MAXXI turns ten and traces the first decade of the 21st century in exhibitions

The exhibition celebrating MAXXI’s 10th anniversary opens on February 17 and will be on view until August 29, 2021. Curated by Hou Hanru with MAXXI’s curatorial and research team, the exhibition A History for the Future aims to explore five major themes starting from a passionate work of research, reflection and debate on the first decade of the 21st century. It is an opportunity to reflect on the museum’s identity, to retrace the path taken in these years and thus to set the future.

The exhibition is not intended to be a self-referential summary of the exhibitions that have been mounted at the museum site over these ten years, but an “immaterial” rereading of them from a perspective that lays the foundations of a history for the future.

Thus, in a thematic and chronological reading, thousands of images, videos, sounds and words, and multimedia installations created by the artists who animated and transformed the museum and the first decade of the 21st century are presented. The installation is curated by Petra Blaisse’s Dutch studio Inside-Outside, which is recognized for its innovative contributions to exhibition design and landscape architecture: it creates an immersive environment focused on the multisensory experience.

The exhibition becomes an oral history of MAXXI’s journey through the presentation of the words of artists, curators and museum staff.

“These have been difficult months,” Giovanna Melandri, president of the Maxxi Foundation, told ANSA. “The Maxxi was closed but never shut down; we worked on strengthening the public collection, we turned into a small broadcast with more than 15 million views, and we continued the activity of research and investigation. The Maxxi is more than a museum, it is a laboratory of the future.”

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MAXXI turns ten and traces the first decade of the 21st century in exhibitions

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