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Collezione MAXXI. Lo Spazio dell’Immagine
A renewal at the heart of the museum with a new set- up of the permanent Collection
on the spiritual matter of art
An exhibition dedicated to those artistic paths that seek another dimension, of absolute, between universal, material and immaterial, immanent and transcendent.
Gio Ponti. Loving architecture
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.
Shirin Neshat. Matera 2019
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.
At Home. Projects for contemporary housing
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
Maria Lai. Tenendo per mano il sole
A necessary tribute to a great artist who created a language in relational art made of sensitivity, local tradition and global codes.
Alberto Garutti. Ai nati oggi
A public art project set in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo to celebrate the universal event of birth, moving a sudden and sincere emotion.
Altan. Pimpa, Cipputi and other thinkers
Altan’s entire world told through original drawings, posters, illustrations, paintings, sketches, tables, books and videos.
Performing the Archives. Elisabetta Catalano Photographing the performance
Three meetings to retrace the activity of one of the greatest photographers of our time.
Books at Maxxi. Il Novecento II. Vol. by Vittorio Sgarbi
From Lucio Fontana to Piero Guccione. Sgarbi pursues beauty among extraordinary discoveries and venerated masters.
Elisabetta Catalano. Between photography and performance
A new focus presentation of the MAXXI archives this time featuring a great photographer
Enzo Cucchi
«Painting recognises no customs. Children do not know gender. Art hates painters».
Valerio Berruti. La giostra di Nina
A cinematographic animation project that starts on paper to transform into a collective and participatory art performance.
Videogallery. DOC HOME
An international review examining and investigating, through diverse idioms, the myriad faces of contemporary living.
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Tessere lo spazio delle relazioni
Un percorso guidato gratuito ad alcune gallerie del Museo a cura degli ospiti dell’Istituto di riabilitazione Leonarda Vaccari.
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi racconta della materia spirituale dell’arte
Un straordinario viaggio nel progetto che indaga il tema dello spirituale attraverso lo sguardo dell’arte contemporanea e, al contempo, della storia arcaica di Roma.
Non avere paura di cadere by Mauro Magatti
Fifty years after the "spring in which the streets and squares of our country resounded with freedom", that concept, cultivated by the baby boomer generation, is at risk of collapse.
L’ora d’arte by Tomaso Montanari
From the Etruscan walls to street art, Montanari gives voice to contemporary paintings, sculptures and graffiti.
Unknown Places
Una raccolta fotografica che racconta il mondo con gli occhi di chi ha ancora voglia di scoprirlo.
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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The Japanese House. Architecture & life after 1945
Gallery 2
curated by Pippo Ciorra in collaboration with Kenjiro Hosaka (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) and Florence Ostende (Barbican Centre, Londra). The Chief Advisor is Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow / Tokyo Institute of Technology).
Between tradition and innovation the architecture of the Japanese house recounts an entire culture
Co-organized by the Japan Foundation, Tokyo and MAXXI – the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, and coproduced by the Japan Foundation, MAXXI, Barbican Centre and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, this exhibition describes the importance of house design in Japan through the work of archistars such as Kenzo Tange, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and Shigeru Ban, as well as their masters less well known in the west such as Shirai, Shinohara, Sakamoto and extraordinarily promising youngsters.
A combination of architectural tradition and innovation, of nature and artifice, ancient and technological advanced materials: the domestic space is the key to the entire metropolitan culture of contemporary Japan.
The exhibition presents the essential aspects of the Japanese house, revealing the expressive richness of the designs and their capacity for creating an unexpected harmony between man, building and context.
Drawings, models, period and contemporary photographs, videos, interviews, film clips, mangas and works by artists make up the exhibition along with full-size models of fragments and sections of particularly significant buildings, in an installation designed by Atelier Bow-Wow in collaboration with the museum.
MAXXI in the world
BARBICAN CENTRE | London
March 23 – June 25, 2017
MOMAT | Tokyo
July 19 – October 29, 2017
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#TheJapaneseHouse
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