page_title: Punta della Dogana
section_title: Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Punta della Dogana / Exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: The Basilica of St Mary of Health in Venice Polski: Bazylika Santa Maria della Salute w Wenecji
context_page_description: Punta della Dogana is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the Dogana da Mar. It also refers to the triangular area of Venice where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: Santa Maria della Salute, the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip.
context_section_description: In June 2009, Punta della Dogana reopened to the public and since then has been presenting temporary exhibitions of the Pinault Collection: 
  Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, curated by Francesco Bonami and Alison Gingeras. Presented at Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, June 2009 – April 2011
  In Praise of Doubt, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, April 2011 – March 2013
  Prima Materia, curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Michael Govan, May 2013 – February 2015
  Slip of the Tongue, curated by Danh Vo in collaboration with Caroline Bourgeois, April 2015 – January 2016
  Accrochage, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, April 2016 – November 2016
  Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable. Damien Hirst, curated by Elena Geuna. Presented at Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi. April 2017 – December 2017
  Dancing with Myself, curated by Martin Bethenod and Florian Ebner, April 2018 – December 2018
  Luogo e Segni, curated by Mouna Mekouar and Martin Bethenod, March 2019 – December 2019
  Complex's Elisa Carmichael called Punta della Dogana's Prima Materia show of about 80 works from the Pinault Collection an "absolute must-see" outside of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Exibart's Jacqueline Ceresoli had similar praise for the show.
  François Pinault commissioned a statue for the tip of Punta della Dogana from Charles Ray upon receiving approval from the city to start the museum. Ray made an eight-foot-tall boy holding a frog by its leg intended as a public sculpture called Boy with Frog. The sculpture's permit was set to be negotiated four times annually. Boy with Frog was originally encased upon the museum's July 2009 opening after protests following its installation. The city moved in early 2013 to replace the statue with a reproduction of the streetlamp once situated there. Its spokesperson said that the sculpture's installation was designed to be temporary. Ray refused an offer to relocate the sculpture to Palazzo Grassi, opting to put the sculpture into storage. Independent curator Francesco Bonami wrote in La Stampa that the removal was "administrative cowardice" and the lamppost represented "cultural darkness".
caption: View of Punta della Dogana, facing northwest.
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