Found PhotographsOctober 23, 2025 – April 6, 2026, Sottoporticato A retrospective of about 300 photographs by a photographer who, with delicacy, rigor, and mastery, portrayed Italy as it rose from the ashes of the Second World War. He was the most beloved photographer of Il Mondo by Mario Pannunzio, where in 14 years he published … Continue
From July 12 to September 14, Loggia degli Abati With the largest exhibition ever dedicated to his work, Palazzo Ducale explores the world of Jacopo Benassi – named “Artist of the Year” by Artribune magazine – showcasing all of his most iconic subjects: from portraits to underground music venues, from the most banal everyday objects … Continue
From June 27 to July 13 2025, Munizioniere An international, transdisciplinary, and participatory art project The global debate about the direction we are heading in—the right, the wrong, the same, or lost direction—has become an existential question that resonates in the smallest aspects of life.THE OTHER DIRECTION explores this issue through the journeys of passengers … Continue
History of a Myth from Antiquity to Contemporary ArtFrom October 12 2025 to 15 February 2026, Doge’s Apartment and Chapel For centuries, humankind has been fascinated by whales. Since antiquity, myths and legends and tales have highlighted their symbolic and ambivalent nature: on one side, monstrous beings capable of swallowing ships and wreaking destruction; on … Continue
Painting the InvisibleFrom March 22 to July 13, 2025, Doge’s Apartment and Chapel Open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 11 AM to 7 PM Contemporary art returns to Palazzo Ducale with a major exhibition of abstract painting by an artist who has written the history of Italian art through abstract, poetic painting and performative art, … Continue
from 30 april to 24 june, Abati’s loggia The most important worldwide photojournalism exhibition The exhibition shows the results of the 68th competition held by the World Press Photo Foundation, since 1955 a reference point for worldwide photojournalism. The competition rewards professional photographers from all over the world who, during the previous year, took pictures … Continue
Glass Tableware from Art Deco to the Compasso d’Oro AwardNovember 22, 2024 – May 4, 2025 The exhibition recounts forty years of production by Nason & Moretti glass factory, one of the most original Murano glassmakers that, since its foundation in 1923 – with a specific focus on the art of the table and a … Continue
Doge’s Apartmentfrom 12 october 2024 to 23 February 2025 In April 1874, Berthe Morisot partecipade alongside Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley in a collective exhibition featuring painters, sculptors, engravers and other artists. The event was organized independently of the official Salon, in the former studio of … Continue
Incredibly close, extremly far from 23 October 2024 to 23 March 2025, Sottoporticato If they ask me ‘who taught you how to take photographs?’ I reply, “Life.” On the 100th anniversary of Lisetta Carmi’s birth, Palazzo Ducale presents a major exhibition of the Genoese artist and photographer, who throughout her life had the courage to … Continue
Modernity of a feeling In 1688, the student of Alsatian origin Johannes Hofer graduated in medicine in Basel, with a thesis on a hitherto ignored illness, for which he coined a new definition – merging to words of Greek origin nostos (return) and algos (pain or sadness) – Nostalgia, or rather the «sadness generated by … Continue
Palazzo Ducale, Loggia degli Abati Palazzo Ducale, Comune di Genova and Regione Liguria presents a tribute to Italo Calvino, as part of the cultural initiatives of Genoa Italian Book Capital 2023 and of the Celebrations for the centenary of his birth, coordinated by the Committee set up for the occasion by the Italian Ministry of … Continue
Letizia Battaglia It’s meSottoporticato, fino al 1° novembre 2023 Today’s role of Letizia Battaglia in the history of international photography has an immense value. In Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes, by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert, Laetitia Guillemin recalls Letizia Battaglia especially when she was working for L’Ora, the Palermo daily newspaper, during the … Continue
face to face with a masterpiece In the summer of 2020, after the difficult months of lockdown and social distancing made necessary by the Covid-19 pandemic, Palazzo Ducale in collaboration with Arthemisia and the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris worked a small miracle for its visitors – enabling them to experience direct contact with a … Continue
11 March – 9 July 2023Doge’s Apartment The exhibition entitled “Man Ray. Opere 1912 – 1975” pays tribute to the work of the great master Emmanuel Radnitzky, aka Man Ray, who was born in Philadelphia in 1890 and died in Paris in 1976. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest photographers … Continue
The poetry of the istant Sabine Weiss, who recently passed away at the age of 97, was the doyenne of French humanist photography, which brought together photographers such as Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Edouard Boubat or Brassaï. She was one of the women photographers worldwide whose career covered the longest timespan. Born Sabine Weber in … Continue
