Collaborations

The Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a biennial award established in 2005 by Max Mara in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, with the additional participation of Collezione Maramotti since 2007. It is the only visual arts prize for UK-based emerging women-identifying artists. Its goal is to identify, nurture and support them at a crucial stage in their careers, by offering the opportunity and resources to create an ambitious new project.

Fotografia Europea is an international cultural festival dedicated to contemporary photography. Launched in 2006, it is sponsored by Fondazione Palazzo Magnani and the City of Reggio Emilia. The festival takes place in various public and private spaces around the city, including Collezione Maramotti. It centres on a group of exhibitions, including new ad hoc commissions related to a specific theme that is chosen each year by the advisory committee.

In an ongoing partnership, Collezione Maramotti, Max Mara and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia have invited internationally renowned choreographers to conceive and present performances in spaces dedicated to contemporary art, with the goal of creating a direct, stimulating connection between dance and the visual arts.

Atelier dell’Errore (AdE) is a collective dedicated to the visual arts and performance. The Atelier dell’Errore project was founded in 2002 as a visual arts workshop that the artist Luca Santiago Mora created for neurodivergent children in the care of the local health service of Reggio Emilia and Bergamo. In 2015 a number of these young people, who had worked together at the atelier for 8–10 years and had reached adulthood, expressed the desire to undertake a professional artistic career. Their urgent wish lead to the creation of the Atelier dell’Errore artist collective, which is completely separate from the healthcare service. Since its foundation, the collective has been permanently housed in spaces made available by Collezione Maramotti.

Touchpoint is a project that blends dance with the visual arts, an encounter between the dancers of Aterballetto and sixteen artworks from Collezione Maramotti.
The company presents its members to the public through a series of brief videos: stirred and inspired by specific contemporary artworks, the dancers speak through their bodies with movements, expressions and costumes of their choosing.

ARTPOD – Art for the Ears is a collaborative project involving Collezione Maramotti, Doppiozero and Teatro delle Albe: a series of podcasts about iconic works from the permanent collection, described through the words of authors from the cultural review Doppiozero and performed by actors from the theatre company Teatro delle Albe in Ravenna.

Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia and La Toscanini in Parma worked together in May and June 2020 on a “musical and choreographic (video)creation” involving dancers from the company and musicians from the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, with the support of Collezione Maramotti and with production assistance from the Ravenna Festival.