What's on today
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.
Summer at MAXXI. Books 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.
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
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.
Spiagge. Theatrical reading by and with Isabella Ragonese
In Italy, the coast, the sea and its beaches represent a condition and a place that characterise life, society and the way people think and act.
Il Giardino dell’arte by Claudio Strinati
David is a Canadian PhD student in Art History. He leaves for Italy to discover all the treasures that have been the subject of his studies.
RomAraBeat with Moni Ovadia. The Maghreb meets the Balkans
The exceptional ensemble of Maghrebi, Romanian Roma and Italian musicians combines Arabic melodies and gypsy rhythms, with the Mediterranean at the centre.
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.
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Project and Utopia
Architecture Archive Centre
Two restoration interventions on the Architecture Collection shed light on the importance of conservation in contemporary collections.
The museum presents to the public two works belonging to the MAXXI Architecture Collection: the model used for the Competition for the Chamber of Deputies from the Vittorio De Feo Archive and Paolo Soleri’s Space IV scroll.
At first glance the two works may seem very different from each other. One (Vittorio De Feo’s model) is made of wood and the other (Paolo Soleri’s scroll) is made of paper; one is a proposal for an urban project and the other is the graphic representation of an utopia; one is created by a working group and the other the result of its Artist’s choice to live isolated when he retreated in Arizona. Yet, they have a common thread: both are part of the Architecture Collection, they are the physical representation of the design process that runs through the mind of the architects; both represent new and alternative solutions to a world that does not seem satisfactory.
The Project and Utopia exhibit is the result of a work carried out in 2019, carried out in collaboration with the Fondazione Paola Droghetti, which has made two scholarships available to young graduates, the ISCR (Higher Institute for Conservation and Restoration) and the ICRCPAL (Central Institute for Restoration and Conservation of the Archival and Book Heritage), in charge for the scientific direction of restoration activities.
The exhibit is accompanied by a catalogue curated by Patrizia Cavalieri, Francesca Romana Liserre and Carla Zhara Buda (Gangemi Editore).
In collaboration with the Paola Droghetti non-profit foundation, ISCR The Higher Institute for Conservation and Restoration, and ICRCPASL The Central Institute for Restoration and Conservation of the Archival and Book Heritage.
