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Collezione MAXXI. Lo Spazio dell’Immagine
A renewal at the heart of the museum with a new set- up of the permanent Collection
on the spiritual matter of art
An exhibition dedicated to those artistic paths that seek another dimension, of absolute, between universal, material and immaterial, immanent and transcendent.
Shirin Neshat. Matera 2019
The Basilicata Museum Complex and MAXXI, in collaboration with the 2019 Matera-Basilicata Foundation, present two new video works by the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat.
At Home. Projects for contemporary housing
A review that ranges from the low-cost housing projects of the post-war years to new experimental and sustainable ways of inhabiting the planet
Maria Lai. Tenendo per mano il sole
A necessary tribute to a great artist who created a language in relational art made of sensitivity, local tradition and global codes.
Alberto Garutti. Ai nati oggi
A public art project set in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo to celebrate the universal event of birth, moving a sudden and sincere emotion.
FAP - Future Architecture Platform. OAT. Oslo Architecture Triennale
The 2019 edition will challenge the supremacy of economic growth as the basis of contemporary societies and investigate the architecture of alternatives.
FAP - Future Architecture Platform. Lisbon Architecture Triennale
The 5th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale will be “The Poetics of Reason”: architecture rests on reason.
Altan. Pimpa, Cipputi and other thinkers
Altan’s entire world told through original drawings, posters, illustrations, paintings, sketches, tables, books and videos.
Videocittà at MAXXI. Videoart Week
Artist films, video and special reviews recounting the multiple facets of contemporary art.
Elisabetta Catalano. Between photography and performance
A new focus presentation of the MAXXI archives this time featuring a great photographer
Enzo Cucchi
«Painting recognises no customs. Children do not know gender. Art hates painters».
Valerio Berruti. La giostra di Nina
A cinematographic animation project that starts on paper to transform into a collective and participatory art performance.
Project and Utopia
Two restoration interventions on the Architecture Collection shed light on the importance of conservation in contemporary collections.
Upcoming
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
The human behaviour in a selection of films from 1988 to 2015.
Stefano Arienti
The rediscovery of craftsmanship, tradition, which is innovated by mechanical weaving procedures.
Le disobbedienti di Elisabetta Rasy
Da Artemisia Gentileschi a Frida Kahlo, le storie di sei donne che hanno cambiato l’arte.
Rinnovabili ed economia circolare, il futuro che ci attende
Una due giorni con l’obiettivo di far emergere le principali tematiche che stanno influenzando i processi produttivi e distributivi, nella maggior parte dei settori economici.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
The undercurrent complexity of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
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
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Mostra. Grandi fotografi per il Piccolo Principe
Una finestra aperta, sui diritti negati, nella speranza che in futuro tutti possano godere del diritto di essere bambino.
Videoart Week. Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
The human behaviour in a selection of films from 1988 to 2015.
Auteur conversations. Stefano Arienti
The rediscovery of craftsmanship, tradition, which is innovated by mechanical weaving procedures.
Libri al MAXXI. Le disobbedienti di Elisabetta Rasy
Da Artemisia Gentileschi a Frida Kahlo, le storie di sei donne che hanno cambiato l’arte.
Forum Sostenibilità. Rinnovabili ed economia circolare, il futuro che ci attende
Una due giorni con l’obiettivo di far emergere le principali tematiche che stanno influenzando i processi produttivi e distributivi, nella maggior parte dei settori economici.
Videoart Week. Talk. Rirkrit Tiravanija
The undercurrent complexity of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Film screening. To the Unknown God by Rodolfo Bisatti
A film that talks about the need to look after the person, starting from our own.
Free guided tour. From the Collection to Altan
A guided tour of the Permanent Collection and the exhibition "Altan. Pimpa, Cipputi e altri pensatori".
Videoart Week. Talk Garrett Bradley
Sundance Short Film Jury Award winner, Garrett Bradley explores socio-economic injustice, human conflict, historical reflection.
Videogallery. Pat O’Neill Focus
Los Angeles, gli Hollywood Studios e la storia degli effetti speciali. L'arte di Pat O'Neill ha trasformato l'industria cinematografica statunitense.
Talk. About Pat O’Neill
In occasione del "Focus Pat O’ Neill", il MAXXI celebra uno dei pionieri del cinema sperimentale con un incontro che ne ripercorre la lunga e poliedrica carriera.
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.
Presentazione del catalogo della mostra. Classic Reloaded. Mediterranea
A conclusione della mostra "Classic Reloaded. Mediterranea", il Museo presenta in anteprima il catalogo edito da Silvana Editoriale.
Books at MAXXI. Roma/amoR by Paolo Portoghesi
On Rome, Paolini wrote «I seem to feel hatred and yet I write verses filled with punctual love».
Special prices. #MAXXIBlackWeekend
Black friday arrives in the world of culture. Are you curious to explore the present?
Lectio magistralis. Gio Ponti: Elogio della Leggerezza. Con Fulvio Irace
«Ci sarà uno stile leggero e trasparente, semplice, collegato ad un costume sociale semplificato», Gio Ponti e la "leggerezza" delle architetture.
Workshop. Travel cabanon
An auteur carpentry experience to rediscover the origins of this noble art and explore your craft skills.
Concert and show. Rumi and St. Francis
Can music be the key to understanding the languages of spiritual philosophies?
Books at the MAXXI. Special Strega Prize. Claudia Durastanti with Nada Malanima
Reading and listening can be a sentimental education in the modern world.
Lezioni Olivettiane®. I designer di Adriano Olivetti. Graphic design con Vanni Pasca
Tre incontri dedicati alla grafica pubblicitaria, all’interior design e al design di prodotto, e a tutti i creativi che hanno reso celebre l’immagine della fabbrica di Ivrea in tutto il mondo.
Study Day. Preserving architecture collections
A comparison of materials, methods, and experiences. An occasion to bring together conservators from various institutions and sectors.
Lesson/Concert. Maestro Krishna Das
The techniques of transcendental sounds and vibrations as a practice of “inner awakening”.
Books at MAXXI. Modern Rome. From Napoleon to the Twenty-First Century by Italo Insolera
The last two centuries in the history of the Eternal City, capital of the Papal State, then of united Italy, first under the monarchy and subsequently the republic.
Performing the Archives. Elisabetta Catalano Photographing the performance
Three meetings to retrace the activity of one of the greatest photographers of our time.
Books at the MAXXI. Non avere paura di cadere by Mauro Magatti
«The greatest danger is to take for granted what has to be regenerated and regained every time. Freedom is always a new challenge. For each person, for each generation, for each society».
Books at MAXXI. L’ora d’arte by Tomaso Montanari
From the Etruscan walls to street art, Montanari gives voice to contemporary paintings, sculptures and graffiti.
Books at MAXXI. Special Strega Prize. Antonio Scurati with Giordano Bruno Guerri
Literature and novels are an ideal instrument to talk about history.
Talk. Jimmie Durham in conversation with Hou Hanru
Durham overturns clichés and status symbols, opening to other and alternative visions, not always – almost never in fact – corresponding to those of the dominant cultural thinking.
Libri al MAXXI. L’alfabeto verde di Papa Francesco di Franca Giansoldati
A book that revives the ancient saying ut pictura, poesis – that is at the beginning of the dialogue between painting and poetry – in a wonderful way.
Workshop. The architecture in a bag
Starting out from simple, linear forms, with the help of a designer we shall be making a bag, the aesthetic and technical synthesis of “distinction”.
Lezioni Olivettiane®. I designer di Adriano Olivetti. Interior Design con Enrico Morteo
Tre incontri dedicati alla grafica pubblicitaria, all’interior design e al design di prodotto, e a tutti i creativi che hanno reso celebre l’immagine della fabbrica di Ivrea in tutto il mondo.
Lectio magistralis. Il grande romanzo dei Vangeli. Corrado Augias
Who are they really, the men and women of that great polyphonic novel, the Gospels?
Talk. Andrea Carandini in conversation with Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
The spiritual in relation to the history of the city of Rome, starting out from the myth of its foundation and the sacred rituals of the era.
Free guided tour. From At Home to Casa Baldi
A unique tour starting from the At Home exhibit to the iconic Casa Baldi.
Books at MAXXI. La Terra dopo di noi by Telmo Pievani
What would the Earth be without our pervasive presence?
Lezioni Olivettiane®. I designer di Adriano Olivetti. Industrial Design con Domitilla Dardi e Perry King
Tre incontri dedicati alla grafica pubblicitaria, all’interior design e al design di prodotto, e a tutti i creativi che hanno reso celebre l’immagine della fabbrica di Ivrea in tutto il mondo.
Performing the Archives. Elisabetta Catalano Auteur portraits
Three meetings to retrace the activity of one of the greatest photographers of our time.
Lectio magistralis. Massimo Recalcati. New melancholies
Psychology of the masses and contemporary society: man is a – retiring - social animal.
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
