2025 PROGRAM
HIGHLIGHTS
THE SOFTEST HARD: Art as non-violent urban resistance
“Celebrating 40 years of Museion, our 2025 program reflects this public museum’s evolving potential. Guided by our new research line, THE SOFTEST HARD, we embrace art as a force for wellbeing, resistance, and social responsibility. Through vibrant exhibitions, emerging voices, and collaborations like the FOAM Master’s program with unibz, we continue to empower future generations to shape culture and urban space.”
Bart van der Heide, Museion Director.
Bolzano/Milan, November 27th 2024. In 2025, under the title, THE SOFTEST HARD, Museion is following its three-year multidisciplinary research project TECHNO HUMANITIES with 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, empowerment, and equality. The new research line explores urban activism in art, reclaiming living spaces for community, collectivity, and social engagement.
As a vital hub for experimentation and exchange, Museion will continue to shape best practices in the transformation of this public museum, not only through the power of art but also via innovative formats in social sustainability, education and the preservation of cultural heritage. Collaborations with educational institutions are at the forefront of this vision. Museion’s robust partnership with schools, its focus on social wellbeing and its ambitious FOAM – Future of Art Museums – Master’s Program, co-created with unibz, are just some examples of how Museion will continue to foster the next generation of creative thinkers.
Next year’s exhibitions will underscore Museion’s dedication to amplifying international contemporary art in the region through two comprehensive exhibitions, organized in collaboration with renowned European institutions.
The exhibition opening in spring, entitled Graffiti, explores the evolution of a global art form from the invention of spray cans to the work of over 50 international modern and contemporary graffiti writers and artists. The second main exhibition opening in autumn is a long overdue retrospective of the bold work of Nicola L., whose soft sculptures, wearable paintings, public performances and films are imbued with feminist and anti-racist activism. This first major touring survey exhibition of the artist in Europe is organized in collaboration with Camden Art Centre (London), Frac Bretagne (Rennes) and Kunsthalle Wien.
Alongside its international exhibitions, Museion will celebrate and enhance its growing collection through the Museion Academy program. This initiative will showcase an extensive focus on the editions of Francesco Conz in the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, underscoring their ties to Fluxus art, as well as a special research project dedicated to the South Tyrolean artist, Sven Sachsalber. The 2025 program will be further enriched by new acquisitions and pioneering publications, including Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui?, the first comprehensive study of Lucia Marcucci – a groundbreaking artist renowned for her visionary approach to language in art – realized in collaboration with Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano, and with the support of the Italian Council program (2024), promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Museion is also broadening its impact through significant loans, such as its collaboration with the Cantonal Library in Lugano on an exhibition linked to the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, developed in partnership with the Mart Museum. These important initiatives will foster vibrant cultural interaction across borders throughout the year.
In 2025 the Museion Art Club Forum will remain a vibrant space for subcultures and a stage for experimental music, poetry, and performing arts. Notably, on September 13th, 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 iconic unveiling of Museion’s new home in 2008 and everyone is invited to experience a powerful reunion of art, community and the extraordinary energy that defines Museion as a cultural multiplier in Bolzano and beyond.
FILM SCREENING
Dead Dance by Domenico Palma
Lisetta Carmi - Un’anima in cammino by Daniele Segre
