MAXXI exhibitions. Here's how the museum will change perspective in 2024

MAXXI 2024 will be a museum that shifts its gaze to the visitor and listens to the multitude of voices of our contemporaneity. The National Museum of 21st Century Arts will change perspective: it will be a score where visual arts, architecture and design will be in harmony with music, film, dance and theater, publishing and performance.

Starting next April 10, Zaha Hadid ’s building will also open to the public the major exhibition project ENVIRONMENTS 1956-2010. Environments by Women Artists II, which will occupy the entire second floor of the museum and its outdoor spaces. Curated by Andrea Lissoni, Marina Pugliese, and Francesco Stocchi, it is the exhibition is organized by MAXXI and the Haus der Kunst in Munich. It is the next chapter of Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976, a project conceived by the Haus der Kunst in 2023, which aimed to focus attention on the fundamental contribution of women to the history of perhaps one of the least investigated forms of artistic expression to date. Bordering between art, architecture and design, the environments are three-dimensional, immersive works that are activated by audience interaction and complemented by human presence. Thus, the exhibition at MAXXI aims to continue the German institution’s research and amplify its original chronology (1956 - 1976) reaching up to 2010, the year of the completion of the museum’s architecture designed by Zaha Hadid. Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Laura Grisi, Aleksandra Kasuba, Léa Lublin, Marta Minujín, Tania Mouraud, Nanda Vigo, and Tsuruko Yamazaki are joined in this second chapter by Micol Assaël, Monica Bonvicini, Kimsooja, Christina Kubisch, Nalini Malani, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, and Esther Stocker. In a succession of experiences, visitors will be invited to get involved and be active participants in this mutual exchange between art, museum space and society.

One of MAXXI’s cornerstones for 2024 will be cooperation with other museums and cultural institutions in Italy and around the world: the exhibition GIOVANNI ANSELMO. Beyond the Horizon. curated by Gloria Moure, is in fact the result of a prestigious collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Scheduled to run from June 21, this exhibition aims to be a comprehensive focus on Anselmo’s research, as well as the last exhibition he designed before his death last December. Dozens of works, from the 1960s to more recent research, will be on display. Also on June 21, a major interdisciplinary exhibition will be inaugurated, curated and designed especially for MAXXI by architect Italo Rota: LA VISIONE ASTRATTA Physical Experience of Abstract Thinking will be a journey into the unexplored corners of the human mind and its potentialities, to discover abstract thinking. An investigation that starts from the architectural adventure of Giuseppe Terragni and extends to his contemporaries Enrico Fermi and Giuseppe Tucci.

Architecture will return in the fall: the first event will be with an exhibition curated by the design firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which will be the protagonist and will also follow the installation. The project is titled InMotion and will investigate the eternal utopia of space in motion: the ability to move or change is a recurring feature of the studio’s work, which has also often used movement to connect art and architecture.

At the same time, MAXXI Architettura’s Archives Center will host a focus on the Torre Velasca, an iconic building in Milan, now once again in the spotlight for a major restoration project. The in-depth study, which benefits from the scientific advice of Maria Vittoria Capitanucci and Tullia Iori, follows MAXXI’s recent acquisition of the BBPR studio’s archive.

In November, fashion will return to the museum’s spaces. The exhibition Memorable: Hypermoda, organized in collaboration with the National Chamber of Italian Fashion and curated by Maria Luisa Frisa, will offer an articulated constellation of objects, such as clothes, accessories, but also images to narrate the present of fashion - in its creative and economic structure, design practices, use of increasingly sophisticated technologies, protagonists and comprimari - and its aspiration to be memorable.

The exhibition program will conclude with photography: a monograph featuring Guido Guidi, an author who has helped revolutionize the way we relate to the contemporary landscape. The exhibition, curated by Simona Antonacci and Pippo Ciorra and in collaboration with the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, will tell the story of Guidi’s research from the unprecedented vantage point of his archive-home, artist’s studio, place of work and life-and through more than 350 photographs, almost all vintage, many of which have never been exhibited before.

Throughout the year, then, the activity of MAXXI’s videogallery will continue with auteur exhibitions, thanks to the support of In Between Art Film.

Moreover, in the Extra and Corner spaces, projects dedicated to collaborations with the Ministry of Culture, MAXXI’s founding partner, and with important private partners will continue. The first two exhibitions, organized by MAXXI with the Ministry of Culture, will be part of this programming: ARTIFICIAL HELL, which aims to narrate Dante’s infernal journey in an unprecedented sequence of figurative works created by Riccardo Boccuzzi with artificial intelligence (curated by Elisabetta Bruscolini, in the MAXXI Corner, from March 22); and BRIGANT ELEGANTS. The Art of Men’s Fashion, which traces the archetypes of men’s fashion in these legendary figures, with loans from the National Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions and major fashion houses, documents from theCentral State Archives, the Library of Modern and Contemporary History and the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento (from March 27, curated by Stefano Dominella with styling by Guillermo Mariotto, in collaboration with NETFLIX, which will make available images and materials from its Italian series Briganti, produced by Fabula Pictures and soon to be released, technical sponsor La Rosa).

NUOVE AVVENTURE SOTTERRANEE is a photographic commissioning project by the Ghella company, a MAXXI partner, which involved photographers Stefano Graziani, Rachele Maistrello, Domingo Milella, Luca Nostri and Giulia Parlato, commissioned to photograph major infrastructure works in Italy, Argentina, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (curated by Alessandro Dandini de Sylva, Extra MAXXI, from June 13).

Image: MAXXI, Environments. Esther Stocker. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Martin Pardatscher

MAXXI exhibitions. Here's how the museum will change perspective in 2024

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