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, 2023.

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Nel segno di Cambellotti. Virgilio Retrosi artista e artigiano - Casina delle Civette, Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana, 70 - Rome

Exhibition running from November 25, 2023 to June 2, 2024

Villa Torlonia presents an exhibition on Virgilio Retrosi (Rome 1892-1975), artist present in the collections of the Museum of Rome with the 14 plates parade dedicated to the historic districts of Rome. The event intends to present the figure of to the general public an artist who dedicated his life to the applied arts.

Hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00 to 19.00 (the ticket office closes 45 minutes before). On 24 and 31 December from 9.00 to 14.00. Closed on Mondays, December 25th and May 1st.
Tickets: full price €11; reduced € 9. Free for residents of Rome on the first Sunday of the month (upon presentation of an identity document).
Telephone: 060608 (every day from 9.00 to 19.00).
Email: info@museivillatorlonia.it
Web: Villa Torlonia

Fidia - Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio - Rome

Exhibition running from November 24, 2023 to May 5, 2024

On display at the Capitoline Museums over 100 works including archaeological finds, paintings, manuscripts, drawings, multimedia installations for a tribute to the most great sculptor of the age classic.

L'avventura della moneta - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale, 194 - Rome

Exhibition running from 31 October 2023 to 28 April 2024

Palazzo Esposizioni Rome presents an exhibition that offers a journey through time, to discover the main events that have characterized the history of money and finance in the world.

Escher - Palazzo Bonaparte, Piazza Venezia, 5 - Rome

Exhibition running from 31 October 2023 to 1 April 2024

An exhibition arrives at Palazzo Bonaparte, 100 years after his first visit to the capital in 1923, dedicated to Escher who returns to Rome with the most great and complete exhibitionever dedicated to him.

Boris Mikhailov: Ukranian diary - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale, 194 - Rome

Exhibition running from 10 October 2023 to 28 January 2024

Palazzo Esposizioni Rome presents the most important retrospective dedicated to date in Italy to Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov (Kharkiv, 1938), curated by Laurie Hurwitz, in collaboration with Boris and Vita Mikhailov.

Don McCullin a Roma - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale, 194 - Rome

Exhibition running from 10 October 2023 to 28 January 2024

From 10 October 2023 Palazzo Esposizioni Roma presents Don McCullin in Rome, the first major retrospective in Italy and, to date, the largest exhibition wide never dedicated to the famous British photographer international Don McCullin. The exhibition comprehensively collects the different phases of his work, up to the most beautiful photographs recent in which, in a surprising overall vision, the author summarizes his most important experiences radicals.

Helmut Newton. Legacy - Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta (angolo via Tomacelli) - Rome

Exhibition from 6 October 2023 to 3 March 2024

An exhibition created on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the photographer's birth (Berlin, 1920 – Los Angeles, 2004) and postponed due to the pandemic opens at the Ara Pacis. The exhibition, through around 250 photographs, magazines and documents, tells with a new look the uniqueness, style and provocative side of the photographer, who described himself with these words: «My work as a portrait photographer is to seduce, entertain and entertain."

Barbara Doser | Hofstetter Kurt tense_intense - Museo Carlo Bilotti, Viale dell'Aranciera - Rome

Exhibition running from 21 September 2023 to 21 January 2024

The Carlo Bilotti Museum hosts an exhibition of two artists, Barbara Doser and Hofstetter Kurt, who fall within the European tradition of conceptual art. Inside the evocative rooms of the Bilotti Museum - Orangery of Villa Borghese, they outline a fascinating exhibition itinerary dotted with videos, installations, prints of images, projections and sculptures, whose common thread is the intertwining and simultaneity of opposites.

VIS-À-VIS. Tenerani Spina - Museo di Roma, Palazzo Braschi,  Piazza Navona, 2 e Piazza San Pantaleo, 10 - Roma

Exhibition running from 28 June to 12 November 2023

At the Museum of Rome an exhibition presents twenty-five plaster portraits of Pietro Tenerani, one of the most significant sculptors of the Italian nineteenth century, reread by Luigi Spina, a great interpreter of contemporary art photography.

L'allieva di danza di Venanzo Crocetti. Il ritorno - GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, via Francesco Crispi 24 - Rome

Exhibition from 23 June to 14 January 2024

At Gam in Rome, after more than two years of careful and specialized restoration by ICR technicians, it returns to be exhibited to the public, from 23 June to 14 January 2024 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, The dance student (1958-59), one of the first major sculptural works by Venanzo Crocetti (1913-2003) on the theme of dance.

Laboratorio Prampolini #2 - GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, via Francesco Crispi 24 - Rome

Exhibition from 23 June to 14 January 2024

An exhibition opens at Gam in Rome which aims to bring attention to Enrico Prampolin's artistic multilingualism and interdisciplinarity. Notebooks, drawings and unpublished projects from Futurism to the Art Club.

Osvaldo Peruzzi - Splendore geometrico futurista - GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, via Francesco Crispi 24 - Rome

Exhibition running from 23 June to 19 November 2023

An exhibition opens at the Gam in Rome which celebrates, on the eve of the twenty years since his death, the art of the futurist painter Osvaldo Peruzzi (1907-2004), one of the last futurists to popularize the revolutionary theses of the Marinettian movement, with a concise exhibition but exhaustive of its expressive parable.

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

Exhibition running from 13 January 2023 to 21 January 2024

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.

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

Exhibition running from 16 September 2023 to March 17th 2024

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.

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

Exhibition running from 13 April 2022 to 30 April 2032

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.

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

Exhibition running from 21 June 2021 to 28 January 2024

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.

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

Exhibition running from 8 February 2021 to January 21st 2024

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.