Maurizio Cattelan is supporting research at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (IRCCS) with *WINDOW, 2025*, a work inspired by the famous banana from *Comedian*. The artwork will be auctioned on Thursday, October 8, in…
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Maurizio Cattelan has created a work that holds the ashes of a deceased friend. The piece is titled *Dust*, one of the new works presented as part of *NIGHT*, the exhibition that the Padua-born artist opened today at the Neue…
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Maurizio Cattelan Sets Out to Conquer Germany: After winning the 2026 edition of the Preis der Nationalgalerie, the Padua-born artist is set to have an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which opens today: “NIGHT” is the…
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Interviews Contemporary art Maurizio Cattelan
Fifteen years later, Luca Rossi returns to interview Maurizio Cattelan. Back then, there was a retrospective at the Guggenheim; today, there is NIGHT at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In the meantime, the art world has changed, the…
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Episode of theft for Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan 's famous work composed of a banana taped to the wall, which has become one of the most discussed and recognizable creations in contemporary art over the years. On Saturday, May 30, 2026, at…
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A telephone number to confess one's sins, but without any religious authority. This is the latest provocation by Maurizio Cattelan, who returns to question symbols and rituals of Catholicism with a participatory project that combines art…
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On November 18, 2025, Maurizio Cattelan 'swork America sold at Sotheby 's The Now and Contemporary evening auction for $12,110,000, marking the first public sale of this work in 2016. Made from just over 100 kilograms of solid 18-karat…
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Going to Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960) is the 2026 edition of the Preis der Nationalgalerie, the prize that the Berlin museum awards every two years: the novelty is that, if previous editions (the prize has existed since 2000) tended to…
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