Location:

Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Venice, Italy

Dates:

25 April–04 October 2026

Tony Cragg is included in The Only True Protest Is Beauty, the inaugural presentation of Fondazione Dries Van Noten at Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice. 

Created by Dries Van Noten and Patrick Vangheluwe, and curated by Van Noten with Geert Bruloot, the exhibition opened the fifteenth-century palazzo to the public for the first time and set contemporary works against its frescoed interiors and historic glassware. 

Taking its title from Phil Ochs, the project treats beauty as an active cultural force and places craftsmanship at the center of its argument. 

Cragg’s sculpture gives that premise particular clarity, since his practice turns material into concentrated movement and continuously unfolding form. The palace acts as an active frame, its surfaces and scale pressing the work into close exchange with Venetian history. Against that setting, Cragg’s work sustains a strong formal presence and shows how beauty can operate through tension and change.