Exhibitions of photography of industry and work in the MAST.Galleries; talks, book presentations, films and concerts in the Auditorium. All of the Foundation’s cultural activities are free of charge.
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Book presentation · Le Voci dei Libri
Nicola Lagioia returns to the South where he was born, through the codes of the family saga. In Capurso the lives of two families intertwine with the stories of a community moving from the certainty of poverty to the mirage of wealth.
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A documentary on children’s rights more than thirty years after the 1989 UN Convention: migrant children affected by war, discrimination and poverty, from the border between Mexico and the United States to Afghanistan and the children of Gaza. By Piero Badaloni, Andrea Ballestrazzi and Fausta Slanzi, Italy, 2026, 50’.
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Book presentation · Le Voci dei Libri
Criminologists Adolfo Ceretti and Roberto Cornelli ask whether peace is still conceivable, and under what conditions. For the authors it is neither a naïve utopia nor a mere armistice, but a process of recognising limits: of force, power, hatred and the claim to absolute truth.
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Screening
Between 2023 and 2025, wildfires devastated almost 5 million hectares of land in British Columbia, Canada: the documentary gathers the testimonies of Indigenous peoples and of those who lived through the disaster. By Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini, Italy, 2026, 80’; a preview after the Rome Film Festival.
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23.04 – 27.09.2026
Over 350 original black-and-white photographs, with drawings, books and posters. Curated by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Max Becher and Urs Stahel.
Exhibitions since 2019, talks, book presentations, films, concerts, tours and archive videos.
Curated by Urs Stahel. Twenty-eight works, lightboxes and large-format prints, from 1980 to 2021, as part of Foto/Industria 2025.
Seventh Biennial of Photography of Industry and Work, on the theme of the home. Artistic director Francesco Zanot: ten exhibitions in seven venues in Bologna’s historic centre, plus the Jeff Wall exhibition at MAST.
Projets 2005–2025. Curated by Francesco Zanot. Four series: Périphérique, Horse Day, Shoplifters and the new Hands.
Eighth edition, curated by Urs Stahel. Five finalists under 35: Sheida Soleimani (winner), Felicity Hammond, Gosette Lubondo, Silvia Rosi, Kai Wasikowski.
An exploration of light. Curated by Francesco Zanot.
Curated by Urs Stahel. 34 video works on rapid change in work, trade, communication and the environment.
Curated by Urs Stahel and Andreas Gursky.
The artist’s first survey exhibition, curated by Urs Stahel.
6.30 pmA documentary on children’s rights more than thirty years after the 1989 UN Convention: the stories of migrant children affected by war, discrimination and poverty, from the border between Mexico and the United States to Afghanistan, by way of Europe and Africa, and finally the children of Gaza. Among the testimonies, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi. In collaboration with Ho Avuto Sete OdV, Ordine degli Avvocati di Bologna, Ordine degli Avvocati di Modena.
6.30 pmCriminologists Adolfo Ceretti and Roberto Cornelli ask whether peace is still conceivable, and under what conditions. For the authors it is neither a naïve utopia nor a mere armistice, but a process of recognising limits: of force, power, hatred and the claim to absolute truth.
8.30 pmBetween 2023 and 2025, wildfires devastated almost 5 million hectares of land in British Columbia, Canada. Through the testimonies of Indigenous peoples, the voices of forests and the accounts of those who lived through the disaster, the documentary invites us to rediscover the ancient connection between human beings and nature. A preview after the Rome Film Festival, in English with Italian subtitles.
6.30 pmNicola Lagioia returns to the South where he was born, through the codes of the family saga. In Capurso the lives of two families intertwine with the stories of a community moving from the certainty of poverty to the mirage of wealth.
9 pmPsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Vittorio Lingiardi reflects on the most fragile and vital places of existence: love and betrayal, body and illness, memory and loss. An autobiography in verse that finds its measure in the relationship with others.
6.30 pmDaniela Facchinato retraces the life of Massimo Osti, a “designer of function” rather than a stylist, who revolutionised menswear with garment dyeing and experimental materials. An intimate, choral journey, told through friends and collaborators, into the Bologna of the 1970s and 1980s.
6.30 pmRather than asking whether technological innovation will ruin or save the world, Luisa Torchia examines its origins, development and present reality, and identifies a new form of power. Concentrated in private hands, digital power calls for collective choices to protect rights and values.
6.30 pmJean Echenoz’s latest novel follows Robert Bristol, a B-movie director marked by precarious loves and many failures. Weaving together cinema, fiction and illusion, Echenoz questions the very meaning of creation. With Giorgio Pinotti, Editor in Chief of Adelphi.
6.30 pmIn 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
10.15 amGuided 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 pmProfessionals 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 pmHow 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 pmThomas 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 pmMatteo Nucci retraces Plato’s life through the places, encounters and loves that shaped it: a human portrait in which eros guides the search for justice and happiness. The book was one of the six finalists for the 2026 Strega Prize.
6.30 pmFilipino director Lav Diaz, winner of the Golden Lion in Venice, the Golden Leopard in Locarno and the Silver Bear in Berlin, talks about a cinema built on a radical approach to time, where past and present intertwine. In collaboration with the International Filmmaking Academy, where he is 2026 Master Teacher.
6.30 pmWhat 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 pmArmin 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
Sundays, 6 pmGreat cult films in an air-conditioned theatre open to all, a place to meet away from the summer heat, especially for residents of the Borgo Panigale – Reno district. Each screening was followed by ice cream in MAST.Caffetteria.
5 pmCarlo Valsecchi (Brescia, 1965) works strictly with analogue large-format cameras, exploring industrial sites and vast landscapes as places where meaning is transformed. He guides visitors through the Becher exhibition.
Event details The exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method
6.30 pmThe United States has the American Dream; Italy, admired around the world, struggles to imagine its own future. Alec Ross, an American with Italian roots, combines personal stories with an analysis of the country’s cultural, economic and social knots, neither idealising nor condemning it.
6.30 pmWhat happens when fashion meets the body? Maria Luisa Frisa reads clothes as cultural devices that generate identities, desires and imaginaries, and shows that the body is never given once and for all, but constantly negotiated and rewritten.
6.30 pmMarco Antonio Bazzocchi reconstructs the apartment at Via Fondazza 36 in Bologna, where Giorgio Morandi lived and worked with his sisters from 1930 to 1964: the studio, the objects, the kitchen, the light. Not today’s museum, but the home as it was.
6.30 pmPhysicist and science writer Devis Bellucci guides us through the pitfalls of statistical analysis: the spurious correlations that abound in the media, what clinical trials really prove, and how science guards against the whims of chance.
6.30 pmIn an age shaped by artificial intelligence and global crises, Maria Chiara Carrozza, former President of the CNR and Minister of Education, asks what investing in research means today and proposes a new pact between knowledge and society.
6.30 pmIn the Anthropocene, we are destroying the past to build the present. Archaeologist Federico Zaina, head of Collection and Research at the Museo Egizio in Turin, takes us to places on Earth as significant as they are now inaccessible.
6.30 pmWhat kind of society do we want to build in the age of artificial intelligence? A discussion on governing innovation by putting people, their rights and the quality of democracy back at the centre. For participants, the MAST.Galleries stayed open until 8.30 pm.
6.30 pmCaught between the power of technology and the economy and the resistance of the great sovereign powers, Kaos becomes the very shape of the world. Massimo Cacciari and Roberto Esposito hold a philosophical dialogue on global disorder and on the orders possible today.
6.30 pmMatteo Parisini’s film brings Mimmo and Francesco Jodice, father and son, into dialogue about life and art for the first time: photography becomes a compass for crossing a world in transformation.
Sundays, 5 pm
Every Sunday: a guided tour of the exhibition, the workshop “Factotum: factories of the impossible”, where children invent “new impossible industries” with collage and graphic transformations, a snack in MAST.Caffetteria and an animated film. For children aged 6 to 11 with an adult.
Event details The exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method
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Talks, conversations, film introductions and exhibition videos, from 2015 to today.
InterviewBernd & Hilla Becher: interview with Urs StahelThe exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method 
InterviewBernd & Hilla Becher: interview with Gabriele Conrath-SchollThe exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method 
Exhibition videoBernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method: the exhibitionThe exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method 
InstallationBernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method: installationThe exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method 
InterviewJeff Wall: interview with the artistThe exhibition Jeff Wall. Living, Working, Surviving 
InterviewJeff Wall: interview with Urs StahelThe exhibition Jeff Wall. Living, Working, Surviving 
InstallationJeff Wall. Living, Working, Surviving: installationThe exhibition Jeff Wall. Living, Working, Surviving 
InterviewMAST Photography Grant 2025: interview with Urs StahelThe exhibition MAST Photography Grant 2025 
InterviewVertigo: interview with Richard MosseThe exhibition Vertigo. Video Scenarios of Rapid Changes 
Artist talk · 82 minPenelope Umbrico. Learning from eBay
Talk · 75 minWalead Beshty. Post-industrial images
Artist talk · 88 minJoel Meyerowitz
Artist talk · 60 minRoger Ballen
Round table · 81 minA dialogue on the work of Lisetta Carmi
Talk · 91 minGeorges Didi-Huberman. Photography as a tool for thinking: from the archive to the atlas
Talk · 91 minGeorges Didi-Huberman, original language version
Talk · 68 minJim Goldberg. I Smell Smoke
Talk · 44 minPieter Hugo. Staged Realities
Talk · 63 minPaul Graham. The Whiteness of the Whale
Talk · 40 minJoan Fontcuberta. Project X.B. / Debunking the legend of Vivian Maier
Conversation · 71 minMartin Parr
Talk · 69 minJeff WallThe exhibition Jeff Wall. Living, Working, Surviving 
Talk · 70 minAdam Lowe. The work of art in the age of digital mediation
Talk · 65 minGeorg Vrachliotis. From the Lost Image to the New Vision
Conversation · 89 minArmin Linke in conversation with Francesco Zanot
Talk · 64 minLivio De Luca / Costanza Caraffa
Talk · 81 minFranco Farinelli. The map and photography: a very Florentine story
Exhibition videoEdward Burtynsky. Manufactured Landscapes: the exhibition
Conversation · 24 minEdward Burtynsky in conversation with François Hébel
Exhibition videoAnthropocene: the exhibition
Conversation · 50 minAnthropocene: Burtynsky, Baichwal and de Pencier in conversation with Urs Stahel
Conversation · 67 minGabriele Salvatores meets Burtynsky, Baichwal and de Pencier
Exhibition videoIndustry, now: the exhibition
Talk · 24 minVera Lutter. Inverted worlds lightThe exhibition Vera Lutter. Spectacular 
Round table · 53 minItalian view: contemporary industrial photography
Exhibition videoEmil Otto Hoppé. Unveiling a Secret: the exhibition
Talk · 14 minGraham Howe. Retrieving lost history: the E. O. Hoppé connections
Talk · 14 minPhillip Prodger. Life and works of E. O. Hoppé
Exhibition videoDayanita Singh. Museum of Machines
