Luigi De Siervo is the new president of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi

Change in the presidency of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi: yesterday, at the first meeting of the new Board of Directors, Luigi De Siervo was officially appointed as the new president of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. A Florentine lawyer and manager, currently CEO of Lega Serie A, De Siervo succeeds Giuseppe Morbidelli, who led the Fondazione for the past six years.

For the first time, the board is composed of four women and four men: Giacomo Bei for the City of Florence, Leonardo Ferragamo for the Region of Tuscany, Francesca Astorri for the Metropolitan City of Florence, Brunella Tarli for the Florence Chamber of Commerce, Maria Oliva Scaramuzzi for the Fondazione CR Firenze, Jacopo Mazzei for Intesa Sanpaolo, Beatrice Niccolai for the Palazzo Strozzi Partners Committee, and Andy Bianchedi for the Hillary Merkus Recordati Foundation. Remaining confirmed on the Board of Auditors are Lorenzo Parrini, in the role of chairman, along with Leonardo Focardi and Roberto Franceschi.

“I would like to thank Professor Giuseppe Morbidelli for the rigorous and passionate guidance with which he has accompanied Palazzo Strozzi through crucial years marked by historical challenges and important transformations,” says Arturo Galansino Director General of the Foundation. “Under his presidency, the Fondazione has consolidated its role on a national and international level, becoming a model of sustainability and cultural impact. The arrival of Luigi De Siervo represents a choice of continuity and revitalization: his authority and experience will be fundamental in facing new challenges and continuing the growth path of our institution.”

“It is an honor for me to take over the leadership of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, a cultural institution capable of combining artistic excellence, impact on the territory and international vision,” said newly appointed President of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Luigi De Siervo. “I take up Professor Morbidelli’s baton with a sense of responsibility and commit myself, together with Director Galansino and the new Board, to strengthening the Fondazione’s role as a virtuous model of public-private collaboration and innovation at the Italian and global level.”

Current and upcoming exhibitions at Palazzo Strozzi

Currently on view at Palazzo Strozzi, Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude (on view through July 21, 2025) represents the most significant exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to the celebrated British contemporary artist. The exhibition offers a journey between desire and inner reflection, through a combination of new works and iconic works, set up in the rooms of the Piano Nobile. Two special installations have also been conceived for the courtyard and facade of the Renaissance building.

In the spaces of the Strozzina, on the other hand, Time for Women! (through Aug. 30, 2025), a group exhibition that brings together nine internationally renowned women artists and celebrates 20 years of the Max Mara Prize for Women, in collaboration with Collezione Maramotti.

From May 29, 2025, Palazzo Strozzi opens the doors of the new PROJECT SPACE, an area dedicated to the exploration of contemporary art, which debuts with Giulia Cenci’s The Hollow Men. Anticipation is also growing for the exhibition-event on Beato Angelico, which opens Sept. 26 and aims to be the most important exhibition ever dedicated to one of the fathers of the Renaissance, in a collaboration between Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco.

GIULIA CENCI: THE HOLLOW MEN
(Project Space, Palazzo Strozzi, May 29-Aug. 31, 2025)

With a site-specific intervention that interweaves sculpture, drawing and installation, Giulia Cenci constructs a universe inhabited by suspended, enigmatic presences belonging to an indefinite temporal dimension. The title refers to the famous poem The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot (1925), in which the “hollow men” embody a condition of existential stalemate, somewhere between life and death, marked by inertia and the inability to redeem themselves after the tragedy of World War I. Cenci’s proposed figures thus become symbols of the vulnerabilities and paradoxes of human beings, suspended between organic and artificial, past and present, memory and forgetfulness.

With this exhibition the Project Space is inaugurated, a new environment designed to accommodate experimentation and emerging artistic practices, and accessible directly from the courtyard. The space is integrated into the Foundation’s broader programming, flanking the Piano Nobile, the Strozzina and the Courtyard, and serves as a dynamic platform to stimulate new paths of creative production and confrontation with the public.

BEATO ANGELICO
(Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Sept. 26, 2025-Jan. 26, 2026)

The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, in collaboration with the Museo di San Marco, presents Angelico, a retrospective dedicated to Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Beato Angelico, an artist symbolic of 15th-century art in Florence. Co-organized with the Regional Directorate National Museums Tuscany of the Ministry of Culture, the exhibition will celebrate between the two venues of Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco, the production, development and influence of Beato Angelico’s art in dialogue with painters such as Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Lorenzo Monaco, as well as sculptors such as Lorenzo Ghiberti, Michelozzo and Luca della Robbia.

Curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke, Angelico aims to be the first major Florentine exhibition dedicated to the artist in more than seventy years. The project takes the form of an important moment of dialogue between institutions and territory, with a special section at the Museum of San Marco curated by Stefano Casciu (Regional Director National Museums Tuscany - MiC) and Angelo Tartuferi (former Director of the Museum of San Marco).

Luigi De Siervo is the new president of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi

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