Exhibitions in Rome

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.

Galleria BorghesePast

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.