Wednesday October, 5, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi, at 5pm
The work by Giuseppe Penone presented by Aldo Grazzi, docent of extramedia techniques at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice.

Wednesday May 25th, 2011, 5pm at Punta della Dogana
Professor Giulio Alessandri, Venice Academy of Fine Arts, will discuss about copyright issues, bringing up the case of Sturtevant, whose work is on exhibition at Punta della Dogana.

Wednesday May 18, 2011, 5pm at Punta della Dogana
Monica Pavani from Venice Ca' Foscari University will lecture about Roni Horn's neverending journey into verbal language of visual arts. Horn seems to embody Emily Dickinson's famous aphorism "Nature is a haunted house - but Art - is a house that tries to be haunted".

Wednesday May 11th, 2011, 5pm at Punta della Dogana
Speaker: Patrizia Magli, lecturer of Semeiotics at IUAV University.

  Wednesday May 4th, 2011, 5pm at Punta della Dogana
Speaker: prof. Alberto Giorgio Cassani, Venice Academy of Fine Arts, lecturer in History of Contemporary Architecture.

Wednesday April 20th, 2011, 5pm at Punta della Dogana
Andrea Vesentini will introduce us to Kienholz's masterpiece Roxy's by highlighting the cultural context that gave it birth: beat literature, consumerism, and dichotomy between fiction and real that obsessed post-WWII American society.

  Wednesday April 13th, 2011 at Punta della Dogana 5pm to 6 pm

Speaker: Marco Bertozzi, lecturer of History of Contemporary and Experimental Cinema, Venice Academy of Fine Arts.

Wednesday March 30th at Palazzo Grassi from 5pm to 6pm
Speaker: Valentina Re, History and critique of cinema, Venice Ca' Foscari University.

Wed March 23rd, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi 5pm to 6pm

Speaker: Marta Allegri, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.

Wednesday March 9th, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi 5pm to 6pm
Speaker:  Flavio Gregori, lecturer in English Literature at Venice Ca' Foscari University.

Wednesday March 2nd, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi, 5pm to 6pm
Professor Salvagnini (Venice Academy of Fine Arts, History of Art) will discuss the works of artist Lucio Fontana.

Wed February 23rd, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi, 5pm to 6pm
Il corpo tecnico. Storie e futuro del corpo che siamo. Body and Tech. History and Future of body. Reading by Raimonda Riccini, lecturer in Product Design at Venice IUAV University.

Wednesday February 16th, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Francesca Bisutti, professor of American Literature at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice, will present the work of Cady Noland, whose key themes are the dream of the American way of life, the ideals, the myths, but also the anxieties and the illusions of the contemporary American society.

Wednesday February 9th, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi from 5pm to 6pm
Guido Cecere, professor of photography at the all’Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, will present a comparison of Erró, the Icelandic artist who has made of excess a distinctive feature and Francesco Lo Savio, a forerunner of Minimal Art unjustly underestimated.

Wednesday February 2nd, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi from 5pm to 6pm
Mario Lupano, Director of Master of Fashion Design at the University IUAV of Venice, will explain how the traditional structure of a museum can present what is, by definition, in constant motion.

Wednesday January 26th, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Elide Pittarello, Professor of Spanish Literature at the University Ca 'Foscari of Venice, will present the work of Cindy Sherman, whose main artistic feature is the art of disguise and, by working on her extraordinary theatrical ability to interpret the different roles, who has revised the literary theme of metamorphosis.

Wednesday January 19th 2011 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Laura Safred, professor of History of Modern Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, will present the artistic practice of Francesco Lo Savio, whose works are predicated upon an undercutting of material presence. In this very special combination of lightness and stark asceticism, the gravity of thought acts as a filter upon the gravity of matter.

Wednesday December 15th, 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Cornelia Lauf, professor at the University IUAV in Venice, will focus on different modalities for interpreting the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The talk will commence with an overview of some of Felix's best-known works, taking the trope of the curtain as a mechanism for showing how a work can be analyzed within the logic of an artist. staying true to the original, and very free, spirit of the artist.
The conference will be followed by a Happy Hour at the Dogana Café organized in collaboration with Culto Café Cioccolato by Airest.

Wednesday December 1st, 2010, at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Nicola Cisternino, professor of Design of sound spaces and Contemporary Arts and Music, will present the work of Charles Ray currently exhibited at Punta della Dogana considering a new point of view, the one of listening. In fact, if “works of art talk", metaphorically they need before to have the ability to "listen" and the particular location of the Boy with Frog in the Venetian soundscape makes it a great "speaker-listener".

Wednesday November 24th at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Marco De Michelis, professor of Architecture History at the University IUAV in Venice, will talk about art and architecture: the values of light, form and space, exploring their reciprocal interaction and their capacities to annihilate the distance between the sphere of aesthetic perception and the sphere of the real.

Wednesday November 17th 2010 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Roberta Novielli, professor of History of the japanese cinema at the university Ca' Foscari of Venice, will present the Asian video-art and advertising design which share, in the brevity of their messages, the same goal: to push beyond the limits of ordinary perception the desire generated by the object represented. Through the experience of AsiaMedia, the portal dedicated to Eastern medias, some of the most indicative examples of Asian "video-writing" recently produced will be presented.

Wednesday November 10th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Domenico Maria Papa, professor of Methodology and Technic of Communication at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice, will present the work Axial Age currently exhibited at Punta della Dogana and realized by Sigmar Polke.

Wednesday November 3rd 2010 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Paolo Garbolino, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University IUAV of Venice, offers a reflection on the definition of a work of art. Indeed, the art of the twentieth century has made complex the attribution of the term "artwork" on an object on the basis of its aesthetic qualities, perceptible to the senses. The problem of defining a work of art is now a philosophical problem.

Wednesday October 27th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Paolo Puppa, professor of art history and conservation of artistic heritage Ca’ Foscari University, will present All, the work by Maurizio Cattelan, basing his talk on the work of two famous writers, Luigi Pirandello and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and their look both brave and desperate on the concepts of absence and presence.

Wednesday October 20th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Gloria Vallese, professor of iconography and contemporary art at the Accademia di Belle Arti, will introduce the works by Rudolf Stingel, the masegni on the ground – as a direct reference to the Venetian architecture, and the raw concrete walls – a material that Tadao Ando considers as the marble of contemporary architecture, as elements that make the central cube of Punta della Dogana a complex set of architecture and art that creates its meaning in the encounter between iconography universally recognized and certain materials and media.

Wednesday October 13th 2010 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Angela Vettese, professor of History of Contemporary Art at the IUAV, based on artworks exhibited at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, will lead the audience through different kinds of works highlighting the development of new techniques in the art of the twentieth century. Contrary to what is often argued, contemporary art does not abolish nor underestimate the technique, but rather broadens its scope and develop it in a precise and innovative way.

Wednesday June 23th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Giulio Alessandri, professor of Museography and Exhibition at IUAV in Venice, will explain the meaning of kairos presenting the work Boy with Frog by Charles Ray and the Fortuna by Bernardo Falcone at the top of Punta della Dogana. The Greek word kairos is synonymous with conducive opportunity and refers to the classical iconography from which will take a cue the conference of the professor Alessandri.
The conference will be followed by an Happy Hour at Punta della Dogana along the Giudecca Canal from 6pm, with the live music of the Batter Free.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm

Wednesday June 16th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm Francesca Bisutti, professor of Modern and Contemporary Languages and Cultures at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, will present the work realized by Maurizio Cattelan currently exhibited at Punta della Dogana, from a new point of view!
The conference will be followed by an Happy Hour at Punta della Dogana along the Giudecca Canal from 6pm, with the live music of Rythmes Gitans.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday May 26th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm     
Luca Farulli, professor of Esthetic at the Accedemia di Belle Arti in Venice, will present the works “Untitled” currently exhibited at Palazzo Grassi and realised by Rudolf Stingel, an artist born in Merano (Italy) and New Yorker by adoption.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday May 19th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Artist emblematic of the transition to post-modern, Cattelan is interpreted as "the creative" who measured himself with by the totalitarian era of mass media deployed on the global scene. The meeting will be presented by Nico Stringa, professor of Contemporary Art History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday May 12th 2010 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Franco Tagliapietra, professor of History of Contemporary Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, will present the work of the famous Swiss artist in the same room of Palazzo Grassi that housed in 1987 a collection of exceptional works. Tinguely, then aged sixty-two, installed with Pontus Hulten, on the two floors of the Palazzo its entire production seen by the critics and the historians both playful and impetuous.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm

Wednesday May 5th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Starting from the work by Matthew Day Jackson, currently exhibited at Punta della Dogana, Shaul Bassi, professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, will talk about the skulls in art, from Golgotha to Damien Hirst, from the Ambassadors of Holbein to the Descartes' skull, the skull Hamlet, the one of Shakespeare, but also the one of a certain cannibal of New Zealand ...
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday April 28th 2010 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Nico Stringa, Professor of History of Contemporary Art at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, will present the work of Lucio Fontana and analyze the nature of disruptive excess of his entire creative process, recognized as one of the most original of the twentieth century .
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday April 21st 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5pm to 6pm
Guido Molinari, professor of Theory of Perception and Psychology of Shape at the Accedemia di Belle Arti in Venice, will present the sculpture Boy with Frog currently exhibited at Punta della Dogana and realised by the american artist Charles Ray.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday April 14th 2010 at Palazzo Grassi, from 5pm to 6pm
Carlo Montanaro, Director of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and professor at Ca' Foscari University, will present the work by Richard Hughes, Crash My Party You Bastard, currently exhibited at Palazzo Grassi.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday March 24th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5 pm to 6 pm
In The Road (2006), by Cormac McCarthy, a father takes his son to the ocean, passing through a post-apocalyptic landscape, full of human remains and debris, affected by the savage brutality of the few survivors. A bloody hell softly cried out in a poetic language, a journey to remember the extinct past, similar to the one which is undertaken by passing between the showcases of the Chapman brothers ...
The lecture will be presented by Alide Cagidemetrio, teacher of the History of North American culture at Ca 'Foscari of Venice.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday March 17th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5 pm to 6 pm
"From that picture a person could lose his faith" (F. Dostoevsky, The Idiot).
Some images are more suspicious than others, writes Marlene Dumas. Why cannot a corpse represent the Christ in the tradition of Russian icons? Why is a suffering body  not acceptable in the iconography of Salvador? ... Why does Marlene Dumas remind of Dostoevsky?
The lecture will be presented by Silvia Burini, professor of History of Modern Art in Eastern Europe.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday March 10th 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5 pm to 6 pm
The lecture presented by Giovanni Bianchi, taking a cue from the work by Felix Gonzales Torres, wants to present itself as a dialogue and a reasoning on the conception of contemporary art as a possible vehicle for sharing ideas and feelings.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday March 3rd 2010 at Punta della Dogana, from 5 pm to 6 pm
Martina Frank, associate professor of History of Modern Art, will take inspiration from the work of Cy Twombly to compare the system of contemporary art signs with the organization of garden spaces of the modern age, whose history has been influenced by the fine arts.
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.

Wednesday February 24th, at Punta della Dogana, from 5 pm to 6 pm
Can it be possible to distinguish in the field of photography legal from illegal artefices? The situation becomes ambiguous when the devices help to create an image able to provide a more enjoyable and stimulating replication than the reality depicted. The meeting, curated by Riccardo Zipoli, professor at the University Ca' Foscari in Venice, will be introduced by 40 images of statues, including Boy with Frog by Charles Ray. 
Free entry for the students of the Universities of Venice from 4 pm.