Chihuly returns to Venice: three monumental installations on the Grand Canal in 2026

Thirty years after Chihuly Over Venice, the project that helped redefine the relationship between contemporary art and the Venetian glassmaking tradition in the 1990s, Dale Chihuly returns to the lagoon city with a new diffuse intervention conceived for the Grand Canal. The project, titled CHIHULY: Venice 2026, will be open to the public from May 5 to Nov. 14, 2026, and will bring together three new monumental works installed outdoors and an archival exhibition housed inside Palazzo Loredan, home of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. The initiative, curated by Suzanne Geiss, is presented by Pilchuck Glass School and Frederik Meijer Gardens &  Sculpture Park, in conjunction with the Venice Biennale and in collaboration with The Venice Glass Week 2026.