Fariba Ferdosi’s glass sculpture Nido/Corona is now on view at the Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, part of GLASSTRESS: The Flowing Carnival of Venice. The exhibition opened on July 18 and runs through October 18, 2026, on the museum’s second floor.

Fifty-two artists from 19 countries make up the show, which marks the first time GLASSTRESS — a collateral event of the Venice Biennale — has traveled to China. Set inside the museum’s historic McBain Building on the Bund, the exhibition follows the structure of the Venice Carnival across four chapters: Donning the Mask, Playing a Role, Parading in Costume, and Removing the Mask. Visitors move through the space as part of the procession rather than as spectators, with glass and its shifting light standing in for questions of identity, transformation, and self.

Adriano Berengo, founder of Fondazione Berengo and Berengo Studio in Murano, launched GLASSTRESS in 2009 as a way to bring contemporary artists into direct contact with the island’s glassmakers. The project has since traveled to New York, London, Stockholm, and St. Petersburg. Shanghai is its first stop in China.

GLASSTRESS: The Flowing Carnival of Venice runs at the Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, 2nd Floor, on the Bund, through October 18, 2026.

Find out more about the work here.