Rome exhibitions

Current exhibitions in Rome: contemporary art, painting, sculpture, photography, design and archeology; times, periods, cost and purchase of tickets and exhibition venues.

Exhibitions in Rome by artistic sector: Painting, Sculpture, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Photography, Archaeology.

Exhibitions in Rome by season: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.

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Peggy Kleiber. Tutti i giorni della vita (fotografie 1959-1992) - Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza Sant'Egidio, 1/b - Rome

Exhibition running from 19 May to 15 October 2023

The first exhibition in Italy of the photographer Peggy Kleiber arrives at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, born from the discovery of two suitcases that have never been opened, containing 15,000 photographs taken between the end of the 50s and the 90s.

Vita Dulcis - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, via Nazionale, 194 - Rome

Exhibition running from 22 April to 27 July 2023

The VITA DULCIS exhibition opens at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, curated by Francesco Vezzoli and Stéphane Verger and produced by the Palaexpo Special Company and conceived together with the Roman National Museum and Studio Vezzoli. The exhibition takes its cue from the artist's most recent production to offer the public an unprecedented and surprising journey that combines contemporary art, archeology and cinema.

Ipotesi Metaverso - Palazzo Cipolla, Via del Corso, 320 - Rome

Exhibition running from 5 April to 23 July 2023



At Palazzo Cipolla the Metaverse Hypothesis exhibition opens with the great artists of the past meeting contemporaries on the terrain of imagination and the creation of new spatial dimensions.

Primarosa Cesarini Sforza. La materia e il perimetro - Casino dei Principi, Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana, 70 - Rome

Exhibition running from 5 April to 2 July 2023

Villa Torlonia presents an exhibition dedicated to Primarosa Cesarini Sforza retracing her 50-year career, in constant confrontation with the subject that led her to experiment with the most disparate techniques and materials.

Pericle Fazzini, lo scultore del vento - Museo Carlo Bilotti, Viale dell'Aranciera - Rome

Exhibition running from 25 March to 2 July 2023

On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his birth, the Carlo Bilotti Museum hosts an exhibition of Pericle Fazzini, "the sculptor of the wind", as the great poet Giuseppe Ungaretti defined him.

INFINITY. Michelangelo Pistoletto. L’arte contemporanea senza limiti - Chiostro del Bramante, Arco della Pace, 5 - Rome

At the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome throughout 2023 a major exhibition displays 50 works and 4 large site-specific installations. More than 60 years of art, almost 90 years of life. Certainly not a traditional exhibition but a story, an experience that through the symbolic works of Michelangelo Pistoletto (Biella, 1933) takes you on an exciting journey into the poetics and the world, the many worlds, of one of the masters of contemporary art.

L’immagine sovrana. Urbano VIII e i Barberini - Palazzo Barberini, Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13 - Rome

Exhibition running from 18 March to 30 July 2023

At Palazzo Barberini the National Galleries of Ancient Art are hosting an exhibition on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the election of Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne with the name of Urban VIII, which took place in August 1623, the National Galleries of Ancient Art are dedicating an impressive exhibition to his twenty-one years of pontificate (1623-1644).

La Roma della Repubblica. Il racconto dell’Archeologia - Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio - Rome

Exhibition running from 13 January to 24 September 2023

On display at Palazzo Caffarelli the story of republican Rome, from the beginning of the 5th to the middle of the 1st century, through about 1800 exhibits, mostly exhibited for the first time.

I Romanisti. Cenacoli e vita artistica da Trastevere al Tridente (1929 – 1940) - Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza Sant'Egidio, 1/b - Rome

Exhibition running from 15 December 2022 to 4 June 2023

Until June, an exhibition on life and culture in Rome between the end of the 1920s and 1940, from the specific perspective of the "Romanisti", i.e. scholars, academics and lovers of the city.

Visual Diary - GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, via Francesco Crispi 24 - Rome

Exhibition running from 18 November 2022 to 4 June 2023

At the Gam in Rome he opens an exhibition which is a visual journey, in the form of a diary, built through the photos and videos of Liana Miuccio in dialogue with the written word of Jhumpa Lahiri.

Pasolini pittore - GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, via Francesco Crispi 24 - Rome

Exhibition running from 29 October 2022 to 4 June 2023

At the Gam in Rome an exclusive exhibition completely unpublished of its kind opens, for the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), which intends to bring attention to a relevant artistic aspect, often overlooked by critics, in the creative context total of the writer and director, more than forty years after the last complete anthology on Pasolini the painter, in 1978, held at Palazzo Braschi.

Quotidiana - Museo di Roma, Palazzo Braschi,  Piazza Navona, 2 e Piazza San Pantaleo, 10 - Rome

Exhibition running from 16 September 2023 to 3 September 2023

At the Museum of Rome a series of exhibitions dedicated to the discovery of phenomena and authors of Italian art of the 21st century: the title of the exhibition enhances the continuous nature of the exhibitions which each time adds a piece of knowledge of the contemporary art scene of our country.

Dai Primitivi a Filippo Lippi - Palazzo Barberini, Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13 - Rome

Exhibition running from 28 April 2022 to 30 June 2023

From 29 April 2022, the National Galleries of Ancient Art will reopen the doors of the eleven rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Barberini with a completely renovated and rearranged itinerary.

I Colori dell’Antico. Marmi Santarelli ai Musei Capitolini - Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio - Rome

Exhibition running from 13 April 2022 to 30 April 2023

On display is a broad overview of the use of colored marbles, from its origins to the 20th century, through a refined selection of pieces from the Santarelli Foundation.

Cursus Honorum. Il governo di Roma prima di Cesare - Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio - Rome

Exhibition running from 24 March 2022 to 24 September 2023

An exhibition illustrates - until autumn 2022 - the various public offices of magistrates of the Republican age, the cursus honorum, a fundamental aspect of the political life of ancient Rome.

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The World of Banksy – The Immersive Experience - Stazione Tiburtina - Rome

Exhibition running from 21 June 2021 to 28 May 2023

A traveling exhibition arrives at the Tiburtina station in Rome displaying over 130 works that tell the world of the mysterious British artist, famous for tackling political issues and social denunciation with irony.

Colori dei Romani. I mosaici dalle Collezioni Capitoline - Centrale Montemartini, Via Ostiense, 106 - Rome

Exhibition running from 27 April 2021 to 25 June 2023

Una nuova mostra alla Centrale Montemartini propone un’ampia selezione di mosaici, capolavori delle collezioni capitoline poco conosciuti al grande pubblico.

L'eredità di Cesare e la conquista del tempo - Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio - Rome

Exhibition running from 8 February 2021 to 24 September 2023

An exhibition tells - until spring 2022 - in an evocative and engaging way the events and protagonists of the history of ancient Rome through the Fasti Capitolini.

Leonardo da Vinci. Il genio e le invenzioni - Palazzo della Cancelleria, Piazza della Cancelleria, 1 - Rome

Exhibition running permanently

The Exhibition at the Palazzo della Cancelleria offers an interactive itinerary particularly dedicated to the youngest visitors who want to discover the genius of Leonardo.
More than two hundred wooden machines designed by Leonardo and sixty-five models made following the designs of the master from Vinci are on display.