Current exhibitions
Gio Ponti. Loving architecture
REOPENING: 22-23-24/29-30-31 May and from 2 June on the usual opening days and hours
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.
Elisabetta Catalano. Between photography and performance
A new focus presentation of the MAXXI archives this time featuring a great photographer
REAL_ITALY
REOPENING: from 2 June 2020
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.
At Home/Projects for contemporary housing
REOPENING: from 18 June 2020
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
Alcantara Project - MAXXI. Studio Visit Konstantin Grcic. Imagination in power
REOPENING: from 18 June 2020
A space inspired by Pier Luigi Nervi that visitors may enter and move around.
THE INDEPENDENT. Max Fletcher
Three canvases combine words, painting and gestures in a critical rethinking of the past as a means of building friendships, solidarity and alliances.
Upcoming
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».
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.
senzamargine. Passages in Italian Art at the Turn of the Millennium
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.
MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE
MAXXI and Bulgari together for young contemporary art.
Navin Rawanchaikul. Ciao da Roma
An imposing oil on canvas between Bollywood and the Roman suburbs, diaspora and cultural integration.
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Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
Video gallery
On the occasion of the exhibition At Home. Projects for contemporary housing, the Museum’s video gallery, thanks to the support of In Between Art Film, host a screening program focus on the theme of inhabiting, towards the works of the masters of the 20th Century until the major sustainable housing projects of today.
The first focus, dedicated to the artistic duo formed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, whose entire corpus of works has recently been acquired by MoMA New York, features the screening of the film Moriyama-San, together with a selection of works focused on the life in some of contemporary architecture’s most important buildings.
Programma proiezioni:
Koolhaas Houselife, France, 2008, 58’ (French, sub Italian)
25 Bis, France, 2014, 46’ (French, sub English)
Barbicania, France/UK, 2014, 90’ (English, sub Italian)
The Infinite Happiness, France/Denmark, 2015, 85’ (English, sub Italian)
Selling Dreams, France, 2016, 25’ 9’’ (English, sub English)
Koolhaas Houselife
Koolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture: the house in Bordeaux, designed by Rem Koolhaas in 1998. The film lets the viewer enter into the daily intimacy of the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper, and the other people who look after the building.
25 Bis
25 Bis is an intimate portrait of a masterpiece from the beginning of Auguste Perret’s career: the building located on 25 Bis, Rue Franklin in Paris. From the life stories that have left the trace of a passage, the film draws the fragile and undefined essence that could be called “the soul of the place”.
Barbicania
Barbicania is a month long immersion in the life of the Barbican Centre and Estate in London, one of the most representative achievements of brutalist architecture.
The Infinite Happiness
The film takes us to the heart of one of the contemporary residential developments considered to be a new model of success: the giant “8 House” of Copenhagen, built by Bjarke Ingels. In a month in this vertical village, the artists portray the building through the stories of those who live there and question the architecture’s ability to create collective happiness.
Selling Dreams
The Airbnb phenomenon told through the story of young Mark, who gives up his comfortable family life when he starts earning a living by renting dream apartments, while he himself lives in a different hotel room every day.
Photo © The Infinite Happiness – Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine
