Exhibitions
Running until 3 May 2009, this exhibition provides an opportunity to admire 111 of the 119 watercolours that make up the “Picturesque Rome. Memories of an era that is disappearing” series, better known as “Vanished Rome”.
An assortment of lace from the Arnaldo Caprai Collection in Foligno, considered to be one of the most important private textile collections in Europe.
For the first time in their history, the Capitoline Museums are playing host to a quite unheard of historic, formal and aesthetic meeting of its in-house permanent collections and a newly created exhibit of contemporary porcelain and designs from the National Sèvres Factory.
Una Roma molto diversa da come ci appare oggi, che si presentava agli occhi di artisti e di viaggiatori come una immensa e sorprendente sequenza di monumenti, percorsa dal Tevere e circondata dalla campagna.
The Museo della Casina delle Civette is playing host to an exhibition dedicated to the work of Sardinian painter, illustrator and miniaturist, Pino Melis.
This exhibition sets out to explore the fascination of Gilles Chaillet in ancient Rome by relating the graphic works on display to the collection housed in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, paying particular attention to the model of the City of Rome.
he exhibition, conceived and promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sets out to inform about and foster a greater appreciation for one of the most fascinating chapters in Italy's artistic history, during which Rome was buzzing and international cultural exchanges were plentiful.
The Cinema, Art, Fashion, Customs of these last 101 years, and even the different bras that have appeared are used to illustrate what has happened in that time.
An exhibition of photographs taken by war correspondents to tell the story of people and places caught up in conflicts that have broken out in all corners of the globe in the last twenty-five years.
The Musem of the Ara Pacis in Rome is hosting an important exhibition dedicated entirely to versatile Milanese artist – a sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist and industrial designer – Bruno Munari.
The Italian preview of the “Lisette Model and her school. Photographs from 1937 – 2002” travelling exhibition.
extended until 30 November 2008
Photos, paintings, frescoes and archaeological collections municipal documenting the changes in the urban fabric in the Fori Imperiali.
On show in Italy for the first time: 120 images of war by photographer Ennio Iacobucci on display at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere
Between 20 June and 14 September, the Ara Pacis Museum is hosting the “Jean Prouvé: the Poertry of a Technical Object” exhibition, a comprehensive retrospective on one of the greatest French architects and designers of the 20th century.
MACRO Hall presents the new site-specific work by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, which comes in the wake of those by Erwin Wurm, Pedro Cabrita Reis and Atelier Van Lieshout.
Gregor Schneider (1969) was born in Rheydt, Germany, where he lives and works.
During his artistic career, which started in 1985, he has taken part in the Venice Biennale with Totes Haus u r at the 49th show in 2001 in the German pavilion.
In the Panorama Galleries, the exhibition space devoted to young artists, MACRO is presenting Forget the Heroes, the new project by Paolo Chiasera which is destined for the Museum’s Permanent Collection.
Selected by an international jury of experts from the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam who have been awarding this prestigious prize for 50 years, this exhibition brings together the best and most representative images chosen from those that have accompanied, documented and illustrated international newspaper stories on world events during the course of an entire year.
MACRO is presenting a selection of paintings and drawings by the Irish artist at MACRO FUTURE. The exhibition is a joint venture with the Fundacio Joan Miró in Barcelona and the Musée d’Art Moderne in Saint Étienne.
The photographic archives of the City of Rome’s Press Office have provided a vast number of photographs that tell the story of the Capital of Italy between 1900 and the present for an exhibition hosted by the Palazzo Braschi.
Since 2004, Orit Drori has been to Birmania four times. His mission has been to see as much of this little-known country as possible.
Giuliano Matteucci set off to Guinea to shadow doctors from the Sant’Egidio Community, who were themselves following in the footsteps of Eugene Smith’s “Country Doctor”. As the medics get on with their work, daily life for their patients carries on as normal.
It is only a little over ten years ago that the civil war in El Salvador came to an end. During the troubles, the Church paid a huge price for siding with the poor, humanity and peace.
There is an Italy that rarely gets a mention and that newspapers give little or no space to, but it is never-the-less an aspect of the country that should be revealed.
L’eclisse di Antonioni rappresenta per Daniele Dainelli e le sue foto su Tokyo un riferimento, una conferma, un’ispirazione, un possibile traguardo.
Presso la cinquecentesca Farnesina ai Baullari, 25 sculture del giovane artista Paolo Delle Monache si affiancano alle antiche opere di arte mediterranea della collezione del Museo Barracco.
The Bilotti Museum in Rome is playing host to around 150 items from the Cotroneo Collection – whose raison d’être is to bring together works produced by the great names of contemporary art and photography along with any others they consider to be new talent.
Nahum Tevet (1946), an Israeli artist who live and works in Tel Aviv, has selected for his one-man show, organised at the Panorama Rooms by MACRO, a series of works set apart by the use of wood: two large installations, Untitled 1995-96 and Take Two, plus a number of wall works.
This event, which could well be described as long-awaited, is the second time that these two indisputably important contributors to contemporary culture have worked together; the first being almost ten years ago in 1999 at London’s “Round House”.
When artefacts recovered from important archaeological sites in Rome and the excavations in Pompeii and Herculaneum went on public display in the 18th century, they certainly rekindled a general interest in the ancient world. This exhibition, featuring porcelain manufactured in Doccia and items in biscuit by Giovanni Volpato, makes that fact very clear as the displays include the original ancient prototypes with which to compare them. Examples of Naples and foreign porcelain are also on show as are a selection of paintings, drawings and engravings.
The “Casino dei Principi” in Villa Torlonia, is hosting an exhibition that depicts the relationship that Levi had with Rome by comparing his work to that of artists from the Roman School.
MACRO Future, the experimental site of MACRO in the Testaccio quarter, holds the first-ever personal exhibition in an Italian museum of the Russian AES+F collective, curated by the Director of the Multimedia Art Center Moscow, Olga Sviblova.
Italy will have a chance to behold, after France, Mexico and Germany, the portion of the Trésor of the Fondation Napoléon of Paris tied to the First Empire. Two hundred works will be on display from 15 February to 25 May 2008 at the Napoleonic Museum of Rome, in a new exposition space that will be officially unveiled for the occasion.
A work by Huang Rui: Peking 2008: time, animals and history is the name of the large installation conceived and created especially for the Museo delle Mura di Porta San Sebastiano by Huang Rui, one of China’s leading contemporary artists who has a particular fascination for the capital’s more sizeable constructions in brick, including, for example, the Roman walls.