UN ANNO SENZA VIOLENZA (A year without violence) against women is the best wish for 2023 from the students of the Illustration for Publishing Course of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and the MondoDonna Onlus Association: a paper calendar to understand, image after image, how illustration can arouse a sense of redemption through a network […]
The masterpieces from what is considered the world’s largest gallery of ancient art – the Naples Archaeological Museum. Some of the stunning frescoes that embellished the ancient Roman houses of Pompeii and other cities around Vesuvius. More than 100 works that explore 1st century A.D. society, starting from the pictores, the painters whose role is […]
Massimo Baldini’s exhibition A Tour not so Grand, in which he presents about thirty black & white photographs on the idea of “non-conventional” travel, opens on Friday November 9th at the Fondazione Carlo Gajani in Bologna. The author had the opportunity of visiting provincial museums, small hidden institutions, places sometimes only just mentioned in tourist […]
LA CAMERA: Sulla materialità della fotografia (La Camera: On the Material Nature of Photog-raphy) is the third installment in a broader exhibition program, curated by Simone Menegoi and ti-tled The Camera’s Blind Spot, which explores the relationship between sculpture and photography. The first two parts of the project (The Camera’s Blind Spot I and II) […]
Lawrence Carroll, one of the main exponents of contemporary painting, will be featured at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna in an exhibition entitled Ghost House, which opens to the public on 12 December 2014. The show traces Carroll’s artistic evolution over more than 30 years through around 60 works produced between the mid-1980s […]
(galleria +) oltredimore presents In Search of Meaningful Food, a research project by Francesca Zampollo, supported by Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. In Search of Meaningful Food is a reflection on the meanings attributed to food products, and therefore, on the personal, and impossible to foresee, relationship between people and food products during and […]
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna will be presenting the first solo exhibition in Italy of Nick van Woert, one of the most original American voices in contemporary art today. The exhibition, which will be inaugurated on 29th May and opens on the 30th, will run until 7th September and is curated by Gianfranco Maraniello. It […]
Self-portraits. Women in Italian contemporary art (Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea Self-portraits)
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo)
12 May – 1 September 2013
Self-portraits. Women in Italian contemporary art a broad-ranging, comprehensive collective show dedicated to the relationship between women and art in Italy in recent decades will be inaugurated at the MAMbo on 11th May.
Bas Jan Ader. Tra due mondi
Villa delle Rose (via Saragozza 228/230 – Bologna)
January 24 – March 17, 2013
Bas Jan Ader. Tra due mondi is the first retrospective dedicated to Bas Jan Ader in Italy, curated by Javier Hontoria and organised by MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (Istituzione Bologna Musei).
The title alludes to the condition of being constantly in transit, between the Old and New World, between the subjectivity inherent to the romantic drift and cold impersonality of Conceptual Art, between the extreme rationalism of Mondrian and the vibrant absurdity of slapstick comedy.
Mario Ceroli – “faccia a faccia”
MAMbo, Bologna
21 December 2012 – 1 April 2013
From 21 December 2012 to 1 April 2013 MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna presents the exhibition “faccia a faccia” by Mario Ceroli, paying tribute to the internationally renowned sculptor, a leading member of the new generation of artists that in the early sixties initiated on the Italian scene a unique season of change in the course taken by the language of art.
<em><strong>Bridget Baker</strong>: The Remains of the Father – Fragments of a Trilogy (Transhumance)
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
28th October 2012 – 6th January 2013</em>
As part of the her first personal show in Italy, promoted by MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna from 28th October 2012 to 6th January 2013 in the exhibition spaces of the Permanent Collection, the South African artist, Bridget Baker presents the first preview of the two-channel video work entitled The Remains of the Father – Fragments of a Trilogy (Transhumance) (2012, 24').
Marcel Broodthaers. L’espace de l’écriture
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
26 January – 6 May 2012
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna is delighted to present Marcel Broodthaers. L’espace de l’écriture, the first complete retrospective in Italy devoted to the Belgian artist, curated by Gloria Moure.