Elisabetta Benassi, Fiamma Montezemolo
UNAROMA
Curated by Cristiana Perrella and Luca Lo Pinto
Macro, Rome
Opening: December 11, 2025 | 6 PM
The major group exhibition that inaugurates Cristiana Perrella’s new directorship brings together more than seventy artists from the Roman scene. Among the participants are Elisabetta Benassi and Fiamma Montezemolo, featured in the Set section of the exhibition design by Parasite2.0.
MACRO reopens its doors and celebrates Rome with an ambitious exhibition season marking the beginning of Cristiana Perrella’s artistic direction. This reopening is much more than a simple return to normal: it is a tribute to the Eternal City, to its artistic scene, and to the creative energies that animate it, and at the same time a narrative that projects Rome beyond its borders, restoring its central role on the international cultural stage.
The program, promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale and Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, is conceived as a lively, daily schedule capable of making the museum a pulsating organism—an open, welcoming, and culturally vibrant place. “I imagine MACRO as a composite, flexible, and welcoming organism that breathes with the city,” says Cristiana Perrella. A museum that absorbs the complexity of Rome and projects it outward, generating new spaces for dialogue among art, music, cinema, thought, and urban studies.
After months of work devoted to restoring the spaces, MACRO returns as a mirror of the cultural vitality of the capital and of its extraordinary ability to reinvent itself. The new season, which runs until April 2026, intertwines different languages to present Rome as an open, constantly evolving laboratory: from the emerging scene and the independent spaces reshaping the city’s cultural map, to the early 2000s as seen through the Dissonanze festival, and contemporary reflections on living and inhabiting the city.
At the center of this reopening is UNAROMA, a large collective exhibition curated by Cristiana Perrella and Luca Lo Pinto, on view from December 11, 2025 to April 6, 2026. The exhibition seeks to offer a portrait of Rome’s artistic scene—hybrid, generative, intergenerational—through the works of more than seventy artists. The exhibition concept unfolds as a long sequence shot set against a large green screen, a metaphor for a shared backdrop on which the visions, actions, and gestures of a city in perpetual motion are layered.
The exhibition design, created by the studio Parasite2.0, occupies the museum’s two large halls and is structured in three movements: Set, Live, and Off.
In Set, a long green strip runs through the ground-floor hall, hosting a fluid sequence of works, many of them newly produced.
With Live, on the first floor, the museum becomes a scenic device that weekly welcomes performances, concerts, DJ sets, screenings, conversations, and workshops—a true collective film that builds itself over time, intervention after intervention.
The Off section extends the exhibition into the city through collaborations with several Roman independent spaces, invited to develop autonomous projects in their own venues, activating new connections and a diffuse cultural map.
The opening weekend will feature UNAROMA Flashback, a talk moderated by Cristiana Perrella and conceived as a historical prequel to the exhibition. Four voices—Laura Cherubini, Stefano Chiodi, Manuela Pacella, and Giuseppe Armogida—will retrace four decades of the Roman art scene, from the 1980s to today, returning a multifaceted and vibrant portrait of the city.
With this new season, MACRO presents itself as an experimental, open space deeply rooted in the city—a place where art is not only exhibited but generated, interwoven, and renewed. Rome is both the point of departure and the horizon, a city that continues to produce meaning and that finds in the museum an attentive interlocutor ready to listen to it and project its richness into the world.