Exhibitions 2023 in Rome with Van Gogh and Capogrossi

The 2023 exhibitions in Rome are already shaping up to be a success.

Among them, Van Gogh and the Masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, at Palazzo Bonaparte, seem to already confirm expectations and then Giuseppe Capogrossi at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome marks his return to the city after 20 years, Crazy at the Chiostro del Bramante, photography in the shots of Collection at Villa Medici, and finally the architecture of Mario Botta at MAXXI.

Van Gogh Masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller Museum at Palazzo Bonaparte until March 26, 2023

Van Gogh Masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller Museum opens at Palazzo Bonaparte, in Rome, and is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of 2023.

Open from October 8, 2022, it is already being hailed as the exhibition of the year dedicated to the Dutch genius, on the eve of the 170th anniversary of his birth.

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Zundert, Netherlands, on March 30, 1853: his life was extremely troubled, marked by extreme sensitivity and unfortunately dictated by several bouts of madness, during one of which he even cut off his ear. He spent long periods in the psychiatric hospital of Saint Paul in Provence until July 29, 1890, when at just thirty-seven years old, he shot himself in the chest in the fields of Auvers.

Palazzo Bonaparte showcases some of the most famous masterpieces of Van Gogh: there are 50 works coming from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, which houses the most important collection of the artist’s works after the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

The exhibition Van Gogh Masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller Museum at Palazzo Bonaparte celebrates the greatness of the artist, retracing his life and career. It also presents the places most dear to and lived by the painter, from Arles to St. Remy and Auvers-Sur-Oise.

From the passionate relationship with the dark landscapes of his youth to the sacred study of the work of the land, figures emerge that act in a severe daily life, such as the sower, the potato pickers, the weavers, the woodcutters, the women engaged in domestic tasks or exhausted from carrying sacks of coal or digging the earth.

All of these are expressions of the greatness and intense relationship with the truth of the world of Van Gogh.

Capogrossi Behind the Scenes at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome until November 6

Among the exhibitions of 2023, we highlight at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Capogrossi. Behind the Scenes, an exhibition to remember Giuseppe Capogrossi, one of the fathers of informal painting and of Italian art of the twentieth century.

The major exhibition, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Capogrossi’s passing, is organized in collaboration with the Capogrossi Archive Foundation and with the support of Ghella and UniCredit.

Capogrossi. Behind the Scenes brings back to Rome the artist’s work after over 20 years and begins activities in homage to the artist as part of the project titled Capogrossi. The Sign in Museums and Italian Institutions.

The National Gallery of Modern Art exhibits a selection of over thirty paintings and about twenty works on paper from the collections of the National Gallery, the Capogrossi Archive Foundation, and private collections. The exhibition is also enriched with archival documents from the artist’s documentary funds preserved in the Gallery’s Archive and at the Foundation: photographic portraits of Capogrossi, exhibition catalogs, magazines, letters, and newspaper articles that reconstruct the relationships woven by the artist.

CRAZY. Madness in Contemporary Art at the Chiostro del Bramante until January 8, 2023

The 2023 exhibitions must include CRAZY. Madness in Contemporary Art, at the Chiostro del Bramante until January 8, 2023. There are 21 internationally renowned artists who have created, for the exhibition, 11 new site-specific installations. The artworks will invade the external and internal spaces of the Chiostro del Bramante following the common thread of madness in contemporary art.

 The 21 artists invited to participate in the CRAZY exhibition are part of this madness: Carlos Amorales, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter, Massimo Bartolini, Gianni Colombo, Petah Coyne, Ian Davenport, Janet Echelman, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young, Lucio Fontana, Anne Hardy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Alfredo Pirri, Gianni Politi, Tobias Rehberger, Anri Sala, Yinka Shonibare, Sissi, Max Streicher, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu.

Crazy does not establish any ordinary and predictable path in favor of a creative explosion capable of expanding, like the pigment flows of Ian Davenport on the stairs, and of altering spatial perception, like Gianni Colombo’s environment. 

COLLECTION at Villa Medici until January 15, 2023

For the 2023 exhibitions, Villa Medici presents COLLECTION, the exhibition that celebrates the photography collection of Florence and Damien Bachelot.

COLLECTION features an exceptional series of about 150 photographs that cover a century of image history, in the intimacy of the human condition. 

From Brassaï to Sabine Weiss, from Diane Arbus to Mitch Epstein, COLLECTION delves into the history of photography centered on Humanity and its relationship with its environment, where the effervescence of the city goes hand in hand with the solitary poetry of the portrait. 

COLLECTION thanks to the dual perspective of collectors Florence and Damien Bachelot and that of curator Sam Stourdzé, navigates between the two great transatlantic traditions: from humanist French photography of the early 20th century to American street photography. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis thus meet Dave Heath, Helen Levitt and Robert Frank.

There are about 40 vintage prints by Saul Leiter which, with the transition to color, mark a turning point towards the second half of the century and a reversal of photographic influences. The American counterculture and the setbacks of modernist utopia occupy the center of the image.

Nature Mario Botta Sacred and Profane at MAXXI in Rome until October 16, 2022

Nature Mario Botta Sacred and Profane is at the Maxxi in Rome until October 16.

The exhibition is part of a series that narrates the significant research of contemporary architecture, inviting authors to tell their stories through the installation of their own exhibition.

Mario Botta is a world-renowned Swiss architect and designer who graduated with Carlo Scarpa, worked with Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn, and today is truly a master among masters.

Mario Botta designed the SFMOMA in San Francisco and the Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, and in Italy, the MART in Rovereto. He is the creator and founder of the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, where he established the Theater of Architecture, a space entirely conceived to showcase and discuss the architectural discipline, reflecting his interest in the staging of architecture, which finds an additional opportunity at the MAXXI.

Nature Mario Botta Sacred and Profane is an installation composed of heterogeneous materials ranging from a 1:1 scale pavilion to a prototype of a facade, along with models, sketches, and photographs of a selection of his built projects. The theme “sacred and profane” that gives the exhibition its title is interpreted in the broadest sense of a sacredness inherent in every architectural gesture, from the purity of materials to the sensitivity to context.