2020 exhibitions at Palazzo Strozzi: Natalia Goncharova, Tomás Saraceno and Jeff Koons are the stars

In Florence, Palazzo Strozzi announced this morning the 2020 exhibition schedule: the protagonists will be Natalia Goncharova (Negaevo, 1881 - Paris, 1962), Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1973) and Jeff Koons (York, Pennsylvania, 1955). It will thus be a great artist of the 20th century and two world-renowned contemporary artists who will alternate in the historic Florentine palace: the first exhibition will be the one dedicated to Natalia Goncharova, which will open its doors shortly after the closure of the Verrocchio exhibition. Palazzo Strozzi thus reopens the discourse on the contemporary after having brought to Florence monographs by “artistars” such as Ai Weiwei, Bill Viola, Carsten Höller and Marina Abramović.

It starts with Natalia Goncharova Una donna e le avanguardie tra Gauguin, Matisse e Picasso, from September 28, 2019 to January 12, 2020. The retrospective will trace the Russian painter’s countercultural life and her artistic production in comparison with masterpieces by famous artists who were points of reference for her such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Giacomo Balla, and Umberto Boccioni. In a kind of journey between Paris and Moscow, the artist’s two iconic cities, the exhibition will seek to highlight the nonconformist attitude of a woman who knew how to live for art, creating an original fusion of tradition and innovation, East and West, and making her work a unique example of experimentation between artistic styles and genres, from primitivism to raggism, from painting and graphic design to work for the theater. The exhibition will be curated by Ludovica Sebregondi (Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi) Matthew Gale (Head of Displays, Tate Modern) and Natalia Sidlina (Curator, International Art, Tate Modern) and is promoted and organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Tate Modern, London with the collaboration of the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki.

The monographic exhibition on Tomás Saraceno (untitled for now), from Feb. 21, 2020 to July 19, 2020, brings to Florence works by the Argentine artist who creates unexpected connections between art, architecture and science, engaging the public in imaginative and participatory experiences to collectively rethink the way we inhabit the world, beyond a human-only perspective. The Palazzo Strozzi exhibition will be Saraceno’s largest Italian project, and for the occasion the artist will transform Palazzo Strozzi into a new unified space by bringing together his celebrated works and a major new site-specific production. Accompanied by a rich program of interdisciplinary activities, the exhibition will try to create a kind of “organism vivent ”e between the human and the nonhuman, the visible and the invisible, in which all beings come into connection contributing to the creation of a new shared reality.

Finally, the exhibition dedicated to Jeff Koons will be held from September 2020 to January 2021 (dates yet to be determined): the American artist will be the protagonist of a retrospective that will bring to Florence works from the 1970s to the 2000s, up to his latest productions.

“After the major autumn exhibition that marks an important international collaboration with London’s Tate Modern,” says Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Director General Arturo Galansino, “the year 2020 represents a fundamental moment in the history of Palazzo Strozzi. Tomás Saraceno and Jeff Koons, two of the leading contemporary artists on the international scene, are working with us to create two event exhibitions that will transform the Palazzo into a place of deep experimentation and public engagement. Palazzo Strozzi is thus increasingly positioning itself as a point of reference among cultural institutions at the international level, promoting the city of Florence and the Region of Tuscany also as destinations for great contemporary art.”

Pictured: Jeff Koons with his work Rabbit

2020 exhibitions at Palazzo Strozzi: Natalia Goncharova, Tomás Saraceno and Jeff Koons are the stars

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