Exhibitions
UNAROMA: a sequence shot of the Roman artistic ecosystem at the MACRO
Curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Cristiana Perrella, UNAROMA inaugurates the new exhibition season at MACRO with an ambitious group show that paints a hybrid, diverse, and profoundly generative portrait of the contemporary Roman art scene. Far from a unified or closed vision, the exhibition presents itself as a constantly transforming field of forces, where different languages, generations, and communities coexist.
Through cross-disciplinary practices—encompassing visual arts, music, film, and performance— UNAROMA proposes an interpretation of the city conceived as a single shot filmed against an ideal green screen. In cinematic language, this technique allows for the superimposition of multiple images; in the exhibition, the green screen is transformed into a common surface where gestures, actions, and visions produced by more than seventy artists are layered, giving rise to a continuous narrative of the Roman cultural fabric.
The exhibition, on view until April 6, occupies the two large halls of the building designed by Odile Decq and unfolds like a film, alternating between moments of pause and intensity. The exhibition is structured in three complementary phases: UNAROMA SET , UNAROMA LIVE , and UNAROMA OFF , underscoring the project's procedural and performative nature. In this context, the new MACRO establishes itself as an experimental and welcoming space, dedicated to collaboration, mutual influence, and the collective production of meaning.
UNAROMA SET , located in the ground floor gallery, is configured as a wide green band that traverses the exhibition space. Along this path, the works—paintings, photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations, most of them previously unseen—are arranged sequentially, reinforcing the idea of a continuous narrative flow. Participants include José Angelino, Micol Assaël, Elisabetta Benassi, Tomaso Binga, Rä di Martino, Isabella Ducrot, Nico Vascellari, and Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, among others, forming a diverse map of practices and sensibilities that reflect the complexity of contemporary Roman art.
Located on the first floor, UNAROMA LIVE expands the green screen metaphor to occupy the entire exhibition space, which is traversed by a series of stage installations designed to host, on a weekly basis, live performances, concerts, DJ sets, talks, workshops, and screenings. The museum is thus transformed into an active platform, where the exhibition is continually revitalized through presence and time.
Through the involvement of a broad network of artists, collectives, and curatorial and publishing platforms, each intervention leaves a tangible trace of its presence at MACRO. These traces—material, sonic, or visual—accumulate like fragments of a constantly evolving, collaborative film, reinforcing the project's processual and collective dimension.
