iMAXXI is Italy's first national museum dedicated to contemporary creativity, split into two divisions: MAXXI Art and MAXXI Architecture. Designed by Zaha Hadid and opened in 2010, its fluid, ribboning galleries won the RIBA Stirling Prize and sit among Rome's monumental wonders. The collection ranges across works by Maurizio Cattelan, Anish Kapoor, Gerhard Richter and William Kentridge, alongside major architectural archives from Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi and Pier Luigi Nervi.

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.

An 80-year survey of Italian architectural ideas, projects and visions, tracing eight decades of the Republic from the post-war years to contemporary practice and future scenarios.

Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao turns a MAXXI hall into a landscape to explore and inhabit, inspired by the Mesoamerican ball game and built for connection.

Sophie Calle's first Rome retrospective spans more than forty years of work probing presence, absence and intimacy through photography and narrative.

The fifth edition of MAXXI's prize supporting young artists in collaboration with Bvlgari; for the first time all three finalists (Chiara Bersani, Adji Dieye and Margherita Moscardini) are women, with the winning work joining the permanent collection.

A trilogy of films and a series of photographs on identity, power and belonging, centred on activist and YouTuber Nasim Aghdam and the tensions of the American Dream.

The full archive of Genoese photographer Nanda Lanfranco, loaned to MAXXI in 2024, tracing her record of the international contemporary art scene from the 1970s to the 2000s.

An interdisciplinary exhibition on Gordon Matta-Clark's radical architectural interventions and creative practice, from his experimental New York years to his influential work in Italy.

Part of the "extra MAXXI" programme, pairing Futurist masterpieces by artists like Boccioni and Balla with contemporary works responding to their legacy of speed and simultaneity.

A display from the MAXXI Collection in Gallery 3, curated by Luigia Lonardelli, presenting works as small pieces of fabric to be sewn together, fragile yet monumental.

Archive drawings and images of the 1960 Olympic Village, where athletes of many nations lived side by side, read as a case study in cultural diplomacy through sport.

The exhibition examines how architects respond to global instability, redefining design's role and responsibilities amid contemporary geopolitical uncertainty.
Via Guido Reni, 4A, 00196 Rome, Italy
Nearest station: Apollodoro (Tram 2), Flaminio (Metro Line A) and Reni/Flaminia (Bus 168, 910)
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| Thu | 11:00–19:00 |
| Fri | 11:00–19:00 |
| Sat | 11:00–19:00 |
| Sun | 11:00–19:00 |
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