MAXXI RE-EVOLUTION

MAXXI is becoming ever more welcoming, more accessible and more open to the city, with the whole of the ground floor free of charge and new services for the public, a project that has been enthusiastically pushed through by the President of the Fondazione MAXXI Giovanna Melandri, the Board of Directors, the Artistic Director Hou Hanru and the directors of MAXXI Architettura and MAXXI Arte, Margherita Guccione and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, curators of The Place to Be.

This presentation starts right from the piazza and extends to the interior without interruptions, throughout the ground floor and part of the first floor, with large-scale installations, works exhibited for the first time, major works from contemporary masters, temporary shows and analyses dedicated to the artists in the collection. The ground floor – to which entry is free from Tuesday to Friday and every first Sunday of the month – also houses a permanent video gallery realised in collaboration with In Between Art Film; a space devoted to the Archive of the Incontri Internazionali d’Arte; a new teaching workshop that also offers the Kids Museum, an exploration of the works in the collection designed for children, with the support of BNL – Gruppo BNP Paribas. The offer is completed by a new cafeteria-bookshop facing onto Via Guido Reni and a new restaurant on Piazza Alighiero Boetti, with the collaboration of a Michelin star chef.

[ph: Ugo Rondinone, Winter moon, 2012]