The exhibitions Murano Glass Toys at the Murano Glass Museum, and Czech Glass. Quo Vadis? in the spaces of Giudecca Art District - the latter project which won the first Fondazione di Venezia Prize - will remain open until 3rd October 2021, while The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection at LE STANZE DEL VETRO on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore is open until 1st November 2021. Perle in Fiore by Benedetta Gaggia at Palazzo Mocenigo, Più Vero del Vero by Bruno Amadi at the Natural History Museum and Glass to Glass at the Berengo Foundation in Murano will also all remain open beyond the festival.

Finally, don’t miss the works of Paris-based Brazilian artist Daniela Busarello which, after being exhibited at The Venice Glass Week Hub at Palazzo Loredan, will now be on display at Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, headquarters of the Fondazione dell’Albero d'Oro: a collaboration which resulted as a direct and spontaneous result of The Venice Glass Week.

For their contribution to the success of the festival,  heartfelt thanks go to the Organizing Committee, composed of the Comune di Venezia, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini with the STANZE DEL VETRO project, the result of a collaboration with Pentagram Stiftung, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and Consorzio Promovetro Murano, as well as the sponsors, Regione del Veneto, Fondazione di Venezia, Apice, VELA, Vistosi, Michelangelo Foundation, Nexa, Artsystem, D'Uva Firenze, without whom the festival would not have been possible.

Special thanks to the Curatorial Committee, chaired by the Venetian glass historian Rosa Barovier Mentasti and including Rainald Franz, Curator of the Glass and Ceramics Collection at the MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna and Susanne Jøker Johnsen, Head of Exhibitions at Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation of Copenhagen and Director of the European Glass and Ceramic Context in Bornholm in Denmark, together with curator Jean Blanchaert and artist Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda.

And finally, sincere gratitude to all of the participants of the 2021 edition, who we look forward to being in touch with again for next year’s edition!