The Peggy Guggenheim Collection ends 2024 with over 388,000 visitors, +2.5% compared to 2023. As the exhibition dedicated to Marina Apollonio continues through March, we look forward to two major solo shows devoted to Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Lucio Fontana.
Venice, January 2, 2025 – The Peggy Guggenheim Collection ends 2024 with an excellent result: 388,000 visitors over 313 days, with an average of 1,240 daily admissions, ending the year with +2.5 % compared to 2023. In addition to this exceptional number of visitors, 75% of which were international and 25% Italian, 6,000 people attended inaugurations, corporate, private, and institutional events, and over 10,000 visitors participated in public programs, Kids Days, and accessibility events. These include events related to the Double Meaning and I Go to the Museum programs, and tours related to the A scuola di Guggenheim program, which this year engaged 230 schools of every grade and order across the Veneto region, reaching over 7,280 students.
“The results achieved in 2024 are beyond satisfactory,” affirms director Karole P. B. Vail. “In a year that saw Venice host the Art Biennale, as well as other major art exhibitions organized by several of the city's institutions, the museum welcomed an outstanding number of visitors that exceeded expectations. The press and the public reacted extremely positively to the homage to Jean Cocteau, an exhibition mentioned several times in the New York Times, who included it in its list of must-see exhibitions in Venice during the Biennale, as well as the ongoing tribute to Marina Apollonio. The 2025 exhibition program is underway and will focus on Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Lucio Fontana through two major solo exhibitions, opening respectively in April and October. Free collateral activities, public programs, and inclusion and accessibility events for all visitors and our supporters will of course accompany them.”
While the exhibition Marina Apollonio: Beyond the Circle, open through March 3, has already registered 75,000 visitors since opening on October 12, anticipation is growing for the retrospective, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space, opening on April 12. Through a selection of about 70 works—on loan from leading international museums, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Tate Modern in London, as well as renowned galleries such as Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, and private collections—the exhibition engages in an in-depth exploration of the evolution of the visual language of Portuguese-born French artist Vieira da Silva, highlighting her ability to transform pictorial space into abstract environments and optical illusions. This will be followed in the fall by an important homage to Lucio Fontana, Manu-Facture: The Ceramics of Lucio Fontana, the first museum exhibition to focus exclusively on Fontana’s ceramic works, providing an exceptional testament to the artists complexity and imagination in sculpture.