MAXXI sets its sights on the challenges of the future with innovative new layout

The MAXXI Collection ’s major new installation is titled What a Wonderful World and offers an innovative journey that brings together major installations by fifteen international artists among core works from the collection and others created especially for the occasion. Curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and the MAXXI curatorial team, the works on display aim to investigate the major issues of scientific and technological progress in relation to the challenges of the contemporary era, such as the hybridization between species and ecosystems, between experiences of reality and virtual interactions, between shifts and grafts of identity and gender, in the reconfiguration of the social and political dynamics of our time. Indeed, the title is meant to allude to today’s reality and hope for tomorrow: through the visionary gaze of the artists, the new installation is meant to evoke, also in an ironic way, our time of great uncertainties and challenges, but also of multiple human and technological possibilities of great evolutions and thrusts toward the future.

The artists involved are Micol Assaël, Ed Atkins, Rosa Barba, Rossella Biscotti, Simon Denny, Rä Di Martino, Franklin Evans, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Höller, Liliana Moro, Olaf Nicolai, Jon Rafman, Tatiana Trouvé, Paolo Ventura, and James Webb.

This is an experimental in-progress project carried out in collaboration with the HER She Loves Data Research Center, which involved some of the Museum’s professionals in the design of a performative prototype. This prototype is designed to apply digital technologies in an unprecedented way to the enhancement and promotion of the MAXXI Arte Collection, investigating the relational ecosystem of the artwork through the analysis, visualization and interpretation of data generated by the public in dialogue with the works on display.

Ph.Credit Musacchio, Ianniello, Pasqualini & Fucilla. Courtesy of Fondazione MAXXI

MAXXI sets its sights on the challenges of the future with innovative new layout

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