The Independent is the research project dedicated to independent thinking and practice promoted by MAXXI – the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome. Conceived in 2014 by Hou Hanru, the project is curated by Giulia Ferracci and Elena Motisi with research support from Simone Ciglia and the contribution of Aria Spinelli.
Independents
Independent Groups and Spaces
Independents presents the online mapping of independent entities. Generated in 2014 through an open call, since 2019 it has been extended thanks to the support of a series of contributors who propose each year a selection of the most innovative groups and spaces on the independent scene.
Twenty14
Twenty14 is a cultural organization born in Milano in 2014 with the aim of increase the dialogue between contemporary visual arts. A curatorial duo and gallery space working on selected exhibition projects, cultural events production, communication, education and art consulting.
VIAINDUSTRIAE
VIAINDUSTRIAE is a non-profit cultural association and architects collective, born in 2005 to manage and "perform" an archive of modern and contemporary art private collection. Then it activates a series of specific projects with the artists seeking to involve them with...
Radio Papesse
Radio Papesse is an online audio archive devoted to contemporary art; it is a place for the documentation and the articulation of a critical discourse around the visual arts and at the same time it...
Emma
Emma is a self-organised collaborative and curatorial organisation for artistic and cultural practices, which encourages dialogue and exploration in the arts. It creates learning and residential opportunities for artists and other cultural producers through diverse forms of...
Kunstverein (Milano)
Kunstverein (Milano) is an experimental curatorial platform for exhibitions, research and production of contemporary visual art. Part of a network of sister organisations with Kunstvereins in Amsterdam, New York and Toronto, and is founded and co-directed by Katia Anguelova,...
Asociación de Arte Útil
Arte Útil (AU) roughly translates into English as 'useful art' but it goes further suggesting art as a tool or device. Arte Útil draws on artistic thinking to imagine, create and implement tactics that change how we act in society. The Asociación de AU was initiated by the...
SPAZIO Y
An independent place dedicated to research and experimentation in the contemporary context, it is a meeting and exchange point for artists and operators in the cultural sector, invited from time to time to interact with the physical and historical social context where the art...
Diogene
Diogene was founded in Turin in 2007 as an artistic self-identity group of people working together to create a place for reflecting and exchanging ideas concerning the issues and means of contemporary art practice. Its main projects are 'Bivaccourbano_R', an international...
The Wall The wall è lo spazio fisico nel museo MAXXI dedicato a The Independent. La parete del foyer Carlo Scarpa è affidata periodicamente a una selezione di realtà indipendenti che presentano, in una configurazione sempre nuova, uno statement sulla propria identità.
Garibaldi Journal
Garibaldi is The Independent’s online magazine. Active since 2017 with a fluid editorial team that for every issue involves intellectuals, critics or contemporary thinkers and/or an independent group. Garibaldi investigates – through a multiple gaze – themes and geographical contexts of the independent practices.
NESXT
On the occasion of the MAXXI event, this issue of Garibaldi will be co-edited by NESXT – Independent Art Network. NESXT, which was born in Turin in 2016, is a festival, an observatory and a network devoted to the Italian independent scene, and has been a partner of THE INDEPENDENT since 2017. The space for in-depth analysis provided by the Journal will see NESXT introduce itself through its own manifesto and an interview to Artistic Director Olga Gambari, proposing a reflection on the roots and philosophical statute of independence.
edited by NESXT, Elena Motisi and Simone Ciglia
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Soft autonomy
Pietro GaglianòIdeal self-management. Groups of artists in the ‘70s
Alessandra PioselliManifesto NESXT
Glossary of independence
NESXTInterview to Olga Gambari (NESXT)
Simone Ciglia