Ferzan OzpetekVenetika
Museum’s piazza
curated by Giovanna Zabotti
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
Tuesday 24 December 11 am > 4 pm
Monday 25 December closed
Tuesday 31 December 11 am > 4 pm
Wednesday 1 January 11 am > 7 pm
Monday 6 January 11 am > 8 pm
for young people aged between 18 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma ticket holders; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Feltrinelli, Gruppo FS, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard; upon presenting at the ticket office a Frecciarossa or a Frecciargento ticket to Rome purchased between 27 November 2024 and 20 April 2025
valid for one year from the date of purchase
minors under 18 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; myMAXXI cardholders; registered journalists with a valid ID card; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; AMACI members; CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members; ICOM members; journalists (who can prove their business activity); European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
A peculiar magic box, a red cube of wood and mirrors enclosing a parallel universe, unique and unforgettable. It is Venice. It is a woman, beautiful and eternal.
Venice crossroads of people; Venice multicultural; Venice gateway to and from the world. Ferzan Ozpetek has immersed himself in the city, becoming part of it. He has chosen to live it with different eyes making a unique portrait of it: Kasia Smutniak in apnea, filmed between projections of the most famous pictorial representations of the city, of its unmistakable views. Venetika is an immersive journey where the video is mirrored on a pool of water, while the scent of the lagoon is diffused, accompanied by the music of Sezen Aksu.
A magic box encloses Ferzan Ozpetek’s visionary Venice, a project created for the 58th Art Biennale. Venice is a woman immersed in water. The liquid and opaque moving surface of the sea seems to act as a screen, and on her face and body pass the images, filtered by the water, of the materials in which the city took shape when the liquid turned solid and suddenly became marble, wood, rope and metal.
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