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Spazio Taverna
presents a trilogy of public contemporary art projects which together form a masterplan for a new vision of Rome, addressing both the spatial and temporal dimensions of the city. The first two trace a visual mark at its centre and along its perimeter: one is rooted in the very heart of the capital, the other encircles the historic centre. The third engages with Rome’s temporal traumas, activating a process of healing through the transformative power of contemporary art.
Taken as a whole, the trilogy curated by Spazio Taverna treats Rome as a living organism, where public exhibition—in dialogue with Rome’s archaeological monuments, with the key industrial actors and with the collective historical consciousness of its citizens—becomes a tool of visionary reactivation and cultural design, and where artists play a central role in reshaping the city’s image.
10 Lupe di Roma
Le 10 Lupe di Roma (The 10 She-Wolves of Rome) is a city-wide exhibition along the Aurelian Walls that reimagines one of the city’s most ancient emblems, the Capitoline She-Wolf, through the perspectives of ten Italian artists from a new generation.
The project is the second edition of an initiative launched by Spazio Taverna with Le 10 Porte del Futuro (The 10 Gates of the Future), which in 2024 involved ten artists and ten architectural studios in reinterpreting and designing the Rome of the future through images displayed on the city's historic gates. With Le 10 Lupe di Roma, this vision expands into a new symbolic constellation to project the capital's identity into the future.
Each artist has been paired with one of the city’s historical gates, where a 400 cm × 400 cm banner is installed. Through this symbolic act, Rome entrusts its foundational myth to a new generation of artists.
The public is invited to take part in the project by voting for the “Lupa of the Year”, selecting the temporary contemporary symbol of Rome for 2025–26.
ARTISTS : Camilla Alberti, Ruth Beraha, Veronica Bisesti, Antonio Della Guardia, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Giulia Mangoni, Lucas Memmola, Valerio Nicolai, Agnes Questionmark and Namsal Siedlecki
Murales
In the heart of Rome, MURALES transforms the construction site of the new Piazza Venezia metro station into one of the largest open-air exhibition spaces dedicated to contemporary art in Europe, reflecting on the evolving relationship between artistic creation and urban transformation.
The installations use the industrial silos in the centre of Piazza Venezia as an artistic device, transforming them into a 640-square-metre canvas on which contemporary artists reinterpret the city's multiple identities and its future through their own vision.
The initiative is promoted by the consortium of companies led by Webuild and Vianini Lavori, engaged in the construction of Line C of the underground, with the patronage of Roma Capitale and in collaboration with the competent Superintendencies.
A scientific committee composed of representatives from Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Galleria Borghese, MAXXI and Palazzo delle Esposizioni has selected six Italian artists to interpret the evolution of Rome through large-format artworks, which will be displayed in rotation until the end of 2026.
With MURALES, the construction site becomes a symbol of Rome under construction, where the city's future is entrusted as much to infrastructure as to artists.
ARTISTS : Pietro Ruffo, Marinella Senatore / Upcoming artist: Elisabetta Benassi
10 Ferite di Roma
Le Ferite di Roma (The Wounds of Rome) brings together ten artists and ten poets to reinterpret ten traumatic events that have marked the history of the city, from the assassination of Julius Caesar and the burning of Rome under Nero, to the deaths of Cola di Rienzo and Beatrice Cenci, to the trials of Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno.
The project stems from the identification of ten traumas in the city’s history which symbolically represent the moments when Rome betrayed itself: the wounds that the city inflicted on itself and that still inhabit its collective unconscious today. Each artist was entrusted with a historical wound to be stitched up on the same sheet of Amatruda paper, creating a work that interprets and reworks the trauma in a symbolic key.
The exhibition extends into the 20th century, evoking the March on Rome, the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti and the tragic deaths of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Aldo Moro.
Following its first opening to the public at the Mattia De Luca Gallery in Rome, the project has been presented at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca after the donation of all the works to the Accademia’s permanent collection, ensuring their preservation as an integral part of Rome's artistic and historical heritage.
ARTISTS : Elisabetta Benassi, Giulio Bensasson, Silvia Giambrone, Rä di Martino, Numero Cromatico, Lulù Nuti, Luigi Ontani, Pietro Ruffo, Gabriele Silli and Marco Tirelli
POETS : Silvia Bre, Franco Buffoni, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Vivian Lamarque, Valerio Magrelli, Tommaso Ottonieri, Gilda Policastro, Laura Pugno, Fabio Pusterla and Lello Voce.
10 Porte del Futuro
Le 10 Porte del Futuro (The 10 Gates of the Future) is a city-wide exhibition along the Aurelian Walls that transforms Rome’s historic gates into speculative thresholds, where the city’s ancient perimeter becomes a ring of visions for its possible tomorrow. Ten Italian artists and ten emerging architectural studios imagine new images, narratives and scenarios for Rome, printed on large-scale banners suspended on the monumental entrances to the centre.
Each gate hosts a double intervention: on one side the work of an artist, oriented towards the inner life and imaginary of the city; on the other the banner of an architectural studio, projecting Rome outward along the consular roads that depart from the centre. This mirrored device restores to the gates their role as places of passage and encounter, staging a dialogue between image and project, memory and anticipation.
The public is invited to walk the circuit of the walls and experience Rome as an open-air laboratory, where heritage and daily life meet the experiments of a new generation. Moving from gate to gate, Le 10 Porte del Futuro becomes a dispersed observatory that maps how artists and architects are contributing to redesigning the city’s identity – not as a fixed postcard, but as a living, ever-evolving organism.
ARTISTS : Giulio Bensasson, Francesca Cornacchini, Federica Di Pietrantonio, Guglielmo Maggini, Leonardo Magrelli, Andrea Mauti, Diego Miguel Mirabella, Numero Cromatico, Lulù Nuti and Alice Paltrinieri
ARCHITECTS : Andrea Tabocchini Architecture, Associates Architecture, Atelier Remoto & Flavia Saggese, Martina Baratta, cortese mazza, homu, ISTMO Architecture, Michalski & Wagner, Francesca Mirone and Warehouse of Architecture and Research
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