Special Event

Dayanita Singh

EXHIBITION - ARCHIVIO

April 17th - July 31th 2026 - at Archivio di Stato, Venice

For the first time in its history, the Archivio di Stato in Venice will open to the public as an exhibition venue for ARCHIVIO, Dayanita Singh’s tribute to both the Italian archives she has photographed over the past decade and to her own evolving archive of images made in Italy over the last 25 years. Opening on 16 April 2026 at the Archivio di Stato in Venice, and curated Andrea Anastasio, the exhibition brings together two intertwined bodies of work: Singh’s long engagement with institutional archival repositories and her decades-long visual conversation with Italy’s architecture, interior spaces, artworks, friends, archivists, flowers and more. In ARCHIVIO, the act of photographing becomes a form of cataloguing – an ongoing attempt to understand how memory is shaped, structured, and preserved. The exhibition design reflects an interest in the poetic and philosophical resonance of archival labour – ordering, containing, protecting – while allowing Singh’s photographs to remain open and porous, shifting with each new context. ARCHIVIO also continues Singh’s ongoing exploration of the museum-as-book and book-as-museum: portable, re-composable architectures for knowledge. The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program of lectures, in collaboration with institutions, and a mentorship program led by Singh for university students.

© Dayanita Singh / Archivio