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TheRome Quadriennale (Italian: La Quadriennale di Roma, also called in English theRome Quadrennial) is the Italian national institution entrusted with the task of researching about and promotingItalian contemporary art.[1] It is afoundation participated by theItalian Ministry of Culture.
Its name derives from the four-yearly exhibitions it is required to host by its constitution. It is based inRome in the monumental complex of Villa Carpegna.
Founded in1927 byCipriano Efisio Oppo, artist, writer, member of Parliament and a director of the art trade union, who directed the first four editions of the Quadriennale with the role of "general secretary".[2]
Between 2018 and 2022Sara Cosulich has been appointed as first artistic director of the history of the institution.
In 2022, under the artistic direction ofGian Maria Tosatti the activity of the institution started switching its main efforts from the production of the quadriennal exhibition to a constant activity of researches, exhibition programs, collaborations with universities and the publishing of magazines and books.[3] In these last years the institution has begun to collaborate with international curators likeHans Ulrich Obrist[4] orNadim Samman, or institutions likeFridericianum[5] orGwangju Biennale.[6]
Villa Carpegna is also the office of the ARBIQ, the archive of Quadriennale, one of the largest archives of Italian contemporary art.[7]
All the Rome Quadriennale main exhibitions held at its historical site, thePalazzo delle Esposizioni ofRome, except where indicated.
