Venice Glass Week marks 10th anniversary in 2026

The Venice Glass Week celebrates its tenth anniversary this September with over 200 events taking place across Venice, Murano and Mestre from 12 to 20 September 2026.

This international festival was created to celebrate, support and promote the art of glassmaking. Its 10-year milestone will be marked by the richest programme to date, featuring exhibitions, installations, talks, guided tours, workshops and many other activities.

This edition will also see the presentation of the Observatory ‘The Venice Glass Week and the Murano Glass District’, a study carried out by Banca Ifis, one of the festival’s sponsors, analysing Murano’s current role as a production and cultural district of international significance, and to explore the impact that the festival has had on the city and on the glass sector over its first decade.

Alongside The Venice Glass Week, the fourth light installation exhibition, Murano Illumina il Mondo, will take place from 13 September to 1 November 2026. Under the arches of the Procuratie Vecchie, in the heart of St. Mark’s Square, visitors will be able to admire new, original light installations created by internationally acclaimed artists and designers, such as Norman Foster, Cerith Wyn Evans, Bethan Laura Wood and Pierre Charpin in collaboration with some of the most prestigious Murano glass workshops. The works, designed specifically for this Venetian setting, highlight Murano’s glassmaking tradition and its capacity for creative experimentation.

A significant change this year is the new venue for The Venice Glass Week HUB by Generali, dedicated to artists and designers aged over 35. Thanks to a prestigious partnership with Generali, the exhibition will be hosted at Palazzo Morosini in Campo Santo Stefano. This new collaboration will showcase the works of 50 established and mid-career artists from around the world in a highly evocative Venetian setting.

In addition, the Venice Glass Week HUB Under35, dedicated to emerging young international artists, will be hosted by the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in the Galleria di Piazza San Marco, St. Mark’s Square.

The HUBs are group exhibitions featuring artists and designers from Italy and abroad, selected through an open call, conceived to provide an authoritative and multifaceted overview of contemporary research in glass.

British glass artists participating in The Venice Glass Week this year include Elliot Walker (at Galeri Cam on Murano) and Rosie Stonham (as part of the Floating exhibition at Giudecca Palanca, Venice).

Find out more about the event via the website.