Discover the program for the summer of 2025 at Villa Medici in Rome!
The Villa Medici – The French Academy in Rome is a prestigious museum and cultural institution located near Villa Borghese. Like every summer, this year it is ready to host numerous events, with a rich program that includes art exhibitions, landscape architecture interventions, and film festivals. With its 18 hectares of gardens, fountains, and sculptures, Villa Medici remains an oasis of artistic expression that evokes the French countryside, despite being situated in one of the most central areas of Rome.
Let’s take a look at the artistic programming of Villa Medici from May to September 2025.
Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici | 5 June – 29 September 2025
The Festival des Cabanes at Villa Medici was created to offer architects, artists, and researchers the opportunity to “take over” the site’s historic gardens, designed by Ferdinando de’ Medici at the end of the 16th century. For the fourth consecutive year, five original “cabin” creations will be showcased throughout the summer in the heart of the Villa Medici gardens. These cabins are specially designed for the festival by international groups of architects, builders, and students: Associates Architecture, Atelier MARE, Campo & Diploma 20 Architectural Association with artist Roger Ballen, Huttopia, and MBL architectes. All summer long, the cabins will host various educational workshops, readings, and yoga classes.
Opening times:
Monday to Sunday (closed on Tuesday) from 10:00am to 7:00pm (last entry at 6:30pm)
Tickets:
Full €8 / Reduced €6
Read more about the Festival des Cabanes
Changing the Prose of the World / Villa Medici Fellows Exhibition | 28 June – 8 September 2025
From June 28 to September 8, 2025, Villa Medici presents Changing the Prose of the World, a collective exhibition featuring works by sixteen fellows concluding their year‑long residency. Curated by Lilou Vidal, the exhibition title references a poem by Amelia Rosselli, suggesting the urgent need to rewrite dominant narratives through poetic and dissident artistic language.
Blending visual arts, photography, literature, music, and cinema, the exhibition unfolds as a dynamic, interdisciplinary journey. Artist‑chosen texts are typographically integrated into the gallery walls by Montasser Drissi, creating a continuous, collective narrative that animates the historic spaces of Villa Medici. The works, originally created in private studios, are now revealed to the public, offering political, ecological, and poetic explorations.
Opening times:
Monday to Sunday (closed on Tuesday) from 10:00am to 7:00pm (last entry at 6:30pm)
Tickets:
Full €10 / Reduced €8 – €2
villamedici.it/en/programme/changing-the-prose-of-the-world
Villa Medici Film Festival | 10-14 September 2025
Created in 2021, the Villa Medici Film Festival offers an international selection of films that explore the connections between cinema and contemporary art. For the fifth consecutive year, the festival aims to present pioneering works with diverse profiles that challenge, disrupt, transform, or re-enchant our relationship with images.
The Villa Medici Film Festival is divided into three sections: the International Competition, consisting of fourteen recent films of various genres and formats, the parallel program Focus, featuring non-competitive films by artists, masterclasses, and exceptional encounters, and the Piazzale screenings, which gather the audience for outdoor screenings of new films, including premieres and restored classics.
The jury, which this year is composed of Alain Guiraudie, Guslagie Malanda, and Anri Sala, will award two prizes: the Best Film Award and the Jury Prize.
Villa Medici
Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1
