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African Metropolis. An imaginary city
A detailed overview of the artistic and cultural scene of the African continent.
Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial...
An exploration of the technological and surreal imaginary of the artists of today, from computer-generated dreams to creative algorithms and avatars that question the meaning of existence.
MAXXI BVLGARI Prize
MAXXI and Bulgari together for young contemporary art with the Award that this year is renewed and is projected on the international art scene.
Rome Film Fest Screenings and seminars at MAXXI
The Rome Film Fest is back from 18 to 28 October and will be bringing you to MAXXI
Festa del Cinema di Roma SOLDATI D’ITALIA di Andrea Salvadore
Una mattinata dedicata alle missioni militari all’estero, con la proiezione del film-documentario tratto da un ciclo in sei parti ideato e prodotto da Rai Italia.
Festa del Cinema di Roma BACK HOME di Magdalena Łazarkiewicz
Un percorso accidentato che porterà una giovane ragazza polacca verso l’indipendenza
YAP Rome at MAXXI
Trees and plants for a wild oasis in the museum piazza, thanks to the project organized in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art of New York, within the ambit of the Young Architecture Program.
Caline Aoun. seeing is believing
The first solo exhibition in Europe for the artist who won the Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2018-2019.
When sound becomes form
The story of the Italian sound avant-garde through photographs, films, videos, historical posters, original LPs and audio contributions.
Eco e Narciso. Portraiture and self-portraiture in the...
A major exhibition uniting old masters and contemporary art.
THE INDEPENDENT. NESXT
A symbolic map of the practices that inhabit the ever-expanding independent national scene, with a selection of eight projects.
ENI DATAFRICA
Un percorso multimediale tra il continente africano e il futuro.
Rino Barillari. The King of Paparazzi
An exhibition with the candid shots of the world’s most famous photo reporter
Artapes. Candice Breitz
On the occasion of Videocittà, the museum’s screening programme will feature a focus on the South African artist.
Upcoming
Afrofuturismo Femminista
An encounter presenting the themes and idioms of Afrofuturism and their encounter with feminism
Ananda Yoga: the awakening of the Self
A different way to start the day, with an inner journey towards heightened consciousness.
Museum Booster 2018
Museum Booster is back, the great digital marathon dedicated to the most innovative ideas and services helping reinvent the museums of the 21st century.
Shirin Neshat. Looking for Oum Kulthum
Un ciclo di appuntamenti nell'ambito del programma dedicato alla videoarte, in occasione della Festa del Cinema di Roma.
From Zaha Hadid project to Low Form
A guided tour of museum architecture and the exhibition "Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence".
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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Road to Justice
Gallery 5
curated by Anne Palopoli
The wounds and the violence present in African society and the search for possible solutions.
In today’s world there is ever increasing disparity in the distribution of resources and ever greater numbers of people subjected to political-economic privations. MAXXI is pursuing two parallel projects; the major exhibition African Métropolis which, structured around the concept of the city, features the works of African artists, and Road to Justice, an experimental project that integrates works from the museum collection with others chosen for this specific occasion.
In the history of the African continent, the deportation of entire populations and the successive colonization have led to the progressive destruction of ancient cultures and the alteration of political, religious and social equilibriums. Over the centuries, the presume superiority of the whites with respect to the native peoples has been used to justify the oppression, exploitation and impoverishment of the territory. Contemporary artists are the keepers of these events and the exhibition recounts this imbalance, this trauma and investigates whether its healing is possible to imagine.
The artists: John Akomfrah, Marlene Dumas, Kendell Geers, Bouchra Khalili, Moshekwa Langa, Wangechi Mutu, Malik Nejmi, Michael Tsegaye, Sue Williamson
Stills of ‘Peripeteia’ (2012) by John Akomfrah © Smoking Dogs Films. Courtesy Lisson Gallery
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