Exhibitions 2023: here are the 10 most anticipated ones

What are the ten most anticipated exhibitions opening in the first three months of 2023? We have selected the events toward which the public has the most expectations and offer them to you in order from the earliest to the latest opening. Also don’t forget that you can find many other exhibitions in our Find Exhibitions search engine by selecting location, dates and topics to search for the exhibition that is most interesting to you.

1. Brescia, Lotto, Romanino, Moretto, Ceruti. The champions of painting in Brescia and Bergamo.

The year begins with Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capitals of Culture 2023: and on this occasion, the rooms of Palazzo Martinengo in Brescia will host from January 21 to June 11, 2023 the exhibition Lotto, Romanino, Moretto, Ceruti. The Champions of Painting in Brescia and Bergamo, curated by Davide Dotti. For the first time, masterpieces by the greatest artists active between the 16th and 18th centuries in Brescia and Bergamo will be placed in dialogue, presenting the culture and artistic production of the two cities during the centuries of Venetian domination. Click here to learn more.

2. Bergamo, Cecco del Caravaggio

Still Italian Capitals of Culture 2023: a few days after Brescia, it will be the turn of Bergamo where, from January 26 to June 4, 2023, the Accademia Carrara presents, in the renovated spaces of the museum, the first exhibition ever dedicated in Italy and in the world to Cecco del Caravaggio (Francesco Boneri, c. 1585-after 1620), Caravaggio’s most mysterious pupil and model. The exhibition, entitled Cecco del Caravaggio. The Model Pupil and curated by Gianni Papi and Maria Cristina Rodeschini, counts on the presence of 41 works: 19 of about 25 known paintings by Cecco, 2 works by Caravaggio, and, together, artists who inspired and were inspired by this fascinating painter, with national and international loans from Berlin, London, Madrid, Oxford, Warsaw, Vienna, Brescia, Florence, Milan, and Rome. Click here to learn more.

3. Parma, Roy Lichtenstein

An exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein (New York, 1923 - 1997), in Parma, on the centenary of his birth: this is the one being held from February 11 to June 18, 2023 at Palazzo Tarasconi to celebrate one of the greatest interpreters of 20th-century art and a master of Pop Art. Entitled Roy Lichtenstein. Pop Variations, curated by Gianni Mercurio, sponsored by the City of Parma and produced by GCR, General Service and Security, with Artistic Direction by WeAreBeside, for the conception of MADEINART, the exhibition presents the many themes addressed by the great American artist through a selection of more than fifty works (editions and silkscreens, experimentations on metal, textiles and plastic as well as photographs and videos) from European and American collections. Click here to learn more.

4. Rovigo, Renoir and Italy.

Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo will host from February 25 to June 25, 2023, the exhibition Renoir and Italy, curated by Paolo Bolpagni and promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, with the Municipality of Rovigo and the Accademia dei Concordi. Impressionism, which although it had fascinated him, began to unconvince him. The then 40-year-old Pierre Auguste Renoir (Limoges, 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919) then decided to turn to great Italian art. He thus began his own personal Grand Tour in 1881 to study the masters of the Renaissance. Click here to read more.

5. Perugia, Perugino and his time.

On the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of his death, the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia is celebrating Pietro Vannucci, known as Perugino (Città della Pieve, c. 1450 - Fontignano, 1523), from March 4 to June 11, 2023, with a major exhibition. Entitled The Best Master of Italy. Perugino in his time, the exhibition curated by the director of the National Gallery of Umbria Marco Pierini and Veruska Picchiarelli, curator of the Perugian museum, aims to restore to the painter, the absolute protagonist of the last two decades of the 15th century, the role of artistic prominence that his public and his era had assigned to him, through masterpieces of his production, all of which predate 1504, that is, at the moment of the peak of his career. Click here to read more.

6. Florence, the stars of the contemporary from Maurizio Cattelan to Damien Hirst.

From March 4 to June 18, 2023, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi presents the exhibition Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. It will feature works by leading international contemporary artists, including Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, Lara Favaretto, Cindy Sherman, William Kentridge, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Josh Kline, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Rudolf Stingel, thus celebrating in Florence the 30th anniversary of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, one of Italy’s most famous and prestigious collections of contemporary art. Click here to learn more.

7. Vercelli, Giacomo Manzù

A major retrospective dedicated to Giacomo Manzù: this is what Vercelli is offering from March 10 to May 21, 2023. The exhibition, curated by Marta Concina, Daniele De Luca and Alberto Fiz, is housed in the Arca space and the former church of San Vittore, and is organized by the City of Vercelli, Archdiocese of Vercelli, Studio Copernico in collaboration with the Manzù Foundation. The title chosen (in particular by Alberto Fiz) is Giacomo Manzù. The sculpture is a moonbeam, echoing a quote by Cesare Brandi. Click here to read more.

8. Parma, Felice Casorati at the Magnani Rocca.

From March 18 to July 2, 2023, the Magnani Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the entire career of Felice Casorati (Novara, 1883 - Turin, 1963). Entitled simply Felice Casorati, the exhibition, curated by Giorgina Bertolino, Daniela Ferrari and Stefano Roffi, inscribes the artist’s career within the history of twentieth-century art and reconstructs his itinerary, from his early years to his maturity, with more than sixty works (many absolute masterpieces) from public institutions and private collections. The Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) thus continues its in-depth study of the protagonists of Italian painting of the last century. Click here to learn more.

9. Treviso, the masterpieces of Arturo Martini

From March 31 to July 30, 2023, the Luigi Bailo Museum in Treviso is hosting the exhibition Arturo Martini. Masterpieces, curated by Fabrizio Malachin and Nico Stringa. In Arturo Martini’s own words, works that “weigh tons and seem as light as a feather” will be on display, through which the public will be able to go through all the stages of the Treviso sculptor’s artistic production. It will be an opportunity for scholars to formulate the new point on Martini studies, highlighting Martini’s role and modernity in 20th-century European sculpture. Click here to learn more.

10. Amsterdam, Jan Vermeer

We close with an international event that promises to be of great significance: the exhibition that the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is dedicating to Jan Vermeer, one of the most eagerly awaited in the world. Opening on February 10 and on view until June 4, 2023, the exhibition will feature works by the celebrated artist from around the world. A team of curators, conservators and researchers have worked closely together to carry out new research on Vermeer’s paintings using the latest technology. These have shed new light on the painter’s life and work, the artistic choices and motivations behind his works, and the creative process behind his painting.

Exhibitions 2023: here are the 10 most anticipated ones

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