A raw, powerful stop on the Zattere where Venice becomes less polished and more urgent. Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova is where you feel painting as gesture, resistance, body, movement, and force.
About
Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova was created by Emilio Vedova and Annabianca Manni in the late 1990s, and became fully active after the artist’s death, with the mission of preserving and sharing Vedova’s work and legacy.
Its exhibition spaces are located in Dorsoduro, along the Zattere: Spazio Vedova and the Magazzino del Sale, one of the historic salt warehouses of Venice. The Magazzino del Sale was restored through a project by Renzo Piano and opened in 2009 as a space for exhibitions, often placing Vedova’s work in dialogue with other artists.
What you'll see here
This is not a quiet decorative Venice. Vedova brings you into a more physical, political, and emotional world: large gestures, black and white tensions, explosive marks, and painting that feels almost like a fight with space.
You may experience:
- Works by Emilio Vedova
- Temporary exhibitions and artist dialogues
- Contemporary art projects inside the Magazzini del Sale
- Industrial Venetian architecture by the water
- A more intense counterpoint to Venice’s churches, palazzi, and Renaissance beauty
Access depends on the exhibition calendar.
Worth the trip
Yes — especially if you want Venice beyond beauty.
What makes Fondazione Vedova special is the contrast. In a city famous for luminous painting, delicate architecture, and historical seduction, Vedova brings urgency: abstraction as emotion, politics, body, and rupture.
For Artlovers, this is a powerful stop because it shows another Venice — not only the Venice of gold, saints, and canals, but the Venice of modern struggle, experiment, and radical artistic force.
Spazio Vedova © Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova
