Rome Quadriennale

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The Rome Quadriennale (Italian: La Quadriennale di Roma, also called in English the Rome Quadrennial) is the Italian national institution entrusted with the task of researching about and promoting Italian contemporary art. It is a foundation participated by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Its name derives from the four-yearly exhibitions it is required to host by its constitution. It is based in Rome in the monumental complex of Villa Carpegna. Founded in 1927 by Cipriano Efisio Oppo, artist, writer, member of Parliament and a director of the art trade union, who directed the first four editions of the Quadriennale with the role of "general secretary". Between 2018 and 2022 Sara Cosulich has been appointed as first artistic director of the history of the institution. In 2022, under the artistic direction of Gian Maria Tosatti the activity of the institution started switching its main efforts from the production of the quadriennal exhibition to a constant activity of researches, exhibition programs, collaborations with universities and the publishing of magazines and books. In these last years the institution has begun to collaborate with international curators like Hans Ulrich Obrist...

All the Rome Quadriennale main exhibitions held at its historical site, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni of Rome, except where indicated.

- Palazzo delle Esposizioni and the Ala Mazzoniana of the Roma Termini railway station, September - November 1996.

- XVI Quadriennale - Altri tempi, altri miti, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, October 2016 - January 2017

- XVII Quadriennale - Fuori, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, October 2020 - July 2021