Exhibitions Programme 2026

For her first solo exhibition in an institutional space, the young artist Giuditta Branconi has created a series of new paintings, including a large installation that the public will be able to physically walk through. Her rich and overflowing painting, characterized by an overwhelming visual density, develops on both the front and back of the canvas, multiplying the expressive possibilities and levels of interpretation. Combining iconographic references from high and popular culture, excerpts from literature, and instant messaging, Branconi transforms the canvas into a hybrid and oxymoronic space, where apparently incongruent images, texts, and symbols coexist freely as in a stream of consciousness.

On the occasion of the Fotografia Europea festival, Collezione Maramotti presents the first solo exhibition in Italy of the Parisian artist Ndayé Kouagou, which brings together recent works and a new production inspired by the narrative device of the photo story. Text is the driving force behind Kouagou's creative practice, which encompasses both visual art and performance. Through monologues, videos, installations, and performances, the artist reflects on vulnerability, power, and discomfort with a tone that is sometimes ironic, often seemingly confused, yet manages to touch deep chords of consciousness and the unconscious, questioning personal attitudes and choices.

The dance performance that will be specifically conceived for the Collezione Maramotti's spaces takes place in the frame of the biennial collaboration between Collezione Maramotti and Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia, with the support of Max Mara.
Over the years, at the invitation of Festival Aperto, performances by Trisha Brown Dance Company (2009), Shen Wei Dance Arts (2011), Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2013), Hofesh Shechter Dance Company (2015), Saburo Teshigawara (2017), Dimitris Papaioannou (2019), Peeping Tom (2021) and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker - Rosas (2024) have been presented at Collezione Maramotti.

Alain Urrutia, a Basque painter based in Berlin, presents an extensive project consisting of over twenty new paintings, rigorously in grayscale, accompanied by two videos, for his first solo exhibition in Italy. A collector of images, deeply interested in the visual and mental construction of representation, Urrutia investigates the meaning and memory of objects and subjects extracted from art history, daily life, cinema, and the entire wide iconographic repertoire gathered in his personal archive. This archive is a living organism, a digital atlas in the form of a constellation that, for the first time, will be shared with the public through nine intertwined themes, in a circular journey through the artist's mind.