Summer at Maxxi 2024

The Museum's summer program returns to MAXXI again this year with fifteen unique events. For six weeks, from Tuesday to Thursday, the MAXXI square becomes the place in which to share contemporary stories of art, architecture, music, performance, cinema, fashion and books.

Opening the Summer at Maxxi 2024 program is Danilo Bucchi with an evening-event in which he is the protagonist with his latest project: Moreover, an artist's book in which the author expresses his point of view on portraiture. In the book Bucchi acts as an observer of other people's drawings; among the faces of strangers, but also of writers, directors, actors, stylists, musicians, curators, museum directors met on the streets of Rome, Milan, Berlin, Paris, New York and Tokyo, the complex work of the project emerges, which has involved the author for almost ten years, producing a catalog raisonné edited by Achille Bonito Oliva and published by DRAGO and created with the support of Galleria Gaburro. The book therefore represents a work where it is not Bucchi's works that speak, those that made him famous on the contemporary scene, but the drawings of others combined with the photographic portraits he himself created. Eighty are the protagonists of the project: well-known faces from the entertainment industry such as Alessandro Borghi, Jasmine Trinca, Elio Germano, Virginia Raffaele, Emma Marrone, or artists and writers such as Emanuele Trevi, Ferzan Ozpetek, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, but also ordinary people.

Also worth mentioning, as part of the event, is the creation of an interesting film festival by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma and MAXXI of Cinémaville. The screenings, with free admission while available seats last, will be held in the MAXXI Auditorium starting from 9.00 pm. The cycle – which will take place on the occasion of the Environments 1956-2010.Environments by Women Artists II exhibition, scheduled at MAXXI – includes four films in which architecture becomes the protagonist, bringing some of the most famous and fascinating homes in the history of cinema to the big screen.

Full program on: Maxxi.art.