Tags Exhibition

The Estorick Collection opens 2026 with the UK’s first solo exhibition dedicated to Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019), one of post-war Italy’s most creative and influential designers and architects.

During her brief career, Ketty La Rocca (1938–1976) worked across a number of disciplines and media including drawing, photography, sculpture, poetry and performance.

The Estorick Collection presents the first ever institutional UK exhibition dedicated to pioneering contemporary Italian master Claudio Parmiggiani (b. Luzzara, 1943).

The Estorick Collection starts 2025 by exploring the revolutionary world of experimental poetry with two intersecting displays, Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry and Dom Sylvester Houédard and Concrete Poetry in Post-war Britain.

Antonio Calderara (1903-1978) is renowned for his delicate and exquisitely balanced abstract imagery which, in its restraint and subtlety, exhibits affinities with the work of Giorgio Morandi.

Sergio Strizzi (1931–2004) is considered one of cinematic still photography’s greatest talents. He worked with Italy’s top film directors, including Antonioni and De Sica, as well as internationally-renowned figures such as John Huston and Peter Greenaway, and worked as a photographer on the sets of several James Bond films.

Pasquarosa Marcelli (1896 - 1973), known simply as 'Pasquarosa', was one of the first Italian artists to have a solo exhibition in London, during the 1920s. A century later, her work returns to the capital in a new show featuring some 50 paintings and drawings on loan from Rome’s Archivio Nino e Pasquarosa Bertoletti and other private collections.

The first museum show in the UK of ground-breaking photographer Lisetta Carmi (1924 – 2022), whose imagery is currently receiving renewed attention.

The first exhibition dedicated to the work of Osvaldo Licini (1894-1958) in the UK. A key figure of 20th-century Italian art, Licini participated in the Futurist movement before establishing himself as a figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes.

In January 2023, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection opening to the public in 1998, we will present an exhibition of works by one of the most popular artists in our permanent collection, Giorgio Morandi.