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TWENTY OBJECTS FOR TWENTY YEARS OF THE WOLFSONIANA. 2005-2025May 22, 2025 – 19 October, 2025 In 2005, the Wolfsoniana inaugurated its museum in the Nervi neighbourhood of Genoa. Over the years, more than thirty exhibitions and numerous events—including book presentations, conferences, concerts, theatrical performances, and public talks—have been held here, working in synergy with the … Continue

Gianni Franzone FELLOWSHIP 2025

The Centro Studi Wolfsoniana announces the third edition of the international call for the Fellowship in memory of Gianni Franzone (1964-2022), twentieth-century art historian and curator of the Wolfsoniana in Genoa, promoted and supported by the family Franzone. The fellowship is destinated to under 35 researchers in the history, culture and visual arts of the … Continue

New acquisitions at the Wolfsoniana

From November 22nd 2024 curated by Matteo Fochessati and Anna Vyazemtseva The Wolfsoniana opens the new exhibition season and presents the latest acquisitions of the collection: the painting La Madre (1921) by Giovanni Costantini, and two sculptures by Guido Galetti – Giacomino (circa 1922) and Gioiella (1940), received by the Wolfsoniana as a donation from … Continue

Exhibition

Current exhibition Ponti e pontili.Intorno al progetto di Armando Brasini per il ponte sullo Stretto di Messina 28 ottobre 2023 – 19 maggio 2024

Research

Quaderni della Wolfsoniana Journal of studies on art, architecture and design 1870 – 1950 Publications See the list of all publications here Guest scholars The archives and library of the Wolfsoniana welcome scholars, doctoral students and undergraduates by appointment. Please send a written request, containing the objectives of the research, the materials you wish to … Continue

Temathic itineraries

Wolfsoniana is the place where the selected objects of the Wolfson collection find their expositive place. The visitor who walks throuh furnitures, paintings and furnishings taht aere exposed, feels the taste of time and the importance of themes that Micky Wolfson wants to emphasize through his collection. The arrangement of Wolfsoniana follows a chronological/thematical address. Beside … Continue

The Museum

Wolfsoniana is the place where the selected objects of the Wolfson collection find their expositive place. The visitor who walks past furnitures, paintings and furnishings that are displayed, feels the taste of time and the importance of themes that Micky Wolfson wants to emphasize through his collection. The arrangement of Wolfsoniana follows a chronological/thematical itinerary. Beside … Continue

The Collection

The Collection It is an original and varied collection comprising of objects and works of art dating from 1870 to 1950. An excursion among the works of the collection becomes a fascinating documentary: on the changes in taste and style within private homes and public buildings; on the urban transformation processes; on the relationship between art … Continue

Archive Exhibitions

Archive – Wolfsoniana Exhibitions Exhibitions by The Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection – Fondazione Regionale C. Colombo

Link

Link The Wolfsonian FIU (Miami Beach, FL) Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura (Genova) Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Genova) ICOM-ICDAD (International Committee of Decorative Arts and Design) School of Education Science – University of Genoa Master Degree Course in Science and Technology of Communication and Information – – University of Genoa Museums in the City of Genoa Regione Liguria Galata Museo … Continue

Towards industrial design

In the transportation sector, the transition from mechanised craft production to industrial fabrication, which was not fully completed in Italy until after World War II, is represented in the Wolfsoniana through a group of objects which explore the evolution of transportation in the first half of the twentieth century: the bicycle with its wooden rims … Continue

Futurism and Propaganda

The main fascist iconographic motives interweave with the development of futurist research in the years straddling the two wars and in particular with the Thirties Manifesto of Aeropainting. While the fascist political strategy used classical models in order to emphasize its similarities regime with the Roman Empire, the works of the artists who belonged to the … Continue

Rationalism

The Palazzo degli Uffici Gualino (1928) in Turin is one of the first examples of Rationalist architecture, planned by Giuseppe Pagano and Gino Levi Montalcini. Of the furniture pieces drawn by the two architects only the small arm-chair in buxus remains. It was exhibited at the IV Monza Exhibition in 1930, a show where architecture has a space of its own next to the … Continue

Novecento

Twentieth Century Art, or rather “Novecento” style, is particularly rich and versatile from an expressive point of view, if it is analyzed within Italian cultural events of the period straddling the two world wars. As from 1922, the year in which Margherita Sarfatti’s artistic movement made its first public manifestation, this style spread and made a name … Continue