MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo

A STORY FOR THE FUTURE. MAXXI’S FIRST DECADE

17 February – 29 August 2021

A Story for the Future. MAXXI’s First Decade. Photo by Musacchio, courtesy Fondazione MAXXI

Curated by Hou Hanru with curatorial and research MAXXI team

A Story for the Future showcases Archaeology of the Final Decade’s “Shiraz-Persepolis” archives as one of MAXXI museum’s highlights of the last decade.

AOTFD exhibited its excavated archives of Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis and theRecreating the Citadel project at Museo MAXXI in 2014/15, as part of Unedited History: Iran 1960-2014

In 2020, MAXXI celebrates its first 10 year anniversary.  It is an opportunity to reflect on the identity of the museum, to retrace the path taken in the past years and set a direction for the future.  The exhibition, which pivots around five major themes, is conceived as an analysis of the development of MAXXI in response to the great challenges of our time. It does not wish to be a self-referential overview of the museum’s exhibitions, but an “intangible” reinterpretation in a perspective that lays the foundations of a “story for the future”.

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Installation views from Unedited History: Iran 1960 – 2014

Retracing a Utopian Stage: Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis (1967–1977)
in Unedited History: Iran 1960 – 2014
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
Rome | 11 December – 29 March 2015

Re-creating Shahr-e No: Kaveh Golestan and the Intimate Politics of the Marginal
in Unedited History: Iran 1960 – 2014
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
Rome | 11 December – 29 March 2015