Exhibitions 2024, the 20 most anticipated: here are the appointments

It will be a 2024 filled with great art with highly anticipated exhibitions: from the Venice Biennale to the reconstruction of Piero della Francesca’s Polyptych of St. Augustine, from the major exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelites to the Monet exhibition in Padua, here are the most anticipated exhibitions of 2024.

1. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in Turin.

Where and when: Turin, CAMERA, Feb. 14 to June 2, 2024

After the solo shows dedicated to Dorothea Lange and André Kertész, CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin presents the exhibition Robert Capa and Gerda Taro: photography, love, war, curated by da Walter Guadagnini and Monica Poggi. The exhibition, running from Feb. 14 to June 2, 2024, recounts with about 120 shots one of the crucial moments in the history of 20th-century photography, the professional and emotional relationship between Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, which was tragically interrupted with the photographer’s death in Spain in 1937. Click here to read more.

2. Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian Polyptych in Milan

Where and when: Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, March 21 to June 24, 2024

In Milan, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum is reconstructing for the first time in 555 years a masterpiece by Piero della Francesca (Borgo San Sepolcro, 1412 - 1492): the Augustinian Polyptych made for the church of the Augustinians in Borgo San Sepolcro, begun in 1454. The reconstruction takes place as part of the exhibition Piero della Francesca. A Masterpiece Reunited, open to the public from March 21 to June 24, 2024. With the support of Fondazione Bracco as Main Partner, the museum presents the reconstruction of the polyptych completed in 1469, and painted for the church’s high altar. Click here to learn more.

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3. The Macchiaioli in Brescia

Where and when: Brescia, Palazzo Martinengo, from Jan. 20 to June 9, 2024

The Macchiaioli are protagonists in Brescia, in the rooms of Palazzo Martinengo, with the exhibition I macchiaioli, scheduled from January 20 to June 9, 2024 in the historic 16th-century residence in the heart of the Lombard city. The exhibition, curated by Francesca Dini and Davide Dotti, organized by the Associazione Amici di Palazzo Martinengo, under the patronage of the Province of Brescia, the Municipality of Brescia and the Fondazione Provincia di Brescia Eventi, presents more than 100 works by Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini, Vincenzo Cabianca, Odoardo Borrani, Giuseppe Abbati and other artists, mostly from private collections (usually inaccessible) and important museum institutions such as the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, the Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” in Milan, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Matteucci Institute in Viareggio, and the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. Click here to learn more.

4. Gabriele D’Annunzio and Tuscany at the Vittoriale.

Where and when: Gardone Riviera, Vittoriale degli Italiani, March 9 to September 15, 2024

In 2024, Uffizi Diffusi will also come to Gardone Riviera with an exhibition on the inseparable link between Gabriele d’Annunzio and Tuscany. The exhibition is currently being prepared: curated by Andrea Baldinotti, it will be held from March 9 to September 15 in the spaces of the twentieth-century complex in Gardone Riviera, and a rich nucleus of dozens of works from the Galleries and Vittoriale itself will make up the itinerary. Click here to learn more.

5. Venice Biennale.

Where and when: Venice, various venues, April 20 to November 24, 2024.

The 2024 Venice Biennale will be dedicated to foreigners, and will be titled Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere. The title is taken from a series of works created since 2004 by the Paris-born, Palermo-based collective Claire Fontaine. The works consist of neon sculptures of various colors bearing the words “Foreigners Everywhere” in different languages. The expression was in turn taken from the name of a collective of the same name from Turin that was fighting racism and xenophobia in Italy in the early 2000s. Click here to read more.

6. Jean Cocteau at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Where and when: Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, April 14 to September 16, 2024

The first retrospective ever held in Italy dedicated to Jean Cocteau is expected. Entitled Jean Cocteau. The Juggler’s Revenge, the exhibition will open on April 13, 2024 and will display more than one hundred and fifty works, including drawings, graphic works, jewelry, tapestries, historical documents, books, magazines, photographs, and documentaries. The aim of the exhibition is to emphasize the eclecticism that always characterized Cocteau’s artistic language, tracing the development of the enfant terrible of the French art scene’s unique and highly personal aesthetic, tracing the main moments of his tumultuous artistic career, as well as his friendship with Peggy Guggenheim. Click here to learn more.

7. Pierre Huyghe at Palazzo Grassi

Where and when: Venice, Punta della Dogana, March 17 to November 24, 2024

Palazzo Grassi invited Pierre Huyghe to conceive, together with curator Anne Stenne, a major new exhibition featuring a large nucleus of his works, some of them from the Pinault Collection. For Pierre Huyghe, the ritual of the exhibition is an encounter with a sentient context that generates new possibilities of interdependence between events and the elements that manifest. His works are conceived as speculative fictions that often reveal themselves as a union of different forms of intelligence that learn, change and evolve in the course of the exhibition. For Punta della Dogana, the French artist creates his largest exhibition to date, transforming the place into a dynamic medium, a transitory condition where time and space as well as everything that passes through it, visible or invisible, become an integral part of the artworks. Click here to read more.

8. Willem de Kooning in Venice

Where and when: Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia, April 16 to September 15, 2024

Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam, 1904 - East Hampton, 1997), one of the most revolutionary and influential artists of the twentieth century, is featured in a major exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, scheduled from April 16, 2024 (thus in conjunction with the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale), and open until September 15, 2024. The exhibition, titled Willem de Kooning and Italy, will be the first to investigate the significance of de Kooning’s stays in Italy, dating from 1959 and 1969. The curators, Gary Garrels and Mario Codognato, will explore, for the first time, the influence the trips to Italy had on the artist’s subsequent paintings, drawings and sculptures in America. Click here to learn more.

9. Monet in Padua

Where and when: Padua, Altinate San Gaetano Cultural Center, March 9 to August 4, 2024

Claude Monet is featured in an exhibition in Padua, March 9 to August 4, 2024, at the Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano. The father of Impressionism, one of the most beloved artists of all time, comes to the Veneto region with the exhibition Monet. Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris organized by Arthemisia together with the City of Padua and the Musée Marmottan Monet. The exhibition brings to Padua more than 50 works including Water Lilies, Irises, London Landscapes and many more, all enhanced by videos, testimonies and more. The exhibition is curated by Sylvie Carlier, general curator of the Musée Marmottan Monet, with co-curatorship by art historian Marianne Mathieu and Musée Marmottan Monet curatorial assistant Aurélie Gavoille. Click here to learn more.

10. Fashion and modernity between the 19th and 20th centuries in Treviso.

Where and when: Treviso, Museo Luigi Bailo, April 13 to July 28, 2024

From April 13 to July 28, 2024, the Luigi Bailo Museum in Treviso is hosting the exhibition Fashion and Modernity between the 1800s and 1900s, curated by Fabrizio Malachin and promoted by the City of Treviso. The exhibition takes as its starting point the activity of two protagonists of the Treviso and Veneto scene of that era, whom the museum wishes the general public to rediscover on the 100th and 60th anniversary of their deaths: Lino Selvatico and Giulio Ettore Erler. Artists famous in particular for their large female portraits and sensual but never vulgar nudes, which told the story of the emergence of that ’little’ middle-class world of the Veneto. Click here to learn more.

11. Toulouse-Lautrec in Rovigo

Where and when: Rovigo, Palazzo Roverella, Feb. 23 to June 30, 2024

In 2024 a major exhibition dedicated to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi, 1864 - Saint-André-du-Bois, 1901) , among the most representative artists of late 19th-century Paris, will arrive at Rovigo’s Palazzo Roverella. The exhibition, curated by Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, Francesco Parisi and Fanny Girard (director of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi), with the collaboration of Nicholas Zmelty (Posters and Engravings section), will in fact be open to the public from February 23 to June 30, 2024; it will be promoted by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo with the Municipality of Rovigo and the Accademia dei Concordi, with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo. Click here to learn more.

12. The Renaissance in black and white in Bassano del Grappa

Where and when: Bassano del Grappa, Musei Civici, from Feb. 24 to June 2, 2024

From February 24 to June 2, 2024, the Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa are hosting the exhibition Renaissance in Black and White. The Art of Printing in Venice (1494-1615), curated by Giovanni Maria Fara and David Landau. More than a hundred works, some of monumental format, will be on display, in which the “felicitous black lines” of engraving are measured against the founding themes of Venetian art: tonal chiaroscuro, landscape, canvases, narrative painting, elegant female figures, the dialectical relationship with different artistic traditions, a personal idea of antiquity, and the defense of one’s own identity. Click here to read more.

13. Van Gogh in Trieste

Where and when: Trieste, Museo Revoltella, Feb. 22 to June 30, 2024

After Rome and Milan, Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, are stopping in Italy for the third time in the space of a year and a half: Trieste is the city that will welcome them, at the Museo Revoltella from Feb. 22 to June 30, 2024, for an exhibition that, according to what the organizers (Arthemisia and the City of Trieste) announced, will be a sort of “encore” of the Rome exhibition, which marked the return of Van Gogh’s works to Italy after a few years’ absence, followed by the Milan exhibition dedicated to Van Gogh’s culture but built from a similar selection. Click here to read more.

14. The Pre-Raphaelites in Forli.

Where and when: Forli, Museo San Domenico, from Feb. 24 to June 30, 2024

From February 24 to June 30, 2024, the halls of the Museo Civico San Domenico in Forlì will host a major exhibition dedicated to the Pre-Raphaelites, conceived and realized by the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì in collaboration with the Municipality of Forlì, curated by Francesco Parisi, Liz Prettejohn and Peter Trippi; Gianfranco Brunelli will be the general director. The exhibition will display more than three hundred works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, furniture, ceramics, works in glass and metal, textiles, medals, illustrated books, manuscripts and jewelry, with the intention of reconstructing the profound impact of historical Italian art on the British Pre-Raphaelite movement between the 1840s and the 1920s. Click here to learn more.

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15. Bruno Munari at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation.

Where and when: Mamiano di Traversetolo, Magnani-Rocca Foundation, March 16 to June 30, 2024

The Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) is organizing Italy’s largest exhibition on Bruno Munari (Milan, 1907 - 1998), one of the most significant figures in 20th-century design and visual communication, realized after the memorable exhibitions at the Rotonda della Besana (2007) in Milan, and the Ara Pacis (2008) in Rome. In the celebrated Villa dei Capolavori, home of the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo near Parma, just a few steps from the rooms housing capital works by Titian, Dürer, Van Dyck, Goya, Canova, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, de Chirico, Morandi, Burri and many others, one of the greatest creative geniuses of the 20th century, the “inventor” Bruno Munari, described by Pierre Restany as “the Leonardo and Peter Pan of Italian design,” is thus celebrated from March 16 to June 30, 2024. Click here to learn more.

16. Sebastião Salgado in Ravenna

Where and when: Ravenna, MAR City Art Museum, March 22 to June 2, 2024

In 1993 Sebastião Salgado began his photographic, physical and existential journey into the galaxy of migration. In six years, the Brazilian reporter traveled four continents with works capturing departures and landings, refugee camps where millions live an uncertain fate. Since then, the map of the world appears to have changed, but the exodus of entire populations is as relevant as ever, and the conditions of refugees or migrants represent a scenario that takes on increasingly global dimensions. This journey will be recounted through the exhibition Exodus - Humanity on the Move, curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado, which brings together 180 photographs divided among the various geo-political sections of which the project is composed. Click here to learn more.

17. Anselm Kiefer at Palazzo Strozzi

Where and when: Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, March 22 to July 28, 2024

Anselm Kiefer (Donaueschingen, 1945) will be the star of the major exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence for 2024: the appointment between the rooms of the Renaissance palace is from March 22 to July 28, 2024. Kiefer is known for his striking works that through painting, sculpture and installation investigate the themes of memory, myth, war and existence: Palazzo Strozzi will present a path through historical works and new productions, in an original dialogue with Renaissance architecture. Click here to learn more.

18. Masolino in Empoli

Where and when: Empoli, Museo della Collegiata di Sant’Andrea, April 6 to July 7, 2024

In 2024 the Municipality of Empoli will celebrate Masolino da Panicale (Panicale, 1383 - Florence, 1440/1447) with an exhibition. In fact, six hundred years will have passed since the creation of the cycle of frescoes with Stories of the True Cross in the church of Santo Stefano degli Agostiniani and the Vir dolorum, now preserved in the Museo della Collegiata in Empoli. Curated by Andrea De Marchi, Silvia De Luca and Francesco Suppa, the exhibition aims to reconstruct the cultural context in which Masolino moved and the original characters of his personality. To this end, it is intended to bring together precisely in Empoli as many of Masolino’s works as possible, so as to help fully understand them. Click here to learn more.

19. The Master of St. Francis in Perugia

Where and when: Perugia, National Gallery of Umbria, March 9 to June 9, 2024

For the first time, a major exhibition attempts to reconstruct the figure of the Master of St. Francis, one of the greatest artists of the thirteenth century, on the level of a Giunta Pisano or a Cimabue for that matter, painters to whom the anonymous master can be directly compared in terms of the level of ideas and painting. The National Gallery of Umbria is hosting, from March 9 to June 9, 2024, the exhibition Il Maestro di San Francesco e lo stil novo del Duecento umbro, a review curated by Andrea De Marchi, Emanuele Zappasodi and Veruska Picchiarelli, which is being held on the occasion of the celebrations for the 800th anniversary of the impression of the stigmata on St. Francis and presents, for the first time brought together, 60 masterpieces from Italian and international museums, from the Louvre in Paris to the National Gallery in London, from the Metropolitan Museum in New York to the National Gallery in Washington. Click here to learn more.

20. Rino Gaetano in Rome

Where and when: Rome, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, from February 16 to April 28, 2024

From February 16 to April 28, 2024, the Museo di Roma in Trastevere pays homage to Rino Gaetano with the first major exhibition dedicated to him. Curated by Alessandro Nicosia and Alessandro Gaetano, and promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, the exhibition is organized and realized by C.O.R. Creare Organizzare Realizzare, with the organizational support of Zètema Progetto Cultura; under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and the media partner of Rai, which preserves most of the footage about the singer-songwriter; and with the collaboration of Universal Music Publishing Group. It will be an unprecedented exhibition, born from the research of materials, many of them exhibited for the first time, documenting his entire artistic journey and enriched by precious rarities, granted for the occasion by Anna Gaetano, Rino’s sister. Click here to learn more.

Exhibitions 2024, the 20 most anticipated: here are the appointments

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