Rome Contemporary

The research area Rome Contemporary focuses on reevaluating Rome as a hub of artistic production in the 20th and 21st centuries. Since the early 1900s, the city has witnessed several contrasting phenomena with respect to its art scene and the subsequent scholarship: on one hand, an increasing peripheralization, and on the other, emphasis on its endurance and the revival of its historical role as a center of artistic training and international exchange—a legacy that continues to impact the city’s position today. 

By challenging outdated art historical interpretations, Rome Contemporary welcomes innovative research on the Roman art scene that prioritizes multidisciplinary and transnational perspectives, proposes alternative narratives, and uncovers untold histories. The aim is to challenge the common assumption that the city lost its far-reaching influence in the late modern and contemporary era; and to support research projects in art history and visual culture that examine the conditions of production, reception, and circulation of objects, artists, exhibitions, and cultural agents in Rome and beyond. Reacting against the universalizing tendencies affecting current scholarship on 20th and 21st-century art, Rome Contemporary focuses on the tension between local and global processes that characterize contemporary art practices in a specific urban space. This methodological shift invites new approaches to the concept of “identity”, situating Rome as a heterogenous space experienced by an international cross-section of artists, writers, curators, and political actors. This research focus aims to re-negotiate understandings of the idea of “local” by emphasizing the transnational networks of exchange that reflect complex dynamics of media, space, and time. The discussion resulting from this approach questions the validity of historiographic findings, canons, and structures of thought that have governed the study of Italian contemporary art.

Events

Now we have seen. Women and Art in 1970s Italy

Conference
Event Location: United States
Apr 27, 2024
Magazzino Italian Art, 2700 US-9, Cold Spring, NY 10516, USA

Giovanni Testori fra teatro e critica d’arte. Quando il lavoro del critico trapassa nell’invenzione del vero scrittore

Davide dall’Ombra, Chiara Cavalleri
Evento pubblico senza registrazione
Mar 19, 2024 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online

Brazilian Art and the Return to Painting in the 1980s

Michael Asbury
Online event via Zoom
Mar 13, 2024 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Zoom Platform

Art and Feminism in Italy in the 1970s

Event Location: Germany
Feb 25, 2024 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Josef Albers Museum, Museumszentrum Quadrat, Anni-Albers-Platz 1, D - 46236 Bottrop

Mauro Staccioli: Cementing an Artistic Legacy | Mauro Staccioli: Consolidare un’eredità artistica

Research Exhibition
Oct 18, 2023 - Oct 19, 2023
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma

Scultura italiana dal secondo dopoguerra agli anni Ottanta

Workshop
Evento pubblico senza registrazione
Oct 18, 2023 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online

Now we have seen. Women and Art in the Seventies in Italy

Workshop
Public event without registration
Jun 22, 2023 11:00 AM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)

From the Street to the Museum and Back to the Street…

Hou Hanru
Public event without registration
Jun 20, 2023 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online

Christoph Keller: Data Error Roma Antichità

Christoph Keller
Guided Tour: 14.04.2023 at 15:00, with previous registration
Apr 14, 2023 - Apr 15, 2023
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma

Fumetti underground tra ricerca e festival mainstream

Workshop
Evento in luogo e online
Dec 12, 2022 09:45 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Controcultura in edicola: la rivoluzione di "Frigidaire"

Pablo Echaurren, Vincenzo Sparagna, Ivan Carozzi, Nicolò Porcelluzzi, Carlotta Vacchelli
Nov 29, 2022 10:45 AM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma & Zoom

Massimo Piersanti e gli Incontri Internazionali d’Arte

Visite guidate previa registrazione online
Nov 16, 2022 - Feb 9, 2023
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma

L’arte dell’underground. Fanzine, fumetti e stampa alternativa

Workshop
Apr 6, 2022 10:00 AM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma & Zoom

Field Seminar and Workshop Intellettuale, 1975: Fabio Mauri’s Projection Work “Il Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini”

Studio visit and on-site workshop close reading session / Participation upon registration
Mar 14, 2022 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Studio Fabio Mauri, Via del Cardello 16/16a, 00184 Rome and Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

Controcultura in Italia tra underground e mainstream (1970-1980). La stampa alternativa, i fumetti e le riviste

Research Seminar
Feb 21, 2022 11:00 AM - 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Film Seminar "La rivoluzione siamo noi (Arte in Italia 1967 – 1977)"

Ilaria Freccia e Ludovico Pratesi
Evento online via Zoom
Feb 8, 2022 03:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

"Values Resemble a Dance, Not a Statue" – Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project

Elena Vogman
Online event via Zoom and on site (previous registration)
Oct 11, 2021 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Visual Arts and Communication in Postwar Industry: Corporate House Organs as Tools for International Strategic Policies

Donatella Germanese and Carlo Vinti
Online event via Zoom
Jun 28, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Disability, Art, Agency: Participation and the Revision of the Senses

Amanda Cachia
Online event via Zoom
Jun 22, 2021 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Lancio della collezione digitale di controcultura

Evento inaugurale
May 13, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Carla Accardi. Opere e contesti

Conferenza
Evento online via Zoom
Mar 11, 2021 02:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Questioning the Canon. New Perspectives on Postwar Italian Art

Giovanna Zapperi and Stefano Collicelli Cagol
Online event via Zoom
Mar 2, 2021 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Machine Vision(s) : a Seventeen-Century Catoptric Device Reconsidered/Reconfigured

Marie Theres Stauffer
Event streamed live / Participation on-site possible upon registration
Oct 9, 2020 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Built Space as Enabler: Social and Affective Affordances

Darío Negueruela del Castillo
Oct 9, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Pareidolia. Vie, piazze e monumenti di Roma

Open House with Artists & Round table
Open House Exhibiton: on-site visit possible upon registration / Round table will be streamed live
Oct 8, 2020 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - Oct 10, 2020 01:00 PM
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

"Roman Senators with Sheriffs' Faces." Some Remarks on Anachronism

Peter Geimer
Nov 5, 2019 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Hertziana Insights – Rome Contemporary

Tristan Weddigen, Maria Bremer e Marieke von Bernstorff
Oct 6, 2019 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo

Looking Inside. The Home in Italian Art and Visual Culture from the 1940s to the 1970s

Silvia Bottinelli
Jun 25, 2019 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Rimostrare – Re-Exhibiting

Jun 19, 2019 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, via Nazionale 194, 00184 Roma

Mostre in mostra

Daniela Lancioni
È richiesta la prenotazione.
Jun 19, 2019 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, via Nazionale 194, 00184 Roma

Figures of Protest: Figuration and Politics in and around Michelangelo Pistoletto's Comizi (1965–1966)

Tenley Bick
Jun 6, 2019 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Reimagining the Family Album: Carla Lonzi's Autoritratto (1969)

Teresa Kittler
Jun 6, 2019 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Dopo il Grand Tour - Riferimenti | Revisioni | Ritorni

Apr 12, 2019 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca

"Guttuso, 'Guernica', Gramsci"

Lara Pucci
Mar 21, 2019 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

"A Time of Synthesis": Roman Art at Midcentury

Adrian R. Duran
Mar 21, 2019 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

A Difficult Heritage: The Afterlife of Fascist-Era Architecture, Monuments, and Works of Art in Italy

Mar 11, 2019 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Mar 12, 2019 08:00 PM
American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Rom und Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Articulating the In-Between. Changing Exhibition Practices in Early Postwar Rome

Patrick Barron
Feb 26, 2019 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

From Piranesi to Contemporary Art. Visit to the workshop and to the archive of the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica

Christoph Keller
Feb 14, 2019 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Exhibiting (and) History

Dec 6, 2018 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Dec 7, 2018 06:00 PM
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

The Worker, the Monster and the Ancient Gods. "Operaismo", "Autonomia" and the Depiction of Revolutionaries

Jacopo Galimberti
Dec 4, 2018 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Legare, misurare, attraversare - Un'ipotesi di risignificazione dello spazio espositivo nella Roma degli anni Settanta

Luigia Lonardelli
Oct 23, 2018 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Memorie del fascismo nell'arte contemporanea a Roma: Fabio Mauri e Giosetta Fioroni intorno al 1970

Laura Iamurri
May 23, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Time is Out of Joint

Marcella Cossu
Apr 7, 2018 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Speaking Bodies? Recoding Language in Women's Art Practices - From Present to Postwar Italy

Apr 5, 2018 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove di Metropoliz_Città Meticcia

Giorgio de Finis e Carlo Gori
Feb 10, 2018 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
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