Venice, host to future artistic talent awarded by Chanel

Nowhere was that more palpable than

PartiesIn Venice, Chanel ⁇ s Next Prize Dinner Celebrated Ten Artists of TomorrowByTiziana Cardini PartiesIn Venice, Chanel ⁇ s Next Prize Dinner Celebrated Ten Artists of TomorrowByTiziana Cardini PartiesIn Venice, Chanel ⁇ s Next Prize Dinner Celebrated Ten Artists of TomorrowByTiziana Cardini Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyPhoto: German LarkinThe art world has descended to the Serenissima masse for its traditional Biennale pilgrimage, eager to take in the season ⁇ s latest artistic sensations and equally heroic portions ofbaccalà Koutecato.

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Nowhere was that more palpable than at the Chanel Next Prize dinner on Wednesday evening; the glittering, golden ticket of the Biennale's opening days, where the prevailing mood suggested that art, and an excellent guest list brimming with the crème de la crèmeof the art world, might still have the last word. Hosted by Yana Peel, president of arts, culture, and heritage at Chanel, the dinner honored the 2026 Chanel Next Prize laureates: ten young artists boldly redrawing the boundaries of their disciplines, each accompanied by a persuasive €100,000 vote of confidence.

The evening court held Palazzo Giustinian Brand, the family home of collector, artist, and all-round traditional Renaissance spirit, Marconio Brandolini, who is also behind the hand-to-hand design; a glass house that celebrates the next year's achievements, and the next year's award for the most impressive works of art, while his family, perhaps the most impressively colourful, stained glasswork, stained glasswork and glasswork, and the next year's award for the most impressively colourful works of his family, felt the next year's best, while creating an impressively impressively impressively powerful, yet yet unrelenting glassworking forceful array of the next year.

⁇ The ten winners hail from ten countries, and this year's Biennale features a

⁇ The ten winners hail from ten countries, and this year's Biennale features a record 99 pavilions, ⁇ she remarked. ⁇ Tonight, there is genuine joy in seeing friends gathered here from so many of those places, a testament to the reach and enduring relevance of the arts. ⁇ Her tone shifted as she continued: ⁇ Yet we are tuned to the discord among so many nations present, and to the animosity between them.

It is a heartbreaking paradox, but perhaps also a call: a reminder that art, at its best, can imagine Lages and invite us to share new ways forward. ⁇ Quoting words once uttered by Gabrielle Chanel, Peel concluded: ⁇ Only thoughts of the future have turned my mind. ⁇ And in that moment, she set out to play the role of what is ahead: ⁇ The elegant and creative power of the human imagination, which the Guggenheim Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum of Fine Arts, together with the Rembrandt Foundation, began a long-standing collaboration to unlock new possibilities, a commitment to share their imagination, and a long-standing partnership to share their imagination, and a partnership with the Guggenheim Museum of Fine Arts, a collaboration in the Guggenheim.

Conversation lingered, and the mood shifted gently from polished to something more conspiratorial, as Peel unveiled an impromptu-coup-de-theatre: Patti Smith took the room hostage with a cappella performance of Because The Night, her words edged with poetry and enchantment.