Highlights
Bolzano 39100
Italy
“Celebrating 40 years of Museion, we embrace art as a force for wellbeing, resistance, and social responsibility. Through vibrant exhibitions, emerging voices, and collaborations, we continue to empower future generations to shape culture and urban space.”
—Bart van der Heide, Museion Director
Under the title “THE SOFTEST HARD”, Museion is following a new research line that explores art as an urban and social practice and a non-violent form of resistance. In times of omnipresent international violence, this approach recognizes softness as a strength and a key to democracy, solidarity, and equality. The new research line explores urban activism in art, reclaiming living spaces for community, collectivity, and social engagement.
Exhibitions:
Graffiti
March 29–September 14, 2025, opening March 28
Curated by Leonie Radine and Ned Vena
With Graffiti, Museion presents the first institutional exhibition in Italy to focus on the relationships between visual art and graffiti, and how one has influenced the other. Instead of historicizing graffiti as an “outsider” practice, the show combines pre-graffiti spray paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, pieces by renowned graffiti writers, and a wide range of works by international contemporary artists who have incorporated graffiti in their practice for various reasons and in multiple forms.
Nicola L.—I Am The Last Woman Object
October 11, 2025–February 28, 2026, opening Oct 10
Curated by Leonie Radine
In collaboration with Camden Art Centre, London; Frac Bretagne, Rennes; Kunsthalle Wien
Throughout her life, Nicola L. (1932–2018) explored softness as a form of resistance. This first major European touring retrospective provides a comprehensive overview of her multidisciplinary practice. From the 1960s onwards Nicola L. developed a politically active, yet playful and humorous oeuvre, imbued with feminist and anti-racist ideals of equality and collectivity.
MUSEION Academy:
Editions Francesco Conz from the Museion collection
April 11, 2025–January 31, 2026
Curated by Frida Carazzato
In collaboration with the Bonotto Foundation; curatorial consulting: Patrizio Peterlini
The collector, publisher, and patron Francesco Conz would have turned 90 in 2025. For the first time, this tribute showcases all his editions by various artists associated with concrete poetry and Fluxus, some of which were donated to Museion by Conz himself. The presentation sheds light on a distinctive approach to art and the personal and professional relationships that were central to Conz's work and his ethical stance.
Sven Sachsalber
December 5, 2025–January 31, 2026
In collaboration with BAU
This project is based on a multi-year research initiative focused on the art of Sven Sachsalber (1987–2020). On the fifth anniversary of Sachsalber's passing, Museion pays tribute to his legacy by presenting the results of this research that has been conducted in collaboration with the artist’s family and the German Culture Department of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano.
FOAM – Future of Art Museums
March 2025–February 2026
Master’s degree program in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano—Faculty of Design and Art
2025 inaugurates the first edition of the Master's Program in Contemporary Museum Practices FOAM. This postgraduate program is designed to cultivate professionals in museology and museography by equipping them to engage creatively with the evolving roles and challenges that contemporary art museums face in today’s ever-changing society. The teaching faculty includes a diverse team of international experts, members of the Museion team, and professors from unibz, who will provide students with a multidisciplinary learning experience focused on relevant issues around sustainability, inclusion, accessibility, and social engagement.
MUSEION Art Club x Transart
In 2025 the Museion Art Club will remain a vibrant space for subcultures and a stage for experimental music, poetry, and performing arts. Notably, on September 13, Museion will join forces with Transart for a special 24-hour celebration to mark the 40th anniversary of the constitution of the Museion Foundation in 1985 and Transart’s 25th anniversary. With its doors open around-the-clock, this event will mirror the unveiling of Museion’s new home in 2008, and everyone is invited to experience the energy that defines Museion as a cultural multiplier in Bolzano and beyond.
