Exhibitions and events at Brescia

Pinturicchio's Madonna of Peace and textile art in dialogue at Brescia Diocesan Museum

The Diocesan Museum of Brescia offers a symbolic reflection through the dialogue between great Renaissance painting and textile art. It happens with Adoremus, one of the most anticipated events in the museum's exhibition calendar, which, for its fift...
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Tiepolo and Pellegrini: Venetian light on display at Brescia's Casa Museo Zani

Casa Museo Zani in Brescia opens its doors from December 12, 2025 to April 6, 2026 for an exhibition that focuses on the role of light in eighteenth-century Venetian painting through comparisons between Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Venice, 1675 - 174...
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Two Roman masterpieces in dialogue at Brescia's Capitolium

A direct confrontation between two famous bronze sculptures from Roman times is at the center of Victoria Mater. The Idol and the Icon, the installation conceived by Francesco Vezzoli and curated by Donatien Grau, adviser to the president of the Louv...
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Brescia, Palestinian collective Eltiqa's works that survived the bombs on Gaza on display

From Nov. 8, 2025 to Feb. 22, 2026, Brescia 's Museo di Santa Giulia is hosting Material for an Exhibition. Stories, Memories and Struggles from Palestine and the Mediterranean, an exhibition curated by Sara Alberani that ideally reconstructs the art...
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A major exhibition on Art Nouveau in Brescia: painting, sculpture and decorative arts in one hundred works

Palazzo Martinengo in Brescia will host from January 24 to June 14, 2026 the exhibition LIBERTY. The Art of Modern Italy, entirely dedicated to Art Nouveau, an artistic and cultural period that characterized the transition between the 19th and 20th c...
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Fiber art and textile experimentation: Marion Baruch on display in Brescia

From Sept. 26 to Oct. 25, 2025, the Sottotetto of Palazzo della Loggia in Brescia will host the solo exhibition of Marion Baruch, an internationally renowned artist known for her research in fiber art, performance and participatory art. The exhibitio...
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Over forty years of Hermann Nitsch's research on display in Brescia.

In 1975, in his Prinzendorf Castle, Hermann Nitsch (Vienna, 1938 - Mistelbach, 2022) stagedAktion No. 50: a performance in which a naked, blindfolded man evoked the sacrifice of the Crucifixion, exposing his body to the pain of the world, a reflectio...
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A never-before-seen exhibition on Flemish painter Matthias Stom at Brescia's Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo

From September 18, 2025 to February 15, 2026, the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia will host in its exhibition halls the exhibition Matthias Stom. A Caravaggesque in the Lombard Collections, curated by Gianni Papi and promoted by the Municipali...
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