Berengo Studio
Berengo Studio was founded in 1989 by Adriano Berengo.
When Berengo began, he started by inviting important contemporary artists to Murano in the late 1980s to collaborate with skilled craftsmen, most of whom had never worked with glass before. The results saw traditional techniques reinvigorated with avant-garde ideas, and as the Studio went from strength to strength it expanded, developing a specialized casting studio alongside the furnace to experiment with new forms of working with the material, often borrowing techniques from other forms of sculptural practice. Berengo’s enterprise has seen the Studio work with over 300 artists, including names such as Ai Weiwei, Tony Cragg, Tracey Emin, Erwin Wurm, Thomas Schütte and Laure Prouvost. The dynamic partnerships created in the Studio have also resulted in the development of original techniques as craftsmen push themselves to their limits to fully realize an artist’s creative vision.
In 2019 the Studio made history when it became the first to collaborate with three different artists and national pavilions at the Venice Biennale of Arts, producing sculptures in glass for the Italian, French, and Austrian pavilions. Today sculptures made at Berengo Studio can be found in museums, galleries, and private collections around the world, and the studio is seen as the leading glass furnace for artistic collaborations.