Independent Collectors

The (Italian) Factory

With his collection, Maramotti intended to mirror the evolution of the most advanced artistic thinking of his time and as a result has created one of the most exciting private collections in Italy.

CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI, Caspar David Friedrich, 1989. © the artist
CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI, Caspar David Friedrich, 1989. © the artist
MARIO MERZ, La frutta siamo noi, 1988. © Fondazione Merz, Torino
MARIO MERZ, La frutta siamo noi, 1988. © Fondazione Merz, Torino
CY TWOMBLY, GASTONE NOVELLI, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
CY TWOMBLY, GASTONE NOVELLI, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
FAUSTO MELOTTI, GIUSEPPE UNCINI, MARIO SCHIFANO, TANO FESTA, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Cesare Di Liborio
FAUSTO MELOTTI, GIUSEPPE UNCINI, MARIO SCHIFANO, TANO FESTA, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Cesare Di Liborio
SANDRO CHIA, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
SANDRO CHIA, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ENZO CUCCHI, MIMMO PALADINO, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ENZO CUCCHI, MIMMO PALADINO, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ENZO CUCCHI, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ENZO CUCCHI, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
MARGHERITA MANZELLI, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
MARGHERITA MANZELLI, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
SIGMAR POLKE, ANSELM KIEFER, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
SIGMAR POLKE, ANSELM KIEFER, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ERIC FISCHL, MALCOLM MORLEY, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ERIC FISCHL, MALCOLM MORLEY, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
JULIAN SCHNABEL, DAVID SALLE, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
JULIAN SCHNABEL, DAVID SALLE, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
DAVID SALLE, SANDRO CHIA, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
DAVID SALLE, SANDRO CHIA, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
JULIAN SCHNABEL, ALEX KATZ, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
JULIAN SCHNABEL, ALEX KATZ, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ROSS BLECKNER, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ROSS BLECKNER, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
PETER HALLEY, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
PETER HALLEY, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
RAY SMITH, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
RAY SMITH, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN, NICKY HOBERMAN, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN, NICKY HOBERMAN, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
MATTHEW RITCHIE, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
MATTHEW RITCHIE, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
PINO PASCALI, JANNIS KOUNELLIS, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: C. Dario Lasagni
PINO PASCALI, JANNIS KOUNELLIS, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: C. Dario Lasagni
JULES DE BALINCOURT, Psychedelic Soldier, 2012. Courtesy the artist, Salon 94 and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Photo: Joseph Desler Costa
JULES DE BALINCOURT, Psychedelic Soldier, 2012. Courtesy the artist, Salon 94 and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Photo: Joseph Desler Costa
GILBERTO ZORIO, GIOVANNI ANSELMO, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Carlo Vannini
GILBERTO ZORIO, GIOVANNI ANSELMO, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Carlo Vannini
KAARINA KAIKKONEN, Are We Still Going On?, Installation View Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
KAARINA KAIKKONEN, Are We Still Going On?, Installation View Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
MARK MANDERS, Cose in corso. Photo: Dario Lasagni
MARK MANDERS, Cose in corso. Photo: Dario Lasagni
BEATRICE PEDICONI, 9’/ Unlimited, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Collezione Maramotti
BEATRICE PEDICONI, 9’/ Unlimited, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Collezione Maramotti
VITO ACCONCI, MARK DION, Installation View Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
VITO ACCONCI, MARK DION, Installation View Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
TOM SACHS, BARRY X BALL, ERICK SWENSON, Installation View Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
TOM SACHS, BARRY X BALL, ERICK SWENSON, Installation View Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
CHRISTOPHER WOOL, ROSEMARIE TROCKEL, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni CHRISTOPHER WOOL, ROSEMARIE TROCKEL, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
CHRISTOPHER WOOL, ROSEMARIE TROCKEL, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni CHRISTOPHER WOOL, ROSEMARIE TROCKEL, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
EVGENY ANTUFIEV, Twelve, wood, dolphin, knife, bowl, mask, crystal, bones and marble – fusion. Exploring materials, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
EVGENY ANTUFIEV, Twelve, wood, dolphin, knife, bowl, mask, crystal, bones and marble – fusion. Exploring materials, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ANSELM KIEFER, ETTORE COLLA, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
ANSELM KIEFER, ETTORE COLLA, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
JASON DODGE, A permanently open window, from 5.05.2013 – permanent. Photo: Dario Lasagni
JASON DODGE, A permanently open window, from 5.05.2013 – permanent. Photo: Dario Lasagni
TOM SACHS, Large Glock Box, 1995. © the artist
TOM SACHS, Large Glock Box, 1995. © the artist
CHANTAL JOFFE, Moll with the Cat, 2014. © Chantal Joffe, Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro Gallery, Collezione Maramotti
CHANTAL JOFFE, Moll with the Cat, 2014. © Chantal Joffe, Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro Gallery, Collezione Maramotti
JANNIS KOUNELLIS, Untitled, 1961. © the artist
JANNIS KOUNELLIS, Untitled, 1961. © the artist
MIMMO PALADINO, Campi Flegrei, 1982-1983
MIMMO PALADINO, Campi Flegrei, 1982-1983
PETER HALLEY, The Western Sector, 1989-1990. © the artist
PETER HALLEY, The Western Sector, 1989-1990. © the artist
ELLEN GALLAGHER, Oogaboogah, 1994. © the artist
ELLEN GALLAGHER, Oogaboogah, 1994. © the artist
ALBERTO BURRI, Sacco e Rosso, 1954. © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini “Collezione Burri”, Città di Castello, Perugia
ALBERTO BURRI, Sacco e Rosso, 1954. © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini “Collezione Burri”, Città di Castello, Perugia
KRIŠTOF KINTERA, Small Factory (Personal Industry L.T.D.), 2009. © Krištof Kintera, Photo: Dario Lasagni
KRIŠTOF KINTERA, Small Factory (Personal Industry L.T.D.), 2009. © Krištof Kintera, Photo: Dario Lasagni
ROSS BLECKNER, Family Plot, 1995. © the artist
ROSS BLECKNER, Family Plot, 1995. © the artist
LAURE PROUVOST, Farfromwords: car mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni
LAURE PROUVOST, Farfromwords: car mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells, Installation View at Collezione Maramotti. Photo: Dario Lasagni

Initially, the Collezione Maramotti was presented in the corridors of the Max Mara factory to promote a fruitful, daily exchange between artistic creativity and industrial design, the factory was turned into a museum when the company’s production expanded and moved to a new headquarter. About 200 works from the 1000 work strong collection that dates from 1945 to the present, are on permanent view as an in-depth presentation of the important artistic tendencies, both Italian and international, of the last sixty years.

The Collezione Maramotti consists primarily of paintings but also features sculptures and installations. The works of the permanent collection range throughout forty three exhibition halls on the building’s two upper floors, arranged by various criteria. The collection holds a number of important European paintings that embody the abstract-expressionist, art informel climate of the late 1940s and early 1950s, a selection of the works of the “Roman School” of Pop Art, examples of Arte Povera fundamental works from the area of Italian neo-expressionism, known as the Transavanguardia, and a considerable group of works of the New Geometry of the United States, of the 1980s and 1990s, followed by the most recent experimentations in both the United States and Great Britain.

Most of the collection’s twenty-first century works have not been included in the permanent exhibition, and are presented in thematic shows in the ground floor spaces for temporary exhibitions and new projects commissioned to international artists. The Collezione Maramotti also exhibits and acquires the projects of artists who are awarded the two-yearly Max Mara Art Prize for Women, in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, for emerging women artists working in the United Kingdom. The collection is itself a “work in progress” and continues to explore the history of contemporary art as it unfolds.

The Collezione Maramotti is included in the Art Guide.

Italy (35)

Palazzo Daniele

Minimalism meets majesty at Palazzo Daniele where monastic décor exaggerates the grandeur of ceiling frescoes and standalone art works

Fondazione Brodbeck

Contemporary art in the shadow of a volcano

Collezione De Iorio

Beauty & infirmity – Radiologist Mauro De Iorio has a unique understanding of the human body

Collezione Taurisano

Initiated by Paolo Taurisano in the 1970s, this collection now flourishes thanks to his son Francesco and daughter-in-law Sveva D’Antonio

Collezione Maramotti

Interview with the senior coordinator Sara Piccinini

Rossini Art Site — Sculpture Park

Art park that fuses sculpture, architecture, and landscape

The Great Women Artists Residency

Palazzo Monti presents the third annual Great Women Artists Residency

Palazzo Monti

Take a look inside the both historic and fresh beauty of Palazzo Monti in Brescia, who we welcome as new to IC.

Mollino/Insides

The current temporary exhibition at Collezione Maramotti is in collaboration with Turin’s Museo Casa Mollino and has been organised on the occasion of this years Fotografia Europea.

Two Thoughts with Svenja Deininger

See inside the stunning light filled & open industrial spaces showcasing painting & various projects in the corridors of the Max Mara factory.

The Bisazza Foundation

The collection which honours the appreciation for design and architecture.

Giorgio Fasol

An interview with one of Italy’s most prominent collectors of contemporary art.

Go With the Gut

Collector couple Bruna Girodengo and Matteo Viglietta both share a passion – an unquenchable thirst to learn about collecting art.

Two Ideas of Beauty

In many ways the Collezione De Iorio, like the ancient Roman god Janus, is two-faced.

Foto Project Book

Italian collector Guido Galimberti is someone who sees the world in multiples.

Because Of Many (Taurisano) Suns

View inside this private home and Naples-based collection, where young and active collecting couple Francesco and Sveva Taurisano live.

The Videoinsight® Method Part II

The collection that selects contemporary art containing high psychological impact.

Castello di Ama per l’Arte Contemporanea

The result of the passion of four Roman families.

Dancing with Myself

The Museum Folkwang exhibited works from Venice’s Pinault Collection.

Non-Aligned Modernity

Eastern-European Art from the Marinko Sudac Collection.

Three Explorations To Be Repeated As Necessary…

Contemporary art and mythology amongst uncovered ancient Greek ruins in the converted Palazzo basement.

Fondazione Morra Greco

This Neapolitan palace houses the collection of dentist Maurizio Morra Greco.

World Art Collection

Dores Sacquegna shares a selection of works from her personal collection.

‘La Pelle’ and ‘Luogo e Segni’ – Pinault Collection

Venice’s Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana see the exhibitions ‘La Pelle’ and ‘Luogo e Segni’ for 2019.

Fondazione Opera

Guido Galimberti Online Exhibition

Nature is Equilibrium

Installation views from the Fondazione Merz

Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone

Searching for strong feelings of humanity within paintings, sculptures and drawings.

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Italian art collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo talks to Agnese Čivle about spontaneous art buying, the difference between collecting names and works and her Turin-based art foundation.

A Portrait of My Soul

For over two decades Vittorio Gaddi has been focusing on collecting international contemporary art as well as supporting emerging art and artists.

The Videoinsight® Method Part I

Ten years ago, Turin based art collector and psychotherapist Rebecca Russo, began showing art to her patients

Sensus Collection

Located on the first two floors of a 1960s building in Florence you’ll find the Sensus Collection.

Antonio Dalle Nogare

On the occasion of this year’s Venice Biennale Independent Collectors spoke with collector Antonio Dalle Nogare from the ADN Collection about which pavilions and specific art pieces stood out for him and why.

CARMELO GRACI

“Buying ‘difficult’ works gives shape to a collection, which otherwise would be standardized on all the others.”

MATTEO NOVARESE

Collector of the SOF:ART Collection