ilyushkina, Nazareth Karoyan, Valentino Catricalà, Silvia Burini, Edgar Amroyan, Jérôme Nivet-Carzon
| Sergey Kishchenko, “Hortus conclusus. Memory Biodiversity Migration" 14 September – 14 October 2023. Magazzino del Sale 3, Venice Curators: Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri (in collaboration with Academy of Fine Arts in Venice) | 560 K |
2022
- 10 – 25 October 2022, CYFEST-14. Ferment
Yerevan - HayArt Cultural Center, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art NPAK, Composers Union of Armenia. Curators: Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Victoria Ilyushkina, Sergey Komarov, Natalia Kolodzei - Lena Herzog. Last Whispers. Immersive Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and a Falling Tree
- 21April – 30 September 2022, Site-Specific Installation
Ca’ Foscari’s central courtyard, Palazzo Ca’ Giustinian, Venice - 21 April – 30 July 2022, Immersive VR Installation
CFZ - Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venice
- 21April – 30 September 2022, Site-Specific Installation
| Lena Herzog. Last Whispers. Immersive Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and a Falling Tree [ITA] Site-Specific Installation, Immersive VR Installation. Curators: Silvia Burini, Maria Gatti Racah, Giulia Gelmi, Anastasia Kozachenko-Stravinsky | 446 K |
2021
- 3 July 2021 - 3 July 2022, Valery Koshlyakov. Celestial Architectures
Gallerie d’Italia – Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza
Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri
Exhibitions: from 2019 to 2015
2019
| 5 October 2019 – 26 January 2020, Kandinskij, Gončarova, Chagall. Sacro e bellezza nell’arte Russa [ITA] Gallerie d’Italia, Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Alessia Cavallaro | 810 K |
- 10 May – 3 November 2019, Gely Korzhev. Back to Venice
Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni, Venezia. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri - 11 May – 28 June 2019, 12 Cyfest. ID. Art: Tech Exhibition
CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venezia. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Valentino Catricalà, William Latham, Lydia Griaznova
2018
- 20 November – 3 December 2018, Modern Russian Church Architecture
Scoletta dei Battioro e Tiraoro, Venezia (in the framework of the cultural project «Russian Seasons in Italy» 2018) - 5 October – 19 November 2018, Léon Bakst, Symbol of the Ballets Russes
La Galleria di Palazzo Cini, Venezia. Curators: Natalia Metelitsa, Maria Ida Biggi (in collaboration with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia)
| 29 September – 28 October 2018, 11 Cyfest. Weather Forecast: Digital Cloudiness CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venice. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Sofia Kudryavtseva, Victoria Ilyushkina, Sergey Komarov, Varvara Egorova, Isabella Indolfi, Vlad Strukov, Natalia Fuchs, Anna Zavediy, Ellen Pearlman, Andy McWilliams | 1.58 M |
- 5 June – 5 August 2018, Fabrizio Plessi. The Soul of Stone
Museo di Belle Arti “Puškin”, Mosca: Fabrizio Plessi. The Soul of Stone. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Olga Shishko - 12 – 20 February 2018, Anna Karenina as a Mirror of the Epoch
CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venezia (in collaboration with Centro dei Festival Cinematografici e dei Programmi Internazionali) - 21 December 2017 – 25 March 2018, Russian Revolution. Art from Diaghilev to Abstraction 1898 – 1922
Musei Provinciali, Palazzo Attems Petzenstein, Gorizia. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Faina Balachovskaja
| 12 October 2017 – 15 April 2018, Grisha Bruskin. Soviet Icons [ITA] Gallerie d’Italia, Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri | 473 K |
2017
- 13 May – 26 November 2017, Theatrum Orbis. Scene Change
Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Curators: Semyon Mikhailovsky, Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri - 13 May – 28 June 2017, Hybris. Hybrids and Monsters in Contemporary Art
CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venezia. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova
| 11 May – 29 July 2017, Valery Koshlyakov. Non smettiamo di costruire l’utopia [ENG] Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni, Venezia. Curator: Danilo Eccher | 391 K |
- 15 March – 9 July 2017, Kandinsky. the wandering knight. On his journey towards abstraction
MUDEC Museo delle Culture, Milan. Curators: Silvia Burini, Ada Masoero
| 25 February – 5 March 2017, Art of Revolution [ITA] CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venezia (in collaboration with Centre of Film Festivals and International Programmes) | 2.66 M |
2016
- 24 November 2016 - 9 January 2017, Eleonora Duse and Vera Komissarzhevskaya. Two Divas before the Mirror
State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow. Curators: Giuseppe Barbieri, Matteo Bertelé, Maria Ida Biggi, Silvia Burini
| 9 - 27 November 2016, Between Cinema and Art [ITA] CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venezia. From the collection of Maxim Gorky Studios (in collaboration with the Centre of Film Festivals and International Programmes) | 843 K |
2015
| 11 - 22 November 2015, Russia - Italy. Pages of Two Cultures. Cinema [ITA] CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venice. Within the programme of the film festival RUSKINO (in collaboration with the Centre of Film Festivals and International Programmes) | 1.15 M |
- 10 October – 6 November 2015, The Image of Woman. The Great Patriotic War (1941 – 1945)
Venice and Asiago (in collaboration with the Centre of Film Festivals and International Programmes) - 7 May - 22 November 2015, Grisha Bruskin. An Archaeologist’s Collection
ex Santa Caterina Church, Venice. A collateral event of the 56th Venice Biennale. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri - 12 February - 13 September 2015, Grisha Bruskin. Alefbet. Alphabet of Memory
Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice
| 13 February - 12 April 2015, “Eyes Wide Open”. Masterpieces from the Moscow Russian Impressionism Museum [ITA] Palazzo Franchetti, Venice. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri | 2.45 M |
- 8 May - 7 July 2015, On my way
CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venice. Curators: Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Natasha Kurchanova
Exhibitions: from 2014 to 2011
2014
| 7 - 30 November 2014, People and destinies. Russia in World War I [ITA] CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venice (in collaboration with the Centre of Film Festivals and International Programmes and the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia) | 2.29 M |
| 15 October 2014 – 11 January 2015, Once upon a time in Russia. Ivan Glazunov [ITA] Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice. Curators: Giuseppe Barbieri, Silvia Burini | 1.55 M |
- 27 September - 10 November 2014, Palladio in Russia. From Baroque to Modernism
MUVE Foundation, Correr Museum, Venice. Curators: Vasilij Uspenskij, Arkadij Ippolitov (in collaboration with ROSIZO) - 7 June - 23 November 2014, Antarctopia
Antarctic Pavilion, Fondaco Marcello, Venice. Curators: Nadim Samman, Aleksander Ponomarev (in collaboration with Oceanic Fund Projects) - 7 June - 28 September 2014, Mikhail Roginsky. Beyond the Red Door
Ca' Foscari Esposizioni, Venice. Curator: Elena Rudenko. A collateral event of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (in collaboration with Mikhail Roginsky Foundation, Paris and In Artibus Foundation, Moscow) - 16 - 27 April 2014, Portraits. Photographs by Sergey Bermeniev
CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venice (in collaboration with the Direction of International Programmes)
| 2 March 2014 - 13 April 2014, Sergej Ejzenštejn. Disegni [ITA] CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venice (in collaboration with the Direction of International Programmes) | 690 K |
- 19 February 2014 - 27 April 2014, “Dream Reality”. Viktor Popkov (1932-1974)
Ca' Foscari Esposizioni, Venice. Curators: Natalia Aleksandrova, Faina Balachovskaya Scientific supervisors: Giuseppe Barbieri, Silvia Burini (in collaboration with ROSIZO and Filatov Family Art Fund, Moscow) - 27 November 2013 - 6 January 2014, Yuri Lotman. Drawings on the Margins
CFZ Ca' Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Venice (in collaboration with the University of Tartu and Tallinn University)
2013
| 29 May – 15 September 2013, Lost in Translation Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni, Venice. Curator: Antonio Geusa A collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale (in collaboration with the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, MMOMA) | 487 K |
- 27 May – 10 July 2013, Capital of Nowhere – Envisioning a Variable Landscape
CFZ, Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Venice. Curators: Matteo Bertelé, Silvia Burini (in collaboration with CYLAND Media Art Lab, Saint Petersburg Arts Project)
2012
- 6 October – 19 November 2012, MOSCOW UNDERGROUND – Abstract Painting since 1960 – Alexander Reznikov Collection
Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni, Venice. Curators: Giuseppe Barbieri, Silvia Burini - 29 August - 7 October 2012, Professor Rodchenko: Photographs from VHUTHEMAS
Magazzino del Sale 3, Venice. Curators: Silvia Burini, Guido Cerere, Aleksandr Lavrent'ev (in collaboration with Stroganov Academy and Venice Academy of Fine Arts) - 28 August - 6 October 2012, Francisco Infante/Nonna Goriunova: Artifacts
San Sebastiano, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Curators: Matteo Bertelé, Kirill Gavrilin (in collaboration with Stroganov Academy, Moscow) - 21- 30 June 2012, The Time of Nostalgia. Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky
Cafoscarina 2 Bookshop, Venice. Photo project by Riccardo Zipoli within the framework of “Tarkovskiana” Film Festival - 22 January - 26 February 2012, Russian Avant-garde Books from the Marzaduri Collection in Ca' Foscari
Bertoliana Library, Palazzo Cordellina, Vicenza. A collateral project of the exhibition "Russian Avant-garde: Experience of the New World"
| 11 November 2011 - 26 February 2012, Russian Avant-garde: Experience of the New World [ITA] Gallerie d'Italia, Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza. Curators: Giuseppe Barbieri, Silvia Burini, Mikhail Dmitriev, Svetlana Volovenskaya (in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo Art, Culture, Cultural Heritage, Interregional Projects Foundation and Ivanovo Regional Arts Museum) | 283 K |
2011
- 6 June - 5 September 2011, Vladimir Nasedkin: Venetian Stanzas
Ca’ Foscari, BSD Library, Venice. Curator: Alexander Ponomarev - 4 June – 4 July 2011, Last Thule
Cortile Grande, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Curator: Alexander Ponomarev
| 4 June - 2 July 2011, We are here - Lyudmila Belova, Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Ivan Govorkov, Elena Gubanova, Marina Koldobskaya [ENG] Università Ca' Foscari, Campus di San Sebastiano, Venice. Curator: Silvia Burini (in collaboration with the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), CYLAND Media Art Lab, Saint Petersburg Arts Project) | 251 K |
- 1 June - 15 October 2011, Dmitri Prigov: Dmitri Prigov
Ca' Foscari Esposizioni, Venice. Curator: Dimitri Ozerkov. A collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale (in collaboration with Prigov Foundation, Rem Koolhaas’ OMA/AMO)
