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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.

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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.

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...

Association no for profit / Exhibitions / Publications / Public Program / Workshop (seminars / labs / residencies / …) / Visual Arts / Curatorship / Activism / Ecology / Economy / Gender / Politics

Surplace

Surplace artspace is an independent working space that promotes contemporary art and artistic techniques, blurring the boundaries of the stereotypical roles of the artist, the administrator, the critic, the art gallery manager etc.. The work of art is the core of this...

Artist Run Space / Exhibitions / Visual Arts / Curatorship / Other

Current

CURRENT is a platform started by artists and curators. It is based in an independent space in Milan, a place for experimentation and exhibition of contemporary forms of creation. CURRENT is an artist-run space open to collaborations with other Italian and international artistic...

Artist Run Space / Exhibitions / Public Program / Visual Arts / Activism / Ecology / Gender / Politics

IDENSITAT

IDENSITAT is an arts project investigating ways of impacting upon the public sphere through creative proposals related to place and territory in their spatial, temporal and social dimensions. IDENSITAT has been in continuous transformation to become a complex system,...

Association no for profit / Exhibitions / Publications / Public Program / Workshop (seminars / labs / residencies / …) / Architecture / Urban Planning / Design / Visual Arts / Curatorship / Social Practice / Participative art / Public art / Activism / Ecology / Economy / Gender / Politics

Associazione 22:37

22:37 is a non-profit association with an artistic and cultural aim. Founded in February 2009 from the meeting of young curators and artists whose common feature is the interest in artistic production and curatorship in different European environments. The association rises...

Artist Run Space / Independents Arts Organisation / Exhibitions / Publications / Visual Arts / Curatorship / Social Practice / Participative art / Public art / Activism / Ecology / Gender / Politics

viadellafucina16 condominium-museum

viadellafucina16 is a new artist-in-residence programme taking place in a condominium, in the heart of the historical district of Porta Palazzo in Turin, Italy. Through an international open call for multidisciplinary proposals, artists are invited to do residencies at the...

Association no for profit / Independents Arts Organisation / Exhibitions / Public Program / Workshop (seminars / labs / residencies / …) / Architecture / Urban Planning / Design / Visual Arts / Curatorship / Social Practice / Participative art / Public art / Activism / Ecology / Economy / Gender / Literature / Music / Politics

Cantieri d'Arte / La ville ouverte

Cantieri d’Arte is a platform of Public Art of active research, in order to develop projects which aim to explore the theme of the relationship between art and the city and ethical practices of re-appropriation of public space. Contemporary art is its investigative tool.

Association no for profit / Independents Arts Organisation / Exhibitions / Publications / Public Program / Workshop (seminars / labs / residencies / …) / Architecture / Urban Planning / Design / Visual Arts / Curatorship / Activism / Ecology / Economy / Music / Politics

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...

Artist Run Space / Informal group / Exhibitions / Workshop (seminars / labs / residencies / …) / Visual Arts / Curatorship / Social Practice / Participative art / Public art / Other / Activism / Politics

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.

16 December 2021 – 28 August 2022
Carlo Scarpa foyer at MAXXI

A project room conceived to show the public not only works of art but also a particular approach to artistic research.

The title Superstimolo is born out of the eponymous concept theorized by the ethologist and Nobel Prize winner Nikolaas Tinbergen in 1948. Indeed, Tinbergen’s “supernormal stimulus” is an artificial stimulus, quantitatively or qualitatively strengthened with respect to its natural state, causing more intense instinctive reactions. Starting from this premise, the project seeks to corroborate the hypothesis that art itself can be defined as something that activates the visitor in ways that are more complex and diversified with respect to the normal.

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16 February 2021 – 28 August 2022
Carlo Scarpa foyer at MAXXI

On the occasion of MAXXI’s tenth anniversary, the Museum celebrates six years of The Independent, a research project dedicated to independent thought and practice.

The Independent Wall intends to present a retrospective view of the history of the programme conceived by Hou Hanru and curated by Giulia Ferracci and Elena Motisi.

The project presents the online mapping of independent realities, monitoring the territories of initiatives active in this field at national and international level.

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27 January – 1 November 2020
Carlo Scarpa foyer at MAXXI

with Andrea Celeste La Forgia
There are no painters but only people who engage in painting among other activities

THE INDEPENDENT, MAXXI’s programme dedicated to independent thought and practice, presents Max Fletcher’s special project in collaboration with Andrea Celeste La Forgia: There are no painters but only people who engage in painting among other activities. The work is the result of a performance conceived for the FRIENDSHIP | SOLIDARITY | ALLIANCES summit on the occasion of the five-year anniversary of THE INDEPENDENT.

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Garibaldi Journal

Garibaldi is The Independents 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. 

#05 / July 2018

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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NESXT

Soft autonomy

Pietro Gaglianò

Glossary of independence

NESXT

Interview to Olga Gambari (NESXT)

Simone Ciglia

Ideal self-management. Groups of artists in the ‘70s

Alessandra Pioselli

Manifesto NESXT

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