MAXXI – Collezione Design

MAXXI | Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome

Contemporary design collection, installation views, 2024

This series documented MAXXI’s first contemporary design collection in Rome. The commission focused on installation views and close studies of furniture, objects, graphics and digital works by thirteen studios and designers, tracing how the display stages contemporary Italian design as a meeting point between industrial production, artistic research and the museum’s concrete architecture.

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Introductory text by MAXXI | Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome

Industrial, collectable, digital, innovative, anonymous. The current design scene is on display.
The Museum opens its first contemporary Design Collection to examine the countless ways in which culture, technological advancement and aesthetic innovation in Italy dialogue with today’s global movements.
Contemporary production – encompassing furniture, objects, graphics, materials, and digital products – continues to serve as a conduit through which practical, everyday human experiences merge with the creative dimension of design. It thus provides a multidimensional way to examine and intercept social phenomena, technological progress and the contemporary cultural scene.
The 13 studios and individual designers who enter the Collection work and create on the borderline of artistic exploration, aligning themselves with the evolving dynamics of the 21st century, in which materials, processes, and artefacts reflect collective and individual responses to major current issues.
The Museum’s Design Collection comprises contemporary and future-oriented works, focusing on pieces from the late 20th century to the early 21st century.

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