The Madre exhibition program in 2024

Cutting Clouds
While work on the second and third floors of the museum proceeds, Madre is not stopping its offerings to the public. Quite the contrary. It is precisely the ongoing work that will be the cue for the Cutting Clouds public program. The project will be articulated through different formats, which will include creative actions linked by the common denominator of the ephemeral and impermanent: touches, gestures and exhibition interventions, workshops, performance events, concerts and digital content. The title refers to Cloud Scissors (1964), an artist’s book conceived by George Brecht, a leading Fluxus exponent.

Vai, Vai Saudade. Notas sobre o Brasil, curated by Cristiano Raimondi
Major group exhibition dedicated to art produced in Brazil Vai, Vai Saudade. Notas sobre o Brasil – whose participants include Maxwell Alexandre, Antonio Dias, Heitor dos Prazeres (also author of the song that gives the exhibition its title), Jaider Esbell, Lygia Pape.

Tomaso Binga, curated by Eva Fabbris with Daria Khan
Exhibition developed in close collaboration with the artist and her Archive. In the early 1970s, Tomaso Binga (Bianca Pucciarelli Menna. Salerno, 1931. Lives and works in Rome) chose to enter the art world using a male pseudonym, thus emphasizing the privileges of men over women even in the cultural field. In her 40-year practice, with her original visual poetry and performances, she has spoken of the female body as a signifier of freedom, playing with words to assert a feminism made of desecration, glee, denunciation, humor.

Gli anni (The Years), curated by Eva Fabbris with the scientific support of LET – Laboratory for Transdisciplinary Explorations
The novel Les années (The Years) by the French writer Annie Ernaux (Nobel Prize for Literature 2022) recounts a life through the description of a series of photographs that portray the protagonist in significant and non-significant moments; through these images emerge the historical events, which for individuals are the ‘background’ of existence, but which, confronted with the dimension of time, are what survives: History. From this poetic and philosophical stance originates the reflection on artwork collections that the exhibition format Gli anni proposes. Unlike personal photographs destined, generation after generation, to be forgotten, works of art arise as a synthesis of subjectivity and the spirit of the times: an art collection, particularly a public one, is thus an antidote to oblivion.

Edi Hila – solo exhibition
An exhibition project capable of giving voice to the broad and layered research of one of the most important figures of the Balkan art scene, who over the years has been a spokesperson for a feeling that is as urgently personal as it is collective. With an artistic path strongly influenced by the context of his country of origin, the practice of Edi Hila (Shkodër, Albania, 1944) has traversed over the decades the various phases of historical, social, cultural and geographic change that have marked Albania during the last half-century (from the communist regime of Enver Hoxha to the transitional period of the 1990s, up to the stabilization years of the 2000s), revealing a creative process that has become a resilient and sensitive witness of its own time.

Pietro Lista – archival exhibition
Since his first projects in the 1960s – including his participation, in 1968, in the historic Amalfitan exhibition Arte Povera + Azioni Povere – Pietro Lista (Castiglione del Lago, Perugia, 1941) has interpreted numerous trends in contemporary art, exhibiting in museums all over the world and maintaining a special connection with Campania region. Today his works are part of public and private collections in America, France, Finland and Germany.

Kazuko Miyamoto a Madre exhibition at Belvedere 21 of Vienna