Exhibitions in Rome

MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century ArtsPast

Over 300 works by more than 130 artists trace the ironic, tragicomic sensibility running through Italian art and culture from the post-war period to the present day.

La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)Past

Around 80 works survey Bauhaus-trained painter Max Peiffer Watenphul (1896-1976), whose colourful landscapes and still lifes chart a personal path through the 20th-century European avant-garde.

MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century ArtsPast

A seventieth-anniversary retrospective of the acclaimed comic artist Andrea Pazienza, gathering his strips, sketches and archival material across chronologically arranged galleries.

La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)

GNAMC's Artist of the Year turns the entrance hall into a year-long participatory lab, with 40+ works including four monumental 'Theatre of Commons' tapestries, drawings and a light sculpture.

Gagosian RomeFreePast

Nearly fifty lifetime prints by Francesca Woodman, many never before exhibited, exploring her ties to Surrealism and her 1977-78 time in Rome through staged bodies in dilapidated interiors.

MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of RomePast

An audio-room project built around poet Amelia Rosselli's own 1980s-90s recordings, turning her multilingual voice into an acoustic experience of writing that resists any single tradition.

MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of RomePast

The long-running women's video-art programme, with Nathalie Djurberg as guest "Goodmother", confronts fear across films, performances and animations spanning personal, social and political registers.

MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

An "ideal library" of over a thousand volumes traces eight decades of Italy's leading literary prize, framing it as a seismograph of the country's cultural and linguistic change.

MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

A single-channel video and spatial installation exposes the hidden labour behind AI, following Kurdish-Syrian refugees who classify images for AI training while facing automated drone warfare.

Fondazione MemmoFree

Zimbabwean painter Portia Zvavahera's first institutional show in Italy: a site-specific installation and a new body of paintings made during a Rome residency, exploring memory, loss and transcendence.

Galleria Lorcan O'NeillFreePast

Solo exhibition by British artist Tracey Emin at Galleria Lorcan O'Neill's Rome gallery, on view from 30 April to 18 July 2026.

Galleria BorghesePast

Dossier exhibition exploring the role of Raphael's collaborator in Rome.

Castel Sant'Angelo - Museo NazionalePast

Around 120 objects trace the deep Mediterranean ties between Cyprus and Italy, from daily life and funerary customs to art and technology, with a focus on Sicily and Sardinia.

Vatican MuseumsPast

A dialogue between two small El Greco masterpieces: the newly restored "Redeemer" (c.1590-95) from the Apostolic Palace and a tempera "Saint Francis" (c.1570) on loan. Shown at the Papal Palace, Castel Gandolfo.

Palazzo delle EsposizioniPast

A 42-painting cycle by Marco Tirelli, a leading figure in the late-1970s renewal of Italian painting, conceived as an immersive installation exploring memory, cinema and literature.

Palazzo delle EsposizioniPast

Major retrospective of Mario Schifano, one of postwar Italy's most influential artists, gathering over 100 works from the 1960s to the 1990s across monochromes, photography and TV-screen landscapes.

Chiostro del BramantePast

A sweeping show on nature as a living, ever-changing universe, across three sections (Art and Ecology, Art and Science, Art and Politics), blending 17th-century works with contemporary and AI-generated art.

Capitoline MuseumsPast

A Palazzo Caffarelli show of more than seventy paintings, drawings and documents exploring Giorgio Vasari's career and his pivotal relationship with Rome.

Museo Carlo BilottiPast

Photography show drawn from Valerio De Paolis's collection, in three sections on the female form, the city and art itself, presenting international photographic masterpieces publicly for the first time.

Vatican MuseumsPast

Twentieth-century paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints from intellectual Leone Piccioni's collection, including Burri, Morandi and Guttuso, donated to the Vatican in 2024. In the Borgia Tower rooms.

MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts

An illuminated rooftop installation whose lights flare in real time whenever lightning strikes somewhere across Italy, connecting art and visitors to the energy of nature.

Capitoline Museums

A 1:1, roughly 13-metre reconstruction of the 4th-century colossus of Emperor Constantine, displayed in the garden of Villa Caffarelli using casts of the surviving original fragments.

Museo dell'Ara Pacis

An immersive evening videomapping experience that restores the altar's original polychromy, animating its marble reliefs with light, music and multilingual narration on a roughly 45-minute route inside the monument.

National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo

Three monumental Roman bronzes pulled from the Tiber in 1878, once decorating the ancient Ponte di Valentiniano: a diademed male head, a gilded toga-clad figure, and the wing of a winged Victory.

Capitoline Museums

A Pinacoteca display using scientific imaging to reveal the creative process behind unfinished paintings by artists such as Palma il Vecchio, Guido Reni and Garofalo.

MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts

Barcelona and New York studio TAKK fills MAXXI's lobby with six mobile sculptural elements made of low-carbon and living materials, exploring new ways of coexistence.

Capitoline Museums

A long-running display in Palazzo Clementino of over 660 polychrome marbles from the Imperial age, from the Santarelli collection, illustrating Rome's history through coloured stone.