Casa Balla, the futurist home in Rome of Giacomo Balla, reopens to the public

Casa Balla will reopen its doors to the public from Sept. 22, 2023 to Jan. 28, 2024. It is the house where the great Futurist artist Giacomo Balla (Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958) lived and worked with his wife Elisa and daughters Luce and Elica from 1929 until his death in 1958.

Located on Via Oslavia, it was for the Balla family a laboratory of experimentation, a creative workshop, a kind of ancient Renaissance workshop, thus becoming a total work of art. Indeed, at Casa Balla, art is everywhere: objects created for everyday use, such as tables, chairs, shelves, easels, ashtrays, plates, and tiles, coexist with paintings, drawings and sculptures, creating a single, kaleidoscopic total project, in line with the manifesto on the Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe signed by Balla and Fortunato Depero in 1915.

Open for the first time in 30 years in June 2021, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Giacomo Balla’s birth, thanks to MAXXI’s inter-institutional collaboration with the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma and the contribution of Banca d’Italia, Casa Balla is a grand total art project. From a “clerical” apartment, as Elica herself called it in her memoirs, the home in Rome’s Della Vittoria neighborhood would become their home of a lifetime, a place transformed into a work of art.

Casa Balla will be open Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Visits will be held in groups of up to 12 people; there will also be a time for in-depth video analysis as part of the tour. Access to the House only by guided tours by pre-purchasing a ticket online or at the museum’s ticket office at Via Guido Reni 4/a-8. The full price is 18 euros, 15 euros the reduced price for groups of 12 people on the same shift, myMAXXI membership card holders and journalists, 12 euros the reduced price for children under 14, free for disabled and any accompanying person and for children aged 0 to 3 with accompanying adult).

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Casa Balla, the futurist home in Rome of Giacomo Balla, reopens to the public

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