Le Stanze della Fotografia presents, from 10 April to 27 July, 2025, on the first floor, the exhibition Maurizio Galimberti tra Polaroid/Ready Made e le lezioni americane di Italo Calvino, curated by Denis Curti.
Internationally known for his portraits of celebrities like Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp and Umberto Eco, and for having published books and staged site-specific exhibitions on New York, Paris, Milan, Rome and Venice, Maurizio Galimberti presents some of his most iconic Polaroid mosaics in Venice, including those of Johnny Depp, Barbara Bouchet and Angelica Huston, in a show that is divided into six sections: Cenacolo, History, Sport, Portraits, Taylor Swift and Places.
His creations, characterised by a multifaceted and fragmented vision of reality, are taken apart and put back together as in a mosaic, offering a profound reflection on perception and on the multiplicity of viewpoints. The images are almost always manipulated at the development stage, exerting pressure with simple tools – like pens and wooden sticks – directly onto the surface of the support, or assembled into mosaic-like compositions, in which each photograph contributes to the formation of an end result able to create a spectacular overall vision.
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The major retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe. The Forms of the Classic is organised and promoted by Marsilio Arte and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York.
Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venice announces their next major exhibition, devoted to a true, and still in many ways controversial, star of international photography: Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, 1946 – Boston, 1989). Curated by Le Stanze della Fotografia’s artistic director, Denis Curti, the show Robert Mapplethorpe. With over 200 works, some exhibited for the first time in Italy, the exhibition places special emphasis on the classical perfection of his compositions. Themes explored include the sensuality of the human body, the beauty of flowers and the visual dialogue between photography and ancient sculpture.
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Julian Lennon presents an unpublished collection of photographs, with which he invites us to explore the intimate bond between nature, responsibility and humanity with an intense gaze.
The exhibition, curated by Lennon himself together with Sandrina Bonetti Rubelli and set up on the first floor, traces his artistic journey from his early steps in music to his photographic production. The retrospective traces Lennon’s artistic evolution, characterised by a strong humanitarian imprint and inspired by the philanthropic initiatives carried out for his non-profit organisation, The White Feather Foundation.
On 28 March, the retrospective Helmut Newton. Legacy, curated by Matthias Harder – director of the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin – and Denis Curti – artistic director of Le Stanze della Fotografia – will open at Le
Stanze della Fotografia.
Through 250 photographs, magazines, documents and videos, the exhibition will trace the entire career of one of the most loved and provocative photographers of all time. Alongside his most iconic images, a corpus of
previously unpublished photographs (presented for the first time in Italy) will reveal many lesser-known aspects of Newton’s work, with a specific focus on his most unconventional fashion shots. Polaroids and contact
sheets will also offer insight into the creative process of some of the iconic motifs featured, while special publications, archival materials and statements by the photographer himself will help visitors understand the
context in which this extraordinary artist’s inspiration first emerged.
Patrick Mimran’s exhibition entitled Out of focus, to be held this spring at Le Stanze della Fotografia, presents the artist’s last ten years of research through a series of works that have never before been exhibited in Italy.
In this new series of large-format photographs, the artist works mainly on the lack of sharpness, not only of the contours, but of the entire image.
Far from being indecisive about the definition of the subject, Patrick Mimran seems to want to bring out reality in its becoming: although at first glance the image may appear abstract, as we observe it, it becomes ever
more realistic.
Over the years, in fact, through his research and various series of works, Mimran has come to the conclusion that the best way to capture a subject – be it a living being or an inanimate object – is not to represent it
faithfully, but on the contrary to move away from it as much as possible, almost to the point of abstraction.
On 29 March, Le Stanze della Fotografia – a multi-year cultural project staged in partnership between the Giorgio Cini Foundation and Marsilio Arte – will be inaugurated on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. It constitutes the continuation of the project begun in 2012 at the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice, in the belief that photography – one of the most intriguing artistic languages of contemporary life – can continue to have a ‘home’ in Venice.
The new centre will be set up in the spaces of the Ex-Convitto of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, which have been specifically earmarked for the exhibition and future cultural projects of Le Stanze della Fotografia, having been redeveloped by the Pedron / La Tegola Architecture Studio, with the invaluable collaboration of Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Conceived as a truly international hub for research into and the enhancement of photography and image culture, Le Stanze della Fotografia will stage workshops, meetings and seminars with both national and international photographers. With this in mind, various partnerships will be developed with key realities from the world of photography, such as the Magnum Photos Agency, the Jeu de Paume Centre in Paris, the Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne to name but a few. Further initiatives and activities will be held in collaboration with the Intesa Sanpaolo Banking Foundation through a programme of events staged together with the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin.
During these early years, the centre will host a programme of exhibitions dedicated to the great national and international masters of photography, new talents and schools of thought. To inaugurate the project, the exhibition Ugo Mulas. L’operazione fotografica will be held, curated by Denis Curti with the Ugo Mulas Archive and its director, Alberto Salvadori (29 March – 6 August 2023), which – through the presentation of 250 images, including fifty unpublished photos, documents, books, publications and films – will retrace the great photographer’s entire creative development.
