Every week the Civic Museums of Bologna propose a rich calendar of events, to unveil their collections and tell new and unusual aspects and episodes of the city’s history, also through different points of view and unusual combinations between the different collections. Conferences, workshops, concerts, guided tours, language visits are the main “tools” of this story, which unfolds over thousands of years of history, from the first stone tools of men who lived 800,000 years ago to the products of the current industrial district, from painting to the various forms of modern and contemporary art, from music to great political and civil epics.
The appointments scheduled from Friday 25 to Thursday 31 January are shown below.
IN EVIDENCE
Friday, January 25th
6 pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Goran Trbuljak, Before and After Retrospective”
Inauguration of the exhibition curated by Lorenzo Balbi and Andrea Bellini, promoted by MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna.
First retrospective in an Italian museum institution of the artist of Croatian origin Goran Trbuljak.
The exhibition follows on a temporal basis the artist’s staff set up in 2018 at the Center d’Art Contemporain Genève, to which it is linked, ideally integrating the exhibition path in documenting the main phases of the entire career.
Entrance to the inauguration: free
Saturday 26 January
10 am – 6.30 pm: Palazzo d’Accursio (Courtyard of Honor) – Piazza Maggiore 6
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Eduard Habicher, Uni-Verso”
Opening of the exhibition by Gabriele Salvaterra.
In the Cortile d’Onore of Palazzo d’Accursio appears “Uni-Verso”, a large sculpture by Eduard Habicher, protagonist of a solo exhibition at the Studio G7 Gallery, made up of Ipe140 steel beams modeled as if they were ductile and soft material .
The bright red color underlines its great strength and gives off energy. The structure forms a large hemisphere where the visitor can enter, feeling welcomed by a delicate and soft embrace.
Free entry
Sunday, January 27th
5 pm: Modernissimo building site – via Rizzoli 1/2
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Michele Spanghero: Again Anew, Before the Film”
Inauguration of the exhibition curated by Riccardo Costantini.
The Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with Cinemazero (Pordenone), offers a site-specific sound installation by the artist Michele Spanghero.
Free entry
Monday, January 28th
6 pm: Oratory of San Filippo Neri – via Manzoni 5
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Leandro Erlich Collection de Nuages”
Inauguration of the exhibition curated by Maura Pozzati, promoted by Fondazione del Monte of Bologna and Ravenna in collaboration with Galleria Continua.
The Argentine artist Leadro Erlich presents three large sculptures of the series dedicated to the “clouds”, which dialogue with the magical space of the Oratory, causing the amazement of the spectators, who are in a semi-dark setting suddenly illuminated by the light that comes from within the works themselves.
Free entry
Tuesday 29 January
10-16 am: Palazzo Poggi Museum – via Zamboni 33
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Christian Fogarolli: Stone of Madness”
Opening of the exhibition.
Christian Fogarolli’s site specific intervention stems from the artist’s interest in the profound human capacity to classify and order knowledge to better understand the world. “Stone of Madness” creates a connection with the museum’s collections and its function, asking questions on how to approach mental health care through the centuries up to the present day, from old popular beliefs to today’s pharmacological solutions.
Site specific installation by Lorenzo Balbi promoted by MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna in collaboration with SMA – University Museum System.
Admission: € 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced
11 am-7pm: Palazzo Bentivoglio – via del Borgo di San Pietro 1
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Jacopo Benassi, Bologna Portraits”
Opening of the exhibition curated by Antonio Grulli.
A new exhibition space opens in Bologna dedicated to temporary exhibitions and events in the basement of Palazzo Bentivoglio, in the heart of the city and close to its famous university area. To inaugurate the space is the exhibition “Bologna Portraits” by Jacopo Benassi, which tells the special relationship between the artist and the city context.
“Bologna Portraits” collects a selection of photographs made by the artist during his stay in Bologna in recent years. The central corpus of the works is composed of a series of portraits of personalities linked to the city.
Free entry
6.30 pm: Salone Bank of Bologna, Palazzo De ‘Toschi – Piazza Minghetti 4 / d
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Geert Goiris, Terraforming Fantasies”
Inauguration of the exhibition.
Banca di Bologna continues its path dedicated to contemporary art, hosting the first solo exhibition in Italy of Belgian photographer and videomaker Geert Goiris curated by Simone Menegoi and Barbara Meneghel.
Free entry
Wednesday, January 30th
6 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna (Sala delle Ciminiere) – via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Mika Rottenberg”
Inauguration of the exhibition by Lorenzo Balbi.
First solo show at an Italian museum institution of Mika Rottenberg, the Argentine-born artist who grew up in Israel and now based in New York, among the main protagonists of the contemporary world scene.
Rottenberg uses the different languages of film, architectural installation and sculpture to explore the ideas of class, work, gender and value through imaginative visual devices that illuminate the connections and processes hidden behind seemingly unrelated global economies.
Entrance to the inauguration: free
Thursday, January 31st
TRIPLE – Via dell’Indipendenza 71 f / g / h
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Rob Chavasse, Shutter”
Opening of the exhibition curated by Giovanni Rendina, promoted by Mahler & Lewitt Studios and The Sunday Painter.
The British artist Rob Chavasse presents “Shutter”, a new site-specific work in the TRIPLA exhibition space. The exhibition consists of a full-size mural, printed directly on the walls with an inkjet gun. “Hackerando” the printer, Chavasse appropriates its functions to overlap lines of information and encode them in a large image that speculates on the commercial future of the windows of space.
Show visible 24 hours a day.
Free entry
10-20 am: VOXEL – via di Corticella 56
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Video Alterations, Force Eggs”
Opening of the exhibition by Elisa Del Prete and Silvia Litardi, promoted by NOS Visual Arts Production in collaboration with Nosadella.due, Voxel Network and Pop Up Cinema Bologna.
“Forza Eggs”, the first exhibition in Bologna by Alterazioni Videoi, is an unprecedented raid on the latest Turbo Film productions of the Italian collective that develops as a widespread project in the city, between the center and the periphery, proposing itself not only as an exhibition experience but as a true and its own immersion in the artistic practice of the collective.
The heart of the widespread exhibition is the “Forza Eggs” installation created specifically for the special VOXEL headquarters, where videos, sculptures and props make up a cluster of the latest Turbo Film productions with an ironic touch on the theme of fake news, the object of their last “War and Peace” filmed in Moscow a few months ago.
Free entry
7.30 pm: University of Bologna – School of Engineering and Architecture – Viale del Risorgimento 2
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Florian Hecker, SynAsTex Korrektur”
First performance of live eletronics for 9 channels by the German artist Florian Hecker, curated by XING.
“SynAsTex Korrektur” is the most recent composition by Hecker, one of the leading exponents of contemporary computational music. The School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna hosts the implementation of this new “theater of perception” giving life to the dialogue between the severe architecture of Italian rationalism and the electronic music of the German artist
Free entry
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 26 January
3.30 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“All on air”
Visit and workshop for children from 5 to 11 years dedicated to the exhibition “Hokusai Hiroshige, Beyond the Wave”, by the Educational Services Institution Bologna Museums.
While the adults visit the exhibition or participate in the conference, the little ones enjoy themselves in the company of the museum operators, discovering new images every time, hunting for details and details that are always different to be captured and reworked in the laboratory, making artefacts to take home and collect.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Duration: 2 hours. The activity starts with a minimum of 6 children.
Admission: € 5.00 per child + exhibition ticket (free for children under 6, reduced from 6 to 17 years and family)
4pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The fable of technology”
Laboratory for children from 4 to 6 years.
Bico is a small caterpillar that wants to learn how to fly. To do this, he will discover that technology can be of much help to him. First a catapult built with simple materials and a wheel of a mill made with ice cream scoops will lift it up without yet actually letting it fly.
Then he will be able to build a lift with easily available materials and finally, armed with adhesive tape, nylon thread and balloons, he will build a rocket with which he will manage to take flight!
This interactive laboratory, through the efforts of Bico, brings the youngest children closer to the world of mechanics, illustrating how even complex machines are made and using simple materials to make the replication of the proposed experiments possible even at home.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 1pm on Friday 25th January).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
Sunday, January 27th
3.30pm and 4.30pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“A breath to perfection”
As part of the exhibition “The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna”, animated visits for children from 4 to 6 years (15.30) and from 7 to 9 years (16.30) by Angela Lezzi, RTI Untitled Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
A journey through observation and narration that will lead participants to discover practices and traditions from ancient India. Where to start? From the simplest thing, from the most natural thing …
Reservations required at 051 2193933 (Monday 9-13, Tuesday and Thursday 12-16) (by 12 noon on Friday 25 January).
Free entry
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Within the cycle At the museum for games
“Journey along the Nile”
Workshop for children from 8 to 11 years, by the archaeologists of the Aster company.
The importance of the Nile and its floods, the deities associated with water such as Sobek, the crocodile god, and the activities that took place along the river: a journey to discover this great protagonist of ancient Egypt. At the end of the visit we will make a model of a boat together.
Reservations required on the museum website: www.museibologna.it/archeologico/eventi .
Admission: € 5.00 per child (free for an adult guide) subject to availability (max 20)
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday, January 25th
5 pm: Palazzo d’Accursio (Sala Farnese) – Piazza Maggiore 6
On the occasion of the exhibition Giovanni Paolo Bedini. The charm of the carefree 1844-1924
“Living room paintings: bourgeois fantasies in Bolognese painting fin de siècle”
Meeting with Roberto Martorelli, Civic Museum of the Risorgimento, in the context of “Cultural Dialogues at the Palazzo d’Accursio”, events on art and its declinations by the Bologna Association for the Arts.
Roberto Martorelli will lead the audience on a journey through the figures and typical situations that animate and characterize the painting of Bedini: elegant ladies, prelates intent on reading, affectionate mothers, chatter in the shade of a tree.
After the Unification of Italy the painters discover new subjects to be reproduced, addressed by the requests of the small and big bourgeoisie, the new emerging society. The meeting proposes a repertoire of images and texts about Bologna (and beyond) from the end of the 19th century.
Free entry
Saturday 26 January
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Within the cycle The Floating world of Hokusai and Hiroshige: traveling between past and future
“Edo era travel literature”
Conference of Cristian Pallone, University of Milan.
The cycle “The Floating world of Hokusai and Hiroshige: traveling between past and future” proposes five meetings to learn about the “floating world” and the mastery of Hokusai and Hiroshige and their profound impact on Japanese culture and the art of the West .
Admission: free subject to availability
Sunday, January 27th
10.30 am: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
2 pm and 3.30 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
On the occasion of the exhibition HOKUSAI HIROSHIGE. Beyond the wave. Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
“Ikebana Laboratory: in search of the harmony of Nature”
With the Yamaguchi Sachiko teacher, edited by Nipponica. Max 10 people per shift (recommended for an adult audience).
The fascination of this art lies in the paradoxical ability to make life visible – this is one of the hidden meanings attributable to the ideogram “ike” that makes up the term ikebana – using cut vegetables that, therefore, only have a reflection of life. The harmony and beauty that flow from the incessant search for a balance between fullness and emptiness, between the combination of shapes and lines are essential. Teached and performed in silence, the ikebana was born around the sixth century in Japan as a religious offering in Buddhist temples: to achieve a state of peace and concentration before starting a battle, the samurai performed ikebana to purify heart and mind.
Participants must bring a low and wide open jar (alternatively a shallow dish or a shallow bowl is fine) and a pair of scissors.
Admission: € 5.00
4pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Chemistry in the kitchen” Laboratory for adults.
A kitchen is not so different from a chemistry lab and while we cook we are real experimental scientists: molecules, acids, polymer chains and the recipe is ready.
Cooking without flame and exploring new formats of food will be the conducting threads of an activity in which it will be impossible not to put your hands in dough. Bon appetit!
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 1pm on Friday 25th January).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4 pm: Casa Morandi – via Fondazza 36
“Guided tour of Casa Morandi”
Guided tour of the home-studio where the Bolognese master lived and worked from 1910 to 1964, edited by the MAMbo Educational Department. The exhibition “Umberto Bonfini, A Doctor in Grizzana”, which is ongoing until February 3, 2019, is also visible.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Museum entrance: free
Guided tour: € 4.00. For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00
Wednesday, January 30th
17-19.30 hours: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
As part of the review Il Mercato della Musica
“From production to mastering: how to make a song”
Pierfrancesco Pacoda meets Maurizio Biancani, sound engineer of Fonoprint.
The acoustic treatment in the recording studios, the advantages and disadvantages of the digital sound compared to the analog sound, the miking of the instruments and the creation of the audio master.
“Il Mercato della Musica” is a series of meetings organized by the Music Office of the Municipality of Bologna in collaboration with Bologna Welcome, with the aim of developing musical entrepreneurship and strengthening managerial and managerial skills.
The whole journey is a journey and a guide within the music market, through the understanding of the professional figures who inhabit such a complex environment and the activities necessary to create and manage a project.
Admission: free subject to availability
Thursday, January 31st
17 hours: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
“At the end of the journey”
Words and music on the piano Pleyel by Gioachino Rossini with Rossana Dalmonte, Emanuela Marcante and Daniele Tonini, on the occasion of the exhibition “From Paris to Bologna traveling with Liszt and Rossini” in progress at the Biblitoeca of San Giorgio in Poggiale until 31 January 2019 It is 1837 when Franz Liszt and his partner Marie d’Agoult arrive in Italy, seduced by the romantic tradition of the consolidated tradition of voyage en Italie. A journey that took them during 1838, after the birth in Como of the second daughter Cosima (future partner of Richard Wagner) to move between various cities: Milan, Venice, Genoa, Rome and Bologna, where Listz finds Gioachino Rossini, already frequented in Vienna, in Paris and in the salons of Milan, a meeting place of high middle class and nobility, of writers, artists and politicians.
In Milan we find on one side the Master Rossini, surrounded by young amateurs “who are honored to be admitted in his presence”, on the other the restless Liszt, perfect incarnation of the romantic pilgrim of Byroniana memory, seduced by art and Italian culture, which will link Rossini to Tiziano recognizing in them “two stars with similar rays”. But it is precisely in Bologna that they will share two short but intense stays.
Tickets can be booked at www.museibologna.it/musica .
Admission: free subject to availability
EXHIBITIONS
Palazzo d’Accursio (Sala Farnese) – Piazza Maggiore 6
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Massimo Kaufmann, Mille Fiate “, until March 3, 2019
The personal project of Massimo Kaufmann (Milan, 1963), curated by Giusi Affronti, realized under the patronage of DO UT DO and with the support of Art Defender, presents six large-format works (oil on canvas), installed inside of the Sala Farnese, on the second floor of Palazzo d’Accursio.
“Mille Fiate” unfolds like an abstract narration along an installation of large canvases set up as theatrical scenes: it is an invitation to perceive the atmospheres of color through an impressive tactile decoration in dialogue with the frescoes of the seventeenth century, work of Carlo’s workshop Cignani, which represent episodes of the city’s history.
Porta San Donato – Piazza di Porta San Donato
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Patrick Tuttofuoco, ZERO (Weak Fist)” , until 17 February 2019
“ZERO (Weak Fist)” is a project by the artist Patrick Tuttofuoco promoted by the Polo Museale of Emilia Romagna in collaboration with the Municipality of Rimini, the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, the Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin and XING , winner of the first edition of the Italian Council announcement (2017), a competition conceived by the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, to promote Italian contemporary art in the world.
The work develops as a transiting intervention: a mobile light sculpture designed to relocate in a series of stages. After the Arch of Augustus in Rimini – geographic locus of departure for its symbolic structure without barriers, which makes it to all intents and purposes an architecture not of defense but of welcome – and the courtyard of the Italian Embassy in Berlin “ZERO (Weak Fist) “arrives in Bologna, in Porta San Donato.
Casa Morandi – via Fondazza 36
“Umberto Bonfini, a doctor in Grizzana, from medicine to photography”, until February 3, 2019
The door of Casa Morandi opens to the meeting with the photography of Umberto Bonfini for the exhibition project by Claudio Spottl. A dialogue between the atmospheric atmosphere of the house-atelier in which Giorgio Morandi lived and worked for long decades until his death and a selection of images taken from the photographic archive left by Umberto Bonfini, a doctor led to Grizzana, who re-establishes a closeness between two figures united by a friendly acquaintance and a refined sensibility of thought.
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna”, until April 28, 2019
The exhibition, curated by Luca Villa, for the first time reassembles a large part of the collections that belonged to the Museo Indiano of Bologna, now divided and preserved in three different locations: the same Medieval Civic Museum, the Museum of Palazzo Poggi in Bologna and the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Padua.
The exhibition allows you to rediscover a significant heritage of objects and photographs that illustrate archeology and Asian Buddhist art at the time when the Indian Museum, also known as the Museum of Indology and Museum of Indian East Ethnography, remained open since 1907 to 1935.
“Praise for every hour: the Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco”, until March 17, 2019
The exhibition, realized in the context of the Franciscan Festival, presents a varied selection of the various liturgical cycles, made between the 13th and 15th centuries for the Bolognese Basilica of San Francesco, which are currently part of the rich collection of illuminated codices of the Medieval Civic Museum from Bologna. Among these we note the series of precious Franciscan grades richly illuminated by the so-called Master of the Bible of Gerona, the absolute protagonist of the Bolognese book decoration of the late thirteenth century. Next to this is also the slightly later series of antiphonaries, also widely decorated, partly inspired by the oldest experiences of Giotto assisiate, evidently filtered into the city through the same order of the Friars Minor. These first choral series followed others during the fifteenth century, when the friars minor entrusted themselves to various miners coordinated by the Bolognese Giovanni di Antonio, to decorate around 1440-50 some of their liturgical books, also presented during the exhibition.
Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The soul and the body: Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age”, until 24 February 2019
The Civic Museums of Ancient Art are continuing their efforts to enhance the Municipal Art Collections in conjunction with the restoration work on the Palazzo d’Accursio roof, which will be completed in spring 2019, promoting a new exhibition that will revisits the extensive permanent heritage in the light of a new thematic criterion.
After a first reorganization focused on the birth of modern taste between the 18th and 19th centuries, the new arrangement of the exhibition itinerary proposes a fundamental theme in the Western figurative culture, the representation of the divine and the human figure, investigating the iconographic evolution between the XIII and the eighteenth century.
Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory” , until January 27, 2019
A hundred years after the end of the First World War, the exhibition presents the results of the project “The Great War in Bologna between History and Memory” aimed at the implementation of the portal www.storiaememoriadibologna.it to create and make accessible, in a unified form, a collective memory, city and national events related to the first world war, with particular reference to the memory of the fallen Bolognese.
The initiative, curated by Mirtide Gavelli and Roberto Martorelli, intends to act as a moment of knowledge and promotion of the work of digitizing documentary and memorial sources of different nature carried out between 2015 and 2018, through the exposure to the public of some of the most relevant documents belonging to a heritage that is still little known and in some cases completely unpublished.
Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“HOKUSAI HIROSHIGE: Beyond the Wave: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” , until March 3, 2019
The Archaeological Civic Museum houses the works of the two greatest Masters of the “Floating World”: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).
The exhibition exhibits, for the first time in Italy, an extraordinary selection of about 150 works from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The project, divided into 6 thematic sections, curated by Rossella Menegazzo with Sarah E. Thompson, is a MondoMostre Skira production with Ales SpA Arte Lavoro and Servizi in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, promoted by the Municipality of Bologna | Bologna Museums Institution and sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, the Embassy of Japan in Italy and the University of Milan.
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“VHS + Video / animation / television and / or independence / technical training / production control 1995/2000” , until 17 February 2019
In the exhibition space of the Project Room, dedicated to the rediscovery of some of the most stimulating and innovative artistic episodes originating in the Bologna and regional artistic field, MAMbo presents “VHS +”.
The exhibition project, born from an idea by Saul Saguatti (Basmati Film) and Lucio Apolito (Opificio Ciclope) with the curation of Silvia Grandi and realized in collaboration with the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, is configured as a device of audio-visual pulsations that arise from the hybridization of different languages, formats and practices of video communication experimented in Italy between 1995 and 2000, telling the electronic dream of a season between analog and digital.
Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Sculpture and Business, exhibition of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello” , until January 27, 2019
The “Scultura e Impresa” project, born in 2008 from an idea by the sculptor Michele D’Aniello, includes today about 80 companies, national and international, that in these years, with enthusiasm, have welcomed and joined the positive and innovative project of contemporary art.
What the exhibition presents is the value of beauty and ingenuity, tenacity and courage; it is the history of values and its motto is summed up in these few words: “The form of Values, the Values of Form”, which has always been the guiding thread of Sculpture and Business and of all the art of D’Aniello.
“Sculpture and Business” takes place under the patronage of the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Bologna, the Municipality of Pianoro and Unindustria Bologna.
