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TUESDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
WEDNESDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
THURSDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
FRIDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
SATURDAY closed
SUNDAY closed
The ticket office is open until 1 hour before Museum closing.
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minors under 14 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; MiBACT employees; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; ICOM members; AMACI members; accredited journalists; myMAXXI membership cardholders; students and university researchers in Art and Architecture from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); on your birthday presenting an identity document; for the entrance to galleria 1, from Tuesday to Thursday; for the entrance to galleria 1 every third Friday of the month, thanks to Acea, from 16 October 2020 to 21 May 2021.
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possibility of a combined ticket, with a supplement of € 2, showing the MAXXI entrance ticket at the Museum ticket office.
minors under 14 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; Roma PAss; myMAXXI membership cardholders.
MAXXI’s Collection represents the museum’s founding element and it determines its identity. From October 2015 the display is permanent with several pathways.
Palazzo Lanfranchi Museum, Chiesa del Carmine – Matera
every day from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Free admittance
The Basilicata Museum Complex and MAXXI, in collaboration with the 2019 Matera-Basilicata Foundation, present two new video works by the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat.
During the Matera, 2019 European Capital of Culture, the Iranian artist presents two works taken from her latest feature film Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017) – co-produced and distributed in Italy by In Between Art Film and Vivo Film- starring Mitra, a director of Iranian origins whose dream is to create a film dedicated to the legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kulthum, who is loved throughout the Arab world. Dreamlike images overlap with historical reconstructions of the singer’s life and the story of Mitra’s existence, made even more tormented by her son’s death.
As if transported in a dream, in Remembrance we see a boy led by the singer’s voice in a sort of space-time labyrinth. The young man’s gaze reveals the many facets of Kulthum’s icon, her intimate and melancholy side and at the same time the strength of her stage presence and the deep desire for freedom. In the video In Trance the focus is on the mystical power of her music, capable of hypnotising listeners. In this reflection on the ecstatic experience linked to Kulthum’s voice, the fragility and uncertainties of the young singer, who questions how to emotionally approach her audience, emerge.
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A talk with Shirin Neshat together with the Director of the Basilicata Museum Complex, Marta Ragozzino and the MAXXI Arte Director, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi will be held on 11 September at 6:00 p.m. The filming will be open to the public following the talk, at 7:00 p.m.
Foto © Lyle Ashton Harris