Caterina Tognon

Caterina Tognon was born in Bergamo in 1960. In 1988 she graduated from both the IUAV University of Venice and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, with a design thesis entitled A Hotel on the Ring, supervisor Prof. Arch. Gino Valle. Until the mid-1990s she worked as an architect and designer, devoting herself in particular to the design of objects and lamps in blown Venetian glass.

From 1985 to 1990 she followed the productive and commercial development of the Zennaro Orlando furnace.

In 1989 she began to study Czechoslovakian art glass: this became an important area of travel and of studies . She exhibited works by great artists such as Libensky and Brychtova in Italy for the first time, Roubicek and Roubickova, Cigler, Kopecky etc..

In 1991, D’arte & Divetro opened in Bergamo: the first Italian gallery to present the artists of the International Studio Glass movement.

In 2004 the gallery took the name Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea and moved its activity to Venice, in the 18th century Doge da Ponte palace in Campo San Maurizio. In 2014 the gallery moved to Palazzo Treves, near Piazza San Marco.

In Venice, Caterina Tognon greatly broadens her spectrum of action, dealing with all forms of the visual – sculpture, painting, photography, video – but the main interest remains focused on artists, mainly Venetian and Czechoslovakian, but also European, American and Australian artists.