January's must-see exhibitions and events

Gerhard Richter. Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version, 2019-24 (still). Digital projection (color, sound, 36 min.) - © Gerhard Richter 2024 (28102024). Courtesy the artist
and Gagosian

Roma: Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version

Gerhard Richter presents an immersive installation in film and sound that fills the entire exhibition space of the Rome venue. This is the gallery debut of Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version and the artist's first exhibition in Italy since 1983.
The exhibition is the immersive and experiential apotheosis of Richter's Strip project, which the artist began working on in 2010 by digitally fracturing the photographic image of a canvas into progressively smaller divisions that he then doubled, or mirrored, on large surfaces. 

When: until 1 February 2025
Where: Gagosian

Courtesy of Foto Andrea Rossetti

Milano: METAL PANIC

A declaration of love to the city of Milan. Through photographs, videos, performances, installations and collages, artist Marcello Maloberti transforms the PAC into a contemporary construction site where everything remains suspended. METAL PANIC is conceived as an artist's book that brings together and interweaves all the founding themes of Maloberti's work - the elevation of the written word in its poetic dimension, the sacredness of the everyday, attention to the changes and transformations of the urban landscape - through a nucleus of works from the 1990s, more recent works and unpublished productions.

When: Until 9 February 2025
Where: PAC

Katsushika Hokusai: Schizzo della baia di Tangonoura vicino a Ejiri sul Tōkaidō - Silografia policroma, 25,5 x 37,1 cm. Museo d’Arte Orientale “Edoardo Chiossone”, Genova

Pisa: HOKUSAI

With more than 200 works, including masterpieces never exhibited before, the HOKUSAI exhibition at Palazzo Blu in Pisa is a unique opportunity to get to know the greatest exponent of Ukiyoe, the artistic strand linked to the lifestyle and tastes of the new emerging classes of the then city of Edo, now Tokyo. It will be possible to discover a new Hokusai, the master of iconic views and beautiful landscapes, such as the famous print ‘The Great Wave by the Kanagawa Coast’ that consecrated him to the general public, but also a refined and poetic artist.

When: until 23 February 2025
Where: Palazzo Blu

Rilievo 703, 1964-1970. alluminio e pittura fluorescente su tavola, 50 x 50 x 5 cm. Collezione dell'artista, Padova

Venezia: Marina Apollonio. Oltre il cerchio

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the largest retrospective ever held in a museum in Italy dedicated to Marina Apollonio (b. 1940), one of the leading exponents of international Optical and Kinetic Art. Marina Apollonio. Oltre il cerchio traces the artist's career from 1963 to the present day, highlighting the rigour of her visual research, including painting, sculpture and drawing, static, moving and environmental works, black and white and chromatic research, technical and material experimentation.

When: until 3 March 2025
Where: Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Ph. Herb Ritts. Courtesy of Centro di Ricerca Gianfranco Ferré, Politecnico di Milano

Bard: Gianfranco Ferré dentro l’obiettivo

Eighty years after his birth, Forte di Bard dedicates an exhibition to the great architect and stylist Gianfranco Ferré: a never-before-exhibited itinerary designed to tell the public about Ferré's work from photographic images, enriched by projections, clothes, sketches and drawings. The protagonist of the narration is the photographic section of the Gianfranco Ferré Historical Archive: over 90 works, never exhibited before, by eight masters of fashion photography who worked with Ferré on iconic advertising campaigns: Gian Paolo Barbieri, Guy Bourdin, Michel Comte, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Bettina Rheims and Herb Ritts.

When: until 9 March 2025
Where: Forte di Bard

Letizia Battaglia | Il Ballo. Festa di Capodanno a Villa Airoldi. Palermo, 1985 © Archivio Letizia Battaglia

Aosta: Letizia Battaglia - Senza Fine

Senza fine is a constellation of works by Letizia Battaglia that retrace the main themes of her career and, going beyond chronologies, constructs a polyphonic work, the most representative possible, capable of offering a unified vision of a body of work that has lasted almost five decades. The exhibition opens up to the public a universe of photographs taken outside Letizia Battaglia's homeland, Sicily, displaying travel stages that are fundamental for a deeper understanding of her work and thought as a whole. Photography, chronicle and private life come together in a single itinerary that highlights the extraordinary sensitivity and humanity of the photographer from Palermo.

When: until 23 March 2025
Where: Megalithic Area

Celebrating Picasso, exhibition view, Palermo 2024

Celebrating Picasso. Masterpieces from the Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso of Münster

Through 84 works, the exhibition recounts the inseparable combination of Picasso's work and his biography: paintings, lithographs, linocuts, aquatints, etchings, ceramics, punteseches, extraordinary works in the themes closest to the master. The exhibition also offers visitors three videos, including a video interview with Markus Müller, Director of the Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso in Münster and curator of the exhibition, and a striking historical video documentary with original scenes of Picasso at work.

When: until May 4 2025
Where: Palazzo Reale di Palermo

Lambari, Brazil 2010 @Steve McCurry

Biella: Steve McCurry. Uplands&Icons

The exhibition traces an itinerary of the travels and destinations achieved by the great American photographer Steve McCurry from Afghanistan to Tibet, from Mongolia to Japan, from Brazil to Burma, from the Philippines to Morocco to Yemen, in a collection of 128 images ranging from his first Afghan missions to his most iconic images.
An exhibition where the essence of the mountains and remote places with the souls of their inhabitants dominate unchallenged. It is to the spirit of the Mountain, its sacredness, its landscapes as well as that of its inhabitants, that ‘Steve McCurry. Uplands&Icons’.

When: until 18 May 2025
Where: Gromo Losa Palace and Ferrero Palace

Ph Giorgio-Veronesi

Milano: Memory Curtains

The first exhibition by the founders of the multidisciplinary studio Older, Morten Thuesen and Letizia Caramia. The exhibition presents eight silkscreen prints exploring the theme of memory. The exhibition MEMORY CURTAINS at the intersection of photography, painting and architecture. Each of the eight exhibits originates as a photograph, which is digitised, transferred onto fabric and stretched on large iron frames. Parallel to the exhibition, there will be a public workshop of screen printing, part of the Dropcity programme, led by acclaimed screen printer Andrea Baldelli.

Visits by appointment, write to info@olderstudio.com
When: Until 26 June 2025
Where: Dropcity