EAST-WEST CALLIGRAPHY 2025
From 7 November 2025 to 11 January 2026
Venice, Museo Correr
Museo Correr Library
Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art
Curated by Monica Viero
In 2025, the now well-established MUVE initiatives continue, promoting to a wide audience the knowledge and practice of calligraphy.
Alongside the traditional masterclasses organized by the Museo Correr Library, an exhibition will present works by four contemporary artists from South Korea and the United States, displayed together with ancient documents preserved in the Museum’s Library.
The review includes two two-day masterclasses in November 2025: the first held in the reading rooms of the Museo Correr Library, and the second hosted in the educational rooms of the Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art. The courses will feature a Korean calligraphy teacher as well as Western calligraphers and typographers.
During the masterclasses, participants will experiment with calligraphic and typographic techniques. The very concept of handwriting will be explored as a total body gesture and personal expression—an idea intrinsic to Eastern calligraphy—alongside the practice of typographic production as a form of contemporary artistic expression.
In the exhibition CHARACTERS, each artist explores the relationship between mark, space, body, and literal meaning.
The common thread this year is phonetic scripts: the Hangeul alphabet for the two Korean artists and the Latin alphabet for the two American artists.
Alphabetic symbols appear as an abstract dance or a sequence of musical signs in the elegant works of Kim Doo Kyung, Kang Byung-In, andThomas Ingmire, composed of bold, floating, gestural, or geometric lines; while in Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.’s work, the written word reveals its full power and capacity to convey direct and forceful messages. On one hand, the written word emerges as a human trace; on the other, the strength of the printed message in movable type comes to the fore.
PROGRAM
CHARACTERS. Calligraphy and Typography: South Korea and the United States
Calligraphy Exhibition
From 8 November 2025 to 11 January 2026
Museo Correr, Sala delle Quattro Porte
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Hangul: A Phonetic Alphabet with a Brush
Performance of Korean calligraphy with Kang Byung-In
7 November 2025, h 17.15
Museo Correr, Sala delle Quattro Porte
Hangul: The Korean Alphabet Between Heaven and Earth
Masterclass by Doo-Kyung Kim
8 and 9 November 2025
Museo Correr Library
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DIFFERENT CHARACTERS: Handwriting and Typography
Masterclass by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and Monica Dengo
10 and 11 November 2025
Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art
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10 YEARS: Designing an Archive
Lecture by Rob Saunders
10 November 2025, h 17.15
Museo Correr, Sala delle Quattro Porte
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