What's on today
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.
Books at MAXXI. Building the landscape by Lina Malfona
An architecture laboratory in the Roman countryside, a place where contemporary houses and projects are developed.
Altan. Pimpa, Cipputi and other thinkers
Altan’s entire world told through original drawings, posters, illustrations, paintings, sketches, tables, books and videos.
Free guided tour. From At Home to Casa Baldi
A unique tour starting from the At Home exhibit to the iconic Casa Baldi.
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.
Videogallery. Ali Kazma. Film Essays 1&2
Locations and humanity – explored separately but seen together – appear like pieces of a wide Mosaic, giving us an idea of the complex research of Ali Kazma about the world at the time of the Globalization.
Upcoming
The Answer by Pavan Kaul
An endeavour, a symbol of the eternal search for one’s inner strength.
Ti rubo la vita by Cinzia Leone
Jews of necessity, Jews on the run, or half-Jews: Miriam, Giuditta and Esther are women capable of defending their identity against the dangers of men and history.
on the spiritual matter of art
Archaeologists, art historians, sociologists, philosophers, and experts of technologies relating to the topic of spirituality in art.
Asperger film festival
Il festival cinematografico a cura dell'associazione Not Equal torna al Museo con 61 cortometraggi capaci di raccontare la realtà che ci circonda.
Prigionieri di Valerio Bispuri
A journey on the human being, on the emotional and psychological state of those without freedom.
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
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opening hours
TUESDAY 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
WEDNESDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
THURSDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
FRIDAY 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
SATURDAY 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
SUNDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
The ticket office is open until 1 hour before Museum closing.
CLOSING DAYS
Every Monday, 1 May, 25 December
Palombini at MAXXI Cafe
MONDAY closed
TUESDAY and THURSDAY 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY 8:00 am – 7:30 pm
SATURDAY and SUNDAY 9:00 am – 7:30 pm
Mediterraneo restaurant and garden
MONDAY closed
TUESDAY to THURSDAY 11:00 am – 00:00 am
FRIDAY and SATURDAY 11:00 am – 2:00 am
SUNDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Gian Ferrari Hall
«Painting recognises no customs. Children do not know gender. Art hates painters».
One of the most influential figures on the contemporary art scene presents a new project designed specifically for the spaces of the Gian Ferrari Hall at MAXXI. An extraordinary inventor of powerful and enigmatic images, Cucchi incorporates an aesthetic that ranges between time and history, thus synthesising individual myths and collective imagination.
Enzo Cucchi proposes a single work on display: a radical gesture in his rarefaction of a single object, of modest dimensions in relation to the architecture of space designed by Zaha Hadid, exhibited on a base that itself becomes an integral part of the work. A putto, to whose big toe a scorpion appears to cling, hands to eyes in the gesture of the telescope for focusing the vision, reinterprets in an extremely contemporary image the classic iconography of the naked child, with references that recur in the history of art and that go from the Roman statuary to the great Baroque frescoes.
With this work/gesture, the fiercely modern Enzo Cucchi finally returns to talk about Rome, his adopted city, in whose cradle he has always nourished himself and in which he captures the sense of personal and civil resistance to the unstoppable progress of a world based on speed and emergency and of a culture of technology and science that increasingly drains the spaces of desire and freedom of thought every day.
Photo © Mark Peckmezian, 2017