Leather Skin Rem Koolhaas a Michelangelo Pistoletto, from Renzo Piano a Thomas Saraceno, from Ilaria Capua to Matteo Lucchetti: over 50 guests celebrate 10 years of MAXXI in a 10-hour online marathon that brings together major Italian and international institutions, artists, architects, designers, critics, curators, scientists for a reflection on the role, social function and digital potential of museums around the world as a result of the pandemic. The digital festival starts at 11am and ends at 21pm and can be seen and heard live on the museum's social channels, including YouTube.
Are global museums still current? After the Covid-19 experience, the lockdown, the millions of online views, how does the museum change? There are many topics and disciplines to discuss: the marathon on 18 June will also offer a focus on the theme of living and how the Coronavirus has influenced and changed the relationship between us and the home, our way of living it, a theme at the center of the new exhibition layout At Home 20.20 which reopens to the public on June 18th.
Il program is very busy and the proceedings will be opened by Giovanna Melandri, president of the MAXXI Foundation who will host Minister Dario Franceschini and the Speaker of the Chamber Roberto Fico together with the directors of MAXXI. The over 50 guests who will enliven the day will be the protagonists. International guests arriving from the Guggenheim Museum such as Alexandra Munroe or Maristella Casciato for the Getty Research Institute or Martino Stierli for the Moma. You also arrive from London, Madrid, Paris, Shanghai and Buonos Aires as well as from Italy with Stefano Boeri from the Milan Triennale. Performances like that of the Trisha Brown dance company , the collections to listen with Luigi Lo Cascio who reads Margherita Moscardini, Inventory. The Fountains of Za'atari, 2018. O Michela Murgia reading Maria Lai, Untitled, 1989. And then the conversations with the personalities of architecture and contemporary art. An intense day thinking about today but also about tomorrow.
