The Berggruen Institute opens a palace of ideas in Venice

The 59th Venice Biennale will be intensely topical under the yoke of geopolitics, from April 23 to November 27, as Russia devastates Ukraine.

In addition to the eventual presence of the Ukrainian Pavilion, despite the war, and the absence of the Russian pavilion, because of the war, the projects of foundations, both "think tanks" and places of art, multiply and rooted in Venetian heritage to revive the city of the Doges after two years of pandemic and sluggishness.

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• Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection

Son of the great collector and dealer of modern art Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007), the philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen, 60, announces to

the acquisition of the Palazzo Diedo in Venice, in the popular and lively district of Cannaregio in the north of the town.

Both an investor and a man born in art, of dual German and American nationality, raised in Paris at the École alsacienne and in Switzerland at Le Rosey, this

set up the Berggruen Arts & Culture center there.

This is one of his latest projects...

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