Brutalist Italy

Italian architecture encompasses a wide variety of styles, yet abroad it remains primarily associated with its numerous Renaissance and Baroque buildings. From an architectural perspective, today's Italy is no longer the Italy of the 18th-century Grand Tour and Goethe's "Italian Journey." Goethe would find a less picturesque country today, one where modernity has permeated everything, including reinforced concrete.

Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego, both born and raised in the hinterland of Milan, embarked on a photographic journey. The two photographers traveled more than 20,000 km, traversing all regions of the peninsula to document a diverse array of buildings in Italian Brutalist architecture, characterized by its use of exposed reinforced concrete.

The result is a fascinating project that captures more than one hundred Italian Brutalist buildings in 146 photographs, published in the book "Brutalist Italy."

Opening: September 19, 6:00–9:00 p.m.

Between November and January, the exhibition “Brutalist Italy” can only be visited on the following days and at the following times:

Thursday, November 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Thursday, December 18, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The exhibition will be open to the public again from Thursday, January 15, 2026.