Exhibitions and Events

Tours and families

20 and 26.09.2026

Tours for blind and partially sighted visitors

With MAD Servizi Culturali and La Girobussola APS

Date
20 and 26.09.2026
Time
10.15 am
Venue
MAST.Galleries

Past event

The MAST façade with the Becher banner, grids of black-and-white winding towers and cooling towers, the opening crowd in the gallery and the foyer bearing the exhibition title.

The event

For the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method, Fondazione MAST promoted a cultural accessibility project curated by MAD Servizi Culturali in collaboration with La Girobussola APS, with tools and ways of visiting designed also for blind and partially sighted visitors.

Tactile panels were made for a selection of works, with QR codes linking to text guides written to accompany the tactile reading of the images.

The guided tours with accompaniment, free with booking, took place on Sunday 20 and Saturday 26 September 2026 at 10.15 am and lasted an hour and a half: a narrative, sensory and interactive experience.

In collaboration with

MAD Servizi Culturali.

La Girobussola APS.

Related exhibition

Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method

Other events

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

  • 6.30 pm
    TalkGianfranco Maraniello. Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo MorandiIn conversation with Lorenzo Sassoli de BianchiMAST.Auditorium

    In 2009, for the Bechers’ exhibition at Museo Morandi in Bologna, Hilla Becher reflected on her relationship with Giorgio Morandi’s work. Starting from there, Gianfranco Maraniello, who produced that exhibition as director of Istituzione Bologna Musei, revisits the Bechers’ work and its “happy untimeliness”.

    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