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CORPUS.ARTE IN AZIONE

CORPUS.ARTE IN AZIONE

07.06.10 | 26.06.10

The second edition of Corpus. Arte in azione, curated by Adriana Rispoli | Eugenio Viola, opens in June 2010 at Madre Museum. It is the result of the ...

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AutoTheater

AutoTheater

15.05.10 | 23.08.10

Since May 15, MADRE Museum will host “Auto-Theater”, the big European retrospective dedicated to the Austrian sculptor Franz West. The exhibition, a tribute to the great Viennese artist, gathers over 80 of his most significant works from the Adaptives (Passstücke) and the ...


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SPOT3

Donatella Di Cicco

SPOT3

16.04.10 | 10.05.10

The third exhibition of SPOT series, Molto visibile segretamente nascosto, by Donatella Di Cicco, opens Friday, April 16th at 19.00 at the Project Room of MADRE Museum. SPOT is a project that develops through a cycle of exhibitions dedicated to young Neapolitan artists with the purpose ...


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The Possessed

Ryan Mendoza

The Possessed

06.03.10 | 28.06.10

From March 6th, 2010 the Madre Museum will host the exhibition  The Possessed by Ryan Mendoza, curated by Vincenzo Trione. The exhibition will consist of 13 large canvases, a gallery of individuals revealing the uncommon technical and composition skill of the American artist. Ryan ...

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BAROCK - Art, Science, Faith and Technology in Contemporary Ege

BAROCK - Art, Science, Faith and Technology in Contemporary Ege

13.12.09 | 05.04.10

In the framework of the events organized by the Campania Region to celebrate the Baroque culture, the Councillorship for Cultural Heritage has endorsed the proposal of the MADRE Museum to mount a big collective exhibition titled BAROCK – Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the ...


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Johnnie Shand Kydd

Johnnie Shand Kydd

31.10.09 | 15.02.10

During the nineties Johnny Shand Kydd has been the privileged and ingenious witness of the outbreak of creation that has overwhelmed every kind of art in London. All the protagonists of that outstanding moment have been shot by his lens with the same energy, the same pressing rhythm, the same ...


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Transit-3

Transit-3

23.10.09 | 30.11.09

Transit 3 is the third step of the homonym project that links young Neapolitan artists with artists coming from other cities of the Middle- East basin. After the experiences in Cairo and Istanbul (where Transit 2 is displayed until November 9th at PiST/// space), the MADRE Museum twins itself ...


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SPOT 2 - A Piece of my Art

Roberto Amoroso

SPOT 2 - A Piece of my Art

24.09.09 | 12.10.09

  SPOT is a project developed through a cycle of exhibitions dedicated to the young Neapolitan artists at their first exhibition experience. SPOT alternates with the series TRANSIT whose second step, which has just ended up, has re-opened on September 9th at the PiST space as a ...


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"A dream journey to Istanbul": draw of the winning ticket

Viaggio Da Sogno ad Istanbul

"A dream journey to Istanbul": draw of the winning ticket

02.09.09 | 22.09.09

The draw of the vinning ticket referring to the lottery “A dream journey to Istanbul” took place at the Madre museum on Wednesday September 2nd at 11 a.m.. The mentioned lottery is linked to the work presented by the Turkish artists Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt within the art ...


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Covers. 33 revs Art

Covers. 33 revs Art

03.07.09 | 07.09.09

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Transit-2

Transit-2

01.07.09 | 31.08.09

Transit 2 is the second step, after the first one in Cairo, of the homonymous project. It is displaced in two different places and times. The first one is at Madre Museum Project Room from Wednesday July 1st, the second one is in Istanbul at PiSt/// Interdisciplinary Artist Space; the same ...

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Shipwreck with Spectator 1974-2004

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE

Shipwreck with Spectator 1974-2004

30.05.09 | 12.10.09

This exhibition investigates up to which point the Italian culture, and particularly Neapolitan one, has continuously cultivated Clemente’s art, even if in an underhand way. For more than thirty years, Clemente went on sailing from his native city (towards Rome, India and United States) to ...


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You can't touch

Giuseppe Stellato

You can't touch

21.05.09 | 08.06.09

Non si tocca, a site-specific installation by Giuseppe Stellato, is the first exhibition of the SPOT series and will be held in the Project Room of the Madre Museum. SPOT is a project consisting in a series of exhibitions held alternatively with the exhibitions of the Transit project ...


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Ponticelli

Santiago Sierra

Ponticelli

15.05.09 | 14.09.09

PONTICELLI is a new project that Santiago Sierra conceived and executed in Naples. It deals with the Roma issue, in particular the recent events that took place in the Ponticelli neighbourhood, which reflect the sentiments of xenophobia and intolerance towards immigrants that is taking root in ...


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Transit-1

Transit-1

26.03.09 | 04.05.09

Transit 1 is the first phase of the homonymous project presented in two locations and at two different times: the first stage in the Project Room of the Museo Madre on Thursday 26 March, the second at Cairo with the reopening of the same exhibition, on the premises of the Townhouse Gallery, 24 ...


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Laughter Project

Piero Steinle

Laughter Project

07.03.09 | 23.03.09

Piero Steinle was born in Munich on 1959 and started his artistic career working with video after his studies on Architecture and Archeology. The documentary installation “Stadt im Verborgenen” (1994) and the complex and impressive video installations “Die unbekannten ...

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Alighiero & Boetti Putting Art in the World 1993 - 1962

Alighiero Boetti

Alighiero & Boetti Putting Art in the World 1993 - 1962

21.02.09 | 11.05.09

The exhibition is structured in a way that illustrates Alighiero Boetti’s creative method, that of a 'singular' artist who managed to become 'plural' over time. His work revolves around a concept that is first identified by the artist individually, and then materialised and spread through a ...


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No Lives Were Lost

Brigataes

No Lives Were Lost

10.01.09 | 19.01.09

BRIGATAES is the collective name used by a group born in 1992 and represented by a single artist today: Aldo Elefante. His artistic activity includes videos, performances, installations and urban interventions. In the exhibition at the MADRE he uses the video to present the “No Lives were ...


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Ceal Floyer

Ceal Floyer

29.11.08 | 23.02.09

The Madre museum of Naples hosts the first museum solo show of Ceal Floyer [Karachi, Pakistan, 1968 – lives in Berlin] in Italy. The curator, Mario Codognato, selected fifteen works to trace the development of the British artist’s practice from the early 1990s – when she ...

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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Travelling ’70-‘76

Robert Rauschenberg

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Travelling ’70-‘76

22.10.08 | 19.01.09

This exhibition brings together a selection of works by Robert Rauschenberg from “cardboards”, “Venetians”, “Hoarfrosts” and “Jammers” series. Rauschemberg’s interest in other cultures and the experiences he gained while travelling are ...

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BRIAN ENO

Brian Eno

23.06.08 | 15.09.08

With the project “Constellations: 77 million paintings” Brian Eno transforms the multi-use room at MADRE into an artificial forest. Five large PVC birch trees hanging the ceiling alternate in the room with large vermiculite cones. In the background a wooden freestanding partition ...

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Napoli crucifixed

Napoli crucifixed

12.06.08 | 29.09.08

Earthquakes, eruptions of Vesuvius, plagues, garbage crisis, bloody Camorra wars: in Naples, all the natural and man-made disasters over the centuries take on the character of essential events. Here, a metaphorical leap takes the truth of facts beyond reality. It is as if the city’s ...

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Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz

18.05.08 | 15.09.08

Following the great success of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Museo MADRE of Naples will host a broad-ranging retrospective dedicated to the work of the German artist, Georg Baselitz, as of 17th of May 2008. More than 10 years after the last exhibition in Italy, the ...


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Classroom #1

Classroom

Classroom #1

15.05.08 | 02.06.08

From May 15 to June 2, 2008 the Madre Museum will host the workshop Classroom #1. The workshop will be included in the schedule of the Museum’s Project Room and will be open to young Neapolitan artists and researchers of other disciplines. It will be curated by Salvatore Lacagnina – ...


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Four Rooms: Room 4

Celesta Bufano

Four Rooms: Room 4

27.04.08 | 05.05.08

Four Rooms is a group show in four stages, in which five young Neapolitan artists – Luca Mattei e Carlotta Sennato, Giulio Delvè, Corrado Folinea, Celesta Bufano - have the opportunity to display their works in a public context and, at the same time, be ...


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Four Rooms: Room 3

Corrado Folinea

Four Rooms: Room 3

13.04.08 | 21.04.08

Four Rooms is a group show in four stages, in which five young Neapolitan artists – Luca Mattei e Carlotta Sennato, Giulio Delvè, Corrado Folinea, Celesta Bufano - have the opportunity to display their works in a public context and, at the same time, be ...


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Four Rooms: Room 2

Giulio Delvè

Four Rooms: Room 2

30.03.08 | 07.04.08

Four rooms is a group show in four stages, in which five young Neapolitan artists – Luca Mattei e Carlotta Sennato, Giulio Delvè, Corrado Folinea, Celesta Bufano - have the opportunity to display their works in a public context and, at the same time, be ...


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JIMMIE DURHAM

Jimmie Durham

26.03.08 | 26.05.08

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Four Rooms: Room 1

Luca Mattei | Carlotta Sennato

Four Rooms: Room 1

16.03.08 | 24.03.08

Four rooms is a group show in four stages, in which five young Neapolitan artists – Luca Mattei e Carlotta Sennato, Giulio Delvè, Corrado Folinea, Celesta Bufano - have the opportunity to display their works in a public context and, at the same time, be confronted with the ...


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ALICE CATTANEO

Alice Cattaneo

23.02.08 | 19.05.08

In collaboration with Ikon Gallery, MADRE presents the work the young artist from Milan (1976); sculptures and video pieces that are characterized by a formal modesty and an economy of means, and yet the overall effect conveyed a strong sense of wonder. Made from everyday materials such ...


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Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth

19.01.08 | 28.04.08

MADRE is staging the first one-man show in an Italian museum institution by Thomas Struth, one of the leading exponents of contemporary photography. The exhibition traces the principal stages of his remarkable career that began in the late Seventies with black and white views of the urban ...


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N.EST 2.0 The making of the city/Disegna la tua città

N.EST 2.0

N.EST 2.0 The making of the city/Disegna la tua città

13.01.08 | 25.02.08

Starting 13 January 2008 the MADRE is hosting N.EST with N.EST 2.0 The making of the city - Disegna la tua città in its Project Room. This is a project whose objective is to document urban transformations through art, creativity and the new media, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio and ...


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Love differences

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Love differences

22.12.07 | 25.02.08

Together with the installation created for Piazza del Plebiscito, at the museo Madre Michelangelo Pistoletto exhits three works of great size which signify the development of his research and also for the idea values implied. In this occasion the old church of S. Maria Donnaregina becomes the ...


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Scotto Di Luzio

Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio

Scotto Di Luzio

26.10.07 | 07.07.08

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Luciano Fabro - Didactica Magna Minima Moralia

Luciano Fabro - Didactica Magna Minima Moralia

21.10.07 | 07.01.08

Four months after his death, the MADRE in Naples is devoting a personal exhibition to Luciano Fabro, a leading Italian sculptor of the late 20th century. The exhibition surveys a singular and innovative artistic career, one already fully formed in the early Sixties before the 1968 movement and ...

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Voom Portraits. A still life is a real life

Robert Wilson

Voom Portraits. A still life is a real life

12.10.07 | 08.12.07

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Manuale per i viaggiatori [Manual for Travellers]

Marinella Senatore

Manuale per i viaggiatori [Manual for Travellers]

05.10.07 | 03.12.07

Marinella Senator’s film Manuale per i viaggiatori (“Manual for Travellers”) is the first project produced by the MADRE of Naples for the spaces of the museum’s Project Room, devoted to the national and international panorama of emerging art. The work, produced in part ...


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You have not been honest. Contemporary film and video from the UK

You have not been honest. Contemporary film and video from the UK

24.05.07 | 24.09.07

You have not been honest is a major new exhibition of contemporary British film and video which world premieres at MADRE, opening on 24th May 2007. You have not been honest features an innovative generation of British artists using documentary and narrative film structures to new ends. A strong ...


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Piero Manzoni

Piero Manzoni

10.05.07 | 24.09.07

The exhibition organized by the Museum of Naples Mother is the most comprehensive retrospective of Piero Manzoni ever produced with over 200 exhibits, photographs, videos, magazines and manuscripts. Curated by Germano Celant, it offers the opportunity to retrace the creative adventure of Manzoni ...


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CLAUDE CLOSKY

Claude Closky

25.02.07 | 01.05.07

A series of « steps » like those of the step stools of libraries lead nowhere but to space from the central courtyard of the Madre museum, right above the project room, which hosts a projection of Manège, the video installation Claude Closky recently exhibited at the Pompidou ...


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Rachel Whiteread

RACHEL WHITEREAD

03.02.07 | 01.05.07

The retrospective mounted at the MADRE museum of Naples is the first exhibition of Whiteread to be held in an Italian museum. For this occasion the artist has created a big installation that she has especially conceived for the premises of the Neapolitan museum. She used dozens of doll’s ...


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Marisa Merz

Marisa Merz

03.02.07 | 01.05.07

Marisa Merz’s exhibition curated by Eduardo Cicelyn e Denys Zacharopoulos at the Madre museum is conceived as an all-inclusive installation of a selected corpus of recent works testifying of the latest developments of the artist’s research in her forty-year career. Following the ...


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ANTONY GORMLEY

Antony Gormley

13.12.06 | 15.02.07

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VEDOVAMAZZEI

Vedovamazzei

18.11.06 | 22.01.07

The Museo d’Arte Donnaregina in Naples, MADRE, presents the first retrospective of the work of vedovamazzei, the duo comprising Simeone Crispino and Stella Scala, considered among the greatest protagonists of the Italian artistic scene of the last 15 years. The exhibition, curated by Mario ...


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Nauman

Nauman

07.10.06 | 08.01.07

Following the great retrospective dedicated to Jannis Kounellis, the MADRE Donnaregina Art Museum in Naples, in cooperation with Tate Liverpool, organises Bruce Nauman’s exhibition “Make Me Think Me”. The exhibition has been curated by Laurence Sillars – ...


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People

People

29.06.06 | 28.08.06

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Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis

Kounellis

22.04.06 | 04.11.06

The Museo d’Arte Donnaregina di Napoli, MADRE (Museo Madre of Naples) is organizing a large retrospective exhibition from 22nd April to 18th September 2006 of the work of Jannis Kounellis, one of the most important figures on the Italian art scene of the post-Second World War period. ...