Fall 2022 exhibitions: here are the 10 not to be missed

What are the must-see exhibitions forfall 2022? We tried to see which are the 10 most anticipated events of the season in Italy: here is our selection, which only covers art history exhibitions. And if you are not satisfied, you can look for other exhibitions in our Find Exhibitions search engine by selecting location, dates and topics to search for the exhibition that most closely matches your interests.

1. Bologna, the painters of Pompeii

From September 23, 2022 to March 19, 2023, the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna will host the exhibition The Painters of Pompeii. Curated by Mario Grimaldi and produced by MondoMostre, the exhibition will feature the loan of more than one hundred works from the Roman period belonging to the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The exhibition will focus on the figures of the pictores, the authors of the decorative devices in the domus of Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvian area. A journey into first-century A.D. society that will highlight the role of the pictores, the relationship with patrons, the techniques used and Greek and local reference models. Click here to learn more.

2. Padua, Italy, the exhibition on futurism from 1910 to 1915 at Palazzo Zabarella

From October 1, 2022 to February 26, 2023, the exhibition Futurism 1910-1915. The Birth of the Avant-Garde, curated by Fabio Benzi, Francesco Leone, and Fernando Mazzocca, which intends to present itself as a “different look” and offer a new and original vision of the movement, focusing on a specific period, that from the founding of the movement to the publication of the Manifesto of the Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe. Click here to read more.

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3. Milan, the monographic exhibition on Max Ernst at the Palazzo Reale

From Oct. 4, 2022 to Feb. 26, 2023, Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the first Italian retrospective dedicated to Max Ernst (Brühl, 1891 - Paris, 1976), the great Surrealist painter, sculptor and poet, art theorist, German, later naturalized American and French. The exhibition, promoted and produced by Comune di Milano-Cultura and Palazzo Reale with Electa, in collaboration with Madeinart, is curated by Martina Mazzotta and Jürgen Pech and features more than 400 works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, photographs, jewelry and illustrated books from museums, foundations and private collections in Italy and abroad. Click here to learn more.

4. Pisa, the great Macchiaioli exhibition at Palazzo Blu

The Fondazione Palazzo Blu in Pisa has announced for this fall its major exhibition dedicated to the Macchiaioli: from October 8, 2022 to February 26, 2023, the Pisan museum venue will in fact present a retrospective entitled The Macchiaioli, curated by Francesca Dini, an art historian and one of the most authoritative experts on this movement, produced and organized by Fondazione Palazzo Blu and MondoMostre, with the contribution of Fondazione Pisa. Through more than 130 works, mostly from private collections, but also from important museum institutions such as the Uffizi Galleries, the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, the Gallery of Modern Art in Genoa and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the exhibition aims to trace the evolution and revolution of the Macchiaioli in the second half of the 19th century. Click here to learn more.

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5. Milan, the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Fabbrica del Vapore.

From October 22, 2022 to March 26, 2023, the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, 1928 - New York, 1987), entitled Andy Warhol. Advertising in Form, featuring more than three hundred objects divided into seven thematic areas and thirteen sections, and tracing Warhol’s career from his beginnings in the 1950s as a commercial illustrator to his last decade of activity in the 1980s marked by his relationship with the sacred. The exhibition is promoted and produced by Comune di Milano-Cultura and Navigare, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva with Edoardo Falcioni for Art Motors, Partner BMW. Click here to learn more.

6. Modena, the dossier exhibition on Ligabue at the BPER Gallery.

From September 16, 2022 to February 5, 2023, the BPER Banca Gallery in Modena will offer a dossier exhibition dedicated to Antonio Ligabue. Curated by Sandro Parmiggiani, the exhibition entitled Antonio Ligabue. The Shadowless Hour. Recognition as an Artist and as a Person will kick off with four paintings that are part of BPER Banca’s art collection, acquired following the incorporation of the UBI Banca business unit. Alongside the paintings owned by the banking institution, a selection of works from private collections will be exhibited in order to represent the main themes to which the well-known artist from Gualtieri devoted himself: from wild animal fights to self-portraits and scenes of work in the fields. Click here to read more.

7. Rome, seventeenth-century stone painting at the Galleria Borghese

From October 25, 2022 to January 29, 2023, the Galleria Borghese in Rome is hosting the exhibition Timeless Wonder. Painting on Stone in Rome in the Seventeenth Century, curated by Francesca Cappelletti and Patrizia Cavazzini: an exhibition dedicated to painting on stone, its uses and meanings. The story begins in 1527, the year of the Sack of Rome: during this tragic event, Sebastiano del Piombo, desperate for the loss of many paintings, began to paint on media other than canvas, more resistant to danger and time, and therefore capable of prolonging the life of the work: it is to the Venetian painter that the invention of painting on stone is traced. Click here to learn more.

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8. Treviso, the first monographic exhibition on Paris Bordon.

Originally scheduled to run from February 25 to June 26, 2022 at the Museo di Santa Caterina in Treviso, the largest monographic exhibition ever held on Paris Bordon (Treviso, 1500 - Venice, 1571), entitled Paris Bordon. Divine Painter, has been postponed due to Covid: it will therefore open from September 16, 2022 to January 15, 2023. The exhibition, curated by Simone Facchinetti and Arturo Galansino, will feature many works that have never been exhibited in Italy and come from the world’s most prestigious museums, including the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, and the Vatican Museums. Click here to learn more.

9. Mantua, the major exhibition on Pisanello at the Ducal Palace.

From October 7, 2022 to January 8, 2023, the Doge’s Palace in Mantua is organizing a major exhibition on Pisanello (Antonio Pisano; Pisa/Verona, ante 1395 - Naples, 1455), on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the exhibition on the same artist curated by Giovanni Paccagnini, with which one of the most important acquisitions in the field of art history in the 20th century was presented: the discovery in the rooms of the Ducal Palace in Mantua of the decorative cycle of chivalric theme painted in mixed media around 1430-1433 precisely by Pisanello. The Palazzo Ducale exhibition, entitled Pisanello. The Tumult of the World and curated by Stefano L’Occaso, is part of a wide-ranging and long-term program to enhance the work and the Hall dedicated to the artist, along with the adjacent Hall of the Popes. Click here to learn more.

10. Genoa, the Rubens exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale

Palazzo Ducale in Genoa is hosting, from October 6, 2022 to January 22, 2023, a major exhibition dedicated to Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577 - Antwerp, 1640), titled Rubens in Genoa, which will focus primarily on the relationship between the great Baroque artist and the Ligurian city. The exhibition, curated by Nils Büttner and Anna Orlando, is produced by the City of Genoa with Fondazione Palazzo Ducale per la Cultura and the publishing house Electa, with the support and participation of sole sponsor Rimorchiatori Riuniti S.p.A. The project was created on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the publication in Antwerp of Pietro Paolo Rubens’ celebrated volume, Palazzi di Genova (1622). Click here to learn more.

Fall 2022 exhibitions: here are the 10 not to be missed

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