The 2020/21 and 2021/22 Villa Massimo Rome Prize winners will be showing the works they created in Rome at the Japanisches Palais. International artists from the fields of visual arts, architecture, literature and music will transform the Japanisches Palais into a place to reflect on our own time and the question of how the world will change.

The title picks up on the comment of the physicist Galileo Galilei, who had to renounce his discovery before the Pope in Rome that we as earthlings are not the center of the universe. In addition to paintings, drawings, photos, videos and installations in the exhibition tour, concerts, artistic performances and readings will contribute to the program.

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2020/21

bankleer (Kasböck / Leitner), artist duo
Heike Baranowsky, visual artist
Unsuk Chin, composer
Gustav Düsing, architect
Franziska Gerstenberg, writer
Prince Gholam, artist duo
Benedikt Hipp, visual artist
Andrej Koroliov, composer
Alexander Schimmelbusch, writer

2021/22

Kenah Cusanit, writer
David Czupryn, visual artist
Something Fantastic, architects’ collective
Heike Hanada, architect
Hanna Hartman, composer
Susann Maria Hempel, experimental filmmaker
Hans Lüdemann, composer
Carsten Saeger, visual artist
Ron Winkler, writer