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Gio Ponti. Loving architecture
40 years on from his death, MAXXI is dedicating a major retrospective to him that studies and presents his versatility, starting out with an account of his architecture.
Altan. Pimpa, Cipputi e altri pensatori
Il mondo di Altan raccontato con disegni originali, poster, illustrazioni, quadri, schizzi, tavole, libri e filmati.
Architecture, silence and light. Louis Kahn in the...
A focus show on the architecture of Louis Kahn through the photographs of Roberto Schezen.
REAL_ITALY
In the year of its 10th anniversary, MAXXI chooses to give great space to Italian creativity, by hosting the winners of the competition held by the MiBACT Italian Council.
Omaggio a Claudia Gian Ferrari
In occasione del decennale dalla scomparsa della studiosa, gallerista e collezionista, il MAXXI le rende omaggio con un focus nella sala del museo a lei dedicata.
Aldo Rossi. The Architect and the Cities
A retrospective on the extraordinary theoretical and practical contribution of an “unusual architect”. On display materials from archives and collections from all over the world.
Alberto Boatto. Lo sguardo dal di fuori
For the first time, MAXXI dedicates a focus to a critic’s archive, one of the most important intellectuals and writer of the last half-century, who died at the age of 87 in 2017.
MAXXI Collection. senzamargine. Passages in Italian Art at the Turn of the...
In conjunction with the Museum’s 10th anniversary, celebrated on 30th May 2010, a great new re-installation has enhanced the museum with a new cluster of Italian artworks from the turn of the century.
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Il teatro della vita. Dal Living Theatre all’Arte Povera con Gianfranco Maraniello
Cinque appuntamenti per raccontare l’evoluzione di un linguaggio che ha saputo attraversare gli ultimi decenni di storia.
Un progetto tra teatro e architettura contemporanea
Teatro e musica all'interno del Museo. Le architetture e le consonanze del linguaggio di Edoardo Sanguineti parlano con le opere esposte e con l'architettura di Zaha Hadid.
MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE
MAXXI and Bulgari together for young contemporary art.
Giovanni Gastel. People I like
200 people, 200 portraits of a never seen Gastel. Faces who: «Have passed on something to me, taught me, touched my soul».
YAP Rome at MAXXI
Lo Young Architects Program, lanciato e coordinato dal MoMA, arriva alla sua 8ª edizione al MAXXI.
Art collections
The collections of the MAXXI art present themselves as a strong nucleus that witnesses the national and international artistic production
Architecture collections
The MAXXI Architettura collections comprise all those artefacts and documents that, in various ways, represent the material and conceptual complexity of architecture.
Architecture Archives Centre
The Centro Archivi curates and manages the MAXXI's architecture collections and provides the possibility, inside the Sala Studio, to directly consult the documents and database of its twentieth and twenty-first century collections.
Biographies
Virtual tour with Google Street View
Membership
Choose the membership programme that meets your needs: a whole year of advantages awaits!
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Le Storie della Performance. Il teatro della vita. Dal Living Theatre all’Arte Povera con Gianfranco Maraniello
Cinque appuntamenti per raccontare l’evoluzione di un linguaggio che ha saputo attraversare gli ultimi decenni di storia.
FAUST o del travestimento Un progetto tra teatro e architettura contemporanea
Teatro e musica all'interno del Museo. Le architetture e le consonanze del linguaggio di Edoardo Sanguineti parlano con le opere esposte e con l'architettura di Zaha Hadid.
MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE
MAXXI and Bulgari together for young contemporary art.
Giovanni Gastel. People I like
200 people, 200 portraits of a never seen Gastel. Faces who: «Have passed on something to me, taught me, touched my soul».
YAP Rome at MAXXI
Lo Young Architects Program, lanciato e coordinato dal MoMA, arriva alla sua 8ª edizione al MAXXI.
Isaac Julien. Lina Bo Bardi. A Marvellous Entanglement
«Time is not linear, it is a marvellous tangle in which, at any moment, ends can be chosen and solutions invented, without beginning or end».
Navin Rawanchaikul. Ciao da Roma
An imposing oil on canvas between Bollywood and the Roman suburbs, diaspora and cultural integration.
A Story for the Future. The first 10 years of MAXXI
A passionate work of research, a thoughtful debate on the XXI century's first decade through the MAXXI's point of view.
Bigger than Myself. Voices of heroes from ex Yugoslavia
30 artists read the history of the territory through the gestures of contemporary heroes, considering the themes of hospitality and coexistence.
Cao Fei. Supernova
Between dreams and reality, the real and the virtual, her videos examine the dilemmas of contemporary life, exploring the transformations in China, the perception of self and facing universal questions.
NATURE. Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo. The Technical Space of Art
The overview of works by the most interesting architects that MAXXI has been carrying out since its first year of activity with the Nature project continues with an invitation to Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo.
Technotopia. Engineering the Future
Un new path of investigation between scientific research, humanities and creative knowledge.
collections
MAXXI’s collection represents the museum’s founding element and it determines its identity. From October 2015 the display will be permanent with several pathways.
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The Architectural project
The MAXXI design goes beyond the concept of the building-museum. The complexity of the volumes, the curving walls, the variations and intersections of the levels determine a very rich spatial and functional configuration that visitors may pass through via ever different and unexpected routes.
Entertain at MAXXI
The Museum's spectacular Lobby and the Auditorium can host: conferences, corporate meetings and presentations, film screening, private dinners and cocktail receptions.
attività educative
Didactic activities with the objective of making the museum a familiar and dynamic space, a place for meeting as well as learning
Designed for audiences of different ages and requirements, from the youngest to the eldest, from the merely curious to experts in the sector, the museum intends to provide the necessary tools for active and participatory interpretation of contemporary themes.
Architectures of light
Workshop on the technique of oxidations presenting the MAXXI architecture on the basis of light
A space to meet real and virtual visitors to MAXXI and have them meet one another, a space designed for the sharing of ideas, interests, experiences and opinions on the world of contemporary creativity.
