Exhibitions

Rome, in 2026 at Palazzo Barberini a major exhibition on the relationship between Bernini and Maffeo Barberini

From February 12 to June 14, 2026, the National Galleries of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini will host the major exhibition Bernini and the Barberini family, curated by Andrea Bacchi and Maurizia Cicconi. The exhibition will explore the privileged r...
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Luigi Norfini and the Italy of the Risorgimento: the great exhibition in Lucca and Pescia

From December 20, 2025 to April 26, 2026, the National Museums of Lucca and the Palazzo Galeotti Museum in Pescia are hosting The King's Painter. Luigi Norfini in the Italy of the Risorgimento, the first major monographic exhibition dedicated to the ...
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Two Roman masterpieces in dialogue at Brescia's Capitolium

A direct confrontation between two famous bronze sculptures from Roman times is at the center of Victoria Mater. The Idol and the Icon, the installation conceived by Francesco Vezzoli and curated by Donatien Grau, adviser to the president of the Louv...
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At MUDEC in Milan, Chiharu Shiota's suspended snowfall that tastes like memories

MUDEC in Milan has opened The Moment the Snow Melts, a site-specific installation by Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) on view from Nov. 19, 2025 to June 28, 2026, a preview of The Sense of Snow exhibition, scheduled to run at the Milan museum from Feb. ...
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Greece in Rome: 150 works at the Capitoline Museums recount the millennial dialogue between two civilizations

A new exhibition season opens at the Capitoline Museums, specifically in the spaces of Villa Caffarelli, where the exhibition Greece in Rome will be open from November 28, 2025 until April 12, 2026. The event, which includes a preview reserved for th...
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Monopoly lights up: the Illuminandia Christmas park is born

Monopoli, in the province of Bari, is preparing to experience one of the most scenic urban transformations in recent years. Starting Dec. 5, the town and waterfront will be involved in Illuminandia, a 15,000-square-meter Christmas park that uses typi...
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An exhibition in Bologna will trace Japanese graphic art, from Hokusai to Manga

Coming to Bologna, at the Museo Civico Archeologico, a major exhibition that aims to visually retrace the milestones of Japanese graphic design, in a journey from the Edo period (1603-1868) to contemporary expressions. Graphic Japan. From Hokusai to ...
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Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni puts its collection on display

The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni presents its collection with the exhibition Art Collection. From Signorelli to Burri, which can be visited from December 12, 2025 to March 1, 2026 in the rooms of Palazzo Montani Leoni in Terni. The ...
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At KMSKA in Antwerp, an exhibition on Magritte and the surrealist movement in Belgium

From November 15, 2025 to February 22, 2026, the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (KMSKA) in Antwerp presents the exhibition Magritte. La ligne de vie. It was at the KMSKA, in 1938, that René Magritte gave a lecture destined to become a ...
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Palazzo Farnese in Piacenza dedicates an entire exhibition to the Sibyls. On loan from Rome is Domenichino's Sibyl

An exhibition on the figure of the Sibyls lands at Piacenza's Palazzo Farnese from December 5, 2025 to May 3, 2026 with the project Sibyls. Voices Beyond Time, Beyond Stone, curated by Antonio Iommelli, director of the Civic Museums of Palazzo Farnes...
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At the Pecci Center in Prato, the first exhibition in Italy entirely devoted to Ghirri's polaroid production

The Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato is hosting from November 22, 2025 to May 10, 2026 the exhibition Luigi Ghirri. Polaroids '79 -'83, curated by Chiara Agradi and Stefano Collicelli Cagol, with an installation conceived by Ibrahim K...
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70 works from the Centanini Collection on display at Padua's Museo degli Eremitani

From December 12, 2025 to March 8, 2026, the Museo Eremitani in Padua will host the Centanini Collection, part of the artistic heritage of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, on the occasion of the exhibition Collecting Beauty. Work...
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Unpublished documents and letterheads: Milan investigates Andrea Appiani's legacy

A selection of original documents, many rarely accessible to the public, reconstructs the professional and private life of Andrea Appiani within the spaces of theMilan State Archives. On Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, from 6 to 9:30 p.m., the institute will...
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An exhibition on foreign bookbinding in the holdings of the Palatine Library in Parma

From November 15, 2025 to February 15, 2026, the Monumental Complex of the Pilotta in Parma presents the exhibition Foreign Bindings of the 15th-17th Centuries in the Heritage of the Palatine Library, curated by Federico Macchi, Elisa Montali and Viv...
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Trentino Unexpected at MUDEC: five photographers tell the story of the territory

From November 22, 2025 to January 6, 2026, MUDEC Photo - Museum of Cultures in Milan welcomes Trentino Unexpected, an exhibition project curated by Denis Curti that offers a reinterpretation of Trentino through the language of contemporary photograph...
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Giorgio de Chirico in Modena: the last season of neometaphysics on display

From November 29, 2025 to April 12, 2026, the Palazzo dei Musei in Modena will host the exhibition Giorgio de Chirico. The Last Metaphysics, curated by Elena Pontiggia. The exhibition, promoted by the City of Modena in collaboration with the Giorgio ...
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