MAXXI Reopens with Free Ground Floor and New Permanent Collection Display
On May 6, 2017, the MAXXI museum in Rome will unveil RE-EVOLUTION, redefining its spaces and objectives. Visitors can access the ground floor for free from Tuesday to Friday and on the first Sunday of each month, which will now house a new permanent collection titled The Place to Be. Under the leadership of President Giovanna Melandri and Artistic Director Hou Hanru, notable pieces include Winter Moon by Ugo Rondinone and Anima by Mircea Cantor, alongside new donations from Gianfranco Baruchello and Luca Maria Patella. The ground floor will also host a video gallery, an archive, and an educational lab, with a café-bookshop (TYPO) and restaurant (LINEA) operated by Consorzio Stabile SEAMAN. The first floor will display works by Bruna Esposito and architectural designs by Dominique Perrault and Álvaro Siza.
Key facts
- MAXXI's RE-EVOLUTION begins May 6, 2017
- Ground floor free Tuesday to Friday and first Sunday each month
- New permanent collection display titled The Place to Be
- Project led by Giovanna Melandri, Hou Hanru, Margherita Guccione, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
- Winter Moon by Ugo Rondinone installed in Piazza Alighiero Boetti
- Anima by Mircea Cantor and MareoMerz by Elisabetta Benassi also in piazza
- New donations from Gianfranco Baruchello, Bruna Esposito, Luca Maria Patella
- New loans from Archivio Agnetti, Fondazione Giuliani, Fondazione Nomas, Collezione Barillari, Collezione Pero
- Video gallery with In Between Art Film and archive for Incontri Internazionali d'Arte
- Kids Museum educational lab supported by BNL-BNP Paribas
- New café-bookshop TYPO and restaurant LINEA with chef Cristina Bowerman
- First-time display of Naples metro station designs by Dominique Perrault and Álvaro Siza
- Helmut Newton's 72 ore a Roma photographic series on view
- Updated MAXXI Arte catalog published by Quodlibet and MAXXI Architettura e-book
Entities
Artists
- Ugo Rondinone
- Mircea Cantor
- Elisabetta Benassi
- Mario Merz
- Gianfranco Baruchello
- Bruna Esposito
- Luca Maria Patella
- Sol LeWitt
- Carl Andre
- Tomás Saraceno
- Helmut Newton
- Kara Walker
- Gilbert & George
- Letizia Battaglia
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Alighiero Boetti
- Anselm Kiefer
- William Kentridge
- Vincenzo Agnetti
- Oscar Tuazon
- Elias Hansen
- Francesco Arena
- Nico Valscellari
- Franco Purini
- Laura Thermes
- Maurizio Nannucci
- Massimo Grimaldi
- Pedro Cabrita Reis
- Gea Casolaro
- Nina Fischer
- Maroan el Sani
- H. H. Lim
- Francis Alÿs
- Liliana Moro
- Toyo Ito
- Aldo Rossi
- Carlo Scarpa
- Armin Linke
- Hélène Binet
- Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo
- Micol Assaël
- Gregorio Botta
- Ilya Kabakov
- Emilia Kabakov
- Domenico Gnoli
- Michelangelo Pistoletto
- Adelita Husni Bey
- Wannes Goetschalckx
- Wolf Kahlen
- Franco Pierluisi
- Paolo Portoghesi
- Renzo Piano
- Massimiliano Fuksas
- Sergio Musmeci
- Pierluigi Nervi
- Giuseppe Perugini
- Dominique Perrault
- Álvaro Siza
- Cristina Bowerman
- Zaha Hadid
- Giovanna Melandri
- Hou Hanru
- Margherita Guccione
- Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
- Claudia Gian Ferrari
- Domenico Goli
- Helene Binet
- Pier Paolo Calzolari
- Andrea Lupacchini
- Aldo Moro
Institutions
- MAXXI
- MAXXI Architettura
- MAXXI Arte
- In Between Art Film
- Incontri Internazionali d'Arte
- BNL-BNP Paribas
- Consorzio Stabile SEAMAN
- Archivio Agnetti
- Fondazione Giuliani
- Fondazione Nomas
- Collezione Barillari
- Collezione Pero
- Fondazione Merz
- Fondazione Morra
- Metropolitana di Napoli
- Amici del MAXXI
- Quodlibet
- MINI
- Artribune
- Fondazione MAXXI
- Kids Museum
- BNL
- BNP Paribas
- BAT
- British American Tobacco
- BAT Italia
- Devoto Design
- Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (Maxxi)
- Archivio di Incontri Internazionali d’Arte
- BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas
- Fondazione Maxxi
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- MAXXI
- Piazza Alighiero Boetti
- via Guido Reni
- Place Vendome
- Paris
- France
- Mercati di Traiano
- Sarajevo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Naples
- Messina
- Palermo
- Port Sudan
- Sudan
- Piazza Boetti
- Flaminio
- London
- Noto