MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE 2024
sala Gian Ferrari
curated by Giulia Ferracci
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 24 December 11 am > 4 pm
Monday 25 December closed
Tuesday 31 December 11 am > 4 pm
Wednesday 1 January 11 am > 7 pm
Monday 6 January 11 am > 8 pm
for young people aged between 18 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma ticket holders; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Feltrinelli, Gruppo FS, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard; upon presenting at the ticket office a Frecciarossa or a Frecciargento ticket to Rome purchased between 27 November 2024 and 20 April 2025
valid for one year from the date of purchase
minors under 18 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; myMAXXI cardholders; registered journalists with a valid ID card; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; AMACI members; CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members; ICOM members; journalists (who can prove their business activity); European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
sala Gian Ferrari
curated by Giulia Ferracci
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 24 December 11 am > 4 pm
Monday 25 December closed
Tuesday 31 December 11 am > 4 pm
Wednesday 1 January 11 am > 7 pm
Monday 6 January 11 am > 8 pm
The project for supporting and promoting young artists, which has united MAXXI and Bulgari since 2018 and launched many new talents on the international scene over the years, returns for its fourth edition.
Riccardo Benassi, Monia Ben Hamouda and Binta Diaw are the three finalists.
The exhibition opens with ASSENZAHAH ESSENZAHAH by Riccardo Benassi. Inside the museum’s freight elevator, two robotic dogs perform choreographies created by the artist, moving through space accompanied by a musical composition and laser text projected on the walls.
In the centre of the space is the work by Binta Diaw, Juroom ñaar. It is inspired by a historical event of 1819, commemorated by the artist with seven columns of coal. Seven are, in fact, the women of the Senegalese village of Nder who died by setting themselves on fire to avoid slavery following the Moorish invasion.
Monia Ben Hamouda’s Theology of Collapse (The Myth of Past) I-X concludes the exhibition. The work consists of ten laser-carved iron panels with motifs inspired by Islamic calligraphy and mosques. The plates are installed on the gallery’s back wall, creating a collapsing effect that evokes the fragility of contemporary identities.
Their site-specific works, created especially for the Prize, are presented in the spaces of the sala Gian Ferrari. At the end of the exhibition project, the museum will acquire the winner’s work.