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June 27, 2025

The must-see exhibitions in Florence

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All the must-see art events in Florence.

Firenze e l’Europa. Arti del Settecento agli Uffizi (fino al 28 novembre)

Agli Uffizi va in scena il Settecento con la mostra Firenze e l’Europa. Arti del Settecento agli Uffizi. Curata da Simone Verde e Alessandra Griffo, l’esposizione presenta 150 opere tra dipinti, sculture, arredi e porcellane, molte inedite. Tra i capolavori: Goya, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Subleyras e il Gabinetto delle Antichità Erotiche. La mostra racconta un’epoca di grandi cambiamenti culturali e la nascita degli Uffizi come primo museo moderno d’Europa, aperto al pubblico dal 1769.

Mostra Settecento Uffizi

Moda in Luce 1925–1955. Alle origini del Made in Italy (fino al 28 settembre)

The elegant halls of the Fashion and Costume Museum of Palazzo Pitti in Florence host the exhibition "Fashion in Light 1925-1955. At the Origins of Made in Italy." The exhibition, promoted by the Ministry of Culture and produced by Archivio Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries, traces 30 years that were fundamental to the birth of the identity of Italian fashion, before it gained international fame. Conceived and curated by Fabiana Giacomotti, the exhibition offers a visual and cultural journey between 1925 and 1955, through more than fifty clothes, accessories, period images and films. A journey that highlights the stylistic and artisanal roots of Made in Italy, culminating in the account of the legendary 1952 fashion show in the Sala Bianca, considered the official debut of Italian haute couture in the world.

Una giovane commessa sistema una vestaglia su un manichino durante una gara, 1941 (Fondo Amoroso / Archivio Luce Cinecittà)

Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude (until July 20)

Palazzo Strozzi's new exhibition explores Tracey Emin's multifaceted work that spans painting, drawing, video, photography and sculpture. The title refers to two key words, sex and loneliness, which permeate the more than 60 works in a journey through different moments of the artist's career, in an intense journey on the themes of the body and desire, love and sacrifice.

Tracey Emin, I waited so Long (©Tracey Emin - ph. HV-Studio courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens)

Haley Mellin at Museo Novecento (until Oct. 29)

At Museo Novecento until Oct. 29 we find Siamo Natura, the first Italian solo exhibition of Haley Mellin, an American artist and environmental activist. Curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli, the exhibition combines painting, drawing and ecological engagement. Mellin paints in natural environments that she helps protect, using sustainable materials such as watercolors, charcoal and coffee. His works restore the fragile beauty of landscapes threatened by climate change in an immersive experience that invites environmental awareness.

Haley Mellin, Siamo Natura Installation Views (2025), Courtesy of the artist and Museo Novecento. Ph Ela Bialkowska

Luce energia infinito (until Sept. 21)

From June 24 to Sept. 21, the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence is hosting Light Energy Infinity, an exhibition by French-Chinese artist Wang Yancheng, paying homage to Michelangelo on the 550th anniversary of his birth. Curated by Gabriele Simongini, the exhibition presents 18 abstract works that blend East and West, matter and spirit. Between interior landscapes and references to the golden section, Wang Yancheng reinterprets the tension between form and void by drawing inspiration from Michelangelo's Prisons, offering an immersive experience that reflects on art, science and the universe.

Wang Yancheng, Untitled, 2024

Caravaggio e il Novecento. Roberto Longhi, Anna Banti (until 20 July)

A fascinating journey to rediscover a couple - he an art historian, she a writer and translator - who brought together a coterie of artists and intellectuals who shaped the Italian 20th century and beyond. The itinerary that unfolds at Villa Bardini also includes a Silent Room where the eyes and mind can rest overwhelmed by the suggestions and stimuli offered in the 12 rooms in which the exhibition unfolds.

Caravaggio, Ragazzo morso

Humanitas, La Forza dell’Amore (until Aug. 8)

After his tribute to the victims of Via dei Georgofili with the Tree of Peace, Andrea Roggi returns to Florence with the exhibition Humanitas | The Strength of Love, from May 10 to August 8 in the Basilica of San Lorenzo. His bronze sculptures, celebrated for their fusion of strength and poetry, celebrate love and nature through embracing figures that merge with olive tree trunks and fronds in a symbolic reference to the Tree of Life. The exhibition recounts, through nine works, the Tuscan artist's long career, starting with the first anthropomorphic bronze statue, Atman, made by Roggi in the 1980s, in his early twenties, executed according to the lost-wax casting technique, placed in the small cloister of the basilica, to the very last Energy of Knowledge, conceived just for this exhibition.

Humanitas, La Forza dell’Amore di Andrea Roggi

Giovan Battista Foggini (1652-1725). Architetto e scultore granducale (until September 9)

Florence celebrates the artistic genius of Giovan Battista Foggini (1652-1725) with a major monographic exhibition, sponsored by the Metropolitan City of Florence and organized by Fondazione MUS.E, held at Palazzo Medici Riccardi. Through a selection of more than 80 sculptures, drawings and artifacts, the exhibition traces the career of Foggini, who trained in Rome at the Accademia Medicea founded by Cosimo III de' Medici and became, once he returned to Florence, a grand ducal sculptor, court architect and director of the Manifatture di Galleria destined by the prince to the production of marvelous objects inlaid with semi-precious stones and in precious metals. His style, characterized by a late Baroque language influenced by Roman art, yet original, defined the image of late 17th-century Florence, serving as a 'viaticum' for subsequent generations.

Giovan Battista Foggini (1652-1725). Architetto e scultore granducale (fino al 9 settembre) a Palazzo Medici Riccardi (ph. Nicola Neri)

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