Expositions
The new installation by Bik Van der Pol – a house with hundreds of butterflies inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s popular Farnsworth House – is the work chosen to inaugurate the new wing of the MACRO museum.
The wonders of the Amazon rainforest, its smells, sounds and colours can be lived to the Civic Museum of Zoology with a multi-sensory exhibition: "The Meaning of Biodiversity - A Trip to the Amazon Rainforest", promoted by the City of Rome - Department of Cultural Policy and Communication and by VIS - International Volunteer Service for Development.
Not just a traditional exhibition but a cognitive and sensory journey to experience the beauty of the Amazon forest, the sounds, colours, smells, situations and lifestyles of the people who live there.
The exhibition Il "Bianco" a Tavola: The Italian Majolica between 1500 and 1600 arrives at the Capitoline Museums in Rome after having been on display in two other major museums: the Museum of Ceramics in Ascoli Piceno and the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza.
On display 80 works by Antonio Nocera - created between 2007 and 2010 - including sculptures and paintings included in the striking surroundings of the Great Hall on the main body and along the Garden of the Militia of Trajan’s Markets, as if in dialogue with the monumentality and sculptural wealth of the great complex.
On display, for the first time, “Homines” by Mario Ballocco: disturbing, cruel and desperate, stylized entities, that embody the dynamics of anthropological and social aspects of our daily lives: falling in love, conflicts, submissiveness, betrayal, cultural and political commitment and much more.
MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma - hosts in the hall two large works by the Italian artist Sergio Ragalzi that have recently became part of the collection of the Museum.
The new edition of FotoGrafia, Rome's international festival of photography, whose theme this year is FUTURSPECTIVES, or “can photography predict the future?”
100 photos on display at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere. The exhibition is part of the celebrations of “Roma: Capitale d’Italia da 140 anni”.
On display at the Casina delle Civette the works of Carlo Sismonda
In the framework of the celebrations for "Roma: Capitale d’Italia da 140 anni”, an exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Barracco - a refined collector of ancient sculpture, deputy and senator of the first parliament of united Italy - in the museum that bears his name.
To document the history of the Risorgimento in Rome means to track twenty years of the city's history, including two decisive moments such as the Roman Republic of 1849 and the Breach of Porta Pia on September 20th, 1870.
On display are seventy of the many projects received by the City of Rome for the national competition to design the new logo for the promotion of cultural and tourist resources of the city: Rome in one image.
An extensive exhibition dedicated to Filippo Marignoli (1926-1995), an unconventional artist both for his artistic language and his career.
An exhibition at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere dedicated to the theme of industrial archeology and of the
abandoned and degraded sites of our cities. A conference will delve into the topic of abandoned areas and
the general change of the idea of city, an urban transformation that opens up new possibilities and ideas from an architectural point of view.
The exhibition commemorates the wartime events occurred at Porta San Paolo on September 8-10, 1943 for the Defense of Rome by the Lancers of Montebello and the Grenadiers of Sardinia against the German occupying forces.
Linda Christian and Tyrone Power got married in Rome in 1949 under the eyes of the international press. In 1950 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer chose Cinecittà to shoot Quo Vadis. The Cafe Society was born with rituals, people and characters that Fellini chose to represent in La Dolce Vita: charm, beauty, stardom, celebrity and gossip become part of daily life.
The exhibition presents 36 lithographs by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804-1860), collected in the album called Souvenirs d’Italie. Expédition de Rome , to illustrate the various stages of the French expedition to Rome in 1849.
The project MACROwall: Eighties are Back! wants to reinterpret Italian art of the Eighties thorough a cycle of exhibitions featuring 10 artists whose different researches have characterized the production of the decade. Each artist is invited to display on the same wall two of his most representative works, an “historical” one and a more recent one, in order to allow the public to rediscover the vitality of art forms in the last years. The works are accompanied by critical reviews coming from two different generations: the younger art critic will interpret the “historical” work and vice versa.
Une occasion unique pour admirer 111 des 119 aquarelles de la série « Rome Pittoresque. Mémoires d'un temps qui passe » d’Ettore Roesler Franz, mieux connue sous le nom de « Rome disparue ».
Renewables are the new frontier of the energy that does not pollute and that governments around the world are exploiting to curb carbon dioxide emissions which are harmful to humans and the environment.
A documentary exhibition dedicated to the Italian police movies of the Seventies.
In the evocative space of La Pelanda in MACRO Testaccio, Bernardo Siciliano presents Naked City, an exhibition curated by Maria Ida Gaeta and Lea Mattarella: on display large canvases of female nudes and small or medium sized paintings of New York, where the artist has been living for more than ten years.
The exhibition, which is curated by Federica Pirani and presents a selection of 53 large oil paintings painted between 2007 and 2010, examines the pictorial research on the portrait and on landscape conducted by Tullio Pericoli, revealing lesser known aspects of this popular illustrator.
An exhibition of video interviews recorded around the globe showing women and men talking about universal themes such as philosophy and life experiences.
The growth of the suburbs of Rome and its transformations emphasize the need for a critical approach in the perception of the urban dimension of the city.
The exhibition Past Forward Toward Future, curated by 3/3, and sponsored by the Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione - Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali, in the framework of Rome Architecture Festival – Index Urbis, takes in examination this dimension making a comparison between two projects by Joel Sternfeld, which retrieve suggestions from the past and the inspirations for the future of the city.
The exhibition, organized on the occasion of the celebration of 90 years of friendship between the Knights of Columbus and the city of Rome, traces through photographs, portraits, documents and newspaper articles, the history of the Catholic mutual aid society “Knights of Columbus”, which was founded on October 2 1881 by Father Michael J. McGivney.
An exhibition of the paintings of Princess Wijdan Al-Hashemi, Jordan's ambassador to Italy.
Works, drawings and installations by the Ecuadorian artist Amaru Cholango
An exhibition of posters, photos, lobby cards, and other movie memorabilia, with original paintings on the theme of the event by Marina Cenci, Ilaria Piacentini and Massimo Ranieri. The exhibition traces the history of the city of Rome in the fascinating period between the 1950s and 1960s.
A master of contemporary art rethinks one of the MACRO’s rooms, turning it into a space of pulsating energy and immersing the visitor in a total experience, both physically and psychically.
Thanks to a project conceived by Gilberto Zorio specifically for the rooms of the MACRO, one of the halls of the museum will be transformed into one of his great work aimed at the physical and emotional involvement of the audience. As often happens in his works, Zorio’s exhibition is a sort of work in progress, which gives the space a constantly changing identity, through the signs and the traces of different, unusual, changeable and unstable materials.
The hall on the second floor of the MACRO, which was recently renovated and is connected to the new wing of the museum, is dedicated to the Portuguese artist João Louro. A world where nothing is as it seems, a universe in which vision short-circuits with language and create original expressive works of art.
One of the halls of the Museum houses My Dark Places, a solo exhibition of the Portuguese artist João Louro (Lisbon, 1963), curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. The exhibition space showcases new works – part of the series Blind Images – created especially for the exhibition. A selection of works closely linked together, inspired by the seemingly unrelated concepts of “fear” and “pleasure” and by literary references to James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia and the works of the Marquis de Sade.
The formal minimalism and the chromatic purity of the large monochromes contrast ironically with the quotes at the bottom of the work, which are similar to captions or subtitles. The observer does not find a simple explanation or description in these texts, but new suggestions which open the mind and the senses to different and distant worlds, full of philosophical and literary quotations.
The MACRO SPECIAL PROJECTS program, begun in the summer of 2009, brings young artists the possibility of interacting with the Museum’s alternative gallery spaces. Artists such as Francesco Simeti and the Cuoghi Corsello duo took over the open-plan elevator shafts and semi-circular walls in the atrium bringing a new life and meaning to the spaces. The metamorphoses of these spaces continues with Luca Trevisani, breathing new life into Museum’s corridors.
An evolution of Gibbous and Waning, Trevisani’s work Space is a Garden to Cultivate, through its at once organic and artificial forms represents the lunar phases within cosmic space. The images evoke tidal rhythms, astral movements, stellar geometry, and the forces and entities which, determining times and seasons, govern human life. Interested by the influence the moon exerts on individuals, the artist uses industrial PVC surfaces on which he represents forms to evoke the gravitational pull on bodies. Two complimentary images face each other and dialogue in a game of attraction and repulsion, thus generating a celestial choreography based on complimentary, reciprocal, and multiplying points of view.
The exhibition Philip Guston, Roma to be held at the Museo Carlo Bilotti
On display, for the first time in Rome, a selection of works, drawings and archival materials coming from the sculptor’s studio in Trieste, lent by the family of Attilio Selva.
World Press Photo is known for organizing, since 1955, the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. The World Press Photo exhibition is the result of a worldwide annual competition attracting entries from leading photojournalists, agencies, newspapers and magazines from across the globe. Prize-winning photographs are assembled into a travelling exhibition that is visited by over two million people in some 45 countries worldwide. A yearbook presenting all prize-winning entries is published annually in six languages.
An exhibition of Paola Crema’s sculptural-jewellery held at the Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls) and the dépendance of Villa Torlonia.
From 22nd April to 5th September, an exhibition of Pio Pullini’s works coming from private collections and from the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna (Municipal Gallery of Modern Art) will be held at the Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi.
Following the success of his book of photographs on New York, in 1956 a young William Klein (painter, graphic artist and photographer), arrived in Rome to assist Federico Fellini in the direction of the film Nights of Cabiria (1957). Taking advantages of a delay in the shooting starting, Klein with his camera, strolled about the city with Fellini, Pasolini, Flaiano, Moravia, and other avant-garde Italian writers and artists serving as his guides. The young American photographer captured the magical atmosphere of the Fifties, depicting a new powerful photographic fresco of Rome.
Percorsi del Novecento romano (20th century art in Rome) presents a selection of about seventy paintings and sculptures, important examples of Italian art and culture of the first half of the Twentieth century.
Le projet quinquennal “Les Jours de Rome” s'ouvre par une grande exposition de chefs-d'œuvre de l'art antique provenant des plus grands Musées européens et datables de la période qui a suivi les campagnes de conquête en Grèce (de la fin du III° siècle à la seconde moitié du I°siècle av. J.-C.), l'un des moments fondamentaux pour la future identité culturelle et artistique romaine, pas seulement de l'époque républicaine.
DigitaLife is an opportunity to offer a complex-free perspective on the future:without naivety but without solemnity. an assumed future.
The exhibition displays 164 photographs which illustrate the methodical exploration of landscapes in the work of Stephen Shore and its strong parallel with conceptual art.
Une semaine après le 70° anniversaire de la naissance de Fabrizio De André, c’est à Rome qu’arrive l’exposition multimédia et interactive conçue par Studio Azzurro dans le but de raconter la vie, la musique, les expériences, les passions qui ont rendu “Faber” un homme unique et universel.
The restless and hard life of Princess Charlotte, Napoleon’s niece.