All the 2023 exhibitions of Brescia Musei: the schedule of the Italian Capital of Culture

Fondazione Brescia Musei announces the schedule of exhibitions to be held in 2023, the year in which Brescia together with Bergamo will be the Italian Capital of Culture.

Opening the exhibition season will be the Santa Giulia Museum’s winter projects: Isgrò cancels Brixia, a large site-specific exhibition curated by Marco Bazzini, which will involve some of Brescia’s most important monumental sites: from the Capitolium, to the Roman Theater, from the Santa Giulia Museum to the Renaissance cloister (until January 8); Victoria Lomasko. The Last Soviet Artist, the first solo exhibition of the Russian dissident artist curated by Elettra Stamboulis, the third act of Brescia Musei’ Contemporary Art for Human Rights cycle (through Jan. 8); and The City of the Lion. Brescia in the Age of Communes and Seignories, the major multi-object exhibition curated by Matteo Ferrari that, through 120 works, traces the chronological span between the second half of the 12th century and 1426, the year of Brescia’s dedication to the Republic of Venice, to discover the history of the city’s origins and cultural identity (through Jan. 29). Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo temporarily enriches its collection thanks to loans of masterpieces from partner museums and collections: Vincenzo Foppa. Saint John the Baptist and Saint Stephen, from the BPER Collection, in dialogue with Foppa’s masterpieces from the painter’s Brescian phase (through Feb. 5); Domenico Ghidoni. Leoni, monumental stone lions, from the Fondazione Ugo Da Como (through Feb. 26); Lorenzo Lotto. Portrait of a Man with Rosary, from the Nivaagaard Collection (Denmark), which will be exhibited in the Brescian museum’s portrait room (through June 18). At the Luigi Marzoli Arms Museum, on the other hand, it will be possible to admire the Barrier Corsalet of Vincenzo I Gonzaga, which belonged to the Duke of Mantua (1562-1612), from the Armory of the Royal Museums of Turin (until Feb. 12).

Unesco Corridor and new Roman Age section of the Santa Giulia Museum.

The Roman Age section of the Santa Giulia Museum will also be renovated twenty-five years after the museum’s opening with a permanent exhibition project and will also be enriched by three multimedia digital installations, created by None Collective. The enhancement and accessibility of museum sites are also behind the implementation of the UNESCO Corridor project, the new public space with free access, an immersive path between monuments and history that, physically uniting the two Brescian poles of the UNESCO site The Lombards in Italy. Places of Power (568-774 AD), will allow the public to travel through 2,000 years of history.

The Museum of the Risorgimento

A new opening is scheduled for Jan. 29: The Museum of the Risorgimento, after nearly a decade of closure, has been entirely renovated starting with its name, Lioness of Italy, and in the architecture of the Great and Small Mile in Brescia Castle. The museum, completely refounded in the light of an innovative, unprecedented and organic museological project, will bring together about a hundred artifacts, selected for their high artistic value (great history paintings and 19th-century sculpture) or documentary value (flags, uniforms, medals, objects of use, weapons, relics and memorabilia) and will feature an innovative digital design-oriented approach, as well as an immersive and multimedia facility. Actors from the Luca Ronconi School of Theater of Milan’s Piccolo Teatro will also give voice to the leading figures of the Brescian Risorgimento, in interpretations of the original texts of the period, led by Maria Paiato, Daniele Squassina and Gioele Dix, curated by CTB - Centro Teatrale Bresciano.

Giacomo Ceruti

Starting Feb. 14, a major monographic exhibition for Ceruti will be hosted at the Museo di Santa Giulia, as a project of Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo: Miseria & Nobiltà. Giacomo Ceruti in Eighteenth-Century Europe, curated by Roberta D’Adda, Francesco Frangi and Alessandro Morandotti (through May 28), with extraordinary loans from Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Gothenburg and numerous Italian public and private collections. The monographic exhibition intends to draw attention on the one hand to Giacomo Ceruti’s rootedness within the adventure of reality painting in Lombardy, and on the other hand to the international scope of his path. Thanks to a co-production with the Getty Center, the exhibition will be featured in Los Angeles from July 18. Also dedicated to the painter, a Brescian by adoption, famous for his canvases with pauperist subjects, but also a refined and refined portrait painter, is the exhibition Immaginario Ceruti. Prints in the Painter’s Workshop, curated by Francesco Ceretti and Roberta D’Adda (Feb. 14 to May 28) also at the Museo di Santa Giulia, which will focus on the artist’s workshop and his way of using engravings as models for paintings. Then, at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, the photographic exhibition LaChapelle per Ceruti, curated by Denis Curti (Feb. 14 to Nov. 10) will present an unpublished work executed for Brescia, and inspired by the pauperist production of Giacomo Ceruti.

Photography

Photography will also be dedicated to the most important exhibition ever held on the world of peaks: from March 24 to July 23, the Santa Giulia Museum will offer Vittorio Sella, Martin Chambi, Ansel Adams, Axel Hütte. Light of the Mountain, curated by Filippo Maggia. Four masters of photography, three of the 20th century as well as a contemporary master for an exhibition that, together with the LaChapelle for Ceruti project in Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, will be the centerpiece of the VI Edition of the Brescia Photo Festival, produced by Fondazione Brescia Musei, for the 2023 edition on the theme Capital, in collaboration with Mo.Ca - Center for New Cultures.

Contemporary art

Brixia marries Plessi, curated by Ilaria Bignotti (June 9 to January 7, 2024), in Brixia. Archaeological Park of Roman Brescia and at the Museum of Santa Giulia will instead be the first major exhibition that the city of Brescia dedicates to Fabrizio Plessi: featuring digital installations, video projections and monumental digital walls aimed at creating an immersive and engaging journey of high technology, light, sound and moving images, specifically dedicated to the city’s vestiges and heritage.

Ancient art in the autumn

Brescia’s autumn exhibition will then celebrate, from September 29, Brescia Cinquecento. The Spirit of the City, curated by Roberta D’Adda, Filippo Piazza and Enrico Valseriati (until Jan. 7, 2024), thanks to a Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo project in the spaces of the Museo di Santa Giulia: an unprecedented exhibition that tells the story of sixteenth-century culture through a selected choice of masterpieces by the masters of Brescian painting and precious objects from the city. Great interpreters of the first decades of the century, such as Savoldo, Romanino and Moretto, reinterpreted within a major exhibition program, also open in the city through itineraries, for which Brescia Musei and Museo Diocesano have developed the project Custodi della Bellezza that will allow visitors to visit sacred places, where capital works by the most significant artists of the time are preserved.

Image: Alessandro Bonvicino known as Moretto, Portrait of Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco, detail (1542; London, National Gallery)

All the 2023 exhibitions of Brescia Musei: the schedule of the Italian Capital of Culture

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