FAD News: Dian Suci wins the 10th Max Mara Art Prize for Women
7 May 2026 • Mark Westall
Dian Suci’s winning proposal, Crafting Spirit, will be developed during a six-month residency before solo exhibitions in Jakarta and Reggio Emilia
Tag: Collezione Maramotti
Collezione Maramotti is a contemporary art collection and museum located in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Founded by Achille Maramotti, the founder of the Max Mara fashion group, the collection is housed in the company’s former factory building. Collezione Maramotti focuses on postwar and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on Italian artists alongside international practices.
The collection includes works from the 1940s to the present, featuring painting, sculpture and installation. Collezione Maramotti is known for its strong representation of Italian art movements, as well as its support for emerging and mid-career artists through commissions and exhibitions. The institution regularly hosts temporary exhibitions and artist residencies, creating a platform for new work and research.
Collezione Maramotti is open to the public by appointment and operates as both a private collection and a public cultural space. Its programme positions it within the international contemporary art landscape, connecting fashion, collecting and contemporary artistic production.
The Riot or the Rave?
19 March 2026 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Giuditta Branconi’s generation-dividing show is the evidence we need that when it comes to image, perception is all about volume control.
Max Mara Art Prize for Women Goes Nomadic, Launching New Global Phase in Jakarta
23 January 2026 • Mark Westall
Curator Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, will shape this new phase.
Roméo Mikevannin at Collezione Maramotti ‘Black Mirror’ – Lessons in acceptance from an experienced navigator.
18 April 2025 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Creating a dialogue that connects different cultures to a new perspective on what constitutes true power in the face of change.
Time for Women! Empowering Visions in 20 Years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
8 April 2025 • Mark Westall
This special exhibition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women – one of the most important awards supporting women-identified artists
20 Years of Max Mara Art Prize for Women on show in Florence
26 February 2025 • Mark Westall
Palazzo Strozzi to host Time for Women! Empowering Visions in 20 Years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a special exhibition celebrating two decades
Manuele Cerutti, Quem Genuit Adoravit at Collezione Maramotti
27 March 2024 • Irene Machetti
Collezione Maramotti has opened the show Quem Genuit Adoravit by Italian artist Manuele Cerutti. Combining large-scale paintings and more intimate… Read More
Andriu Deplazes at Collezione Maramotti is between a rock and a hard place
17 April 2023 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The attractiveness of feeling in control and the impossibility of actually being in control is a dynamic tension at the heart of a new solo show, Burning Green, by the young Marseille-based Swiss artist Andriu Delplazes currently on show in the Pattern Room at Collezione Maramotti.
Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Dominique White wins the 9th edition
29 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti have revealed Dominique White (b. 1993) as the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
In conversation with Emma Talbot – how can we challenge classical power?
5 June 2022 • Irene Machetti
Emma Talbot is the recipient of the 8th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a biennial prize… Read More
Belgian dance company Peeping Tom create bizarre & disconcertingly coherent alternative universe in which reality & art are tightly entangled at Collezione Maramotti
20 December 2021 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Is there a better way to mark the return to in-person gallery visits than with a commission based around them?… Read More
In-depth conversation with TARWUK exploring their practice and the idea of identity through metamorphosis
9 November 2021 • Irene Machetti
Collezione Maramotti presents Ante mare et terras, the first solo exhibition in Italy by the New York-based, Croatian duo TARWUK… Read More
Collezione Maramotti inaugurates its autumn programme with two new exhibitions and cultural projects
29 October 2021 • Irene Machetti
Collezione Maramotti (Reggio Emilia) inaugurates its autumn programme with the opening of two exhibitions and the announcement of further projects…. Read More
Emma Talbot celebrates International Women’s Day on Picadilly Lights.
1 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Emma Talbot, the London-based artist of sensuous visual poems becomes the next CIRCA artist, presenting a new body of four… Read More
10 Questions from Isolation… with Sara Piccinini from Collezione Maramotti
22 May 2020 • Irene Machetti
Today we hear from Sara Piccinini, the senior coordinator of Collezione Maramotti. She reflects on the present (and future) of the Collection amidst these particular times, as well as talking about all the different projects the public collection has put in place to support its artists.
Collezione Maramotti to reopen this Thursday 21st May.
19 May 2020 • Mark Westall
Collezione Maramotti has announced that they will be reopening to the public this Thursday, 21st May 2020, while limiting admission to comply with social distancing regulations.
How are creatives reacting to the pandemic? My favourite initiatives – Part I
14 April 2020 • Irene Machetti
I have collated some of my favourite initiatives. and will interview the key players in this wave of change in the following weeks.
Collezione Maramotti + Casa Museo Mollino present an exhibition that brings together paintings by Enoc Perez and photographs by Brigitte Schindler and Carlo Mollino.
27 February 2020 • Mark Westall
Drawing inspiration from the Fotografia Europea 2020 theme “Fantasies: Narratives, Rules, Inventions,” Collezione Maramotti, in collaboration with Casa Museo Mollino, is presenting an exhibition that brings together paintings by Enoc Perez and photographs by Brigitte Schindler and Carlo Mollino.
Collezione Maramotti announces it’s 2020 programme of exhibitions
16 December 2019 • Mark Westall
Collezione Maramotti announces it’s 2020 programme of exhibitions
Performance of new work by Dimitris Papaioannou: Sisyphus / Trans / Form
11 November 2019 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The site specific performance commissioned by Collezione Maramotti responds to a world class private collection with challenges about meaning and our interaction with the material world.