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Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Gianfranco Maraniello.
Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo Morandi

In conversation with Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi

Date
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Time
6.30 pm
Venue
MAST.Auditorium

Past event

Portrait of Gianfranco Maraniello

The event

In 2009, on the occasion of the Bernd & Hilla Becher exhibition at Museo Morandi in Bologna, Hilla Becher spoke about her relationship with the work of Giorgio Morandi, reflecting on the themes, sources of inspiration, working methods and ethical commitment underlying her work and Bernd Becher’s.

Building on this reflection, Gianfranco Maraniello revisits some aspects of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s work, highlighting the values of its “fortunate untimeliness”.

In conversation with Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi, writer and former President of MAMbo and the Museo Morandi.

Gianfranco Maraniello

Art critic, curator and museologist, since 2022 he has directed the Modern and Contemporary Art Museums Department of the City of Milan. He directed MART from 2015 to 2020 and, until 2015, MAMbo and the Istituzione Bologna Musei, where he produced Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo Morandi, which opened on 23 January 2009.

Related exhibition

Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method

Other events

Linked to the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method

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    Tours and familiesTours for blind and partially sighted visitorsWith MAD Servizi Culturali and La Girobussola APSMAST.Galleries

    Guided tours with accompaniment for blind or partially sighted visitors, designed to offer a narrative, sensory and interactive experience: Sunday 20 and Saturday 26 September, 10.15 am, lasting an hour and a half. Part of the exhibition’s accessibility project, with tactile panels and text guides.

    Event details The exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method

  • 5 pm
    Tour with a master · Sguardi maestriSguardi maestri: Massimo BartoliniArtistMAST.Galleries

    Professionals shaped by the Bechers’ teaching guide visitors through the exhibition from new perspectives. Massimo Bartolini lives and works in Cecina, teaches at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and showed Due qui / To Hear at the Italian Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale.

    Event details The exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method

  • 6.30 pm
    Talk · Formare lo sguardoFormare lo sguardo: Clément LambeletIn conversation with Francesco ZanotMAST.Auditorium

    How has photography education changed? Clément Lambelet, head of the Master in Photography at ECAL in Lausanne, discusses it with Francesco Zanot: from Bernd and Hilla Becher’s teaching legacy to the questions raised by artificial intelligence.

    Event details The exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method

  • 6.30 pm
    Talk · Formare lo sguardoFormare lo sguardo: Thomas StruthIn conversation with Urs Stahel and Michele SmargiassiMAST.Auditorium

    Thomas Struth, one of the leading figures of the Düsseldorf School and a student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, reflects on the legacy of their teaching in his own work and presents the research he has developed since Nature & Politics, his 2019 exhibition at MAST.

    Event details The exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method

  • 6.30 pm
    Talk · Formare lo sguardoFormare lo sguardo: Armin LinkeIn conversation with Francesco ZanotMAST.Auditorium

    What role do academies play today in training photographers? Armin Linke, artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, looks back on his experience as author and teacher and shows how photography can become a method of research and of producing knowledge.

    Event details The exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method

  • 4.30 pm
    Tour with a master · Sguardi maestriSguardi maestri: Armin LinkeArtistMAST.Galleries

    Armin Linke (Milan, 1966), an artist who works with photography and film and questions their technologies and social role, guides visitors through the exhibition before his talk in the Auditorium.

    Event details The exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method