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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.
YAP ROME AT MAXXI 2020
The Young Architects Program, launched and coordinated by MoMA, reaches its 8th edition at MAXXI.
CASA MONDO
Seven leading international designers have been asked to investigate and present their vision regarding seven themes and functions of habitation.
INTERSOS al MAXXI
INTERSOS e MAXXI di nuovo insieme per sostenere i progetti umanitari in zone di conflitto armato e disastro naturale e per contrastare la pandemia da COVID-19.
At Home 20.20
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
Extra Doc Festival award ceremony
Ten competing Italian documentaries and a jury of experts to award the "Best Italian Documentary of the Year" and assign the "Extra Doc CityFest" award to the best unreleased documentary.
Forte respiro rapido. La mia vita con Dino Risi byMarco Risi
Dino Risi is the director of the so-called "Italian comedy". Marco Risi is the young man who challenged his father on his own ground. Can one be a son and also perceive the father as a master?
Kobane Calling. Oggi by Zerocalcare
Four years after the first edition, updating the information on the situation of the Syrian Kurds and their disputed land, the Rojava, is more important than ever.
L’abisso with Davide Enia
A show taken from the book by Davide Enia "Appunti per un Naufragio" which uses the languages of theatre to deal with the mosaic of this present time.
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Kemang Wa Lehulere. Bird Song
Gian Ferrari Hall
curated by Britta Färber and Anne Palopoli
How many stories are to be found in our history? Some have been erased, rewritten or forgotten. How should they be told and by whom?
History and time, memory and the artist’s role in society are just some of the major themes tackled in the work of Kemang Wa Lehulere, the Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2017, whose first solo show in Italy is being presented by MAXXI together with Deutsche Bank.
Bird Song is a unitary project focusing on the dialogue between the works of Kemang Wa Lehulere and those of Gladys Mgudlandlu (1917-1979) who in the Sixties was one of the first black artists to exhibit their work in a gallery in South Africa: landscapes and numerous birds, which earned her the nickname “Bird Lady”.
Kemang Wa Lehulere, who grew up in the same quarter in Gugulethu, searches for traces of those paintings, bringing to light a number that inspired this project.
The works of the two artists establish a dialogue of back-and-forth references: We Lehulere places his works alongside those of Gladys Mgudlandlu, allowing the works themselves to comment on and respond to one another.
Kemang Wa Lehulere, My Apologies to Time, 2017 (detail)
