Patto per l’Arte

Preserving Venice’s cultural heritage and helping to shape its future: the ‘Pact for Art in Venice’ has been launched, a project promoted by the Venice International Foundation to forge a lasting alliance between businesses, institutions, artists and the community, in support of the protection and promotion of the city’s cultural heritage.

Venice is a heritage site unique in the world, an international capital of art and culture, whose history and identity represent a legacy to be preserved and, at the same time, a living resource capable of generating new value. It is from this realisation that the Pact takes shape, with the aim of transforming support for culture into a shared and lasting commitment.

The project is structured around three main strands: Restoration and Art, to support conservation work on historical heritage and emerging young artists; Education, through scholarships dedicated to training young conservators; and Cultural Network, to foster links between culture, business and innovation and create new opportunities for collaboration.

The initiative offers a contemporary model of patronage, in which businesses become active participants in the city’s cultural life, making a tangible contribution to its preservation and strengthening their ties with the local area and community. Membership is structured into two tiers, Core and Circle, designed to engage companies in a three-year programme of participation and support.

Each membership also includes an annual Impact Report, containing data and measurable results from the supported projects, to document the companies’ contribution to the preservation of Venice’s heritage and to the city’s cultural and social development.

Through the Pact for Art in Venice, the Venice International Foundation renews its mission, drawing on its experience since 1996 in fostering collaboration between the public and private sectors and in supporting projects relating to conservation, museum enhancement and education.

Venice needs allies capable of turning responsibility into action and history into the future. The Pact is an invitation to take part in a shared project, to safeguard what the world admires and to build together what future generations will come to know.