All of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women winners will participate in a joint exhibition this spring inside Palazzo Strozzi, the Italian luxury brand an
All of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women winners will participate in a joint exhibition this spring inside Palazzo Strozzi, the Italian luxury brand announced Wednesday.
Entitled Time for Women! Empowering Visions in 20 Years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the group expo will be held from April 17 to August 31, 2025 inside the famed fortified place of the Medici family in Florence.
This special exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women – a key international award supporting women-identified artists. And the long collaboration between Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti, the art collection of the family that founded and owns Max Mara, through the works of the nine artists who have won the award since its creation in 2005.
The show will feature works by Margaret Salmon, Hannah Rickards, Andrea Büttner, Laure Prouvost, Corin Sworn, Emma Hart, Helen Cammock, Emma Talbot and Dominique White.
Organized in partnership with Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Time for Women! Empowering Visions will unfold in La Strozzina, the contemporary cultural center of Palazzo Strozzi in central Florence.
Presenting an exhibition that pays “homage to two decades of female creativity and innovation and plunging visitors into a range of different media and artistic visions,” Max Mara said in a release.
Time for Women! marks the first global joint show of the various projects by the nine artists developed during long Italian residencies that is at the heart of the prize.
With videos, installations, sculptures and wall pieces, the exhibition is a journey thorough the award’s 20-year history and the work of artists who were just emerging at the time they were selected, but have gone on to become renowned names on the broader international art scene.
An exhibition that blends broader themes such as identity, memory, the body, society and politics, each artist zeroing in on specific aspects connected to their research and experiences in Italy. These include commedia dell’arte, motherhood, the contemporary idea of the Grand Tour, artisan traditions, mythology, monastic communities, the natural landscape or history. All the way to the recovery of forgotten voices and narratives from ancient times and up to the present.
by Godfrey Deeny
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