Tutto qui? The Monograph of Lucia Marcucci between Art, Poetry and Feminism

From November 2025 to June 2026, Museion and Ar/Ge Kunst present Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui?, the first monographic publication dedicated to the pioneering Italian artist Lucia Marcucci.

Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui? Curated by: Frida Carazzato, Francesca Verga Design: bruno – Andrea Codolo, Giacomo Covacich, with Alessandro Durighello Publisher: bruno, Venice. Photo: Giacomo Bianco

Edited by Frida Carazzato (Museion) and Francesca Verga (Ar/Ge Kunst), and published by bruno (Venice), the book stems from two exhibitions held in 2023 — Lucia Marcucci. Poesie e no at Museion and L’Offesa at Ar/Ge Kunst — the outcome of a shared research project between the two institutions.

Backed by the Italian Council (XIII edition, 2024) of the Italian Ministry of Culture’s Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, the book is accompanied by an international presentation tour that maps a European constellation of venues and readers: from Centro Pecci in Prato to Palazzo Butera in Palermo, from MART in Rovereto to the Université de Liège, and on to the University of Sussex in Brighton and CAP – Centre d’art contemporain de Saint-Fons in France. Each stop will open a public forum around Marcucci’s work, its historical roots and its striking relevance today.

Featuring essays by Claudia Crocco, Gilda Policastro, Francesco Tenaglia, Maria Alicata, Annalisa Sacchi, Giulia Crispiani, Dalila Colucci, Vanessa Desclaux and Raffaella Perna, the publication assembles a polyphonic portrait of a central figure in Italian Visual Poetry.

Marcucci’s practice—born in close dialogue with Gruppo 70—splices word and image, advertising grammar and literary citation, deploying irony as a sharp tool against consumerist ideology, gendered stereotypes and imperial politics in post-war Italy.

Mockup Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui? Curated by: Frida Carazzato, Francesca Verga Design: bruno – Andrea Codolo, Giacomo Covacich, with Alessandro Durighello Publisher: bruno, Venice.

The predominance of women contributors is itself a curatorial stance, mirroring the artist’s sustained challenge to systems that objectified the female body and flattened subjectivity into commodity.

The predominance of women contributors is itself a curatorial stance, mirroring the artist’s sustained challenge to systems that objectified the female body and flattened subjectivity into commodity.

By threading art, poetry and activism, the book makes plain why her legacy continues to shape curatorial thought and feminist discourse, informing new generations of artists and scholars who work across media and platforms

Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui? Curated by: Frida Carazzato, Francesca Verga Design: bruno – Andrea Codolo, Giacomo Covacich, with Alessandro Durighello Publisher: bruno, Venice. Photo: Giacomo Bianco

Far from asking “is that all?”, Tutto qui? becomes an open question—an invitation to reopen archives, re-read images, and reclaim language as a living material. In doing so, it affirms Lucia Marcucci as one of the most lucid, radical voices in Italian contemporary art.

Museion Bolzano

Piazza Piero Siena 1

Date

Novembre 2025 - Giugno 2026