Georg Baselitz – Avanti! Solo exhibition curated by Sergio Risaliti

Museo Novecento in Florence presents Baselitz AVANTI!, a major exhibition dedicated to one of the undisputed protagonists of contemporary art, developed in close collaboration with the artist’s studio.

From 25 March to 13 September 2026, the museum hosts, for the first time in Italy, a large-scale exhibition project that foregrounds a fundamental yet often less explored dimension of Baselitz’s practice: printmaking.

Spread across the museum’s three floors, the exhibition brings together approximately 170 works, including prints, paintings, and sculptures, offering a comprehensive view of the complexity and radical nature of a body of work spanning more than sixty years. The selected works reflect the wide range of themes addressed by the artist and reaffirm his conception of art as a process of transformation and subversive gesture, resolutely distant from any notion of reassuring harmony. Born in Germany in 1938 as Hans-Georg Kern and raised amid the ruins of the Second World War, Baselitz makes destruction, even historical, cultural, and social tragedy, a founding matrix of his artistic vision.