BRH+ has designed the exhibition layouts for the 18th Quadriennale d’Arte, shaping the architectural settings of the shows “Fantastica” and “The Young and the Masters. The 1935 Quadriennale”, hosted at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome from 11 October 2025 to 18 January 2026. The studio’s intervention engages with the dual nature of this edition: on one hand, narrating the present through the new voices of Italian contemporary art; on the other, reinterpreting the past as a heritage of cultural memory and reference.
Fantastica, conceived from an idea by Luca Beatrice, the late president of the Quadriennale who passed away in January 2025, brings together 54 artists and 187 works across more than 2,000 square meters of exhibition space, in a collective narrative structured into five chapters curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Francesco Bonami, Emanuela Mazzonis di Pralafera, Francesco Stocchi, and Alessandra Troncone. In the central rotunda, the section curated by Bonami interacts with the adjacent galleries, creating a visual and spatial interplay that enhances the perception of the setting and the continuity of the exhibition’s narrative. The installation modulates the original distributive rigidity of Pio Piacentini’s neoclassical design, reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens.
Ninety years after the historic second Quadriennale of 1935, the exhibition curated by Walter Guadagnini pays homage to one of the foundational moments of 20th-century Italian art. In the second-floor galleries of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, BRH+ adopts a more linear and extroverted approach, inspired by the colors and atmosphere of the original edition. The exhibition unfolds as a progressive sequence of rooms dedicated to paintings, sculptures, and archival documents from the Quadriennale Library and Archive, accompanied by a large-scale photographic frieze that amplifies the show’s iconographic dimension.
Different in tone and structure, the two exhibitions achieve a coherent balance in a dialogue between past and future, reflecting the mission of the Quadriennale as a permanent observatory on Italian cultural identity and a laboratory for new forms of artistic expression.
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CREDITS
Exhibitions: Fantastica – The Young and the Masters. The 1935 Quadriennale
Event: 18th Rome Quadriennale d’Arte
Location: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Dates: 11 October 2025 – 18 January 2026
Exhibition Design: BRH+
Photography: Agostino Osio – Alto Piano Studio
Courtesy of: Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma
