Fondazione Memmo

Seguir

       

DATOS GENERALES

---

Espacios expositivos: Fondazione Memmo, Via Fontanella Borghese 56/b Rome, Lazio, Italia


ENLACES OFICIALES
Web  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram 

Teléfonos
+39 06 68136598

---

Descripción de la Organización

Fondazione Memmo came into being in 1990 to realize the dream of its founder, Roberto Memmo. At that period very few museums in Italy had a dynamic and active approach, but the time was ripe for creating new private and public spaces for art in several Italian cities, with many of which the foundation would collaborate over the years. The Foundation has displayed masterpieces of every age and culture, with the objective of bringing a broad public closer to the world of art. In 2012, the Fondazione Memmo broadens its views with a new exhibition programme entirely free and dedicated to the contemporary art scene, promoting the interaction between the artists and the city of Rome. With its unique approach the Fondazione has positioned itself internationally amongst the greatest promoters of Roman heritage through contemporary findings. The activity of the Foundation is mainly based on two different lines of intervention: a programme of monographic exhibitions, the result of residencies dedicated to a guest artist and a series of group exhibitions dedicated to Italian and foreign artists temporarily present in the city of Rome. The monographic exhibitions provide an invitation to an artist called to expand his practice, experimenting with new creative possibilities bringing them closer to local and traditional craftsmanship. The program was started with the artist Sara VanDerBeek (2012), followed by Sterling Ruby (2013), Shannon Ebner (2014) – that inaugurated the new exhibition space of the stables of the Ruspoli Palace –, Camille Henrot (2016), Giuseppe Gabellone (2017), Kerstin Brätsch and the collective KAYA (2018), Latifa Echakhch (2019). Since 2015, Fondazione Memmo launched also a collective exhibition platform curated by Marcello Smarrelli, Conversation Piece, this year at its sixth edition. Since February 2019 Fondazione Memmo is working in partnership with Gasworks, London to offer Italian artists a fully funded residency. Fostering a cultural exchange between Italy and the UK the Fondazione positions itself as pioneer by bringing Italian contemporary mid career artist to the UK and hosting British artists in Rome, Italy.

---

---