The exhibitions and events not to miss in February

Foto di Gabriele Basilico

Rome: Gabriele Basilico. Roma.
A journey through the main projects undertaken by Gabriele Basilico in the Eternal City, deeply loved and frequently visited by the Milanese photographer. Key elements of Basilico's research, such as the stratification of epochs and styles and the dialectic between monuments and everyday architectural fabric, find their apotheosis in Rome, offering the photographer the opportunity to tell the story of a modern city that simultaneously includes the monumental, shiny, and reflective architectures of rationalist modernity alongside the temples, arches, and palaces of ancient history within the same grandiose monumental framework.

Until February 23, 2025
At Palazzo Altemps


Courtesy of Palazzo Madama

Turin: Visitate l’italia! Promozione e pubblicità turistica 1900-1950
An unprecedented account of the fascinating history of Italian tourism promotion, from the late 19th century to the early years of post-World War II reconstruction, through the works of key figures in Italian illustration. The exhibition is divided into five major sections, allowing a journey through the creation of the Italian imagination. Starting from the Alps and following the Apennine spine, the journey reaches the wonders of Italy’s islands, then climbs through the thermal waters, seas, beaches, leisure, sport, health, and the Belle Époque, discovering what would become the myth of post-war Italy.

Until August 25, 2025
At Palazzo Madama


Foto di Luigi Ghirri

Reggio Emilia: Luigi Ghirri. Zone di passaggio
A reflection on darkness, aiming to explore the significant value it holds in the collective imagination. The starting point is the numerous works featuring nighttime settings that Luigi Ghirri created during his career. These are places "illuminated in a provisional manner, or spaces that live in a kind of semi-darkness, which temporarily become brightly lit in a festively provisional way,” where an alternative reading of reality is activated.

Until March 2, 2025
At Palazzo dei Musei 



Torino: Beyond Alien: H.R. Giger
The first retrospective in Italy dedicated to one of the most visionary artists of the second half of the 20th century, Hans Ruedi Giger, known to the general public as the man who created the imagery of the film Alien.
The exhibition aims to retrace, ten years after his death, the entire career of the great Swiss master who profoundly changed and influenced surrealism, sci-fi horror and contemporary gothic imagery.

Until 16 February 2025
At the Museo Mastio della Cittadella


Foto: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images, collezione Getty Images Entertainment.

Rome: Memorabile. Ipermoda
A complex constellation of objects that evoke, question, and reflect the fashion world’s aspiration to be memorable. Memorable. Hyperfashion delves into the present and the role of fashion between 2015 and today within the global creative and economic framework, exploring design practices, the use of increasingly sophisticated technologies, and the key figures in fashion. The exhibition stages the paths and collaborative processes of authors, the new forms of authorship such as that of stylists, who operate in a relational and confrontational dimension with various creative practices, processes, techniques, values, and models of production that shape the language and production models of fashion.

Until March 23, 2025
At MAXXI 


Courtesy of Reggia di Caserta

Caserta: Metawork
The Museum of the Ministry of Culture, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will host one of Italy's most prolific and influential contemporary artists, Michelangelo Pistoletto, a key figure in the radical renewal of artistic language and a protagonist of Arte Povera. Over sixty works by Michelangelo Pistoletto will invade the rooms of the Gran Galleria of the Royal Palace of Caserta for the next seven months. Pistoletto's art is open to dialogue and exchange. It is an ongoing and expanding research aimed at restoring the connection between the artistic experience and the external world. The meeting and dialogue between different worlds is the focus of many of his works, which are rooted in an aesthetic based on relationship and participation. The goal is to take the work out of its boundaries, bringing art into life and life into art.

Until June 30, 2025
At Reggia di Caserta



Rende (CS): Andy Warhol - Pop Art Revolution
This exhibition offers a journey through the key moments of Andy Warhol’s career, starting from the 1950s with his blotted line technique to the major works of the 1970s and 1980s. The journey includes his early works such as Wild Raspberries, along with his famous series on subjects like Dollar, Marilyn, Candy Box, Vesuvius, and concludes with the iconic 1987 Mass for Andy Warhol, a tribute to Raphael’s Madonna. In addition to his most famous works, the exhibition features unseen pieces, such as the portrait of Italian fashion designer and Warhol friend, Regina Schrecker. These unique and significant works highlight Warhol's intense connection to Italy and his European roots.

Until April 13, 2025
At Museo del Presente


© Alessandra Scoppetta

Oristano: Orizzonti. Racconti e visioni dall’isola
"The sea, with its boundless horizon, shapes those who live by it and those who observe it from the outside."
The choice to narrate, through visual and multimedia arts, the perception of the horizon becomes an opportunity to reflect on our identity and our bond with this land that defines and belongs to us. The exhibition unfolds as a journey in which photography, contemporary art, and video alternate, forming a metaphorical and sentimental narrative. Through the various interpretations by artists, the exhibition explores the complexity of the Sardinian relationship with the horizon, both maritime and inland, which is so binding and captivating.

Until March 30, 2025
At Museo Diocesano Arborense


Courtesy of Pirelli HangarBicocca

Milan: Improvisation in 10 Days
Known for his distinctive approach to music, Tarek Atoui investigates the acoustic properties and ways in which elements such as water, air, stone, and bronze absorb sound and return it with unexpected nuances. The exhibition Improvisation in 10 Days explores compositional potential within a space, bringing together the material, sculptural, architectural, and relational aspects of the works with the immaterial nature of sound and its reverberations in bodies and objects. Using the Shed as a vast blank canvas, the artist disassembles and recomposes works from a previous show, embracing the identity of the space and its temporal specifics, creating "sudden" movements, harmonies, and tunings to craft a collective experience and a sonic environment.

Until July 20, 2025
At Pirelli HangarBicocca


Courtesy of Castello di Rivoli

Rivoli: Mutual Aid. Art in collaboration with nature
The exhibition explores the concept of ‘mutual support’ by delving into the creative collaboration between human beings and nature, in an unprecedented reflection returned to the public through the experiences of more than twenty artists and their non-human collaborators who have tackled the theme from the 1960s to today. The ‘mutual support’ between the different elements in play thus becomes the key factor of evolution and the beating heart of the exhibition, where each work presented is completed or co-created thanks to the contribution of non-human elements or agents. The exhibition invites us to question the division between culture and nature, between environment and human being, drawing on different exhibition languages such as video, painting, sound, installation and sculpture.

Until 23 March 2025
At Castello di Rivoli