Rirkrit Tiravanija, Philippe Parreno
October 29, 2025 - March 1, 2026 | MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
Britto Arts Trust, Pakghor (The social kitchen), 2025 / OPAVIVARÁ!, namoita, 2014
1+1. The relational years is the first major retrospective dedicated to the Relational Art movement—three decades after its inception—curated by internationally renowned critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud.
In the 1990s, a new generation of artists revolutionized the discourse of art by opening it up to human relationships, exploring the collective sphere, and using social practices, conviviality, interaction, groups, and communities as both materials and tools of research. The concept of Relational Aesthetics, theorized by Bourriaud in 1998, is now recognized as one of the major artistic movements of the new millennium, with its artists acclaimed worldwide: Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, to name just a few.