The exhibition organized for 2023 at LE STANZE DEL VETRO is Bohemian glass: the great masters, curated by Caterina Tognon and Sylva Petrová and open to the public on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore from 14 May to 26 November 2023. The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, it intends to tell the emancipation, after the Second World War, of glass in Bohemia from the traditional categorization of applied and decorative art to a use for the creation of important abstract sculptures.

In Bohemia, one of the regions of today's Czech Republic, great innovators appeared in the 12th century and broadened the panorama of European glass art. Throughout history, Bohemian glass masters were constantly driven to innovate as they were pressed by fierce competition from other European, German and above all Italian regions, whose excellent production dominated the world markets in the decorative glass sector.

This historic competition ended in 1948, when the communist regime triumphed in Czechoslovakia at the time, which until 1989 completely closed the national borders to any free form of trade, circulation and communication with Western states. This naturally also concerned the glass scene, which was subjected to strong limitations. Nevertheless, the communist regime proudly displayed the glass creations of Czech artists at major international exhibitions.

The exhibition presents the work of great artistic personalities who, born in the Czech lands in the first decades of the twentieth century, have seen their lives go hand in hand with the turbulent transformations of Czechoslovakian society and who experience the greatest conflict in their life path European Union, then a short democratic period of only three years, which in 1948 turns into the totalitarian communist regime; finally, after 1989, the return of a democracy in line with European standards.