Collezione Maramotti

Collezione Maramotti is one of Italy’s most important private galleries of contemporary art, housed in Max Mara’s first production facility, which has now been elegantly transformed into an exhibition space. It is a place where fashion, business and creativity come together, offering visitors a fascinating journey through the major artistic trends from 1945 to the present day.
The collection comprises over two hundred works on permanent display, including paintings, sculptures and installations, selected to represent key moments in the evolution of Italian and international art from the second half of the 20th century to the new millennium.

The building spans two floors and 43 rooms, designed to guide visitors along a clear and immersive route.
On the ground floor, next to the library, there is a large hall dedicated to temporary exhibitions, showcasing emerging figures on the contemporary art scene and the latest experimental works.
The permanent collection opens with important European works from the 1950s, linked to the informal, expressionist and abstract movements, alongside early Italian conceptual works.
The exhibition continues with a significant collection of Roman Pop Art, followed by a rich selection of Arte Povera, one of the most influential movements on the Italian art scene.
The journey continues through masterpieces of Italian Neo-Expressionism (Transavantgarde) and German and American Neo-Expressionism, leading to the American New Geometry of the 1980s and 1990s and the most recent artistic experiments from Britain and the United States.
The 21st-century works, most of which are not included in the permanent exhibition, take centre stage in themed exhibitions on the ground floor, making the Maramotti Collection a true ‘work in progress’, always attentive to new artistic languages and developments in contemporary art.
The artists featured in the collection include leading figures on the global art scene, such as Piero Manzoni, Gerhard Richter, Jannis Kounellis, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Halley and Ellen Gallagher.
Alongside them, works by masters such as Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Mario Schifano, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Alex Katz, Eric Fischl and many others recount over seventy years of experimentation, research and vision.