From 11 October to 12 April 2026
An exhibition like never seen before, in an open treasure chest, actually created for the occasion. "Borders. From Turner to Monet to Hopper. A Song with Variations", curated by Marco Goldin, aims to be the flagship event of "GO! 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorizia, European Capital of Culture", of which it interprets the theme. It is welcomed by the completely renovated spaces, suitable for international exhibitions, of the Esedra di Levante at Villa Manin, in Passariano di Codroipo (Udine).
It must be acknowledged that, while the curatorial signature and the idea belong to Marco Goldin, it is equally true that "Borders" has a second "father": Massimiliano Fedriga, Governor of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, who fully embraced the scientific project and worked to create the conditions to be able to establish, in the monumental complex of Villa Manin, safe and suitable spaces to host the international loans that make this grand exhibition absolutely unique, and hardly replicable.
It must also be acknowledged that few curators in the world could bring together masterpieces of the level that the public will admire at Villa Manin, each chosen by Goldin based on a scientific project in which, as is his style, art becomes poetry, literature, profound, in a journey, sometimes immediate and sometimes karstic, that unites in a precise and fascinating narrative seemingly different facets of reality.
Here the borders are not barriers but opportunities, areas of creative contamination, exchange, openings to new horizons, stimuli. Whether they are geographical, historical, orographic, psychological, or cultural borders, on paths ranging from the infinitely large of the universe to the secret of one's soul.
Over a hundred works to tell those borders. Works granted by around forty museums both European and American and by jealous private collections. Goldin's expertise and relationships, proven by dozens of successful exhibitions, have opened "impossible" doors.
Piazzale Manin 10, Udine, Italy
Opening hours
| opens - closes | last entry | |
| monday | Closed now | |
| tuesday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
| wednesday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
| thursday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
| friday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
| saturday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
| sunday | 10:00 - 19:00 |
Partial closure of rooms from 9 April to 24 May 2024
Park: from 09:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:30)
Monday closed
Extraordinary openings 2024: Monday 1 January, Monday 1 April, 24 and 31 December closing at 2pm – closed 25 December
Guided tours
April, May, September, October, November, December: Saturday and Sunday at 3pm
June, July and August: Saturday and Sunday at 10.30am
Special events: 30 and 31 March, 1, 25 and 30 April and 1 May at 3pm
From 14 March to 23 August 2026
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Artsupp Card: museum + exhibitions 12.00 €
From 7 February to 7 June 2026
Documentary photography sponsorship awards 15 of the Wüstenrot Foundation
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