This type of format was inaugurated in 2023, thanks to which the museum becomes a space of contamination between different artistic disciplines, from performance to dance, from music to installation.
During Event #2, a series of performative interventions will make the spaces of the Collection a vibrant laboratory of experimentation and a place of free expression for a new generation of artists. In 1949 Peggy Guggenheim purchased Palazzo Venier dei Leoni not only to make it her home and a treasure chest for her art collection, but also to make it a space for dialogue and comparison for the local and international art scene of the time. Thus today the museum updates and interprets the patron's desire to create a "research laboratory for new ideas, serving the future rather than recording the past".
The second edition of Avvenimento has the subtitle: Did I love a dream?
The independent Venetian curator Edoardo Lazzari, is inspired by the poetics of Jean Cocteau, protagonist of the acclaimed exhibition presented at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, whose versatility and talent still inspire the contemporary art scene today. Did I love a dream? is a recurring phrase by the eclectic French artist, chosen both for its ambiguity and for being indicative of the obsessions that accompanied Cocteau throughout his existence. The erotic and sexuality, the dreamlike and the fantastic, the visible and the invisible, central themes of his poetics, will form the backdrop to the performative interventions presented for Avvenimento #2. During the evening, a continuous interdisciplinary dialogue between multiple artistic forms will animate the museum spaces and the sculpture garden with the aim of exploring the boundaries between reality and fantasy, autobiography and imaginary story, experience and desire. The selected performances, some of which will be the final restitution of writing, poetry and choir workshops conducted during the summer months, will involve the public in an immersive and participatory experience, between dreamlike visions and moments of awareness of reality. The evening is free to enter, with mandatory reservation, until seats are taken.
