Contemporary Art Museum Villa Croce

The Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the structures of the Genoa Museum of Art. Located within a neoclassical building nestled in the green of the park, the Museum, donated to the City of Genoa by the Croce family in 1951, rises to the sea.

Opened in 1985, it exhibits a permanent collection of Italian and international works of art, the result of the research work of Maria Cernuschi Ghiringhelli, wife of Gino Ghiringhelli, painter and owner of the Milanese gallery Il Milione. He hosts masterpieces by artists such as Licini , Reggiani , Radice and Fountain and more contemporary works by Adrian Paci , Marta dell’Angelo, Ben Vautier .

On the ground floor, decorated in tempera in the typical eclectic taste of the late nineteenth century, there is the reception, the bookshop, the conference room and a rich library open to the public, specializing in contemporary art. The first floor is dedicated to temporary exhibitions while the latter holds museum collections, hosting temporary exhibitions.

The Villa Croce Museum performs an annual program of exhibitions mainly for contemporary research, with incursions into the territories of music, cinema, theater and literature. These initiatives are accompanied by historical exhibitions dedicated to characters, movements and situations that have marked the evolution of artistic research. The exhibition program of Villa Croce offers a representation of the contemporary, ranging from design to video, from installations to photography, in order to present the international situation of artistic reality by supporting the excellence of Italian and young emerging artists.

The museum operates by encouraging meetings between people and artists, individuals and works of art. Villa Croce aims to ensure an articulated cultural project that, through multiple Italian and international partnerships and collaborations, supports quality art projects addressed to everyone.

Villa Croce from 2012 has a public-private management in collaboration between the City of Genoa, the Ducal Palace Foundation for Culture and a group of individuals. The Villa Croce committee found the funding needed for the first two years of exhibition activity, demonstrating the potential of this new management model by providing the museum with an international program of exhibitions. The reconfirmation of funding for a further two-year period offers the museum the opportunity to establish itself internationally and not just Italian.

Since June 2012 the curator of the Museum is Ilaria Bonacossa.