Discover the program for the summer of 2024 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 2024.
Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici | 22 May – 29 September
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 third consecutive year, six 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: Ane architecture, Manuel Bouzas, CAMPO & DIPLOMA 20, Architectural Association, Pratique Architecture, Huttopia, and Lamécol. All summer long, the cabins will host various educational workshops, readings, and yoga classes. On Saturday, June 8th, the Nuit des Cabanes will take place, featuring a program of artistic performances, readings, and concerts inside the cabins, involving artists and thinkers with many international guests in attendance.
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
A Più Voci / Villa Medici Fellows Exhibition | 8 June – 8 September
The traditional appointment with the Villa Medici Fellows Exhibition returns, curated by the Roman collective IUNO. This exhibition showcases the proposals developed by sixteen Villa Medici fellows during a year of research in Rome: Pierre Adrian, Mali Arun, Ismaïl Bahri, Séverine Ballon, Hélène Bertin, Alix Boillot, Madison Bycroft, Laure Cadot, Céline Curiol, Ophélie Dozat, Hamedine Kane, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laure Limongi, Morad Montazami, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, and Justinien Tribillon.
The title of this year’s exhibition, A Più Voci (In Multiple Voices), aims to represent an artistic communion composed of multiple singularities, characterized by the diversity of practices represented, ranging from literature to music, from sculpture to restoration, from photography to video. Recurring themes include the plant world, the body and its transformations, the dialectic between exterior and interior, and the figure of Rome, both real and sometimes fantastical.
Opening times:
Monday to Sunday (closed on Tuesday) from 10:00am to 7:00pm (last entry at 6:30pm)
Tickets:
Full €10 / Reduced €8
Tickets for the exhibition also grant access to the Festival des Cabanes at Villa Medici.
Villa Medici Film Festival | 11-15 September
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 third 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 Lili Hinstin, Julian Ross, Valentine Umansky, and Jean-Marc Zekri, will award two prizes: the Best Film Award and the Jury Prize. These awards offer filmmakers the opportunity to spend a writing residency at Villa Medici. The festival program is currently being finalized and will be published in the coming weeks.
Villa Medici
Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1
