
Luigi Bortoluzzi detto Borlui, "Veduta aerea della Laguna di Venezia".
Luigi Bortoluzzi detto Borlui, "Veduta aerea della Laguna di Venezia".
Fondazione Giorgio Cini is a unique archive of documents, books, images and works of art. Fondazione Giorgio Cini is an extraordinary meeting place for artists, writers, philosophers, poets, scientists and musicians from all over the world. For seventy years it has been a laboratory of ideas and fertile dialogue between cultures.
Cini Ambassador is the only programme to discover this long history, projected towards the future and the cultural and social challenges that await us.
Being a Cini Ambassador allows priority or exclusive access to the Foundation’s initiatives and to visit the rooms, archives and collections with the protagonists of research. Being a Cini Ambassador offers many privileges including visiting the exhibitions in the Palazzo Cini Gallery at San Vio free of charge all year round. Being a Cini Ambassador means knowing first-hand the research being conducted in the Foundation’s Institutes and Research Centres.
The Cini Ambassador 2025 programme is an invitation to discover the Foundation from unprecedented perspectives, revealing its history, international relations and the care of its heritage. Nine appointments, from April to November, to explore the Island: from its historical roots, with a visit to the Hall of Photographs, the Tiziano Terzani archive and the Ettore Sottsass fund, kept in the Research Centres, to the major exhibitions narrated by the curators.
3 April 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Sala delle Fotografie
La Sala delle Fotografie: views from the Past of the Island
with Renata Codello
17 April 2025
Campo San Vio, Palazzo Cini. The Gallery
Ljubodrag Andric. Spazi, soglie, luci
with Ljubodrag Andric
6 May 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Le Stanze del Vetro
1932-1942 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale
with Marino Barovier
8 May 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Le Stanze della Fotografia
Robert Mapplethorpe and Maurizio Galimberti
with Denis Curti
13 June 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities
In the world of Tiziano Terzani: photographs, documents and stories
with Francesco Piraino
11 September 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Longhena Library
Venice and epidemics: a tale of crises and resilience
with Egidio Ivetic
26 September 2025
Campo San Vio, Palazzo Cini. The Gallery
Casanova and Venice
with Luca Massimo Barbero
17 October 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Sala Carnelutti
Casanova and Europe
with Daniele Franco
6 November 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Centro Digitale – ARCHiVe
The archive of Ettore Sottsass: inside colours, ideas and projects
with Valentina Venturi
This programme is exclusively dedicated to Cini Ambassador.
Luigi Bortoluzzi detto Borlui, "Veduta aerea della Laguna di Venezia".