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
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
At Palazzo Ducale in Genoa from October 14th, 2022 to April 2nd, 2023 Enchanting the audience by telling timeless stories is considered a true art. However, behind the typical immediacy of the perfect artistic result lies – as it is often the case in the art world – a years-long creative research work, generally unknown … Continue
Rubens a Genova I have been several times in Genoa, and remain on very intimate terms with several eminent personages in that republic” P.P. Rubens, 1628 When Rubens departed for Italy, on the 9th of May 1600, he was not yet 23 years old. However, it is likely that he reached that age during the … Continue
Women, Mexico and freedomLoggia degli Abati Tina Modotti, an Italian photographer, activist and actress, has left an indelible mark on the history of contemporary photography.Her famous shots, which make up the collections of the most important museums in the world, are the symbol of an emancipated and modern woman, whose photographic art is inextricably linked … Continue
