# MAXXI Museum in Flaminio, Rome, one of On View's top museums there. - Address: Via Guido Reni 4A, Rome, 00196 - Hours: Tue–Sun 11–7 - Website: https://www.maxxi.art - Instagram: [@museomaxxi](https://www.instagram.com/museomaxxi/) - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/rome/map/maxxi ## Exhibitions ### *Vitalità dell’architettura italiana 1946–2026* May 29 – Nov 15, 2026 · on view · KME Gallery Eighty years of Italian architecture since the Republic was founded, from postwar public building to eight studios of the “Erasmus generation” and younger designers. Interviews with Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas, Stefano Boeri, Paola Viganò and others open the show, beside Matilde Cassani’s reworking of BBPR’s Milan monument to those who died in the Nazi camps. Archival material on the rebuilding of democratic Italy leads to eight studios born between the late 1960s and early 1980s, among them Labics, Francesca Torzo and Barozzi Veiga, each with a building photographed by Allegra Martin, and to this year’s NXT finalists. Curated by Pippo Ciorra and Elena Tinacci. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/vitalita-dellarchitettura-italiana-1946-2026/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/vitalita-dellarchitettura-italiana-1946-2026 ### Andrea Pazienza: *Non sempre si muore* Apr 24 – Oct 18, 2026 · on view, closing soon · Gallery 5 Hundreds of comic strips, drawings and writings by the cartoonist Andrea Pazienza, in order from his early years to his last works. Marking 70 years since his birth, the second chapter of a project begun at MAXXI L’Aquila sets rooms of strips, with characters such as Pentothal, Zanardi and Pompeo, around a core of texts, illustrations and painted drawings. There a mural Pazienza made live at the Naples comics fair in 1987 is shown for the first time, with sketches, letters, poems, photographs, films and recordings. Curated by Giulia Ferracci and Oscar Glioti; extended to October 18. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/andrea-pazienza-non-sempre-si-muore/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/non-sempre-si-muore ### TAKK: *con-vivere* Mar 20, 2026 – Feb 14, 2027 · on view · Entrance Six movable installations of artificial and living elements fill the museum’s entrance hall, with plants, color and grow-light systems. The second edition of ENTRATE, a multi-year design program that treats the MAXXI hall as a place to promote contemporary creativity, is given to the Barcelona and New York studio TAKK, founded by Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño. Curated by Martina Muzi. Six installations form a varied landscape of low-carbon materials and light structures. Rigid elements and curving forms sit alongside living plants, supported by lighting borrowed from agricultural greenhouses, while color serves as stimulus and therapy. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/events/takk-con-vivere/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/con-vivere ### *L’archivio della rivista segno Attualità Internazionali d'Arte Contemporanea, 1976 - 2026* Apr 2 – Oct 25, 2026 · on view A selection of documents and photographs from the archive of the contemporary art magazine segno, founded in Pescara in 1976. The focus marks fifty years since the founding of segno, an art magazine started in Pescara by Umberto Sala and Lucia Spadano. Previously unseen documents trace its history and its coverage of changing artistic languages in Italy and abroad. The archive has been acquired into the museum’s collection. A selection of photographs from it, dated 1976–2025, opens the display. Curated by Paolo Balmas, in the Carlo Scarpa foyer. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/events/larchivio-della-rivista-segno/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/larchivio-della-rivista-segno-attualita-internazionali-darte-contemporanea-1976 ### Alberto Garutti: *Temporali* Oct 7, 2023 – Nov 1, 2026 · on view A large illuminated sign on the museum roof whose lights brighten whenever lightning strikes anywhere in Italy. Garutti designed Temporali for the roof of the museum, along the façade facing Via Masaccio. The work is a big luminous text connected to lightning detection: its lights grow stronger each time a bolt hits Italian territory during a storm. The artist dedicated it to passers-by who look up at the sky, and saw it as a work completed in its encounter with viewers, linking art to the elemental energy of nature. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/events/alberto-garutti/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/temporali ### HPO: *NXT 2026: HPO Rubato* May 29 – Oct 18, 2026 · on view, closing soon · Outside the museum A large temporary pavilion of salvaged materials in the museum’s piazza, with a site-specific sound piece, used for rest, play and events. Rubato, by the Ferrara group HPO, won the 2026 edition of NXT, the programme in which five young architecture studios are invited every two years to propose a temporary structure for the MAXXI piazza. Curated by Pippo Ciorra, it is a sizeable pavilion built from recovered materials, with a deliberate construction-site look. Open and adaptable, it serves as a place to meet, relax and play, and as the setting for the museum’s summer events. Agnese Menguzzato contributed a site-specific sound piece. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/events/nxt-hpo-rubato/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/nxt-2026-hpo-rubato ### *XXIX Compasso d’Oro ADI* Group exhibition · Oct 6 – 30, 2026 · on view Products, services, systems and research projects entered for the 29th Compasso d’Oro design award. The show gathers the projects taking part in the twenty-ninth edition of the Compasso d’Oro, the design prize founded in 1954 on an idea of Gio Ponti. Products, services, systems and research together give a broad view of design today, beyond the single object. It sets industry beside culture, research beside production, memory beside innovation, and presents design as a way of questioning and critically reading the present. Admission is free. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/events/xxix-compasso-doro-adi/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/xxix-compasso-doro-adi ### WWF Italia: *Rivoluzione Naturale. Viaggio tra temi, media e linguaggi che hanno costruito la coscienza ambientale in Italia* Oct 9 – Nov 8, 2026 · on view, just opened A history of six decades of WWF Italia’s campaigns, nature reserves and alliances that changed how Italy sees nature. The show traces how WWF Italia helped turn ecology from a minority concern into a shared cultural value over sixty years. It begins with the organisation’s origins and the vision of its founder Fulco Pratesi, then moves through the first Oases and the major campaigns for species and habitats. It also covers alliances with civil society and business. WWF’s work has created more than 100 Oases and protected over 30,000 hectares in Italy. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/events/wwf-italia-rivoluzione-naturale/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/rivoluzione-naturale-viaggio-tra-temi-media-e-linguaggi-che-hanno-costruito-la ### Sophie Calle: *Matrimoni, Rotture e Funerali inclusi* Oct 16, 2026 – Feb 7, 2027 · coming up · Gallery 2 The first survey in Rome of Sophie Calle, gathering more than forty years of her photographs and writing on closeness, separation and loss. The French artist’s work circles presence and absence, intimacy and distance, longing and its disappointments. The show is built around what she has made of having and lacking a person, a love, sight or an image, moving between the personal and the shared, fact and fiction, photograph and text. Curated by Simona Antonacci. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/sophie-calle-matrimoni-rotture-e-funerali-inclusi/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/matrimoni-rotture-e-funerali-inclusi ### Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: *Campo aperto* Oct 16, 2026 – Feb 7, 2027 · coming up · Claudia Gian Ferrari hall The Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao’s studio turns the Claudia Gian Ferrari hall into a meeting place, in the ninth NATURE commission. NATURE invites internationally known architects to make site-specific installations in the hall. Bilbao’s project combines history, community and architecture, aiming to tie city life to the people who use it through an active gathering space that draws on ancient building traditions. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/tatiana-bilbao-estudio-campo-aperto/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/campo-aperto ### Chiara Bersani, Adji Dieye and Margherita Moscardini: *MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE 2026* Nov 6, 2026 – Mar 7, 2027 · coming up Chiara Bersani, Adji Dieye and Margherita Moscardini New works made for the fifth MAXXI Bvlgari Prize by its three finalists, for the first time all women. The prize, run by MAXXI and Bvlgari since 2018 to support young artists, this year shortlists three artists born in the 1980s and 1990s. Each makes a work for the prize; the winner, announced at the end, enters the museum’s collection. Curated by Giulia Ferracci. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/maxxi-bvlgari-prize-2026/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/maxxi-bvlgari-prize-2026 ### Gordon Matta-Clark: *Not the Work...The Worker* Nov 13, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027 · coming up · Gallery 4 Gordon Matta-Clark, the architect-trained artist known for cutting through buildings, from 112 Greene Street in New York to his time in Italy. The show follows him from the artist-run space at 112 Greene Street through his trips to Genoa and Milan, a turning point in his work, to his first interventions in the city and the building cuts he is known for. Curated by Jessamyn Fiore and Francesco Stocchi. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/gordon-matta-clark/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/not-the-work-the-worker ### Nanda Lanfranco: *Ordinare il mondo. L’Archivio di Nanda Lanfranco* Nov 13, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027 · coming up Photographs from the archive of Nanda Lanfranco, who documented artists and exhibitions of the Italian and international art scene from the 1970s. The focus presents the archive of photographer Nanda Lanfranco, on loan to MAXXI since 2024, the year she died. It traces a career spent largely out of the spotlight yet central to recording key figures and exhibitions in contemporary art. It begins with her work in 1970s Genoa, where she came to performance photography through the Samangallery, and follows her long friendship with Germano Celant. Her images ran in magazines such as Domus, Artforum, Artpress and Il Giornale dell’Arte. Curated by Lara Conte. Full details: [maxxi.art](https://www.maxxi.art/events/ordinare-il-mondo-larchivio-di-nanda-lanfranco/) On On View: https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/ordinare-il-mondo-larchivio-di-nanda-lanfranco ## Past exhibitions - [*The Large Glass*](https://onview.so/rome/maxxi/the-large-glass.md): Dec 13, 2024 – Oct 11, 2026 --- On View's listing, as of Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Every gallery and museum in Rome: https://onview.so/rome.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt