This collection gathers galleries, museums, exhibition spaces, and public artworks of contemporary art, including installations, site-specific projects, and temporary shows. It suits readers looking for places to see recent work and understand how art relates to the urban space.

Places: Contemporary art (36)

• 999CONTEMPORARY999CONTEMPORARY - Via Ostiense, 110 D, 00146 Rome RM, Italy
• Anticoli Corrado (RM)Anticoli Corrado (RM) is a municipality of about 850 inhabitants perched at 508 meters above sea level, on a ridge of the Monti Ruffi that overlook…
• Basket PlaygroundBasket Playground Largo Settimio Passamonti, Rome A small but sturdy self-managed neighborhood basketball court surrounded…
• British School at RomeThe British School at Rome is at Via Antonio Gramsci 61, in Valle Giulia. It is not a museum. It is a British research institute with a library, an…
• C’era una volta, Korean contemporary dance at Teatro Vascello, November 10, 2026C'era una volta (Once Upon a Time), a Korean contemporary dance show, is on at Teatro Vascello in Rome on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 21:00, for…
• Cinema Nuovo OlimpiaThe Cinema Nuovo Olimpia is at Via in Lucina 16, in the Colonna district, between Via del Corso and the square of the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lu…
• Civitella d’Agliano (VT)Civitella d’Agliano is a municipality of just over 1,500 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, postal code 01020, area code 0761, set at 262 mete…
• Crocodile by Martin Harriague at Teatro India, May 7 and 8, 2027Crocodile by Martin Harriague, a dance duet the French choreographer created with and for Émilie Leriche, is on at Teatro India, Lungotevere Vittor…
• DansCirque at Teatro Belli, November 21 and 22, 2026DansCirque, the contemporary dance and circus show by the Turin company blucinQue directed by Caterina Mochi Sismondi, is on stage at Teatro Belli…
• Echoes at Teatro Nazionale in Rome: Bonachela, Eyal and Tortelli, April 20 to 24, 2027Echoes at Teatro Nazionale in Rome: the contemporary dance triple bill with choreography by Rafael Bonachela, Sharon Eyal and Diego Tortelli is on…
• Ex Mattatoio di TestaccioEx Mattatoio di Testaccio is the complex of Rome's old municipal slaughterhouse, overlooking the Tiber between Piazza Orazio Giustiniani and the Te…
• Ex Porto FluvialeEx Porto Fluviale is at Via del Porto Fluviale 12, at the corner of Via delle Conce, in the Ostiense district. You don't visit it and you don't go…
• FlaminioYou see Flaminio on foot and almost all of it is free: streets, squares, bridges and facades are public space, and you only pay to get into the mus…
• Fondazione MemmoFondazione Memmo is open, with free entry, at Via della Fontanella di Borghese 56b, in the spaces of Scuderie di Palazzo Ruspoli, a few steps from…
• FrissónFrissón Via dei Cartari , 7 Rome An ecosystem that revolves around music. A cultural space, a listening bar, a collective o…
• Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma (GAM)Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma (GAM) - Via Francesco Crispi, 24, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
• Giacomo Manzù Museum in ArdeaThe Giacomo Manzù Museum is an Italian state museum opened in 1981 in Ardea, dedicated to the work of the sculptor Giacomo Manzù.
• Il segreto della felicità by Leda Moro at Teatro Ghione, December 10, 2026Il segreto della felicità, the show written and performed by the singer Leda Moro, is on stage at Teatro Ghione in Rome on Thursday, December 10, 2…
• Junctions Beyond Jazz: Le frontiere dell’arpa at Casa del Jazz, November 29, 2026On Sunday, November 29, 2026, at 12:00 harpist Lucia Bova plays Le frontiere dell'arpa, a concert for harp and electronics in the Junctions Beyond…
• MACRO – Rome Museum of Contemporary ArtMACRO - Rome Museum of Contemporary Art - Via Nizza, 138, 00198 Roma RM, Italy
• Marinella Senatore at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna: Artist at GNAMC until December 31, 2026Artist at GNAMC. Marinella Senatore: Protagonist 2026 is open until December 31, 2026 at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNA…
• MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century ArtsMAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts is in Rome's Flaminio neighborhood, in the area of the former Montello barracks next to the Basilica o…
• Museo Laboratorio d’Arte Contemporanea, MLACMuseo Laboratorio d’Arte Contemporanea, MLAC - Piazzale della Minerva, 00185 Rome RM, Italy
• National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary ArtNational Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art - Viale delle Belle Arti, 131, 00197 Rome RM, Italy
• QuadraroQuadraro is a borgata that grew outside the walls between Via Casilina and Via Tuscolana, in the southeast quadrant of Rome, a quarter of an hour b…
• Rhinoceros Fondazione Alda FendiRhinoceros is open and entry is free: the gallery of Fondazione Alda Fendi Esperimenti receives the public at Via del Velabro 9A, between the Arch…
• Roma Arte in Nuvola 2026 at the Nuvola in EUR, November 20 to 22, 2026Roma Arte in Nuvola 2026, the sixth edition of the capital's international fair of modern and contemporary art, runs from Friday, November 20 to Su…
• Street Art in OstienseOstiense is the neighborhood where Rome first stopped treating painted walls as a nuisance. It lies between the Aurelian Walls and the Tiber, south…
• Street Art in Rome: Neighborhoods and Walls to SeeRome has at least seven neighborhoods where mural painting is not an episode but a fabric: Ostiense, Garbatella, Tor Marancia, Quadraro, Tor Pignat…
• Teatro di Roma 2026-2027 Season, Il teatro è vita, September 30, 2026 to May 30, 2027Teatro di Roma 2026-2027 Season, titled Il teatro è vita (Theater Is Life), is played out across four venues: Teatro Argentina at Largo di Torre Ar…
• The Forest at Teatro Vascello: Cristiana Morganti and Claudio Tolcachir, April 20 to 25, 2027The Forest at Teatro Vascello: the show by Cristiana Morganti and Claudio Tolcachir is on at Teatro Vascello in Rome from April 20 to 25, 2027, at…
• The Nutcracker at Teatro Brancaccio by Brancaccio LAB, December 4 to 6, 2026The Nutcracker at Teatro Brancaccio, the Brancaccio LAB production with choreography by Alessia Gatta in collaboration with Manuel Paruccini, is on…
• The Sleeping Queen by Mauro Astolfi at Teatro Vascello, December 1 to 6, 2026The Sleeping Queen, Mauro Astolfi's new creation for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet inspired by Sleeping Beauty and by Tchaikovsky's music, is on s…
• Thursdays at the GNAMC, evening openings at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, from September 10 to December 17, 2026Thursdays at the GNAMC is the special evening opening of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, at Viale delle Belle Arti 131 in Ro…
• Tor MaranciaThe Museo condominiale of Tor Marancia is at Viale di Tor Marancia 63, in the ATER public housing estate of Municipio VIII. It is free to see, ther…
• Villa MassimoVilla Massimo is not visited like a museum: the seat of Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, at Largo di Villa Massimo 1-2, 00161 Rome, Nomentano…