November 19, 2021

The most beautiful autumn exhibitions in Florence

Many good reasons to visit Florence

An itinerary through the museums in and around Florence to discover the exhibitions not to be missed this fall.

The Museo Novecento, in collaboration with the Fondazione Monte Verità, presents the exhibition Monte Verità. Back to nature. Curated by the director of the Museo Novecento Sergio Risaliti, with Nicoletta Mongini and Chiara Gatti and organized by MUS.E, the project traces the centennial experience of Monte Verità that intertwines the destinies of intellectuals and masters of the twentieth century. On view from November 19, 2021 through April 10, 2022.

The exhibitions of Terre degli Uffizi, a project born from Uffizi Diffusi, are still visible: in Anghiari La civiltà delle armi e le Corti del Rinascimento (until January 6th); in Montespertoli Pittori giotteschi in Valdelsa; L'ultimo sigillo. The Stigmata of San Francesco a La Verna from the collections of the Uffizi Galleries to the Pinacoteca Comunale of Castiglion Fiorentino. Until January 6, 2022 at the Museum of Sacred Art of San Piero in Mercato in Montespertoli you can see "Followers of Giotto in Valdelsa".

An autumn full of exhibitions at the Uffizi: until January 16, the Portrait of Jacopo Strada by Titian, an absolute masterpiece from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, from which it has rarely been loaned, will be on display in the Sala Bianca of Palazzo Pitti; also at Palazzo Pitti, contemporary art with the exhibition 'Smarriti' by Franco Ionda (until December 12). The Uffizi, until January 9th, in the Sala della Niobe will host the disquieting Conte Ugolino by Fra' Arsenio Mascagni. And until December 19 is addressed the theme of the fight against violence against women (whose day falls on November 25) putting in dialogue, the Uffizi, the bust of Constance Bonarelli made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini with shots of women who have suffered violence, contemporary Sardinian photographer Ilaria Sagaria.

From Friday, December 3, 2021 to November 26, 2022, except for temporary exhibitions, Tornabuoni Arte brings to the stage Modern and Contemporary Art. Selected Anthology 2022, an annual appointment that takes the form of an exhibition in the two Italian venues of Florence and Milan (from December 16, 2021), and a volume, the result of a careful selection of works, which highlights the spirit of careful research and refined knowledge that the gallery has matured over time. The exhibition Modern and Contemporary Art. Antologia scelta 2022, set up in the Florentine seat, with over fifty works, is divided into thematic areas.

Until January 16, Inside Dalí, in the Cathedral of the Image in Piazza Santo Stefano in Florence, is a multisensory experience poised between imagination and reality where the visitor travels to an imaginary dream universe and rediscovers the life of one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and a true icon of surrealism: Salvador Dalí.

At the Museo Novecento is visible until February 2, 2022 the personal exhibition of the English Jenny Saville among the most appreciated exponents of the British artistic movement yBa young British artist. An important exhibition that sees the protagonist the Museo Novecento but also Casa Buonarroti, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, The Museum of the Innocents.

Big star of the season Jeff Koons, on display at Palazzo Strozzi until January 30, 2022. "On display are some iconic pieces that have become part of our imagination, alongside works that have never yet been shown to the public - Palazzo Strozzi Director Arturo Galansino tells us - A chronological path, which at the same time carries forward a central theme of Koons' art: the artist finds in the idea of "shine" one of the main characteristics of his art. A concept that goes beyond the mirrored surface, and therefore the idea of decoration or embellishment, and becomes the very matter of Koons' art, uniting both exteriority and essence. There is a great philosophical reflection behind the artist's work, next to the undoubted spectacularity. Koons is also a great lover of ancient art and of our city. We are happy to host him at Palazzo Strozzi."

With two new sculptures in Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio, from October 2, 2021 Francesco Vezzoli is the protagonist of Francesco Vezzoli in Florence, curated by Cristiana Perrella and Sergio Risaliti. A project that combines contemporary art with the historical and artistic heritage of the city.

In the Santa Croce complex until January 10, 2022 an extraordinary project by Felice Limosani, in which humanistic culture and digital languages come together, Dante. The Eternal Poet.

Until December 12, 2021 Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi presents Alter Eva. Nature Power Body, an exhibition that through the works of six Italian women artists, triggers, starting from a female point of view, a reflection on the future based on new principles of natural and social cohabitation.

The exhibition Una fonte di luce, featuring some of the finalists of the first edition of the Starhotels La Grande Bellezza award at Helvetia & Bristol Florence, on view through January 9, 2022.

At Manifattura Tabacchi, the exhibition Thinking Beyond - Moving Images for a Post-Pandemic World curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, produced and organized by Schermo dell'arte for the second year with NAM - Not A Museum is on view through December 12.